Business Continuity
Key person risk, emergency access, and business succession planning.
34 articles
Hardware Wallet Recovery: Build a Plan That Survives a Missing Device
Prepare a recovery map, distinguish backups from extra devices and rehearse the human handoff before it is needed.
Emergency Access, Password Managers, PAM, and Backups: Four Different Jobs
A practical guide to where conditional handoff belongs in an enterprise IT continuity design—and where it does not.
The IT Key-Person Continuity Runbook: A Practical Template
Build a concise, testable runbook for the systems and decisions that depend on one unavailable person.
How to Test an Emergency Access Plan Without Causing an Incident
A safe tabletop and technical drill for verifying recipients, runbooks, recovery material, and rotation steps.
The Solo Founder's Emergency Runbook: If You Are in Hospital
Build a practical solo-founder continuity kit for a sustained absence: authority, first-hour actions, system recovery, customer communications and safe credential rotation.
Managing Database Passwords and Encryption Keys in a Team Emergency
How should engineering teams store master database passwords and encryption keys for emergencies? A technical guide to client-side encryption credential management.
Key Person Risk: How to Set Up an Emergency Handoff for Tech Startups
What is key person risk in tech startups, and how do you mitigate it? A complete guide to emergency credential handoff and operational continuity.
How to Handle Stripe and Payment Processor Succession for Solo Businesses
What happens to Stripe merchant accounts when a business owner dies? Learn how to set up payment processor succession for solo businesses.
Prevent Domain Lapses When an Administrator Is Unavailable
Keep renewal, payment and authorised registrar access independent of one person.
The Startup Contingency Checklist: Critical Credentials You Must Secure
A comprehensive checklist of the critical credentials every startup must secure for emergency continuity — from cloud roots to payment processors.
How to Pass Down GitHub and GitLab Repositories to Co-Founders Legally
Can you legally transfer ownership of private GitHub or GitLab repositories upon a developer's death? Learn the process and how to automate it.
Indie Hacker Legacy Planning: Who Inherits Your SaaS Business If You Die?
What happens to a micro-SaaS or indie business if the sole founder passes away? Learn how to set up automated continuity for your solo startup.
Startup Continuity Planning: Passing Down AWS and Google Cloud Root Credentials
How should a startup manage emergency access to AWS and Google Cloud root credentials? A complete continuity planning guide for founders and CTOs.
What is the "Bus Factor," and How Can Your Startup Calculate Its Risk?
The bus factor is a critical security metric for startups. Learn what it is, how to calculate it, and how to reduce your key person risk before it's too late.
Plan Who Receives Business and Personal Instructions
In the leadership vacuum after a founder's death, employees can loot data, IP, and credentials. A lockdown protocol triggered by your dead man's switch prevents this.
Continuity Information for Founder and Shareholder Succession
How conditional delivery can provide records, contacts, and context during a founder transition without replacing corporate approvals, shareholder agreements, or legal authority.
Business Email Compromise During a Leadership Crisis
A founder's death or incapacity can weaken verification and account ownership. Build payment controls and an immediate leadership-transition runbook.
Should Your Lawyer Hold Digital Recovery Information?
Separate legal custody from technical recovery, assess the firm's controls and avoid handing one adviser every credential and recovery factor.
Cloud Billing Continuity When an Account Owner Is Unavailable
You die. Your bank freezes your cards. AWS bills fail. 90 days later, Amazon deletes your S3 buckets, your databases, your entire product. Your startup dies twice.
Source Code Continuity Under Detention or Incapacity
A threat-modelled guide to preserving source code and authorised access without pretending a monthly continuity timer is an instant publication system.
1Password Emergency Kit and Digital Inheritance: What Else You Need
Understand what a 1Password Emergency Kit solves, what it does not, and how to add authority, context, redundancy and a tested handover.
Digital Executor Instructions Template for Founders
A practical template connecting legal authority with cloud, domain, billing and account-recovery steps—without putting live passwords in a will.
Master Password Handover for Small Business: Prevent Admin Lockout
Avoid sharing a universal master password: use delegated administration, controlled break-glass recovery and a delayed continuity handoff for residual access.
The Bus Factor Audit: Can Your SaaS Operate Without You?
Audit cloud, domain, billing, source-control and recovery dependencies before one founder's absence becomes a company-wide lockout.
Compliant Credential Storage for Regulated Industries
How to store credentials and secrets in compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other applicable control frameworks.
API Key Management Best Practices
How to manage API keys securely — from generation and rotation to secure storage, access control, and emergency revocation.
Security Best Practices for Remote Teams
Essential security practices for remote and distributed teams — covering credential management, device security, and secure communication.
Disaster Recovery Planning for Startups
Build a disaster recovery plan for your startup — covering data protection, infrastructure failover, and business continuity on a startup budget.
Business Succession Planning for Digital Assets
How to include digital assets in your business succession plan — from domain names to SaaS accounts, code repositories, and digital IP.
A Continuity Plan for a Solo Founder
Essential failsafe planning for solo founders — ensuring your startup survives if you become suddenly unavailable.
IT Credential Management: Avoid Dependence on One Person
Best practices for managing IT credentials in small teams — from shared password management to emergency access and offboarding.
Emergency Business Access Planning
Create a comprehensive emergency access plan for your business — ensuring operations continue when key personnel are unavailable.
Dead Man's Switch for Business: Ensuring Operational Continuity
How businesses can use dead man's switches to maintain operational continuity — from credential access to emergency procedures.
Key Person Risk: Keep Critical Work Moving
Identify and mitigate key person risk — ensuring your business survives the sudden unavailability of critical team members.
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