The painful reality is that our power utilities aren’t as reliable as we want to believe, and their facilities are vulnerable to attack. It’s time for organizations to actively mitigate and plan for disruptions of electricity and natural gas.

You invested in building a recovery plan, and hopefully tested it and your team, but it doesn’t end there. Business continuity isn’t a project – it’s a program, and your plan needs to be maintained. Here is what plan maintenance involves.

Increasingly, you only can buy cyber insurance when you prove that you have implemented comprehensive strategies to reduce your risk and mitigate the cost of cyber-attacks. In fact, it is more valuable to implement those cyber security strategies than to have the insurance policy.