Business Continuity Articles for Beginners

Overcoming preparedness fatigue
In the absence of an event or other external mandate, how do you keep management engaged and willing to continuously invest in organizational preparedness?
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0561.htm
• Region US/World

Business discontinuity – five common mistakes and how to avoid them
Brian Davey provide some hints and tips on how to avoid five false assumptions organisations can make when implementing their business continuity management programme.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0560.htm
• Region UK/World

Business continuity’s role in supply chain resilience
How to effectively manage supply chain risks. By Charlie Maclean-Bristol.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0558.htm
• Region:UK

Business Continuity Articles for Professionals

Business continuity case study: Watson Wyatt
Continuity Central has been frequently asked for case studies showing business continuity ‘in action’. This is the first in a series of such studies.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0557.htm
• Region:UK

The importance of the network in IT disaster recovery planning
Too many companies are inadequately prepared to deal with adverse events relating to their business and network operations, says Dr. Jim Kennedy.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0554.htm
• Region:US/World

 Business resumption safety tips from the American Society of Safety Engineers
To help businesses resume operations safely after a natural disaster, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has written a business resumption checklist.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0551.htm
• Region:US

Project risk management: a practical and effective approach
Vicki Wrona provides a practical and effective framework for managing the specific risks associated with projects.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0547.htm
• Region:US/World

Business Continuity Articles for BC-Geeks

How to safely virtualize your IT environment
Virtualization presents risks as well as benefits; Nick Turnbull, provides a list of items that businesses need to consider before virtualizing their environments.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0542.htm
• Region:World

Crisis monitoring : the art of preparation
Proactive threat monitoring is an important aspect of risk management. Steven Burns explains.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0538.htm
• Region: US/World

New ISO standard for IT disaster recovery published
‘ISO/IEC 24762:2008, Information technology – Security techniques – Guidelines for information and communications technology disaster recovery services.’
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news03805.htm
• Region:World

European Network and Information Security Agency issues service continuity report
‘Business and IT Continuity: Overview and Implementation Principles’.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news03795.htm
• Region:UK/W.Europe

BS 25999 pocket guide published
Gives ‘quick study’ introduction to best practice business continuity management.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news03796.htm
• Region:UK

Businesses need to understand ‘unique and complex’ Asian terrorism threat
According to Lloyd’s new report ‘Terrorism in Asia: What does it mean for business?’
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news03777.htm
• Region: Various

New ISO standard for state-of-the-art biometric authentication
ISO 19092:2008, Financial services – Biometrics – Security framework, establishes the security requirements for the implementation and management of state-of-the-art biometric identification technology within the financial industry.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news03756.htm
• Region: World

We peruse the Internet headlines so you don’t have to. Here are the recent headlines (and links) we felt newsworthy:

Hot Times for Accounting Officials - The SEC thinks that members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board require fat raises to stay on board. Here’s what they’ll be making now…

CAQ Urges SEC to Use Proposed 404(b) Delay Wisely - The Center for Audit Quality has weighed in on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to delay certain internal control reporting requirements for smaller companies, in a letter suggesting that the commission use the postponement to better assess the costs and benefits of implementing new standards and guidance.

The SarbOx: Dole dangles compliance break for banks - A Senate Republican plans to introduce federal legislation that would allow banks to opt out of certain provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Chances of passage are small, however.

CBI warns against more banking rules - Government proposals to strengthen bank regulation in the aftermath of the Northern Rock debacle risk damaging the UK financial services sector, the director-general of the CBI, the employers’ body, warned on Thursday night.

Syms and the Future of Sarbanes-Oxley - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has many detractors. They claim that the Act is an over-burdensome piece of regulation, one that has imposed costly and unneeded obligations on issuers. It has driven U.S. companies to exit the public markets and "go private" and it has deterred non-U.S. companies from raising capital and listing in the United States.

Lack of Tools Hampers IT Risk Management - The field of IT risk management is far from new, but there are few mature management tools yet because regulations have only recently forced companies to evaluate which threats will be the biggest, and how best to protect the company from them.

U.S., Europe Officials Examine Banks’ Risk Management (Update2) - U.S. and European regulators are "critically evaluating’" weaknesses in banks’ risk management that led to more than $181 billion in asset write downs and credit losses as mortgage loans soured.

Ignore a Whistleblower - at Your Peril - Report of biotech firm Dyadic tells a tale, in 554 pages, of trouble captured in 4-year-old e-mails that the then-CEO kept to himself. The CFO has stepped in as chief executive - and chief rectifier.