Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Bookstore Bestsellers

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...

NEW 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...

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...

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...

Risk Practices: Black swans turn grey – The transformation of risk

Written by Phil on January 26, 2012 in Business Continuity, Risk Management.

Black Swans Turn Grey is a thought provoking paper from PWC UK looking at how the landscape of risk is changing from a past environment where boards believed their organizations could manage and control risks to the present where established risk approaches and thinking are being repeatedly outpaced.

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Tags: black swans, compliance, governance, PWC, risk, risk resilience

Second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study

Written by Phil on October 25, 2011 in InfoSecurity, Risk Management.

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.

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Tags: compliance, cyber attack, cyber crime, enterprise governance, GRC, Ponemon Institute, Risk Management, SIEM

Business Continuity Implications for SOX Compliance

Written by Phil on August 11, 2010 in Business Continuity, Risk Management.

SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) requirements include several steps organizations need to take to ensure business continuity across the entire IT infrastructure, even in a mixed environment that includes a virtual environment.

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Tags: compliance, governance, regulatory, Sarbanes-Oxley, SOX

Disaster Recovery planning and HIPAA regulations

Written by Phil on September 10, 2009 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery.

The firms which are regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) need to make a disaster recovery (DR) plan taking into consideration how various regulations and compliance issues will impact the firm after a disaster strikes because producing a DR plan is a HIPAA requirement.

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Tags: compliance, health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, healthcare, hipaa

Certification vs. Compliance: A Chicken and Egg Problem?

Written by Paul Kirvan on February 5, 2009 in Business Continuity.

John Hele, Global Product Manager, BSI Management Systems, recently was the keynote speaker at the Asia Business Continuity Conference in Singapore. He addressed a question that is often asked by companies new to certification and to BCM: What should I focus on, compliance or certification?

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Tags: Business Continuity, certification, compliance

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