Global Disaster Alert Business Survival ™ NewsNEW BOOK: Hiles on Business Continuity: Global Best Practices (Third Edition) by Thought Leader Andrew Hiles.
Confidently create your BCP from scratch – or improve the one you have – aided by Hiles’ wide-ranging perspective, including case studies, global standards, and hard-won insights into what works and why. More...
NEW BOOK! Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know about Reputation Risks and Crisis Management, by Jim Lukaszewski
A Global Grand Master and Pioneer – Who Helped Shape the Modern Discipline of Crisis Communication – Has Distilled a Career’s Worth of Knowledge and Practical Advice… to tell your CEO and advisers what they must do to preserve, protect, defend, and recover their brands, reputations, even careers. More...
NEW! Easy-to-Use Template for Comprehensive Business Continuity Management to Enhance Your Organization's Resilience
Easy-to-use, comprehensive, expert, step-by-step instructions and templates – just what you’re looking for if you need a clear, actionable Business Continuity Plan More...
Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility. More...
Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...
NEW BOOK! The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace: Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell, a leading authority in the growing field of Emotional Continuity Management, makes a compelling business case that human emotions have a calculable, direct impact on the fiscal bottom line, and gives you powerful, practical tools to manage those costs. More...
With virtualization technologies becoming pervasive in the data center, SunGard Availability Services recently outlined five steps for addressing virtualization security challenges.
Recently the Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) introduced new rules requiring SGX member firms to develop robust business continuity management arrangements. Member firms will have 12 months to comply with the new rules.
Continue reading Singapore Exchange Introduces New BC Rules
Tags: Business Continuity Management, international, Singapore, Standards
The phone rings, you pick it up, and the caller identifies himself as an officer of the court. He says you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant is out for your arrest. You say you never received a notice. To clear it up, the caller says he’ll need some information for “verification purposes” - your birth date, social security number, maybe even a credit card number.
This is when you should hang up the phone. It’s a scam.
Continue reading Don’t Fall for Jury Duty Scam
Tags: cell phone security, information security, scams, social engineering
A report recently released by the World Economic Forum reports on the changing profile of 36 major risk areas. Published in cooperation with Citigroup, MMC (Marsh & McLennan Companies), Swiss Re, the Wharton School Risk Center and Zurich Financial Services, the report is based on a qualitative assessment of global risks, workshops and input from business leaders and experts consulted throughout 2008.
Continue reading Report: Global Risks 2009
Tags: enterprise risk management, global risk, Risk Management
The EU Agency ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) recently reported its findings from a survey on communication network resilience. The survey revealed a better than expected network availability, with only 10 hours downtime a year in Europe. Availability is vital not only to business, but also to private consumers. Service providers showed a higher level of service than expected.
Continue reading Survey: EU Comm’s Network Downtime Only 10 Hrs/year
Tags: availability, downtime, network disaster recovery, network reliability, network security, Surveys
In the wake of President Obama’s entering office, R. David Paulison has stepped down as chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), leaving the agency he rebuilt in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Continue reading Former FEMA Director Moves On
Tags: Department of Homeland Security, DHS, FEMA, Paulison
Research from continuous availability provider, Neverfail, which polled almost 600 organizations worldwide on their approach to IT continuity, has found that despite an increase in reliance of IT systems, 68.6 percent of organizations are still conducting at least four periods of planned systems maintenance per year, placing availability of business critical applications at risk if a solution to ensure continuous availability is not in place.
Continue reading Research: Need for Greater Emphasis on Continuous Availability
Tags: Business Continuity Management, Business Resilience, Continuous Availability, Disaster Recovery
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently opened its newly constructed National Exercise Simulation Center (NESC) at FEMA Headquarters. The NESC provides a state-of-the-art facility to serve the all-hazards preparedness and response mission through pooling resources, maximizing efficiency and providing sustained exercise and training support to all stakeholders.
Continue reading National Exercise Simulation Center Opens at FEMA
Tags: emergency management, emergency preparedness, Emergency Response, exercise, simulation
The Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) has created a new justification kit to help BC professionals obtain approval for attending a conference.
Continue reading Check This Out: The DRJ Helps You Justify Attending its Conference
Tags: Business Continuity Management, conferences, Disaster Recovery
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision recently issued a package of consultative documents to strengthen the Basel II capital framework. These enhancements are part of a broader effort the Committee has undertaken to strengthen the regulation and supervision of internationally active banks in light of weaknesses revealed by the financial markets crisis.
Continue reading The Latest on Basel II
Tags: Basel II, Business Continuity, financial crisis, international, Standards
One of the major challenges in going green is that, in most cases, certain power costs are not part of the IT budget, which could reduce the motivation for IT to make “green” decisions. However, from a business continuity perspective, data center managers have a vested interest in maintaining power, and they typically do it with uninterruptible power systems (UPS) that can be found connected to servers, workstations, network devices, and many other assets. Major backup power assets, such as external diesel or liquid natural gas (LNG) generators, are more likely to be managed by facilities. Opportunities to “go green” often can be found by addressing power systems.
Continue reading Issues in Making Your Data Center Green
Tags: Disaster Recovery, emergency power, green data center, Uninterruptible power supply
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