Business Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness   

Business 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 Online   

Be 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 Magazine   

CHIEF 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   

Blackouts Catch Businesses Off-Guard August 28, 2003

CIO.COM - The CIO Exchange   

Eight 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 & Management   

Contingency Planning & Management magazine's global information network for the business continuity community, a resource for the multiple responsibilities of the continuity professional.

Contingency Planning & Management   

It's Time to Revisit the Issue of Distances to Recovery Sites

Continuity Central   

Hazard 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 Central   

Disaster 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.

Continuity Software   

Our product detects risks and infrastructure vulnerabilities in Disaster Recovery systems, and ensures that your critical business data is truly protected.

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 framework   

De 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 LLP   

Corporate-Wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans Jump 20 Percent in Last Five Years: Deloitte & Touche LLP Survey (January 31, 2005)

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP   

Continuing 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 Articles   

Disaster 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 International   

DRI 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 Paper   

Interagency 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 & Certification   

The 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 Hiles   

What 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 Worldwide   

Trends in Business Continuity and Risk Management: A Business Continuity Survey (June, 2005)