Business continuity news

Seven practical tips for successful work area recovery testing

Details: Published: Thursday, 07 May 2015 07:44

By Tracey Linnell, general manager: consulting, ContinuitySA.

The North American Securities Administrators Association has adopted new business continuity requirements for investment advisers

Details: Published: Thursday, 23 April 2015 07:24

Every affected investment adviser must establish, implement, and maintain written procedures relating to a business continuity and succession plan.

Update on North American business continuity and related standards

Details: Published: Friday, 17 April 2015 09:00

The minutes of a meeting of the NFPA 1600 revision committee provide a useful update about progress on North American business continuity and related standards.

London councils fail to set a good business continuity testing example

Details: Published: Wednesday, 06 May 2015 14:34

Although all London councils have disaster recovery procedures in place for electoral data, 40 percent have not tested them in the last 12 months, according to freedom of information requests made by disaster recovery specialists Databarracks.

BCI to launch ‘Qatar Business Continuity Management Guideline’

Details: Published: Wednesday, 22 April 2015 07:39

At the Business Continuity Institute’s Middle East Conference in May, the Business Continuity Institute Qatar Forum will launch its ‘Qatar Business Continuity Management Guideline’.

Dates set for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2016

Details: Published: Tuesday, 14 April 2015 07:25

The Business Continuity Institute has announced that Business Continuity Awareness Week 2016 will take place from the 16th to 20th May 2016.

BANG Awards winners

Details: Published: Monday, 04 May 2015 14:23

BANG, a public & private sector members association for business continuity and resilience professionals, held its 7th ‘Alternative Awards’ on 29th April in London.

When failure is the goal: creating business continuity exercises that work

Details: Published: Tuesday, 21 April 2015 10:14

When you do a test, you aim to pass it but when designing exercises, it’s best to fail them so you learn the maximum amount—especially what is wrong…

March’s major natural disasters roundup

Details: Published: Monday, 13 April 2015 10:26

Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during March 2015.