In a recent survey commissioned by Cisco and conducted by InsightExpress, concerns were validated regarding the state of U.S. organizations’, both public and private, ability to continue operations if major business interruptions occurred.

Of the many interesting observations revealed in the survey, one that remains troubling for the business contiuity community, is that business continuity and resilience were not the main drivers for implementing remote access for workers.

You can read more about this topic in an article that was written by Matthew Harwood, who presents and  discusses other findings from the survey and was recently cited in a posting in the Security Management magazine by clicking here.

The subject of information security is a steady agenda item for risk managers and business continuity and contingency planning meetings. 

A recent article by Russell, a blogger on a blog site inspired by the book: “The New School of Information Security offers great insight into the subject matter as well as presenting meaningful ideas as to how to make such a scorecard be an effective tool for your organization.

Click here to read more about this Information Security Scorecard  blog project……

The results of the Accenture 2009 Global Risk Management Study has  recently been released for public use.

Click here to get more information and view many of this important study.  It certainly is a resource that each company risk manager should have in their corporate library as well as ready for review in your next business continuity and contingency planning meetings.