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! 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! 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...
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...
So, a parody of a hostage situation and shooting might seem a bit insensitive…
Continue reading A Satirical Roast of Social Media
Tags: satire, social media
Continuity Central recently conducted a survey to discover what the views of business continuity professionals are about the MTPD (maximum tolerable period of disruption) concept, which was introduced by BS 25999.
The rise of cloud disaster recovery has provided another disaster recovery planning option. Here’s how one organization turned to a private cloud provisioned for disaster recovery services to meet their recovery needs.
Continue reading Are cloud disaster recovery services viable for the enterprise?
Tags: cloud computing, cloud disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery
Significant changes in the trends of workplace violence and terrorism along with recommendations for adjusting risk management and security approaches for violence prevention are detailed in this white paper.
Continue reading Workplace Violence and the “New Terrorist:” Exploring the Active Shooter Threat
Tags: Active Shooter, workplace violence
This study stresses the correlation between war and the Business Continuity Management (BCM), especially for Medium-Large Enterprises. It covers the case of a recent war in Lebanon and emphasizes the necessity of integrating and incorporating war into BCM planning.
Continue reading Adding war to BCM planning
Tags: Business Continuity, war
Snake oil is applied metaphorically to any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable and/or unverifiable quality or benefit. For the consultant, selling business continuity can be the ultimate snake oil.
Continue reading Choosing a business continuity consultant: avoiding being sold snake oil
Tags: consultant, consulting, vendor evaluation
An IT risk assessment is a document that describes potential threats your organization faces, whether they are natural and/or man-made.
Continue reading IT risk assessment methodology guide for disaster recovery planners
If your organization has a risk management function, you are aware of ISO 31000, Risk Management – Principles and Guidelines on Implementation, a standard released by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2009. But the question is: Are you sure your risk management initiatives adhere to this standard?
Continue reading Are you in compliance with the ISO 31000 risk management standard?
Tags: ISO 31000, ISO31000, Risk Management, Standards
Looking at trends in disaster recovery (DR) planning from 2009, it has become clear that virtualization has become a critical consideration in DR planning and design. A 2009 DR survey from Symantec Corp. found that 64% of organizations are re-evaluating disaster recovery plans based on virtualization. But why?
Continue reading Virtualization and disaster recovery: Best practices for disaster recovery planners
Tags: CDP, continuous data protection, data replication, Disaster Recovery, virtualization
With over 6,000 listings in more than 250 categories, the database serves business continuity professionals, emergency planners and managers, security professionals and corporate managers to ensure that their organizations are prepared for and can recover from any type of natural or man-made disaster.
Continue reading New Rothstein Associates Industry Resource Database now available
Tags: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Directory, emergency management, Events, suppliers, vendors
There are many ways small businesses can get trounced by hurricanes, fires or floods. There also are multiple fixes and precautions that are surprisingly easy to implement.
Continue reading Staying Open: Disaster Preparedness for Small Businesses
Tags: open for business, small business
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