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Business Continuity and Risk Management
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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...
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...
Principles and Practice of Business Continuity
This new book explores the subject of Business Continuity Management: from basic principles to best practices. More...
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
Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) professionals looking for work face many challenges right now.
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What’s the future career path for today’s Business Continuity Management professional? Singapore’s Nathaniel Forbes has plodded along a BCM career path for 14 years, and doesn’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. All he sees is more tunnel.
Continue reading Is the BCM profession a dead-end?
Tags: BCM, Business Continuity, Business Continuity Management, careers, profession
One of the interesting aspects of business continuity management is that it is a key component of two major professional accreditations: CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) and CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).
Continue reading Why CISA certification is worthwhile for business continuity professionals
Tags: certification, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISA, CISSP
The effects of the September 11 attacks still reverberate through both public- and private-sector organizations. As a result, they have been more willing to spend more on emergency management. (In some cases, they have been forced to.) The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects employment to grow by 2,800, or 22 percent, between 2008 and 2018.
Continue reading Best Careers: Emergency Management
Tags: careers, emergency management, Jobs
Ninety percent of risk management experts surveyed have implemented or plan to implement an enterprise-wide risk management approach, according to a new survey from the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and its partners. As corporations work to gain a foothold following the global financial crisis, businesses are taking a closer look at risk management implementation and the role of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO), as noted in the survey. Other top factors in the decision to implement ERM are ratings agencies and risk events affecting the firm.
Tags: actuaries, chief risk officer, CRO, operational risk, Society of Actuaries, survey
The BCI London Forum, the largest chapter within the Business Continuity Institute, has announced the results of its ‘What Makes a Good Business Continuity Manager’ survey. Between October and November, 2009, 80 BCI members completed the London Forum’s online survey of 46 questions, anonymously.
Continue reading Survey: What makes a good business continuity manager?
Tags: bci, BCI London Forum, BCM, Business Continuity Institute, business continuity manager, survey
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The Business Continuity Institute (BCI), the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying business continuity professionals throughout their careers, today announced the launch of a new online self-assessment tool known as BCIscope. The tool aims to enable business continuity professionals and individuals to assess their knowledge of The Business Continuity Institute’s Good Practice Guidelines (GPG), a taxonomy of business continuity topics that serves as the foundation for the CBCI certification.
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With the emergence of Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery comes a greater emphasis on hiring professionals with the right skills and credentials.
Continue reading Call of Duty: The New Demand for Business Continuity Professionals
Tags: certification, hiring, Jobs, professionals
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