Global Disaster Alert Business Survival ™ NewsFacility 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...
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...
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! 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...
NEW 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...
FluTracker provides an easy-to-use mapping tool for tracking H1N1 flu – around the world, down to your local area.
Continue reading Tracking the progress of H1N1 swine flu
Tags: "pandemic", flu, h1n1, influenza, swine flu
US cities would be so overwhelmed by a dirty bomb or nuclear bomb attack that they would invariably rely upon the federal government for recovery, but agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have not yet completed their planning for delivering such assistance, congressional investigators warned.
Continue reading Recovery From Dirty Bomb Would Fall on Feds – But Are They Ready?
Tags: DHS, dirty bomb, FEMA, homeland security, nuclear attack
Tornadoes create risks that differ in key ways from those in a hurricane area. Cancer Treatment Centers of America showcases a study BC/DR plan for dealing with tornadoes.
Continue reading Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in a Tornado Zone
Tags: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, extreme weather, hurricane, tornado
Business and technology environments are more complex than ever and the reliance on information technology is firmly entrenched in the success factors of most organizations. Being prepared to respond to situations – both planned and unexpected – that threaten to disrupt essential business systems and processes, is a major corporate concern.
Continue reading Five Key Considerations in Disaster Recovery Planning
Tags: Disaster Recovery, Harris Interactive, Sungard, survey
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has produced two new Business Continuity training DVDs:
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Continue reading Two NEW Business Continuity Training DVDs
Tags: bci, BIA, BS25999, Business Continuity Institute, business impact assessment, dvds, exercise, good practice guidelines, gpg, Testing, Training, videos
Congratulations — you’ve been assigned to implement your firm’s disaster recovery plan. Data backed up offsite? Check. Distributed data center? Check. Recovery procedures tested? Check. What’s missing? People.
Continue reading Disaster Recovery: Anticipating Death
Tags: people, succession planning
This primer (compiled from articles in CSO magazine) explains the basic concepts of business continuity planning and also directs you to more CSO magazine resources on the topic.
Continue reading Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Definition and Solutions
A word of advice before applying for BS25999-2 certification
Continue reading 10 Tips Towards BS25999 Certification
Tags: 25999, british standards institution, BS 25999-2, BS25999, bsi, certification, Standards
There are two things that are obvious about disaster recovery (DR) testing: everybody with a DR plan should test, and most don’t test frequently enough.
Continue reading Companies struggle to make time for Disaster Recovery tests
Tags: Disaster Recovery, exercise, Testing
Your hard drive might crash. Thieves might steal your laptop at a café. You might realize on Friday that you desperately need the now-departed Wednesday version of an important document that you significantly altered on Thursday.
Continue reading Backup Strategies for Data, Multimedia, System Files
Tags: backup, data backups, internet backup, off-site storage
A new security assessment of the nation’s private-sector computer networks from the Department of Homeland Security says some of the most worrisome vulnerabilities reflect the open structure of the Internet itself.
Continue reading Natural disaster could multiply hacker dangers
Tags: cybersecurity, homeland security, Internet security, natural disasters
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