The US Diesel Technology Forum has provided a checklist of ten areas that need to be considered by business continuity planners when using backup electrical power during power outages:
The Telecom Business Continuity Forum, an event organized by the United Arab Emirates’ Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), took place recently. The Forum discussed various subjects, based on the theme ‘Global and National Competitiveness of Telecom Business Continuity’.
By Chris Regan.
The crisis management plan is just one aspect in ensuring your team are ready to respond to an incident or crisis. Taking the time to carefully consider the What? When? Why? and How? enables the necessary steps to be taken
UK financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has suffered a major IT outage after a ‘physical hardware incident at a supplier's data centre’.
One year on from the completion of the ISO Technical Specification for BIAs, ISO/TS 22317:2015 Societal security -- Business continuity management systems -- Guidelines for business impact analysis (BIA), Jayne Howe examines the realities of the standard and combines this with some practical advice on how to conduct BIAs.
According to researchers there are five key questions to ask when adapting to ‘surprise situations’ in business operations, whether this is an incident occurring ‘out of the blue’ or a change in direction of an ongoing crisis.
Qatar Stock Exchange in cooperation with the Qatar Financial Markets Authority, brokers and business partners successfully conducted an industry-wide business continuity exercise on Friday 23rd September.
BSI Supply Chain Services and Solutions has published its latest Global Supply Chain Security and Business Continuity Risk Index report, which shows that cargo theft is a growing supply chain continuity risk.
The Indian city of Bengaluru (Bangalore) is the capital of Karnataka state and has been at the forefront of violence connected to a long-running water supply dispute with neighbouring Tamil Nadu. While this ongoing incident is causing major problems for local businesses, it also has global ramifications as Bengaluru is one of India’s main outsourcing cities
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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.
