Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 10 (May 14, 2020)
SecureWorld, a hub for cybersecurity news and resources, released a discussion[1] on implementing business continuity plans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion is with Milinda Rambel Stone, vice president and chief information security officer at Provation Medical, and it covers her response as a member of a task force established to implement the continuity plan at her company.
The case study provides several insights into what it takes to implement a business continuity plan, what such a plan should contain and why plans should resemble a playbook that can be pulled off the shelf when needed. The discussion also emphasized the need for security professionals and organizations to share effective methodology and solutions. Formal and informal information sharing networks[2] often play critical roles in helping professionals crowdsource effective solutions to shared problems.