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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...
Principles and Practice of Business Continuity
This new book explores the subject of Business Continuity Management: from basic principles to best practices. 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...
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...
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...
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...
The computers that control large industrial control systems—the sewage plants, power stations, and assembly lines that keep civilization running—aren’t supposed to be online.
Continue reading Thousands of Industrial Systems Unwittingly Hooked Up to Internet
Both academics and practitioners in the fields of resilience, continuity, emergency, crisis and disaster management write articles, posts and papers about topics important to their field. Some of the most interesting of these outputs share lessons from previous events, provide case studies, introduce new tools and technologies and share research findings and results.
Continue reading Resilience Publications List
Tags: articles, compilations, links, publications
Kevin’s Security Scrapbook “Spy News from New York”is an eclectic collection of spy news, security tips, and odd-ball tidbits. Kevin often treats the serious subject of business espionage and workplace snooping with humor and thought-provoking graphics.
Continue reading Kevin’s Security Scrapbook “Spy News from New York”
Tags: espionage, psying, snooping, Spybusters, spycams
This year’s Cost of Cyber Crime Study from Ponemon Institute is based on a representative sample of 50 organizations in various industry sectors. While the research focused on organizations located in the United States, many are multinational corporations.
Continue reading Second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study
Tags: compliance, cyber attack, cyber crime, enterprise governance, GRC, Ponemon Institute, Risk Management, SIEM
Imagine what would happen if all the Google engineers turned rogue and held the world’s Gmail accounts to ransom. Or if aliens attacked earth and wiped California off the map.
Continue reading Taken over by aliens? Don’t worry; Google has it covered
Tags: disaster scenarios, Gmail, Google, scenarios
In a disaster, all focus is — naturally — on getting critical business processes back up and running. Whether the disaster is natural or manmade, it’s all about recovering business operations as fast as possible, getting employees back to work, and avoiding costly downtime.
Continue reading Disaster recovery and contingency planning security considerations
This is a sample policy from Information Security Policies Made Easy, by Charles Cresson Wood.
Continue reading Sample InfoSec Policy – Computer And Communications Facility Location
Tags: charles cresson wood, information security policies, information security policies made easy, InfoSecurity, ISPME
All around the world, governments declare they are gearing up for cyber war. The term “Cyber war” seems to be on everyone’s lips again.
Continue reading How Your Business Can Avoid Being Collateral Damage In A Cyber War
Tags: cyber war, cybersecurity
The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the United States faced some of the common security problems that plague many companies — misconfigured wireless networks, users writing passwords on slips of paper and laptop help desk issues that take months to resolve. Continue reading Russian spy ring needed some serious IT help
Tags: cybersecurity, espionage, InfoSecurity, Russia, spy, steganography
Are you sure that the keyboard or mouse you are using today is the one that was attached to your computer yesterday? It might have been swapped for a compromised device that could transmit data to a snooper. Continue reading USB coffee-cup warmer could be stealing your data
Tags: bugging, cybersecurity, eavesdropping, espionage, InfoSecurity, spying
In the past, the security of the grid was based on isolation and obscurity. In the future, the ubiquity of Smart Grid elements will make physical and electronic isolation impossible.
Continue reading What if the smart grid has stupid security?
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