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Business Continuity Links
Business Continuity ExpoBusiness Continuity Expo and Compliance Expo, provide organisations with a dedicated event to source the products and services that will keep them resilient, compliant and operational. It delivers a winning formula of education, practical workshops and the UK's largest dedicated exhibition.
Business Continuity InstituteThe Business Continuity Institute (BCI) provides recognition and professional qualifications for business continuity practitioners. Represented in 14 countries, membership brings significant benefits to professionals world-wide, providing recognition, networking, education and knowledge.
Business continuity metrics: How much can you afford to lose?When developing a disaster recovery plan, companies need to evaluate how fast they can get their businesses running again and how much data they can afford to lose. Bob Cramer, CEO of LiveVault Corp., offers tips on key metrics companies should use to make these decisions.
Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (CCEP)CCEP's mandate is to assist communities, governments and private business to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from man-made or natural disasters. CCEP does not directly compete with existing training providers or business continuity /disaster recovery consultants. It also produces the World Conference on Disaster Management.
COMPUTERWORLDRedefining Disaster: Many CIOs have changed the way they think about disaster recovery. How about you? News Story by Mary K. Pratt, JUNE 20, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD)
Computerworld South AfricaSurvey: Most EMEA countries News Story by Samantha Perry. December 07, 2004 - " Veritas Software Corp. last week released the results of its third annual disaster recovery study which revealed, among other things, that 97% of businesses surveyed in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) would be unable to continue normal operations following a data center fire."
(Computerworld) Study: Many companies lack disaster, continuity plans"A U.S.-led war in Iraq that could spawn new terrorist attacks in the U.S. could be less than two weeks away, but that hasn’t prompted many companies in the U.S. to invest adequately in disaster recovery, according to a new study released today by Dataquest Inc." (March 4, 2003)
Continuity CentralBusiness continuity provides insurance discounts (for some). According to a recent survey jointly conducted by Strohl Systems and CPM-Global Assurance, one out of every eight US organisations that responded has experienced decreased insurance rates due to having a comprehensive business continuity plan.
Continuity CentralThe BIA under the microscope: The July, 2003 issue of the Business Continuity e-Journal is ‘BIA special’ – containing a detailed report on the recent BIA survey conducted by Continuity Central. The report gives details on: * Who is given responsibility for the BIA * How BIAs are being conducted * What the BIA covers * How often BIAs are conducted * Where the information is distributed * Problems and difficulties experienced * Future changes in the BIA process.
Continuity CentralGlobal news, jobs and information portal for the business continuity industry. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned professional Continuity Central will meet your information needs.
Continuity SoftwareOur product detects risks and infrastructure vulnerabilities in Disaster Recovery systems, and ensures that your critical business data is truly protected.
IT GovernanceIT Governance Ltd is a leading global authority on data security and IT governance for business and the public sector. It is the world's most comprehensive publisher of and distributor for information, advice, guidance,books and tools for Governance, Risk Management and Compliance. We have clients globally.
NoticeBoredWe supply creative internal communications materials for cost-effective corporate information security awareness programs. Different topics such as contingency planning, viruses and social engineering are covered each month - ideal for a rolling awareness program. We supply newsletters, briefings, presentations, posters, crosswords and loads more top quality content.
Vital Records Protectionwww.vitalrecordsprotection.org is an informational website designed to provide facts, statistics, commentary and articles devoted to the topic of protecting of vital records. After conducting extensive research into our markets, we learned that simple lack of awareness among the business community is the number one culprit leading to the inadequate protection of vital records.
UK Financial Sector ContinuityContingency Arrangements: CP142: Operational risk systems and control; A Review of Business Continuity Management in Major Financial Groups Post 11 September 2001 - September 2002
UK Government -- Preparing For Emergencies: What You Need to KnowBusiness Continuity Guidance for Businesses The UK Government undertakes a national risk assessment process which identifies disruptive challenges which could affect the UK over a five year period, and assesses their likelihood and impact. The resulting assessments are used to inform the development of contingency plans and emergency response capabilities. The Government believes that businesses may find some of this information useful when developing and reviewing their business continuity plans, and when considering the business continuity requirements for organisations in their supply chain. In particular, businesses may find helpful the 'Planning Assumptions' set out below on the type of major emergencies which the Government judges may arise, and the nature and scale of consequences were they to do so. That does not mean that all activities within individual businesses should be resilient to all of the challenges set out below, which may not neither appropriate nor affordable. Similarly, there may be other risks particular to individual businesses that are not reflected here. Therefore, use of this material should not be a substitute for carrying out business-specific risk assessments which should underpin all emergency planning and business continuity management processes. * Large-scale temporary absence of staff * Permanent or long-term loss of staff * Denial of site or geographical area and displaced persons * Loss of mains electricity * Disruption to transport * Loss of mains water and sewerage * Loss of availability of oil and fuel * Gas * Loss of electronic communications.
US Department of Homeland Security, READY BusinessHow quickly your company can get back to business after a terrorist attack or tornado, a fire or flood often depends on emergency planning done today. While the Department of Homeland Security is working hard to prevent terrorist attacks, the lessons of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks demonstrate the importance of being prepared. When you also consider that the number of declared major disasters nearly doubled in the 1990's compared to the previous decade, preparedness becomes an even more critical issue. Though each situation is unique, any organization can be better prepared if it plans carefully, puts emergency procedures in place, and practices for emergencies of all kinds.
US Department of Homeland Security, READY BusinessHow quickly your company can get back to business after a terrorist attack or tornado, a fire or flood often depends on emergency planning done today. While the Department of Homeland Security is working hard to prevent terrorist attacks, the lessons of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks demonstrate the importance of being prepared. When you also consider that the number of declared major disasters nearly doubled in the 1990's compared to the previous decade, preparedness becomes an even more critical issue. Though each situation is unique, any organization can be better prepared if it plans carefully, puts emergency procedures in place, and practices for emergencies of all kinds.
WebProNewsDisaster Recovery: A Critical Business Issue by John Plain 2004-11-04 "In today's environment, the effects of a long-term operations outage could have catastrophic consequences to an organization, making contingency planning a critical business issue rather than exclusively a data processing issue.
ZDNet AustraliaBusiness continuity and risk management: what's the difference? By Mark Vanston, September 2003 "Organisations need to understand and exploit the synergies between risk management and business continuity."
Americas Community BankersBe Prepared: Crafting and Implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan, by James Swan, Community Banker, MArch, 2006.
ASIS International (ASIS)Business continuity guideline: a practical approach for emergency preparedness, crisis management, and disaster recovery (Draft)
Bank for International Settlements (Basel Committtee)"In response to a request from the Financial Stability Forum in September 2004, the Basel Committee’s Joint Forum decided that there was a need for a compilation of accepted high level principles on business continuity. The Joint Forum set up a formal working group in early 2005 to develop such principles and has now published a consultation paper containing the result of its efforts. The paper is intended to support international standard setting organisations and national financial authorities by ‘providing a broad framework within which more detailed business continuity arrangements might be developed that are more closely tailored to unique sectoral and local circumstances.’ The principles also promote a ‘common base level of resilience across national boundaries.’
Business Continuity Demands CollaborationInformationWeek Research surveyed 100 business-technology professionals in October, 2001 on their companies' business-continuity and IT-contingency strategies.
Business Continuity InstituteThe Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has made Voluntary Supplier Declaration forms available from the Institute’s website. The UK Tripartite Authorities are encouraging all suppliers of recovery facilities to use the BCI's Voluntary Supplier Declaration form to submit information relating to concentration risk. The move follows the Resilience Benchmarking Project report, which asked both UK firms and business continuity providers to be more transparent about business recovery provisions.
Business Continuity Magazine (UK)"Business Continuity is the leading magazine in the UK dealing with issues ranging from disaster recovery and IT security through to business continuity planning and reputation management."
Business Continuity Planning and Emergency PreparednessBusiness Continuity Planning & Emergency Preparedness: Best Strategies for Emergency Planning to Optimize Response and Recovery Success Nov 13-15,2006 Hear case studies that illustrate how industries are preparing for pandemic and natural disasters. Speaker Faculty Microsoft KeySpan Energy ComcastCorporation T-Mobile, USA PNC Financial BellSouth Union Bank of California
BusinessWeek OnlineBe Prepared -- Or Get Sued How prepared are U.S. companies for a terrorist attack? Most experts would say not well enough. Now corporate managers can add a new worry: legal liability. Thanks to little-known government guidelines, if disaster strikes, companies could find themselves fending off huge liability claims even as they struggle to get operations back on track.
Chief Security Officer MagazineCHIEF SECURITY OFFICERS CALL ON U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASED OVERSIGHT OF ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CSO Magazine Poll Reveals Nation’s CSOs Want an Independent Investigation of Blackout. Framingham, MA—August 22, 2003—A new poll of 382 chief security officers (CSOs) and senior security executives conducted by IDG’s CSO magazine reveals the majority (59%) of respondents blame the U.S. electric industry, not the U.S. government, for last week’s blackout. Fifty-five percent (55%) of the CSO respondents, all hailing from organizations in the U.S. critical infrastructure, are asking the federal government to expand its oversight of the electric industry.
CIO.COM - The CIO ExchangeEight Best Practices for Disaster Recovery: Three members of the CIO Executive Council offer their advice on building, testing and deploying disaster recovery plans.
Contingency Planning & ManagementContingency Planning & Management magazine's global information network for the business continuity community, a resource for the multiple responsibilities of the continuity professional.
Continuity CentralHazard identification and Business Impact Analysis John Salter provides a paper which leads planners through the BIA process. This paper provides a resource kit which will help business continuity planners with their risk and hazard assessment processes and their business impact analysis. For those working with the NFPA 1600 business continuity standard.
Continuity CentralDisaster Recovery Site Selection Matrix by Rumma Zahra, BCP Coordinator, Information Systems Department, State Bank of Pakistan An Excel-based spreadsheet utilised by the State Bank of Pakistan for initiating an enterprise wide disaster recovery project.
The Courier-Mail (Queensland, Australia)Disaster recovery the name of the game When a business goes down it doesn't have to be terminal. Guy Mosel reports on disaster recovery services 02aug03
De Nederlandsche Bank publishes business continuity assessment frameworkDe Nederlandsche Bank publishes business continuity assessment framework New guidelines will help firms active in the Netherlands' financial markets benchmark their business continuity management activities. Longer term the guidelines are expected to be adopted by all Euro-zone countries. (November, 2004)
Deloitte & Touche LLPCorporate-Wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans Jump 20 Percent in Last Five Years: Deloitte & Touche LLP Survey (January 31, 2005)
Deloitte & Touche USA LLPContinuing the Journey: 6th Annual Business Continuity Survey from Deloitte & Touche LLP and CPM Group. This benchmarking survey report published in collaboration with the CPM Group, demonstrates that the business continuity function, and its professional practice continue to play an important role in operational risk management. Survey results show that executive management remains primarily concerned with regulatory compliance, and with fulfilling fiduciary responsibilities by addressing operational resilience in response to a broad array of disruptive events.
Disaster Recovery Guidance - Free DR Tutorials and ArticlesDisaster Recovery Guidance.com offers free tutorials and articles covering the Disaster Recovery planning process for IT Infrastructure. Whether you are a system administrator, IT architect or DR manager, you'll find content here to help you put together a DR plan that will stand the test of a real disaster.
Disaster Recovery Institute InternationalDRI International was founded in 1988 to provide a base of common knowledge in contingency planning, a rapidly growing industry. DRII also administers the industry's premier global certification program for qualified business continuity / disaster recovery planners. The Professional Practices for Business Continuity Planners, our common base of knowledge, serves as the industry's best practices standard. Training courses to educate and inform business continuity / disaster recovery planne...
Draft Interagency White PaperInteragency Concept Release: Draft Interagency White Paper on Sound Practices to Strengthen the Resilience of the U. S. Financial System
DRI International - Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Education & CertificationThe purpose of DRI International (formerly the Disaster Recovery Institute) is to create a base of common knowledge for the disaster recovery/business continuity planning field through education, assistance, and the development of a resource base; to certify qualified individuals in the discipline; and to promote the credibility and professionalism of certified professionals. The DRI has developed a Common Body of Knowledge which outlines the experience required by professionals in the field.
Enterprise Risk & Security Management, by Andrew HilesWhat is Enterprise Risk and Security Management and why should we do it? Well, we need to think beyond most existing practices in security and risk management. Many organisations have an assortment of measures to protect themselves.
Envoy WorldwideTrends in Business Continuity and Risk Management: A Business Continuity Survey (June, 2005)
The Hindu: Disaster recovery gains importanceBANGALORE DEC. 9. In the aftermath of the September 11 episode last year, banks and data centres among other verticals realised the importance of disaster recovery systems. Besides ontime service delivery, companies needed to be able to recover critical information to ensure business continuity in the event of a calamity. Disaster recovery has now assumed growing importance in facility management (FM).
Informationweel: "Business Continuity Slides Down The Priority Scale""A company's very survival may hinge on its ability to function effectively in a crisis. But that doesn't mean that business continuity is a high priority, even in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. If anything, time has cooled interest in this area. Except in cases where companies have invested in disaster recovery-related upgrades, what has mostly transpired are policy changes."
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| #2 | Business continuity metrics: How much can you afford to lose? - When developing a disaster recovery plan, companies need to evaluate how fast they can get their businesses running again and how much data they can afford to lose. Bob Cramer, CEO of LiveVault Corp., offers tips on key metrics companies should use to make these decisions. | |
| #3 | A Design Language for Emergency Operations Center Facilities - "Most EOC layouts can be described in terms of a few basic models, each of which has unique implications for the organizational dynamics it supports. These basic layouts are combined and hybridized to yield almost all real-world EOC floorplans." | |
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| #5 | IIR's Service Level Agreements - This event will equip you with the tactical knowledge, technical understanding and practical application to ensure that your Service Level Agreements perform the following key business functions: -Drive Down Costs -Maintain Continuous Improvements -Ensure Performance Excellence | |
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