Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Bookstore Bestsellers

Business Continuity and Risk Management
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...

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...

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! 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...

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! 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...

NEW BOOK! Emergency Evacuation Planning for Your Workplace From Chaos to Life-Saving Solutions, by Jim Burtles
New, Industry-Defining Book Is the Result of 10 Years’ Research into Global Best Practices for Getting Everyone Out Safely Every Time! More...

Forrester: Why (and How) Security Must Drive Business Resiliency

Written by Philip Rothstein on March 5, 2014 in Business Continuity.

Business continuity (BC), IT disaster recovery (DR), and information security are essential elements of business resiliency, with the common objective of managing the risks of business disruption. While all have traditionally operated as separate silos, they follow similar processes, all require a business impact analysis and risk assessment processes, and all have a heavy reliance on controls documentation, monitoring, and testing.

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Tags: Business Continuity, security

A guide to verifying digital content for emergency coverage

Written by Philip Rothstein on March 5, 2014 in Crisis Management and Crisis Communication.

When a crisis breaks, trusted sources such as news and aid organizations must sift through and verify the mass of reports being shared and published, and report back to the public with accurate, fact-checked information.

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Tags: crisis communication

How Hurricane Sandy Changed Social Media Strategies in New York

Written by Philip Rothstein on March 5, 2014 in Crisis Management and Crisis Communication, disaster preparedness, Emergency Response.

How have things changed as far as social media strategies and use since those two days during Hurricane Sandy?

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Tags: crisis communicaiton, hurricane Sandy, social media

Personal Software Agents

Written by Philip Rothstein on March 5, 2014 in Uncategorized.

This article discusses how personal software agents and cloud platforms will develop from today’s mobile and cloud applications. Data integration and master data management techniques developed at the enterprise level will be applied to personal applications, to enable software to meet our needs in areas such as monitoring our health, purchasing household supplies and planning work and vacation trips.

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Tags: personal software agents

3 Considerations Before Buying Into Disaster Recovery as a Service

Written by Philip Rothstein on March 5, 2014 in Disaster Recovery.

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) backs up the whole environment, not just the data.

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Tags: Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaas

New FEMA Guide for Active Shooter and Mass Casualty Incidents

Written by Philip Rothstein on March 5, 2014 in Emergency Response.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released a new emergency response guide that provides an array of response tactics for “complex and demanding incidents that may well be beyond the traditional training of the majority of firefighters and emergency medical technicians.”

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Tags: Active Shooter, Emergency Response, FEMA, mass casualty

CDC Names Top 5 Health Threats of 2014

Written by Philip Rothstein on March 5, 2014 in Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Pandemics.

The disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the top five global health threats they expect to tackle in 2014.
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Tags: CDC, health threats, Public Health

Increasing Complexity of Supply Chains and the BC Professional

Written by Philip Rothstein on February 20, 2014 in Business Continuity.

This article discusses how supply chain disruptions have become one of the key issues facing business continuity and risk professionals.

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Tags: Business Continuity, supply chain

Too Many Sorry Excuses for Apology

Written by Philip Rothstein on February 20, 2014 in Crisis Management and Crisis Communication.

It seems that just about every day a chief executive, politician or other prominent figure is apologizing for something.

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Tags: apologies, crisis communication, crisis management, sorry

Business Continuity Awareness Week 2014: Counting The Cost

Written by Philip Rothstein on February 20, 2014 in Business Continuity, Events.

We are now less than a month away from Business Continuity Awareness Week and a program of activities is now in the making, activities that provide an education to both BC practitioners and also those who would just like to know a little bit more about the profession and the importance that it has.

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Tags: BCAW, bci, Business Continuity, business continuity awareness week, Business Continuity Institute

Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Written by Philip Rothstein on February 20, 2014 in InfoSecurity.

Recognizing that the national and economic security of the United States depends on the resilience of critical infrastructure, President Obama issued Executive Order (EO) 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, in February 2013. It directed NIST to work with stakeholders to develop a voluntary framework – based on existing standards, guidelines, and practices – for reducing cybersecurity risks.

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Tags: critical infrastructure, Cybersecurity Framework, Executive Order 13636, ITIL, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST

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