Cascade effects occur at all levels of disruption and crisis, from tactical to operational to strategic; and have implications for business impact analysis and risk assessments. Geary Sikich explores the subject.
The current approach to business continuity, which generally focusses on ‘what could happen’, has significant limitations says Graham Goodenough. In this article he explains why this is the case; and suggests a better, more positive, method.
The City of London Police Action Fraud contact centre has received reports over the last 24 hours from businesses who have been sent online extortion demands from scammers threatening a cyber attack.
The winners of the 2016 DRI International Awards of Excellence were announced at the DRI2016 conference in Atlanta, GA, on March 8th, 2016.
The Business Continuity Institute’s annual North America business continuity and resilience Awards will be presented at an awards ceremony on 15th March 2016 at DRJ Spring World. The shortlist of finalists has now been published
The 21 APEC member economies are increasing their efforts to ensure health security in the Asia-Pacific. It comes amid growing concerns about the risk of pandemics that threaten people and productivity across the world’s most populous region.
APICS, the professional association for supply chain management, and Michigan State University (MSU) have launched a new report on the challenges pressuring today’s supply chain professionals.
This year’s international Business Continuity Awareness Week is taking place from 16th-20th May 2016 and a set of four posters for promoting it is now available.
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has published a set of Cloud Outage Incident Response (COIR) Guidelines to assist in business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
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.
