This year’s Business Continuity Awareness Week takes place from Monday 14th to Friday 18th May 2018. Organized by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), the annual event aims to raise wider awareness of the business continuity profession.
In its role as Secretariat of the Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum (CSIF), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has issued a new document to help establish a basic common understanding about business continuity and cybersecurity among CSIF members operating in Asian Bond Markets.
Most organizations run a periodic business continuity awareness session and most attendees forget the content within hours of leaving the session. In fact, many may have even ‘turned off’ during the session. Steve Dance looks at why this is and what organizations can do to improve in this area.
The recent technology crisis impacting the TSB bank highlights a significant risk that many organizations face sooner or later; that of project risk. Steve Dance looks at the ‘seven deadly sins’ of major IT investments and the role of the business continuity function in mitigating critical project risk.
We are now into May and therefore less than a month away from the start of enforcement for the European Union’s GDPR data protection regulations. How seriously businesses are taking GDPR varies, but two words sum up why data protection is fundamentally a business continuity issue: Cambridge Analytica.
Following recent negative headlines for social media, and Facebook in particular, Databarracks’ Peter Groucutt is warning organizations not to call time on their accounts. Social media is not just for promotion; during a crisis it is often your most effective communications medium.
Mark Armour explains why he believes that we need to agree on our definitions and change our thinking around risk management, business continuity and resilience.
The Business Continuity Institute has published the shortlist of organizations and individuals that have been shortlisted for this year’s BCI Americas Awards.
The Institute for Crisis Management’s 27th annual report is a compilation of news and trends and the identification of those industries that were most prone to crisis during 2017.
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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.
