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Business continuity awareness is central to the BS25999 requirements of embedding BCM into the organisations culture.
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Its here, the long awaited specification is now available.
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While critical information is the lifeblood of every organisation, small companies often spend more time planning their company picnic than they do for an event, which could put them out of business!
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We have had a great deal of interest in the Pocket Mod system we highlighted in a previous article for creating printable, wallet size aid memoires so have decided to revisit the article and create a new set.
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There’s long been an understanding that a contingency plan needs to be in place to protect a business in the event of some kind of calamity – indeed, this forms the basis of the insurance industry, which has been going since the days of the Babylonians, circa 1750 BC, when merchants would insure loans against the risk of the shipments being stolen by pirates
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Preventing an incident developing into a crisis for the business, or allowing it to escalate into a disaster that may result in its downfall is often given too little attention by those responsible for crisis management. Indeed, the very terms “crisis management” and “disaster recovery” focus attention on dealing with the aftermath, rather than preventing the incident in the first place. So argues Paul Frankland, General Manager of SembCorp Protection.
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Business Roundtable, an association of 160 chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, today released an extensive report detailing the alarming risks posed to businesses and the U.S. economy in the chance of a major Internet disruption. The report, "Growing Business Dependence on the Internet: New Risks Require CEO Action," cites the potential and widespread effects a cyber disruption could have on society and urges CEOs to take necessary action to ensure continuity of their businesses.
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A draft report authored by a group of federal agencies essentially asks the question, who should be first in line. This is mostly common sense but it forces people to address the issue in a mature and informed manner.
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Disasters -- both natural and man-made -- can swiftly and easily disrupt a business' ability to conduct its operations. Unimax, an industry-leading provider of enterprise voice administration applications, says its 2nd Nature telecommunications administration software protects vital communications links -- including telephony and voice messaging -- a frequently overlooked aspect of many organizations' disaster recovery planning.
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According to a video cast from the Lloyds 360 Project many businesses are failing to adequately plan for supply chain disruption
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Symantec has published the findings of an international study into corporate disaster recovery practices and guess what, some areas are good, some not so good. Surveys by vendors and almost any other type of organisation can be interpreted in any way possible, depending on your pre conceived viewpoint. I am getting survey fatigue. The study polled IT managers in large organizations across the US, Europe, the Middle East and South Africa
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ISO has published the first internationally ratified benchmark document addressing incident preparedness and continuity management for organizations in both public and private sectors.
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International Conference on Disaster Reduction 2007 focuses on the theme of "Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery ", scheduled on 28-29 November 2007 at Nehru Centre Mumbai under the chairmanship of Prof. Ian Davis This is the third Annual Conference under the flagship of Global Forum for Disaster Reduction. A one-of-its kind attempt that connects the corporate world with the disaster mitigation efforts in the country will bring together eminent experts from India and abroad for an in-depth discussion focused on the theme of (BCM) and DR.
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There have been a number of papers and presentations recently looking at the nature of Business Continuity (BC) and tools used to deliver it - from the future of the BIA to the importance of building evacuations. With the imminent arrival of Part 2 of the British Standard for Business Continuity Management (BS 25999-2), there will be a defined management system - the BCMS - and a means of measuring performance of Business Continuity capabilities, should organisations choose to do so. But are we missing something? Have we created our own definition of continuity?
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Writing and testing a disaster recovery plan is one of the key elements of business continuity management. Traditionally business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning have always been separated between the business and the information technology (IT) department.
It has long been recognised that this “divide” creates more problems that it solves, after all most businesses could not continue to operate successfully if their IT services were unavailable for a period of time, depending on the nature of your business this may well range from a few hours to several days.
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The recent US wide pandemic flu planning exercise has completed with a stark warning on national preparedness and impact with all participants finding gaps in capabilities and response mechanisms
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The ISO 28000 series of standards on supply chain security management systems, which have just been upgraded from their status of Publicly Available Specifications to that of fully fledged International Standards
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The standard practice of conducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to determine the basic recovery requirements (Mission Critical Processes, RTO’s, RPO’s, Critical Applications, Suppliers, and other Resources) is a vital phase of every Business Continuity Management program.
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