The 6th meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) regarding the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa took place by teleconference on Thursday, 2nd July 2015, and by electronic correspondence from 2nd-6th July 2015.
BSI has launched BS 16000:2015, ‘Security management. Strategic and operational guidelines’. This new British Standard provides a generic, security management framework
ISO/PRF TS 22317, the new technical specification for business impact analysis, has reached stage 50.00 in the ISO standards development process.
The Colombo Stock Exchange, Sri Lanka (CSE), has conducted a successful disaster recovery exercise. The stock exchange operated from its disaster recovery site on Friday July 3rd, 2015. All trading and post trade operations took place from the recovery site for a complete market day.
In this article Dr. Goh Moh Heng and Jeremy Wong look at some of the difficulties that SMEs face when it comes to making business continuity plans and how a simplified methodology could make things easier.
Every year we see new forms of crisis threatening companies, governments, and organizations. At least on the face of it they seem to be new but often the crises have common causes which we have seen before and predictable escalation factors.
What is the value of business continuity? That is a question those working in the profession often grapple with, certainly when attempting to justify its existence to top management.
International SOS has launched the latest version of Pandemic Information, an online portal featuring information on, and analysis of, emerging infectious disease outbreaks.
Disaster management officials from APEC member economies have voiced support for the introduction of financial incentives to encourage businesses in the Asia-Pacific region to develop business continuity plans.
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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.
