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Manufacturing, Distribution Business Continuity
A new Business Continuity template specifically designed for manufacturing or distribution businesses with 1,150+ pages on CD-ROM. More...
Principles and Practice of Business Continuity
This new book explores the subject of Business Continuity Management: from basic principles to best practices. More...
Comprehensive Business Continuity Management Program
A complete template program for business on CD-ROM that includes advice for all development steps from the Information Collection Process, through the Business Analysis, to the actual Business Continuity and Crisis Response documentation and finally with assistance for the ongoing exercising and maintenance process. More...
Emotional Crises in the Workplace
Provides well-tested Emotional Continuity Management tools that bridge human emotional dynamics with the fiscal demands of a company. More...
Disaster Recovery Testing
Untested contingency / recovery plans are of little value. Testing is far more than finding holes in the plan: it confirms the underlying assumptions are workable; it can also be a valuable training tool. More...
What’s the future career path for today’s Business Continuity Management professional? Singapore’s Nathaniel Forbes has plodded along a BCM career path for 14 years, and doesn’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. All he sees is more tunnel.
Two months after its debut, reviewers pretty much agree that ISO 31000 lives up to its billing as a good generic, process-oriented risk management framework that addresses myriad forms of risk across many industries. The question is, do you need it?
Virtually every business organization understands successful operations depend on the continuous availability of its applications. Most companies rely on internal applications – ranging from enterprise resource planning to payroll systems – to keep the wheels of their enterprise turning.
Every business should have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Unfortunately, because the idea of developing one can seem time-consuming and tedious, many entrepreneurs choose to go without one. Although it’s always best to have a complete plan, it’s better to have a few crucial pieces than nothing at all. So even if you can’t do everything, do something.
Virtual server technologies provide government agencies with the ability to do more with less, enabling the consolidation of data and applications onto a single server.The result is reduced costs, simplified IT management, and minimized space requirements.
Disaster recovery is an area where most of the best practices and knowledge focus on the development of the plan itself. In many companies, DR lacks in the area of assessing the quality of the process and how well integrated it is with daily operations. This can be noted by the scarcity of models available to describe the different levels of maturity of a DR plan.
Late last year a high-street financial institution experienced a power failure at an IT centre in Yorkshire, shutting down cash machines for a few hours, as well as undermining retail transactions and online banking.
Global critical infrastructure networks are being pummeled with repeated cyberattacks from foreign nation-states and other adversaries, including terrorist organizations and organized crime groups, a report by McAfee concluded.
There are many things to consider when discussing business risk assessments and impact assessments in disaster recovery (DR) planning. In simple terms, a risk assessment is a list of possible threats against an organization.
How are SMBs dealing with disaster recovery and business continuity?
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