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Disaster Recovery Testing
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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...
NEW BOOK - Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning, Community Preparedness
The new book Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness introduces readers to the critical global and domestic issues regarding a potential pandemic. 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...
Principles and Practice of Business Continuity
This new book explores the subject of Business Continuity Management: from basic principles to best practices. More...
Seventy-two per cent of companies in the Middle East have business continuity (BC) policies – but of this just 70 per cent have fully worked out continuity and disaster recovery plans, according to a new survey.
It has been a busy week for disaster recovery so far – we had an outage on Monday and we had another one Wednesday.
There are a number of obvious benefits for businesses to ensure that regular data protection is completed and recovery assured, not least issues of business continuity, corporate governance and costs.
With the emergence of Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery comes a greater emphasis on hiring professionals with the right skills and credentials.
CDW Corporation, a provider of technology products and services to business, government and education, announced the 2009 CDW Report on Small Business Resilience, which identifies management and information technology (IT) infrastructure factors that contribute to business survivability and studies how small businesses are responding to the economic recession.
Although the possibility of natural disasters propels many companies to conceive or update disaster recovery (DR) or business continuity (BC) plans, most major business interruptions are more mundane.
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) has announced that Claire Betteridge has won its 2009 Business Continuity and Crisis Management Student Award. Claire is Senior Risk and Insurance Officer for Blackpool Borough Council.
Continuity Central recently conducted an online survey which worked from the following premise:
“While there has been much activity in the area of business continuity standards, there has been little discussion in the profession about quality control within business continuity management. This anonymous survey seeks to provide a starting point for this…”
See Quality Control in Business Continuity Management, from Continuity Central.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the launch of DisasterRecoveryWorkingGroup.gov—a new interagency website that will allow federal disaster recovery officials to solicit public comments from state, local and tribal partners and the public.
Last spring, when the first cases of H1N1 flu appeared, Gartner Inc. was getting lots of calls from alarmed clients wanting to know if and how they should adjust their disaster recovery plans.
This paper discusses today’s reality – where everything is unpredictable and disaster can strike business anytime, anywhere. It also focuses on other factors that can significantly impact an organization’s business continuity planning, such as compliance issues. It also addresses the importance of disaster recovery planning and how it is the key to business resiliency for any organization. It covers a business resilience framework, with an object-oriented approach and its benefit to an organization.
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