Global Disaster Alert Business Survival ™ NewsEmergency 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...
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...
Principles and Practice of Business Continuity
This new book explores the subject of Business Continuity Management: from basic principles to best practices. 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...
Business Continuity and Risk Management
The First Ever College Textbook on Business Continuity and Risk Management — also a great reference source and self-study guide for business continuity practitioners and novices! More...
Manufacturing, Distribution Business Continuity
A new Business Continuity template specifically designed for manufacturing or distribution businesses with 1,150+ pages on CD-ROM. More...
Finding more resistance than ever from large businesses, hackers are customizing their malware ploys for SMBs.
Continue reading Size doesn’t matter: SMBs are now a major target of cyberattacks
Four Philippines IT executives reveal some of the IT adjustments they did as a result of the recent calamities and share strategies in preparing for disasters, as well as the challenges that will be met along the way.
Continue reading Philippines Roundtable Discussion: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Tags: international, Philippines
ISO 27005, issued in 2008, filled a noticeable gap in the ISO 27000 series of standards. The standard is officially titled ISO/IEC 27005.2008, “Information technology — Security techniques — Information security risk management.”
Continue reading Applying the ISO 27005 risk management standard
Tags: Information security risk management, ISO 27005, risk management standard
For many, the biggest inhibitor to implementing an effective disaster recovery (DR) plan is cost.
A business impact analysis (BIA) is an important part of a company’s business continuity plan.
Tags: BIA, Business Impact Analysis, business impact assessment
An event that disrupts your business, no matter how limited or broad in scope, can undermine your ability to remain competitive—and maybe even to survive. But while disaster recovery planning for your facilities and technology is critical to your business continuity, you also need to fully consider the impact of a disruption on your most valuable asset: your employees.
Tags: workforce continuity
Most simulations we’ve encountered in business continuity and disaster recovery planning have been limited to the table top variety conducted at a conference or perhaps coordinated within your organization internally. Such events typically involve groups of people role playing to act out events of a pretend disaster situation.
Continue reading Computer Based Modeling and Simulation for Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Tags: exercise, modeling, simulation, Testing
Many vendors are positioning cloud backup as an ideal disaster recovery solution, allowing users to replicate data offsite and outside of their company’s geographic region at a reasonable cost. And, there are even a number of so-called cloud disaster recovery services on the market today. But, what does “cloud disaster recovery” really mean?
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) hosted Cyber ShockWave, a simulated cyber attack on the United States, February 16, 2010 in Washington D.C. providing an unprecedented look at how the government would develop a real-time response to a large-scale cyber crisis affecting much of the nation.
Continue reading Cyber ShockWave Shows U.S. Unprepared For Cyber Threats
Tags: Cyber Shockwave, cybersecurity, exercise, InfoSecurity
One of the ongoing problems in business continuity is articulating the business case in a way that resonates with executives and others in our organizations and doesn’t require a twenty slide PowerPoint presentation.
Continue reading Business Continuity Stories – Elevator Pitches and Object Lessons #1
Tags: Business Continuity, buy-in
SunGard announced that Eric Berg has resigned as chief executive officer of SunGard Availability Services, a position he held since October 2007.
Continue reading SunGard Availability Services CEO Berg Resigns
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