Sending BIA surveys just doesn’t work anymore. We’re all being “surveyed” to death. See:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/story/2012-01-07/consumer-feedback-fatigue/52432412/1
Sending BIA surveys just doesn’t work anymore. We’re all being “surveyed” to death. See:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/story/2012-01-07/consumer-feedback-fatigue/52432412/1
For years, there have been rumors and speculation about disasters expected in 2012. But neither the Mayans nor Nostradamus can truly predict what the future holds. Every year brings new issues that could handicap unprepared businesses.
In light of this, the Business Continuity Institute published a survey, titled “Horizon Scan 2012”, analyzing the top threats to business continuity for 2012. They collected data from 458 organizations across 49 different countries (USA included) that rated their levels of concern against a range of threats based on their own risk assessments.
According to the survey results, the top five threats of 2012 are:
1. Unplanned IT and telecom outages: 74 percent;
2. Data breach (i.e. loss or theft of confidential information): 68 percent;
3. Cyber attack (e.g. malware, denial of service): 65 percent;
4. Adverse weather (e.g. windstorm/tornado, flooding, snow, drought): 59 percent; 5. Interruption to utility supply (i.e. water, gas, electricity, waste disposal): 56 percent.
To view all the survey results go to: http://www.bcifiles.com/BCIHorizonScan2012.pdf
Health plan and hospital business continuity professionals face a myriad of unique challenges in their profession. Join us for a look into the most pressing issues facing healthcare BCP pros today.
An expert panel will discuss the most pressing issues in this industry and answer your questions. Topics will include the challenges of balancing numerous healthcare compliance bodies, aligning your BCP strategy to anticipate and tackle the sweeping changes of health care reform, balancing the life-saving mission of healthcare professionals with the requirement to continue business operations, and more.
We encourage you to submit your own topics to the panel of this BCP webinar. Topic suggestions and questions will be accepted through the close of business on Friday, February 17. Please email ideas to contact@strategicbcp.com.
Any BC professional can benefit from this discussion, as many issues we will be discussing are ubiquitous challenges across the entire BC industry. Following the webinar a discussion group will be created to provide a continuing dialogue for all attendees.
In honor of our clients and friends during the 2011 holiday season, Strategic BCP made a donation to one of our community partners, CPR for CATS Society.
As you may know, Strategic BCP is active in the community and works with various organizations such as CPR for CATS, a not-for-profit, no-kill organization dedicated to rescuing cats from federal, state, and local park systems, where they have been born or dumped. CPR traps and vaccinates feral (wild) cats, as well as abandoned house cats and kittens.
Over the past few years year, we have been able to provide both standard and emergency veterinary care to over 25 animals. We are proud to sponsor this important program again this year. For more information, please visit http://cprforcats.tripod.com/.
Thank you to our clients – we look forward to a successful 2012!
We would like to thank Wayne Stadnik, VP of Business Continuity at TCF Bank, and Nancy Valente, Global Business Continuity Manager at De Lage Lande, for helping us drive a powerful, informative discussion for financial BC pros during our webinar today.
Over 200 planners were on the call today to hear Wayne, Nancy, and our president and co-found Frank Perlmutter outline the hot topics facing business continuity professionals working in banking and other financial industries.Highlights included a breakdown of FFIEC examination trends, risk and compliance issues, and the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act.
If you attended the webinar and have any questions or comments, please respond on this thread.
Thanks also to DRJ for helping us facilitate this discussion.
Strategic BCP will be hosting a webinar with the Disaster Recovery Journal on November 16. See an overview and registration details for this can’t-miss webinar designed for BC pros in the financial space.
Webinar Description
As financial institutions continue to be mired in public criticism and cope with stringent oversight not seen in decades, business continuity has become more demanding and vital than ever. Financial Services Business Continuity Professionals need to prepare their organizations to be resilient and compliant, ready to resume operations in the face of any outage, and ready to illustrate to regulators that the plans and processes behind developing their BC is sound.
This webinar will address the complex challenges of the Financial Services Business Continuity Professional. An expert panel has been assembled to discuss the most pressing issues in this industry and to answer your questions. Learn about the hot topics from financial BCP experts Wayne Stadnik, VP of Business Continuity at TCF Bank, Nancy Valente, Global Business Continuity Manager at De Lage Landen, and Frank Perlmutter, co-founder and president of Strategic BCP and a former COOP/Risk Manager at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Discussion points will include FFIEC examination trends, risk and compliance issues, the drive towards objective impact ratings, and the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act.
IMPORTANT: If you have topics you would like discussed or questions you would like answered regarding BCP for financial services, please email them to contact@strategicbcp.com by the close of business on Friday, November 11. We will address these according to attendee demand.
Please join us for what will be a critical webinar. Any BC professional can benefit from this discussion, as many issues we will be dissecting are ubiquitous challenges across the entire BC industry. Following the webinar a discussion group will be created to provide a continuing dialogue for all attendees.
Register Here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/
Strategic BCP, Inc., a leading business continuity planning (BCP) company, today announced that its latest ResilienceONE® BCP software version has been deployed to its entire client base totaling more than 36,000 users nationwide.
ResilienceONE® is cloud BCP software that analyzes organizations’ risk, automates essential BCP tasks such as objectively determining organizations’ most important business functions, and pinpoints what business functions need to be recovered the quickest to mitigate loss and resume business operations. The web-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) uses business process-based metrics and algorithms to help BCP personnel build powerful recovery plans that are aligned with their respective organizations’ goals.
A major enhancement in ResilienceONE® version 5.7 is the development of a Master Recovery Schedule. This feature allows users to easily cross-section their Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and Recovery Timeframe Objectives (RTO) – data and reports that show how an organizations’ people, IT, and vendors are linked, and what steps are needed to recover these assets – in a brief Microsoft® Excel® document.
“Since our inception we have worked with and listened to our fellow business continuity professionals when enhancing our ResilienceONE software,” says Frank Perlmutter, president and co-founder of Strategic BCP. “Our new Master Recovery Schedule report addresses our users’ demands, pinpointing gaps in between recovery capabilities and business requirements and breaking down an organizations’ potential impact using both quantitative and qualitative measures. This report is the ultimate in Business Impact Analyses and can arm planners with the most detailed, unmatched analytics in our industry.”
Other enhancements released include more robust password and security parameters that allow organizations to meet the strictest of security standards. The software’s plan generator was also upgraded allowing users to generate and reorder any system content or attachments in a single document.
“Ease of use reigns supreme in the world of software, but developing powerful, actionable plans is vital in the world of business continuity. Our goal is to offer both,” says Perlmutter. “ResilienceONE develops comprehensive plans, but is also easy-to-navigate software that anyone within an organization can use immediately if a disaster strikes.”
Strategic BCP offers demos of its ResilienceONE® BCP software for the media, business continuity planners and consultants, and executives from organizations of all sizes, from small to mid-sized companies to global enterprises. Please email contact@strategicbcp.com for more information.
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Strategic BCP has made it a priority since its inception to arm our fellow BCP planners with powerful planning tools that can help them increase their value at their organizations.
We listen to our customers so they can utilize software that’s easy to navigate and deploy for their customers, the people using their BC plans.
In an effort to continue to develop BCP software based on real user demands, we polled nearly 200 people recently about the software they are currently using. See some of the highlights listed below, and please share your thoughts about the interesting findings.
Major Need: Serving Unlimited Users
More than 50% of respondents said they need to serve an unlimited number of users with their BC software.
Our Take: BC plans need to be utilized by everyone in an organization, not just a few planners. Charging per-seat for BCP software seems counter-intuitive.
Mark Eggleston, manager of Security & Business Continuity at Health Partners of Philadelphia, will join Frank Perlmutter to present our webinar “Metrics that Superpower Your Business Continuity Program.”
Check back later today for a link to our slides!
We invite business continuity planning pros who are serious about securing more executive buy-in for their BC programs to join our upcoming webinar on Wednesday, May 18.
Over 600 people have registered for this webinar already. If you have difficulty presenting your true effectiveness as a BC professional beyond generating plans, you cannot miss this discussion.