British businesses urged to check their flood risks
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- Published: Friday, 06 November 2015 08:20
The UK Environment Agency has launched Flood Action, a campaign to encourage businesses to understand flood risks.
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Business continuity exercises for cyber threats
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- Published: Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:37
Continuing on from the Exercise Checklist published earlier this year, the latest resource from Corpress examines the cyber threat, its implications for organizations and how business continuity professionals can engage with cyber exercises.
UK city councils’ disaster recovery plans are encouraging, but there is room for improvement…
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- Published: Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:18
All of the UK’s major city councils have disaster recovery plans in place, but almost 40 percent have not tested their plans within the past 12 months.
The minimum business continuity objective: the Cinderella of the BIA...
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- Published: Thursday, 05 November 2015 15:57
The minimum business continuity objective (MBCO) is a neglected tool in the business continuity toolbox. Charlie Maclean-Bristol, FBCI, explains what it is and how to use it.
Survey finds that business continuity is the top benefit of cloud
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- Published: Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:29
The results of a recent ITWeb / EMC 2015 Cloud Computing online survey show that the majority of respondents see business continuity as the top-rated benefit of cloud computing, ranked as such by 71 percent of respondents.
An overview of ISO 22317, the business impact analysis Technical Specification
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- Published: Tuesday, 27 October 2015 08:52
Jacque Rupert served on Technical Committee 292 and participated in the development effort of the new ISO 22317 Technical Specification. In this article she provides an outline of what’s in ISO 22317 and how it can be used.
FFIEC warns about cyber attacks involving extortion and advises firms to include the issue in business continuity plans
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- Published: Wednesday, 04 November 2015 08:59
The US Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has issued a statement alerting financial institutions to the increasing frequency and severity of cyber attacks involving extortion.
Lack of participation by C-Suite executives in crisis planning identified as a key weakness in many organizations
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- Published: Wednesday, 28 October 2015 13:01
Chief executives, managing directors and other senior business leaders are failing to take crisis preparedness seriously and risk undermining their organization’s ability to manage crises, according to Regester Larkin and Steelhenge’s latest crisis management survey.
US financial industry business continuity exercise takes place
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- Published: Monday, 26 October 2015 07:44
As part of the ongoing financial industry backup site testing initiative that began in 2003, SIFMA led an industry-wide business continuity exercise on Saturday, October 24th, 2015.
