Charlie Maclean Bristol discusses whether you should consider likelihood when conducting a risk assessment as part of the business continuity process. Do you need to know how likely it is that a threat will become an actuality; or is knowledge of the impact of the threat enough?
In June 2017 Continuity Central published the results of a survey which looked at whether attitudes to the business impact analysis and risk assessment were changing. Two years on, we are repeating the survey to determine whether there has been any development in thinking across the business continuity profession.
British retailers that are selling online to European markets face some specific supply chain and logistics issues after Brexit. Joe Farrell explains what these are and looks at some preparatory measures that such retailers can make.
Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has published a new Technical Note to assist organizations that have conducted its Cyber Resilience Review to use the results to develop a service continuity management (SCM) plan.
A survey from Eggplant has found that when it comes to an organization’s systems, 57 percent of respondents believe that the impact of Brexit has proved to be far more complex to prepare for than Y2K/the Millennium Bug.
A new report from DHL examines last year's major supply chain challenges and identifies trends that will shape the risk landscape in 2019. Key events in 2018 included climate-driven disruptions affecting shipping, higher than expected cyber attacks targeting supply chain assets, and industry zone shutdowns impacting production activities.
The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has written to financial institutions to highlight deficiencies that have been discovered in some technology contracts when it comes to business continuity.
In a circular published on 26th March 2019, The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) released a new version of its business continuity and disaster recovery guidelines for market infrastructure institutions.
The BCI Middle East Awards will be presented in a ceremony in September 2019. The Awards recognize the outstanding contributions of business continuity, risk and resilience professionals and organizations living or operating within the Middle East region.
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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.
