ISO 22301, the internationally recognized standard for a business continuity management system (BCMS), is being updated to make sure it remains relevant to today’s business environment.
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Cyberrisks are fast-evolving, posing an ever-changing threat to businesses. Five years ago cyber security risks ranked at number 15 for most important peril. According to the annual Allianz Risk Barometer…
We're excited to announce our newest author: Charlie Maclean-Bristol.
Charlie is currently working on a new book project that addresses Short Business Continuity Exercises. This new project gives a businesses a way to execute exercises in under an hour.
How Can Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM) Help Your Security Program?
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You will further:- Explore how security has traditionally been viewed both inside and outside of the security profession.
- Understand how Enterprise Security Risk Management can change the perception of security in your business organization to help you better communicate the value of security risk management.
- See how ESRM is your best methodology to meet the changing global security risk climate.
Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2019 on May 13th – 17th will focus on the theme “Investing in Resilience” which will be the same theme for this year’s BCI World 2019.
This year’s theme for Business Continuity Awareness Week will explore different interpretations of “investing” to generate discussions around how we can best support business continuity professionals and resilience functions. From investing in people and training, to looking ahead and considering how we can invest in the future of resilience, this year’s BCAW activities seek to empower our community through raising awareness of the profession.
Get your free chapter on Governance in the Resilient Organization from the book Principles and Practice of Business Continuity Tools and Techniques, by Jim Burtles.
In the first 15 chapters of Jim Burtles' book, you learn how and why you might approach the development and delivery of a successful and effective business continuity (BC) program. This process has involved exploring the tools, techniques, and products. By now, you should be in a position to practice this discipline in a professional manner, and this book has focused on the detail level at which BC is expected to operate and prove to be beneficial. Now, in this chapter on governance in the resilient organization, it is intended for both the experienced BC practitioner and a person entering the profession, you have a chance to look upwards and outwards to see where BC fits within your organization’s hierarchy and how it might filter upwards and penetrate downwards, as BC is integrated into your corporate culture.Webinar Presentation Title:
Data Center Outage: Trends, Causes and Costs
Presenters:
Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute
Chris Brown, Chief Technical Officer, Uptime Institute
Todd Traver, Vice President of IT Optimization & Strategy
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When the challenge is to get to the heart of a problem, you need a simple and efficient cause investigation methodology. And what would make a real difference would be an interactive map to lead you to the answer every time. Chester Rowe’s Simplifying Cause Analysis: A Structured Approach combines an instruction book with a downloadable Interactive Cause Analysis Tool – for the results you have been looking for.
The book is intended for professionals like you. However, it is not intended to be used alone. In addition, to the tools provided in this book you will also need the help with the cause road map. The cause analysis tools will also require you and others to organize, analyze, and present the results of your investigation. You have some familiarity with cause analysis projects, but you’re looking for a simple and efficient cause investigation methodology – a more effective and insightful way of asking “why?”
Have you begun to question traditional best practices in business continuity (BC)? Do you seem to be concentrating on documentation rather than preparedness? Compliance rather than recoverability? Do your efforts provide true business value? If you have these concerns, David Lindstedt and Mark Armour offer a solution in Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach. This ground-breaking book provides a streamlined, realistic methodology to change BC dramatically.
Self-Inflicted Leadership Crisis Response Failure Behaviors
1. Surprise: Stems from the U.S. management culture developed over the last 40 years which stresses the invincibility of managers and leaders based on extensive monitoring and data collection to the exclusion of many traditional (historic?) management beliefs, actions, concerns and functions. Today’s prevailing attitude is that smart managers are unlikely to suffer a crisis.
The unintended consequence of this delusion is that much necessary readiness activity never takes place.
Part of the surprise crisis always brings is related to the almost immediate realization by these smart leaders that readiness has suffered in an environment of management omnipotence and over optimism about inherent response capabilities.
The lesson: The smarter they are the harder and faster they fall.
The outcome is: The refusal to believe that things are serious, i.e. not wanting to look too concerned in the eyes and gossip of peers.