The BCI Middle East Awards will be presented in a ceremony in September 2019. The Awards recognize the outstanding contributions of business continuity, risk and resilience professionals and organizations living or operating within the Middle East region.
Peter Groucutt, managing director of Databarracks, comments on the BBC’s recent analysis of IT outages and incidents for major high-street banks.
Three quarters of US organizations list an active shooter situation as their top threat, according to Everbridge, Inc. Active shooter situations outrank concerns such as natural disasters, cyber attacks and supply chain disruptions.
CIR Magazine’s 21st Annual Business Continuity Awards will be presented at a ceremony on 6th June 2019 at the London Marriott Hotel. The shortlist of people and organizations that have been shortlisted for an award has now been published.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released two consultation papers on proposed changes to its Business Continuity Management Guidelines and Technology Risk Management (TRM) Guidelines.
The US NFPA has announced that public input is now being accepted for the 2022 edition of the NFPA 1600, Standard on Continuity, Emergency, and Crisis Management. This initial public consultation will run until January 9th 2020
A new paper by Hojun Lee, published in the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, proposes a method to determine four BC indicators by interpreting the correlation between business and continuity indicators and customer satisfaction.
When looking to raise awareness of business continuity within organizations and obtain business and senior management support for business continuity programs it is tempting to fall back on the shock tactics of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) but this approach is at best ineffective, at worst counter-productive.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released its annual Policy Priorities document, outlining its areas of intended policy focus over the next 12 to 18 months.
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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.
