No plan survives contact with the enemy says the old adage, but this is precisely what is often expected from business continuity plans. A new Continuity Central survey looks into business continuity plan success rates and attempts to uncover the best ways to debrief after an incident.
The DRI Awards of Excellence are presented annually to leaders and innovators in the fields of continuity management, technology recovery, and crisis and risk management. The 2019 Awards winners will be announced on February 19th at Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV.
The Business Continuity Institute’s annual Education Month will run throughout September, with the theme of ‘Discover Organizational Resilience’.
In 2017 Continuity Central published the results of a survey looking at whether the increasing focus on information security is having an effect on the traditional demarcation lines between business continuity and information security management (ISM). In 2018 we repeated that survey to monitor how things have developed and the results of the survey are now available.
The Business Continuity Institute has announced the winners of its 2018 Australasia Awards, which celebrate business continuity and resilience excellence.
While many business continuity plans focus on the effects of an incident rather than the cause, Richard Duncan explains why terrorism response may be a special case requiring a different and more proactive approach.
In a follow-up to a previous article looking at why terrorism response needs to be seen as a special case when it comes to business continuity planning, Richard Duncan looks at the role of the crisis management team during and after a terror incident and provides useful checklists for helping train and prepare the CMT.
On Tuesday 31st July the UK Cabinet Office’s Civil Contingencies Secretariat published a set of twelve National Resilience Standards, including two business continuity standards.
Pakistan-based asset management companies (AMCs) will now be required to develop business continuity plans, following new guidelines published by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan.
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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.
