Many businesses have some plan for when cloud access goes out, but there is a difference between a simple backup plan and ...

In an article aimed at providing assistance to those starting out in business continuity, CMAC overviews the basics of business continuity and offers a useful framework for writing your first business ...

Do you have a business continuity plan in place? Every hour counts in trucking. Being prepared for disaster recovery can be the difference between keeping customers and losing to the competition.

In previous posts, we stepped through the process of understanding the business, the threats it faces related to business continuity, and how prepared it is to prevent, detect, or respond to events.

Building an incident response team (IRT) is a good first step along the path toward effective business continuity event (BCE) management. But the team needs a plan to follow when an event occurs. A ...

Most companies that I speak with already have business continuity plans in place. That’s certainly true in the financial services industry, where even short and mild network disruptions can cost ...

Establishing a company’s strategy and plan is mostly done in an atmosphere of optimism about the near-term future. Ironically, this is also the best time to consider steps you will take should ...

Companies can flourish in unexpected situations only if their leaders have a cautious vision of what they could do to protect their organizations. However, this vision needs to be followed by action ...

On Oct. 27, 2009, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Computer Security Division (CSD) published Special Publication (SP) 800-34 Revision ...

What will you do if the building you operate in is damaged to the point where it is unsafe to work? Or if utilities won’t be available for weeks or longer following a disaster? Disasters happen. They ...

Business continuity planning is a university-wide initiative to ensure that Case Western Reserve University will be prepared to resume operations with efficiency in the event of a crisis. Business ...

Construction risk management is a process of identifying and evaluating the unique risks that each project presents. Crucial to the evaluation is developing methods to mitigate the impact of risks to ...