Glossary
Ninety continuity and risk terms in plain words: what each one means, why it matters and how it reads in Russian. A good place to start if the topic is new to you.
Business continuity basics
What business continuity is, how it differs from IT and information security, who owns it and where companies start.
Impact analysis and recovery
Which processes are critical, what a day of downtime costs, how fast you must recover and what has to be ready in advance.
Risk management
How to build a risk system people actually use, put risk into money, and prepare for losing a supplier or a key person.
- Risk matrix
- The three-scenario method
- Loss of a key employee
- Loss of a supplier
- Geopolitical risks (Hormuz)
- Risk management in a large bank
- BCM and insurance
- Lower your BI premium
- Savings risks
- Three lines of defence: who owns risk in a company
- Risk appetite: how to set it and why it matters
- KRI vs KPI: risk indicators and performance indicators
Crisis and cyber threats
What to do in the first hours of an incident, how to prepare for ransomware, and what to tell staff, clients and the press.
- Ransomware readiness
- Cyberattack protection
- 7 days of downtime: a cyberattack lesson
- Cyberattacks on SMB: statistics
- Why companies hide cyberattacks
- BCM and data protection
- Tabletop ransomware exercise
- Crisis communications
- Employee cybersecurity training: what works and what is missing
- Company crisis plan
- Single point of failure on a site: what to replace tomorrow and what to duplicate
- The day after a drone strike: roles, suppliers and the public account
- Downtime insurance after a drone strike, and the owner calculation
- ERP and CRM: one system for the whole day of shipping
- Duplication and separation: a second path for ransomware
- A day without the ledger: the decision, the counterparties and output
Implementation and standards
ISO 22301 and regulatory requirements, exercises and testing, training the team and the order of rollout.
Industry practice
Risk profiles in IT, oil and gas, metals and construction — what actually stops the business in each sector.
Glossary
69 terms in plain language — RTO, RPO, business impact analysis, risk appetite, escalation.
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