To reduce costs, businesses around the world are turning to free apps for texting and instant messaging. These programs do serve the purpose of communicating in real-time. Yet, there are grave concerns when organizations turn [...]
Since the mid 80s, the emergency management community has preached a clear and consistent message: Prepare businesses, schools and homes to be self sufficient for 3 days. Way back then, some even suggested 7 days! [...]
The Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI) works to secure global value chains across sectors by empowering small and medium-sized organizations to improve their cyber readiness. SMEs, with limited resources to dedicate to cyber issues, are often [...]
If a large-scale disaster strikes your area, how long can you afford to wait before you call in the professionals to help? To homeowners and business owners who have endured a major disaster, every hour [...]
While extreme gun violence in the workplace remains statistically rare, the number of mass shooting incidents in the U.S. has tripled in the past few years. Since the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, in December, 2012, [...]
How to Perform an Effective Business Continuity Strategy Identification and Selection Effort Reader Note: This article is a continuation from Avalution’s November 2014 article titled: We just did a BIA and Risk Assessment … Now [...]
For 2014 and the foreseeable future, trends in business continue to favor increased dependency on information technology. Truth be told, while some of the economic circumstances that accompanied the Great Recession have begun to recede, [...]
Although most didn’t dominate the national news for very long (the exceptions perhaps being the tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Joplin, Mo.), the cumulative effect of these events was substantial. One outcome was the greatly [...]
Being able to continue critical business functions while responding to a major disaster, and then to return to normal operations efficiently and cohesively afterward, is a critical success factor for all organizations. Effective Business Continuity [...]
“Of course my function is critical. We need all of our department systems back in no less than 4 hours, and we can’t have more than 1 day data loss. No question about it!” The Business [...]
The January 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti destroyed buildings of every type and unleashed chaos on the entire country. Homes, schools, markets, churches and hospitals were completely ruined. The government buildings were not spared and [...]
Common Problems That Affect Insurance Funds While not all natural or man made disasters are covered by property insurance, many events trigger a response from the insurance industry. Storms, floods, tornados, earthquakes and fires typically [...]