Business continuity plan template for a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)
Using a template to guide the development of a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) offers several key advantages that enhance...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 9
- 1 min
Business Continuity Planning: looking back on August 2024
A brief synopsis of some of the things I found a worthwhile read last month Three organizational best practices highlighted by the...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 9
- 3 min
Business Continuity Plan Template for Incident Communications Strategies
Using a template to develop crisis communication strategies offers several advantages that enhance the efficiency, consistency, and...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 2
- 2 min
Business Continuity Plans - the essentials
A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a is focussed on ensuring an organisation can continue its operations during and after a disruptive...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 27
- 2 min
Accelerating development of Business Impact Assessments (BIA) - use a business continuity plan template
Using a template to develop a Business Impact Assessment (BIA) offers several advantages that can streamline the process, ensure...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 19
- 3 min
Templates for Business Continuity Planning - avoiding the tripwires
Tripwires that can undermine a business continuity plan
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Steve Dance
- Aug 19
- 2 min
Is there anything positive we can takeaway from the CrowdStrike Incident
Considering all of the negative impacts, costs and disruption of the recent CrowdStrike incident is there anything positive that we can...
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Steve Dance
- Nov 3, 2023
- 2 min
Business Continuity Oversight, Assurance & Governance: do you know your capabilities?
A business continuity capability statement can be a useful resource for a number of reasons: It provides a central point of reference for...
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Steve Dance
- Nov 3, 2023
- 2 min
Risk Assessment: A Weapon of self-deception?
The problem with any risk assessment approach whether qualitative or quantitive, lies in estimating the scope (how widespread the outcome...
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Steve Dance
- Jan 11, 2023
- 3 min
Apples, Pears & Understanding Exposure
Understanding Exposure: Value at risk vs observation & judgement There’s a school of thought that the concept of value at risk or “VaR”...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 7, 2022
- 3 min
Cyber attack risk - just follow the money
"Follow the money" is a familiar phrase most often associated with identifying the culprits of fraud and financial crime. But it's also...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 30, 2022
- 5 min
Exposed to shocks?
Does putting a numerical "score" on a risk register entry (or a grade like Red, Amber, Green or High, Medium, Low) really mean anything?...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 4, 2022
- 2 min
Risk registers: they don't cover everything
For many organisations, developing a risk register is seen as a destination - and it should not be. Often, the corporate risk register...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
Cyber attack recovery: it's never over until it's over
Recovering from a cyber attack can be one of the greatest challenges an organisation can face. Successful attacks can result in ransom...
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Steve Dance
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
6 things every senior exec should know about their organisation's business continuity
Senior execs don't need to know the details of how to go about building business continuity capabilities for their organisation - that's...
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Steve Dance
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
Facebook & WhatsApp's Disappearing Act (in plain English)
Billions of users all over the world experienced a major loss of service from both Facebook and WhatsApp on Monday, 4th October. There...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
Remote working - business as usual?
Many UK businesses have adopted remote working as the only operating alternative during the lockdown. The experience of having the vast...
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Steve Dance
- Sep 8, 2021
- 7 min
Resilience: Business Continuity in disguise?
For many - (including me), much of what is described as resilience still looks suspiciously like “warmed up” business continuity. ...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 31, 2021
- 2 min
Operational Risk appetite - difficult to swallow?
High, medium or low? What does it mean? Does anyone know? This concept of risk appetite as a means to set a risk management strategy has,...
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Steve Dance
- Aug 19, 2021
- 3 min
Building total recall through Business Continuity Micro-simulations
Micro simulations work on the basis of short. highly focused tests on one specific aspects of incident response. Their focus tends to be...
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