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Business Continuity: the uninterrupted maintenance of business activities. Ensuring business continuity requires a proactive process of identifying essential business functions within an organization and threats to those...; Business Continuity definition on BNET »

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Continuity of Operations Planning and Business Continuity Planning: Today's operational environment has become extremely complex. Users who are dependent on information systems and highly sophisticated technologies are often working at remote locations. In addition, many mission and operations functions are so highly specialized that only a preplanned fallback procedure can lead to restored operations. Therefore, organizations need a...; Tags: Business security, Strategy, contingency planning, business continuity planning, business continuity, information system, environment; White papers
Rules Widen the Scope on Business Continuity: Many businesses, especially those in heavily regulated industries, have long planned for major disruptions caused by natural disasters, but after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, business people realized they needed to consider business continuity from a broader perspective. The Securities and Exchange Commission also noted the need and...; Tags: IT Services, Business security, Strategy, Protiviti, NASD, business continuity, business continuity planning, terrorist attack, Sept. 11, industry; White papers
Business Continuity Management: Options for Large and Small Firms: Business downtime can adversely affect any company, whether it's a large international company with offices around the world or a family-owned business run out of the home. The indication of the seriousness of unexpected business interruptions comes from the U.S. Small Business Administration, estimates that at least 25 percent of...; Tags: IT Services, Protiviti, business continuity; White papers
Dry Run Brings Plan to Life: Maintaining and implementing business continuity plans includes planning and coordinating certain plan exercises, and evaluating and documenting their results. For survival, every organization should develop processes to maintain the continuity capabilities and ensure that the plan remains in alignment with the organization's strategic vision and tactical direction. Security managers should...; Tags: Strategy, Protiviti, security manager, business continuity planning, business continuity, vision; White papers
The ABCs of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning: Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events - whether an event might be a hurricane or simply a power outage caused by a backhoe in the parking lot. The CSO's involvement in this process can range from overseeing the plan, to providing...; Tags: Business security, IT Services, Strategy, CXO Media Inc., business continuity, business continuity planning, disaster recovery, disaster recovery planning; White papers

Trends in Business Continuity and Risk Management: EnvoyWorldWide's second annual survey, Trends in Business Continuity and Risk Management, was conducted blindly among members of several business continuity organizations including the ACP Chapters in Washington and Utah, the Business Recovery Managers Association BRMA, the Contingency Planning Exchange, the New England Disaster Recovery Information X-Change NEDRIX, and the Three...; Tags: IT Services, business continuity, risk management, survey, contingency planning, disaster recovery; White papers
Managing Risk in a Changing Environment: Ensuring Business Continuity Instills Confidence in Company, Stakeholders and Customers: Companies across the insurance industry suffered profound personal and economic losses during the September 11th attacks. This leading insurer wanted to take a proactive approach to dealing with similar disasters in the future. The company worked with EDS to build a comprehensive emergency response and recovery program based on EDS'...; Tags: IT Services, SECURITY, Electronic Data Systems Corp., business continuity, crisis management, emergency response, environment, tool; Case studies
The Relationship Between Business Continuity and Sarbanes-Oxley: What is the relationship between Sections 302, 404, and 409 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOA, and business continuity? In many situations, external auditors are providing inconsistent guidance regarding the issue. In addition, the terms 'data backup', 'contingency planning', 'disaster recovery', and 'business continuity' are being used: sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly,...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, IT Services, Regulatory compliance, Protiviti, business continuity, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, external auditor, contingency planning, data backup, disaster recovery, SOA; White papers
Business Continuity in the Face of a Natural Disaster: This paper summarizes that like all risks, the effects of hurricanes and other natural disasters can be mitigated by proper preparations. Being properly prepared requires that all the risks are evaluated, and that the approach to risk mitigation is taken based on both likelihood of occurrence and the potential loss....; Tags: Strategy, Protiviti, risk, business continuity; White papers
Delivering Greater Availability, Reliability and Scalability: Dynamic Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Insures Success: When a leading Northeastern health insurance provider decided it needed disaster recovery and business continuity operations, EDS and alliance partner EMC designed an innovative dual-purpose strategy: leverage its existing data operations to serve its business continuity needs and enhance functionality. This involved optimizing the insurance company's customer relationship management application...; Tags: Data centers, IT Services, Storage, business continuity, Electronic Data Systems Corp., insurance company, EMC Corp., disaster recovery, data center, IT environment, mirroring, Web hosting, environment, scalability, alliance, insurance, backup, strategy, information techno; Case studies
Internal Audit's Role Grows With Business Continuity: As organizations become more complex, global in reach and under the eye of regulators, shareholders, and lawmakers, internal auditors need to make sure they play a big role in business continuity management BCM. This article outlines that ensuring the continued operation of a company in the face of disruptions ranging...; Tags: IT Services, Protiviti, business continuity, enterprise risk management, cyberattack, shareholder; White papers
Satellite-Based Business Continuity And Recovery: For many enterprises, the IT infrastructure is an integral component of their business success strategy. But the network services businesses use do experience outages from time to time for a number of reasons ranging from human error or malicious intent to equipment failure and environmental factors. Inability to access critical...; Tags: Telephony, WANs, Network technology, Frost & Sullivan, VSAT, business continuity, WAN, satellite, backup, IT infrastructure, disaster recovery, strategy, information technology, network; White papers
Business Continuity And Recovery Plan: This is a template for business continuity and recovery plan.; Tags: IT Services, University of Colorado, business continuity; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Business Continuity Manager: The Business Continuity Manager job description template includes the following job summary: To develop and direct all aspects of the company's business continuity program in such a manner as to minimize the duration and impact of any business interruption. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, IT Services, business continuity, job; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Bracing for the Next Disaster: The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 made clear the importance of business continuity planning. Yet because of the expense and effort, many businesses have yet to examine their preparedness and response strategies. In this ZDNet Webcast, Rhoda Phillips, Research Manager at IDC, offers a step-by-step...; Tags: Business security, IT Services, Strategy, ZDNet, business continuity, business continuity planning, Webcast, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 commission, storage, on-demand, e-mail, analysis; Webcasts 2007-08-28
Communicating in a Crisis - Which Technologies Can Be Relied on?: Crisis management and business continuity professionals understand that effective communication before; during and after an incident can drastically alter the outcome of that incident. When an organisation has determined the most effective mix of communications media, i.e. the means to communicate, it should apply sufficient attention to deciding what to...; Tags: Business Continuity, Portals, Crisis Management, Web Technology, It Services, Internet; White papers 2006-09-22
Business Continuity: Managing a Workforce Disruption with Remote Access: The world doesn't stop when your employees can't make it to the office. Neither should your business. A successful business continuity strategy includes a way to provide employees with remote access to critical data and applications during a crisis. Learn more about business continuity and how remote access, when planned...; Tags: IT Services, Citrix Systems Inc., business continuity, remote access, workforce; White papers 2006-07-06
In the spotlight: The human side of business continuity planning: IBM's new white paper, "In the spotlight: The human side of business continuity planning," outlines issues and risks related to human capital resiliency that could arise in any crisis, and provides a comprehensive framework for addressing them. The paper offers key insights to all business leaders, but should be of...; Tags: Business security, IT Services, Strategy, IBM Corp., business continuity planning, business continuity, human capital, risk management; White papers 2006-07-01
Defining Crisis Management Team Competence: In modern day business environment, managers and executives are increasingly expected to take on some form of incident or crisis role, but are such non-specialists sequestered to crisis and incident management teams without any additional training or specific performance monitoring? The author has designed a web survey, to find out...; Tags: Performance management, crisis management, competence, incident management, performance monitoring, training, team, environment, performance, Web; White papers 2006-04-28
Risk Management as Part of the Business Continuity Management Process: There are many drivers forcing Public Bodies to either implement Business Continuity Plans BCP or to re-visit existing plans to ensure they are still relevant. However, it has to be accepted that Business Continuity Management BCM will have a cost, both in terms of time and money. To meet the...; Tags: Risk Management, Business Continuity, It Services; White papers 2006-03-02