The latest business continuity news from around the world
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What is the value of business continuity? That is a question those working in the profession often grapple with, certainly when attempting to justify its existence to top management.
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BSI has launched BS 16000:2015, ‘Security management. Strategic and operational guidelines’. This new British Standard provides a generic, security management framework
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In this article Dr. Goh Moh Heng and Jeremy Wong look at some of the difficulties that SMEs face when it comes to making business continuity plans and how a simplified methodology could make things easier.
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International SOS has launched the latest version of Pandemic Information, an online portal featuring information on, and analysis of, emerging infectious disease outbreaks.
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ISO/PRF TS 22317, the new technical specification for business impact analysis, has reached stage 50.00 in the ISO standards development process.
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Every year we see new forms of crisis threatening companies, governments, and organizations. At least on the face of it they seem to be new but often the crises have common causes which we have seen before and predictable escalation factors.
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Disaster management officials from APEC member economies have voiced support for the introduction of financial incentives to encourage businesses in the Asia-Pacific region to develop business continuity plans.
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Increasing complexity means that business continuity professionals need to rethink some of the paradigms of the practice, says Geary Sikich.
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The impacts of a Greek default could be felt across Europe and could generate real business continuity risks. David Honour offers a checklist of questions which organizations can consider when making contingency plans.
- MERS outbreak is a ‘wake-up call’ for highly mobile world
- Researchers look into the role that news media plays in causing public panic during high profile crises
- Five crisis management lessons learned from the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash
- WHO provides an update on the MERS-CoV outbreak in the Republic of Korea
