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It seems that BCM standards, by themselves, are not necessary and may not even be useful. But demonstrated compliance with a standard is extremely useful, and a globally recognized standard used for consistent measurement is necessary to that end.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) proposed a regulation that would establish a recovery standard for designated contract markets (DCMs) and derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs) that the Commission determines to be critical financial markets in the event of a wide-scale disruption that affects such entities’ trading or clearing operations.
Interruptions to information technology (IT) system services can have a severe impact on an organization and its ability to carry out its basic functions. IT resources are essential to most business processes, and organizations depend upon information systems that operate effectively without serious interruptions. When organizations develop and maintain contingency plans for their IT systems, they can create a coordinated strategy to identify technical procedures and methods that will prevent most service disruptions and enable quick recovery should any disruptions occur.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the adoption of the final standards for the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program (PS-Prep)—a major milestone in DHS’ implementation of a program recommended by the 9/11 Commission to improve private sector preparedness for disasters and emergencies.
The updated corporate governance requirements in South Africa’s King III report set out four key focus areas for IT governance: strategic alignment, value delivery, risk management and resource management.
A new joint New Zealand and Australian Handbook – ‘HB 327:2010 Communicating and Consulting about Risk’ has been published. Read the rest of this entry »
The new Good Practices Guidelines (GPG), compiled by an international Working Party of Business Continuity Institute (BCI) members, is now available
ASIS International’s American National Standard for Organizational Resilience has been adopted as a national standard in the Netherlands. The ANSI/ASIS SPC.1-2009 American National Standard, “Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness and Continuity Management Systems–Requirements with Guidance for Use,” was published as a Dutch National Standard (NEN 7131) by the Netherlands Standardization Institute in January 2010. This follows the publication as a Danish National Standard (DS 3001) in September 2009 by Danish Standards.
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ISO 27005, issued in 2008, filled a noticeable gap in the ISO 27000 series of standards. The standard is officially titled ISO/IEC 27005.2008, “Information technology — Security techniques — Information security risk management.”
Two months after its debut, reviewers pretty much agree that ISO 31000 lives up to its billing as a good generic, process-oriented risk management framework that addresses myriad forms of risk across many industries. The question is, do you need it?
This article summarizes standards for business continuity over the past decade.
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