Nicholas E. Williams looks at some of the legal issues associated with business continuity and disaster recovery planning in the manufacturing sector.
Business continuity and information security threats and impacts have been increasing in severity; but is this change having an effect on the traditional demarcation lines between business continuity and information security management? Continuity Central is running a survey to look at this issue.
A new survey by Nationwide has found that three in four US small business owners do not have a disaster recovery plan, but more than half say it would take at least three months to recover from a disaster.
In this paper, Stephen Massey describes why BIA is so important in the establishment of an effective BCMS and which methods yield the most efficacies; how organizations must avoid confusing efficiency for efficacy and; why the BIA process must be treated as a learning and development exercise.
A Reading-based company was taken to court by an ex-employee after the organization accessed private emails sent to the employee’s work email address for business continuity purposes.
Matt Hodges-Long looks at the recent WHSmith ‘data breach’ story and explains how the retailer could have better handled its crisis communications.
New research by Databarracks has revealed that just 27 percent of small businesses have a business continuity plan in place, compared to 68 percent of medium-sized organizations and 75 percent of large organizations.
The tenth meeting of the World Health Organization’s Middle East respiratory syndrome Emergency Committee was held by teleconference on 2nd September 2015. During the meeting the WHO Secretariat provided an update to the Committee on epidemiological and scientific developments
Rainer Hübert, MBCI, sets out a vision for ways in which the advantages of a business continuity management system can be quantified, helping demonstrate a return on investment and changing the business continuity function from a cost centre to a profit centre.
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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.
