High profile business continuity commentators David Lindstedt and Mark Armour have launched an attempt to take business continuity to the next level. They have published ‘Continuity 2.0’ which ‘establishes nine principles to found a new methodology, synthesizing and fostering improvements and innovations across the industry’.
ISO has published its new guidance on how to establish, implement, and maintain a formal and documented business impact analysis (BIA) process.
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.
John Robinson, FBCI, reviews ISO’s Technical Specification for conducting BIAs which was published on September 15th 2015.
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.
ISO has published a new Technical Specification for supply chain continuity.
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.
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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.
