Business Continuity Planning and those related Information Security Projects for most organizations have often been strategies and activities executed as a kind of an insurance policy to cover potential disasters that might happen to that organization.  By having a business continuity strategy or plan in place, management aims to provide mitigation and hopefully, even prevention, of  those problems – both internal and external —  affecting the business in a negative way. 

In an article written by Ian Masters,  and recently posted on the IT BusinessEdge blog, a point is made that looking forward, organizations are demanding more from their business continuity investments.  In other words, business continuity planning efforts along with business continuity software investments must have an additional ROI now presented to management — it is no longer enough to be simply an insurance policy against something going wrong.

Read this article for more information about this growing business continuity requirement trend.

Online piracy affects more than the movie industry.  An article written by Julia King,  a contributing writer to  and originally published by ComputerWorld, was recently reprinted by The Industry Standard to remind all risk managers to be watchful of the continuing risks that online piracy activities most certainly present to their organizations.

We support the belief that Internet Service Providers have a responsibility to monitor online piracy activity, validate such occurences  and to shut down all such activity as quickly as possible.  

With online piracy now confirmed to be much more that simply providing pirated copies of the latest movie DVD mostly to individuals, it is necessary for risk managers to put this topic on their agenda for all business continuity and contingency planning meetings.

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Michael Pincher has written what we believe to be one of the better articles which offer advice to ensure an acceptable level of readiness for your organization’s business continuity plan.  You can read this full article as published recently at ComputerWeekly.com .