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...

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...

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...

Hacking the President’s DNA

Written by Phil on January 10, 2013 in disaster preparedness, InfoSecurity.

The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well—the basis for the creation of personalized bioweapons that could take down a president and leave no trace.

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Tags: biowarfare, bioweapons, DNA, genetics, hacking, security

Revised NIST Guide Helps Organizations Handle Security-Related Incidents

Written by Phil on October 3, 2012 in InfoSecurity.

The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently revised its guidelines for computer security incident handling to address the new and changing threats and attacks that are occurring.

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Tags: computer security, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide, cybersecurity, information security, Information Technology Laboratory, InfoSecurity, ITL, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-61 Revision 2, security

Aurora killings force theater owners to evaluate security, pricing

Written by Phil on July 26, 2012 in Crisis Management and Crisis Communication, disaster preparedness.

Movie theaters across the country are hiring extra off-duty police officers and security guards in the wake of the killing of 12 people Friday in a theater in Aurora.

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Tags: Aurora, security

Situational awareness: Inside the new World Trade Center

Written by Phil on September 27, 2011 in disaster preparedness.

A decade after 9/11, Louis Barani of the new WTC is designing a situational awareness platform that reflects on the past for future protection

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Tags: security, World Trade Center, WTC

World Cup security: Preparing for the unexpected

Written by Phil on June 30, 2010 in disaster preparedness.

The FIFA World Cup games kicked off on June 11 in South Africa. One of the largest sporting events in the world, it features multiple games occurring across numerous cities, posing myriad logistical and communication challenges in an already volatile, high crime area.

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Tags: FIFA, security, sporting event, World Cup

Eavesdropping Detection Audits

Written by Phil on June 10, 2010 in InfoSecurity.

As the saying goes, “Sometimes the paranoids are right.” You never know when you might need Technical surveillance counter-measures (TSCM).

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Tags: cybersecurity, eavesdropping, espionage, security, Technical surveillance counter-measures, TSCM

Protecting Against Terrorism: third edition published

Written by Phil on March 18, 2010 in disaster preparedness.

The UK government’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) has published the third edition of ‘Protecting Against Terrorism.’

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Tags: Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, CPNI, security, terrorism

The Netherlands Adopts the ASIS International Organizational Resilience Standard

Written by Phil on March 4, 2010 in Standards.

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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Tags: ANSI, ASIS, international, NEN 7131, Netherlands, Organizational resilience, PS-Prep, security, SPC.1-2009, Standards

SANS Survey: Top Cyber Security Risks

Written by Phil on December 1, 2009 in InfoSecurity, survey.

A report from security experts TippingPoint, SANS Institute and Qualys highlights the most significant information security attacks over the last six months, as well as the vulnerabilities these attacks exploit and how they can harm businesses.

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Tags: cybersecurity, InfoSecurity, Qualys, SANS, security, TippingPoint

Executive Hostage Taking

Written by Phil on November 4, 2009 in Crisis Management and Crisis Communication.

Labor strikes have long been associated with violence, but a new variation on that threat has been flaring up around the world: executive hostage taking.

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Tags: executive hostage taking, hostage, kidnapping, Labor strikes, security

Accelerate Disaster Recovery

Written by Phil on August 27, 2009 in Disaster Recovery.

Accelerating disaster recovery is a requirement in today’s business environment. There is no room for downtime, and lost data is a competitive liability.

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Tags: Data Management, data recovery, Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure Management, IT Reliability, LAN Standards, Networking, Riverbed Technology, security, WAN Standards, WANs

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