No plan survives contact with the enemy says the old adage, but this is precisely what is often expected from business continuity plans. A new Continuity Central survey looks into business continuity plan success rates and attempts to uncover the best ways to debrief after an incident.
One of the challenges of business continuity management is dealing with people who have not bought into the benefits of BC. This article by Robert Willott addresses the obstacles you could face and how to overcome them.
On September 4th 2018, storms that hit southern Texas resulted in downtime at Microsoft Azure’s South Central US region, which had knock-on impacts for services outside of the region. Dave Bermingham looks at the incident and the business continuity lessons that can be learned from it.
Whilst network segmentation is not a new approach, its implementation and long-term maintenance is a major challenge for many companies. In this article Andrew Lintell provides some useful pointers.
Business continuity news
ISO 22330: take care of your people, and they will take care of you
The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of writing incident management objectives
Will chaos engineering shake up business continuity?
Are business continuity and information security converging?
Preparing your crisis management team for responding to a terror event
Enterprise risk management news
New global trends study ‘Competition, Disruption, and Deception’ highlights priorities
Survey shows the potential business impacts of data protection failures
CBI warns that British companies face being ‘hit with a sledgehammer’ after a no-deal Brexit
Many UK businesses remain uninsured against information security breaches and data losses
Operational risk trends for 2019 surveyed
Cloud computing remains top emerging enterprise risk: Gartner survey
Resilience news
Nationwide test of US Emergency Alerting Systems postponed
FERC and NERC to look into the lessons that can be learned from January power outages
Payment, clearing and settlement operators meet on global cyber resilience
Pandemic planning: Global Preparedness Monitoring Board convenes for the first time
ENISA publishes annual summary of major incidents in the European telecoms sector
FBI Director sets out the scale of the current terrorism threat
Technology news
Keys to building really scalable storage
Vulnerability in video surveillance software creates a wider business threat
Firmware weakness in modern computers exposes companies to old-style cold boot attacks
Results from the Unitrends Fourth Annual Cloud and Disaster Recovery Survey
DDoS attackers are increasingly using public cloud services to boost attacks
