Global Disaster Alert Business Survival ™ NewsNEW! 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
This white paper explains how a flexible and business aware solution can provide continuous availability.
Continue reading Business Continuity for the 21st Century – White Paper
Tags: Continuous Availability
Ensuring that your networking infrastructure is up and running so your users have access to critical IT applications and data as quickly as possible is a key component of a comprehensive network disaster recovery plan.
Tags: I.T. DIsaster Recovery, LAN, LAN disaster recovery, local area networks
All business continuity analysis should be risk based, and risk prioritized to deal with the important business risks first. This means that any risks to your business need to be identified, examined and dealt with.
Continue reading Business Continuity Testing starts with the risks
No organization is just a supplier or customer, it is both. Thus, an organization needs a business continuity plan to demonstrate its commitment to downstream customers and upstream suppliers.
Continue reading Business Continuity Challenges in Global Supply Chains
Tags: Business Continuity, supply chain management, supply chain risk
Newer technologies such as cloud computing can be a boon for post-disaster recovery of data, but they don’t always help much, Dennis Heretick, former chief information security officer for the Justice Department, said at a FOSE trade show session.
Continue reading Cloud computing is not always helpful in data recovery
Tags: cloud computing, data recovery
Organizations have made strides in business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning. But BC/DR professionals need to sharpen their business skills to truly protect their organizations. Continue reading Business Continuity: Needs Improvement
Tags: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, gartner, Roberta Witty
A big part of disaster recovery, then, is copying the bits and storing them somewhere else other than the main data center. But where should one squirrel that second data center where it will be both safe and readily accessible? In other words, how far away is far enough? It is, by all accounts, a tricky question.
Continue reading Disaster Recovery Planning – How Far is Far Enough?
In Kevin Howells’ experience the problems that could be found with business continuity plans can be summarized into ten categories.
Continue reading Ten easy ways to improve your business continuity plan
Tags: Business Continuity
The business impact analysis (BIA) is the key step in developing a disaster recovery (DR) plan or a business continuity (BC) plan.
Continue reading Five steps to a business impact analysis in disaster recovery planning: BIA 101
Tags: BIA, Business Impact Analysis, business impact assessment
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