Please note that I said that Business Continuity is simple, I didn’t say it was easy. Business Continuity is indeed a simple process to understand, it is the implementation that is difficult. Anyone who is familiar with either the BCI Good Practise Guide or the British Standard can provide a fairly comprehensive overview in less [...]
It’s the 23rd of March and your business continuity champions need to deliver their plans to you by the 1st of April. Your phoning round and sending out kick ass emails, but what’s really happening out in the organisation? The answer, you would want to hear, is that your champion community frantically updating their plans.
Terminology is important for a number of reasons, not least that it provides a common language with which we can discuss technical subjects in detail. In BS25999 Part 2 there are a number of definitions most of which are useful, but there are two definitions that have caused a great deal of debate.
About a year ago I was speaking with a business continuity consultant regarding different business models. I suggested that one option for their business could be to offer a form of continuity insurance. The client would pay a small retainer fee to the consultant who would make themselves available to the client if an incident [...]
I recommend the book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to anyone with an interest in risk management. Not only is it a thoroughly good read it has a solid smattering of mathematics for those of us who like that sort of thing.