DRI International’s Awards of Excellence will be presented at the DRI Conference on February 19th, 2019 in Las Vegas, NV. The shortlist of companies and individuals who have been nominated for these annual crisis management, business continuity, technology recovery, and risk management awards is now available...
During 2018 Continuity Central published more than 600 business continuity, enterprise risk management, and resilience articles; but which were the most popular? Here are the top fifteen…
For the past five years Continuity Central has conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the year ahead. We are repeating the survey again this year and the interim results are now available.
Charlie Maclean Bristol offers five predictions for areas that will have an impact on business continuity during 2019…
The UK government has published two tranches of information to assist businesses with contingency planning for a ‘no deal’ Brexit. They include actions that businesses should take immediately to ensure that they have the best chance of minimising disruption.
At an event in London on 11th December, BSI officially launched the PD CEN/TS 17091 European technical specification for crisis management. Aimed at organizations of all sizes, the new guidance gives organizations ‘good practice guidance on how to prepare for, anticipate, respond to and recover from crises’.
In the company’s latest white paper, 'Master the disaster - Why CFOs must initiate natural catastrophe preparedness in 2019 and beyond', FM Global argues that a failure to prepare for natural hazards leaves CFOs in the hot seat when it comes to financial losses due to disasters.
Following a call by the European Council to intensify preparedness work at all levels and for all Brexit outcomes, the European Commission has started implementing its ‘no deal’ Contingency Action Plan.
On 6th December 2018, an issue with nodes in the core network of Ericsson, an ICT provider which handles around 40 percent of the world's mobile traffic, resulted in downtime for mobile data services around the world. Continuity Central is running a quick survey which aims to capture information about the impacts this incident had on organizations and what contingency measures were taken in response.
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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.
