ISO 25999 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 …
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 …
Codemasters have just demonstrated the weakness of a fallback strategy, when attacked by hackers, of taking your website offline: the hackers will already have got away with a whole lot of valuable information. So Codemasters appear now to be in a …
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. …
Once upon a time, there was only BS7799 for information security – now there are three parts to it, two of which have become internationalised (ISO27001) and are part of a series which has something like 20 numbers reserved for …
The following is possibly the most arresting opening paragraph I have yet read in a security article: ‘The wave of cyberprobes or cyberattacks against Pentagon networks and government computer systems in France, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom this …
