BSI is seeking feedback on the draft BS 12999 standard. ‘BS 12999 Damage Management - Stabilization, mitigation, and restoration of properties, contents, facilities and assets following incident damage’ is intended to provide recommendations to individuals and organizations involved in carrying out damage management.
June 1st is the start of the 2015 hurricane season and to help businesses and individuals prepare FEMA has launched a new feature to its mobile app.
In the wake of recent disasters in the Asia-Pacific, APEC officials are calling for greater commitment and a science-based approach to building safe and disaster resilient communities.
Downtime to the broadband connection is now one of the major threats facing today’s organizations, so why are many businesses not considering resilience when purchasing broadband or looking at how broadband failure fits into the disaster recovery plan? Mike van Bunnens, managing director, Comms365, explores the issue.
Matt Hodges-Long explains how the concept of herd immunity can be translated to the business arena and how the resulting herd resilience could bring benefits for business continuity and resiliency.
Impact Forecasting has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during April 2015.
The UK government's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) has published new advice for the protection of industrial control systems (ICS).
SIFMA president and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., has testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit hearing entitled, ‘Protecting Critical Infrastructure: How the Financial Sector Addresses Cyber Threats.’
The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, has praised Geneva for its management of the exceptional floodwaters which have threatened the city in recent days
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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.
