CIR Magazine’s annual Business Continuity Awards took place on 16th June at a ceremony in London. The Awards recognise excellence in the business continuity market and profession.
The BCI has presented its 2022 BCI Americas Awards during a virtual ceremony on 9th June. The awards ‘recognize the outstanding contributions of business continuity, risk, and resilience professionals and organizations’.
A survey conducted by Pulse on behalf of Hitachi ID has found that organizations often find it difficult to obtain mission critical passwords from employees when they leave the organization.
Gold, Silver, and Bronze command tiers are a common way of structuring crisis response. The approach has been borrowed from UK Emergency Services, but does it always successfully transfer to other organizations? Robin Bucknall explores…
Human resource (HR) leaders have a crucial role in workplace emergency management. They should support all stages of the emergency ‘incident lifecycle’ and need to take ownership of two critical steps says Todd Miller…
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, recently commissioned IDC to conduct a major ransomware and disaster preparedness survey, which found that 79 percent of respondents have activated a disaster recovery (DR) response within the past 12 months.
The US NIST has commenced a comment period for a new guidance document ‘Using Business Impact Analysis to Inform Risk Prioritization and Response’. The guidance looks at how the business impact analysis can be used to inform enterprise risk management.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued revised guidelines on business continuity management for financial institutions. The revisions take into account learnings from the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased digitalization in the financial sector.
16th-20th May 2022 is the annual Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW), which is led by the BCI. The theme is ‘Building Resilience in the Hybrid World’.
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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.
