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What's your message? Struggling to raise awareness of your business continuity program within your organization? Lawrence Robert offers some help. >> Read more How to exercise your crisis management team Chris MacArthur, CBCP, MBCI, provides practical advice based on his experience in planning exercises for crisis management teams. Black Swans, volatility and flexibility We live in a volatile world full of uncertainty. It’s all about targeted flexibility, the art of being prepared, rather than preparing for specific events. By Geary Sikich. News headlines DRI International Awards of Excellence winners Cloud backup reaching a tipping point London 2012 related power surge risks highlighted Phoenix IT Group posts disappointing results: finance director resigns June 26th is World Risk Day NOAA issues 2012 hurricane season forecasts FEMA publishes new tabletop exercise resource for private sector business continuity planners ISACA issues guidance on virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) BC-3 expands the business continuity software market New incident management tool launched Updated PPD-8 documents available to view Arab States set to expand disaster databases Study looks at how Twitter is used to share information after a disaster National Standards Authority of Ireland publishes new cloud computing standard SBA presents its annual Phoenix Awards for disaster recovery efforts Deadline extended for Canadian Awards for Emergency Management & Business Continuity Information management at the crossroads: is it time for ‘corporate information responsibility’? Adopting cloud in your backup strategy Dealing with downtime 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey results ‘How Boards & Senior Executives Are Managing Cyber Risk’ Portable Fuel Container Manufacturers Association issues alert about portable gas can shortage: may impact 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season planning DHS schedules PS-Prep program webinar A ten point plan for preparing your organization for London 2012 disruptions ‘Mission-critical Business Continuity for SAP’ SunGard Availability Services shakes up its US consulting organization Cloud deployment survey finds that business continuity is one of the top three reasons for migrating to the cloud UK businesses failing to include ‘talent risks’ in business continuity strategies Business continuity certification guidance published >> More news Sign up for Continuity Briefing Never miss a news story: signup for our free weekly email newsletter. Read the latest issue Latest Business Continuity Briefs This issue includes: • Central London businesses should be prepared for a large demonstration on 20th October 2012 • The Cyber Threat to Major Events • Disaster declared for Kansas • Oil & Gas Critical Infrastructure and Asset Security Forum 2012 • ISO's latest magazine focuses on standards and crisis management • Star’s new online disaster recovery service to provide robust business protection via the cloud >> Read Business continuity briefs Winner of the Business Continuity Paper of the Year 2012 competition announced Now available to read in the latest issue of the Business Continuity and Resiliency Journal. Operational risk management is on the line Annie Searle overviews the evolution of ORM and how past issues help inform current challenges. How to secure boardroom buy-in for backup and IT disaster recovery David Blackman offers some tips for success in this area. Are you prepared for the UK’s special summer? Thomas Puschnik, Zurich UK’s Head of Business Continuity Management Europe, believes it is still not too late to get your organization in shape. ISO 22301 is now available Business continuity managers around the world can now purchase ISO 22301 - The international standard for business continuity management – from BSI. The Business Continuity and Resiliency Journal The Business Continuity and Resiliency Journal is Continuity Central’s quarterly peer-reviewed advanced level publication. Q2 2012 now available. BC statistics and research Results from global business continuity management program benchmarking study Power and communication failures were the main cause of UK business disruptions in 2011 Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study results Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual business continuity management survey Discuss business continuity management Continuity Central recently launched a new resource to enable real-time discussion of selected Continuity Central articles as well as general business continuity subjects. Called MyContinuityCentral, the new website offers interactive resources to enable you to discuss, debate and expand your business continuity thinking. Access is free after registration. >> Go to MyContinuityCentral The benefits of business continuity: a summary Continuity Central recently asked readers to help build a list of the benefits that business continuity brings. This article provides a summary of these. >> Read more

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