Adaptive Business Continuity (Adaptive BC) is an alternative approach to business continuity planning, ‘based on the belief that the practices of traditional BC planning have become increasingly ineffectual’. In this article, Jean Rowe challenges the Adaptive BC approach.
A new white paper written by the Disaster Recovery Institute’s Glossary Committee looks at the difficulty the committee has experienced in defining the term ‘incident’ and explains why agreeing a definition is important.
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?
The Business Continuity Institute has released a new report, ‘Supply Chain Resilience - 10 Year Trend Analysis’, in association with Zurich. The report looks at emerging key risks are and what organizations can learn from the past 10 years of research in this area.
Researchers at Warwick Business School have found that security breaches have a lasting impact on organizations, with breached companies typically paying lower dividends and invested less in research and development up to five years after the attack.
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.
Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) is an annual global event that is facilitated by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and this year takes place from 13th to 17th May. This page provides updates through to the end of BCAW.
The Business Continuity Institute presented its 2019 Americas Awards at an event on April 14th at the Continuity Insights conference in New Orleans. The awards recognize business continuity and resilience excellence.
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.
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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.
