Disaster Recovery Archive
Midway through International Business Continuity Week, someone asked me when Disaster Recovery Week started. Although, in the Euro area, it appears that Disaster Recovery Week is every week, most people don’t really see what the difference is between ‘business continuity’ and …
While China, unsurprisingly, denies involvement in hacking (China Denies Hacks, Points Finger at U.S), the business focus should be on dealing with the impacts of successful hacks – not only on your own websites and networks, but also on those …
Alan Calder
November 11, 2011
Business and the Economy, Business Continuity, Compliance, Cyber Security, Data Breaches, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, ISMS, ISO 27001, ISO 27002 (ISO 17999), IT Governance, IT Security, PCI DSS, social media
At the end of October, we submitted the manuscript of the 5th Edition of our best-selling book on implementing an ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) to our external publisher, Kogan Page. It should be in bookshops across the world in Spring …
Among the most common errors of judgement that I see from company directors is the failure to carry out regular and detailed reviews of their business continuity arrangements. For most boards, the whole discussion is boring. It becomes even more boring …
‘Nearly 1in 5 businesses suffer a major disruption every year – and only 28% of them had any form of continuity plan’ – reports Adam Bernstein who continues, in Business Continuity: the small firm view, to provide good, sound advice …
I came across an interesting post on Ireland’s Security Watch blog making the topical connection between bird flu scares and business continuity planning. It rightly points out that a disaster can strike from unlikely sources when you least expect it. …
One of the most worrying things I encounter time and again is how seldom growing businesses have proper disaster recovery plans in place. Statistically, few businesses that suffer a major data loss or business interruption survive for more than a …
The British Standards Institute has found a significant improvement in companies’ business continuity planning in the past 12 months. However, of the 100 FTSE-250 firms interviewed, “Only 45% … had comprehensive plans in place for a supply chain failure, and …
Buncefield, as Grainne Gilmore makes clear in a Times article today, is a wake up call for all those businesses – large and small – that don’t already have fully thought-through and tested business continuity, disaster recovery and contingency plans. …
