Continuity Central received the sad news last week that Jim Burtles Hon FBCI passed away earlier in 2021. Jim was a regular contributor to Continuity Central over the years and always tried to look ahead, providing thought leadership and challenging the status quo.
The annual DRI International Awards of Excellence are presented to leaders and innovators in the fields of business continuity, technology recovery, and crisis and risk management.
What did Continuity Central readers find most interesting during 2020? Out of more than a thousand pieces of content published in 2020, here are the top ten feature and news articles…
NCEMA, the UAE National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority, has announced the launch of the third edition of the ‘National Standard for Business Continuity Management System (Specifications)’, AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000:2021.
Building owners and managers are being encouraged to consider the threats associated with their water supply, as the new ‘business normal’ includes lower occupancy and therefore new concerns for water systems designed for higher loads and flows.
With future pandemic lockdowns highly possible in 2021 how can business leaders use pandemic learnings from the first UK lockdown to improve their workplace recovery planning? Chris Butler explains…
It is clear that organizational response to the COVID-19 pandemic has generated much opportunity for future improvement with regard to business continuity and resilience. but will we learn the lessons? Petra Morrison highlights the top four things to act on…
Despite prior warnings that infectious disease pandemics presented a high-impact threat, COVID-19 seemed to catch governments and companies off guard. What other threats exist which the world can and should prepare for? Peter Groucutt says that top of the list is a global cyber attack – such as on a major cloud provider…
For many retailers, websites have been more important than ever this year as pandemic-hit consumers turned to ecommerce in preference to bricks-and-mortar shopping. In turn, website performance has never been more important but new research for Google shows that downtime is an increasing issue.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
