The wide diversity of flu in pigs across multiple continents, mostly introduced from humans, highlights the significant potential of new swine flu strains emerging, according to a new study.
‘Decision fatigue’ describes the way that the quality of our individual decisions and our rationale deteriorates as a result of sustained periods of information coming in to us and having to make a number of decisions against any given subject(s). Paul Kudray takes a look at the issue and explains why it is an important consideration during incident management.
Cyber scenarios have become much more common in business continuity exercises, due to the increasing concern about the impacts of information security threats. Dominic Cockram offers some lessons learned from practical experience of running such exercises.
Succession planning is vital for organizations of all sizes, but for small and medium sized businesses, it can be the difference between business continuity and business closure. Key to successful succession plans is managing digital legacies, but this is often a neglected area says Joe Siegrist…
At the recent Facebook Developer Conference F8 event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg set out the company’s vision for Facebook’s Messenger app to become the defacto communications medium for business to business and business to customer communications.
Ransomware are a growing threat to business operations and reputation. In this article Peter Godden explains how business continuity and disaster recovery technologies can help to provide protection against such attacks.
A World Health Organization risk assessment has warned that an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola poses a potential worldwide threat.
According to new research from specialist recruitment consultancy, Robert Half Management Resources, the majority (90 percent) of UK CFOs and FDs are planning to work with experienced interim managers within their organization over the next 12 months
The 2016 version of the US NFPA’s business continuity standard is now available and consultation has started on the next version.
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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.
