Is my plan enough? As Business Continuity professionals, we see a lot of plans. We develop plans for our clients, we help mentor clients on how to build their plans themselves, we review existing plans for gaps, and we audit plans. One consistent concern across all plans, regardless of their size: is it a flexible…
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Small business challenges Business Continuity Plans or BCPs are sometimes viewed as a little bit of black magic or something only “big business” needs. If anything, a BCP is more important for a little business or start-up that doesn’t have a war chest of cash or customers to fall back on. Maybe it should be…
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You mean I don’t have to plan for EVERYTHING? No! We get asked a lot of questions about how any one company can possibly plan for all of the different incidents they could experience. It’s a good question. There are many variations of complexity to incidents that can make the task of planning for them…
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Do we really mean FREE? Lots of things in this world purport to be free, but few truly are. At KingsBridge, we offer four versions of our easy-to-use Shield software. One is free. No cost. You don’t need a budget. Really. With it, you can build your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) entirely for free. Not…
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A solid business continuity plan is a great start to help you recover in the face of a major incident. But have you considered what happens when there are “No 3rd Party Vendors”? It’s time to check that they have plans in place. Why audit your vendors? A key piece of every business continuity plan…
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How to “do” BCP on a budget. Are you tasked with building a recovery plan for your business and you don’t know where to begin? Have no idea how to calculate your budget or how to justify it? While it might sound like a daunting task, it really isn’t all that difficult, but you will…
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We hope you enjoyed Part 1 on how KingsBridge Shield can solve some of your Business Continuity Planning (BCP) information security headaches. This week, Part 2 of our series (read Part 3) focuses on how Shield can cure the headaches of anyone starting BCP. Let’s start with a common problem: management assigned you the responsibility of…
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Nobody likes a headache, especially a BCP headache. Welcome to the first in our three-part series on BCP headaches and how you can use the KingsBridge Shield solution to resolve them. Today “BCP plan access” is the focus. Making sure those that need it have it, while also ensuring that access to sensitive information remains…
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You’ve likely heard the terms before and may have an idea of their definition, but how do Emergency Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity work together during an incident? Putting incidents in context is the goal of this blog post. Putting Incidents in Context You are sitting in your office building and the fire alarm…
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We are a week into 2021, wondering what it will bring. Have you made New Year’s resolutions? What will you do differently in your personal life? And what changes are you going to make in your business and professional life? This is the perfect time to reflect on what went well for your company this…
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