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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saul Midler, FBCI, describes three main reasons why organizations often fail to achieve ‘right-sized’ business continuity.
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.
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.
The cliché is that when times are tight, marketing budgets are the first to feel the scissors. In reality, business continuity is even more likely to suffer from budget cuts
The entire Continuity Central website is scanned daily by Sucuri to ensure that no malware exists within the site. This means that you can browse with complete confidence.
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.
