Every business depends upon certain "givens," which range from retaining key personnel, to emergency planning, to credit arrangements. But what happens when a relatively young CEO is killed in an ...

A small business can be negatively impacted by all sorts of changes or events, from natural disasters to entrance of new competitors into a market. A contingency plan is a document that outlines how a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In today’s ever-changing business environment, business owners, entrepreneurs and franchise owners need to be prepared for the unexpected ...

Companies of all sizes across all vertical markets are now in an uncertain and uncharted situation due to COVID-19. Many of you may have recently pulled out and used parts of your business continuity ...

On Oct. 27, 2009, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Computer Security Division (CSD) published Special Publication (SP) 800-34 Revision ...

We weren’t prepared, and our customers were counting on us to be there for them, power or not. We scrambled. This was a time before the cloud. We had to physically lift and move servers and computers.

CEO of Agency Management Institute, serving 250+ marketing agencies to help their owners build profitable agencies that evolve and scale. As someone who works with agency owners on a daily basis, I ...

I suggest rolling through the five areas listed above and identifying contingencies that are somewhat likely and would require a major change in the business. A company could have over a dozen major ...

If anything, tariffs and the coronavirus pandemic have taught purchasing personnel that sourcing strategies need to include some sort of fallback plan. In other words, OEMs shouldn’t be putting all of ...

Whether it’s hurricanes like Dorian that routinely pummel the Southeast and parts of the Atlantic coast or the wildfires that wreaked havoc up and down the West Coast last year, summer has a way of ...

CATEGORY: Administrative Safeguards TYPE: Addressable Implementation Specification for Contingency Plan Standard CITATION: 45 CFR 164.308(a)(7)(ii)(D) The University at Buffalo Information Technology ...