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.