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The Disaster Resource Guide is a valuable resource for business continuity, disaster recovery, homeland security and crisis management issues.EC proposes Critical Infrastructure Warning Information Network
The European Commission recently proposed legislation to establish a Critical Infrastructure Warning Information Network (CIWIN) to strengthen information-sharing on critical infrastructure protection between EU Member States.
Did You Know: Small Business Administration and DR
Perhaps you already know that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) provides low interest disaster loans to homeowners, renters, businesses of all sizes and private, non-profit organizations to repair or replace real estate, personal property, machinery and equipment, inventory and business assets that have been damaged or destroyed in a declared disaster.
So You Want to Be a Speaker - Read On
If you’re a speaker looking for opportunities related to Business Continuity, check out the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP). They have a speakers bureau, and recently offered the following topics of interest to their members:
- Focus on Business Continuity Standards Recent BCP Regulations, Audit, Governance and Compliance Issues
- Building a Methodology to Support British Standard 25999 and Others
- Continuity Successes and Challenges: How Are We Measuring Up?
- Leveraging Virtualization for Disaster Recovery
- Disaster Preparedness Before-During-After
- Identify and Manage Security Exposures in Your DR Strategies
For more information on the ACP speakers bureau please click here.
Global Avian/Pandemic Influenza Assistance from U.S. Approaches $1 Billion
With the announcement of a new pledge of $320 million for avian and pandemic influenza assistance, U.S. support to international organizations and to more than 90 countries now totals $949 million. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, Paula Dobriansky, announced the U.S. pledge recently at the International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
Safety Tips for Wet-Cell Backup Batteries
What is a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) without backup power? Backup power can be the batteries or flywheel that rides an outage until the main power or an alternate backup power source such as a generator comes on.
Business Continuity Event Planning: Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
This is the second of two posts examining the ‘prepare’ step in building and managing a BCEM (Business Continuity Event Management) plan. In the previous post, we saw how understanding the business is critical to a business impact mitigation and process recovery. The activities discussed produce input for the business impact analysis, including:
- Business objectives
- Regulatory environment
- Critical processes
- Threats
- Process interdependencies
- Process vulnerabilities
Using this information, we can plan for inevitable process failures. The BIA uses business impact information and the probability of specific business continuity events to calculate levels of business risk. The end result of a BIA is a picture of the BCEM threat, vulnerability, mitigation, and response framework and how that framework reduces risk to levels acceptable to management.
See Business Continuity Event Planning: Business Impact Analysis (BIA) by Tom Olzak, Olzak on Business Continuity, CSO Security & Risk Online.
Warning: Use of Videoconferencing in a Crisis
Although videoconferencing has become a billion-dollar industry, it leaves distant decision-makers less likely to make sound judgments, according to a study published in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Study: Economic Impact of a Major Earthquake on California’s Hayward Fault
Risk Management Solutions (RMS) recently announced the results of a study analyzing the impact of a major earthquake on the Hayward Fault in California. The study marks the anniversary of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake (which ruptured the southern section of the fault 140 years ago during October) and was conducted in collaboration with research seismologists led by the US Geological Survey.
A New Look At The Data Center “Three Rs” Of Business Continuity
As is true in most areas of IT some things are new and some things remain the same. This is certainly true of disaster recovery/business continuity. We simply cannot move ahead with new recovery strategies if any lingering problems remain. What this post suggests is that there is a logical progression when dealing with data center backup and recovery. The key is to make sure that the proper steps are followed.
ACP Elections - Deadline to Vote November 7
If you’re a member of the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP), don’t forget to vote for new members to the national board of directors.
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