For the past five years Continuity Central has conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the year ahead. We are repeating the survey again this year and would very much welcome your input.
In many organizations the way that data backup is handled hasn’t changed much over the years, despite the fact that we are in the middle of a digital revolution! Gijsbert Janssen van Doorn looks at why this is and calls for organizations to move towards continuous data protection.
2019 will see blockchain and artificial intelligence start to change the data backup, downtime and recovery landscape. Alex Sakaguchi looks at the benefits that blockchain and AI can offer.
Not a day seem to go by without news of another cyber incident. As human beings, we learn to get used to things, and become desensitised to events that don’t directly involve us. Is this happening when it comes to cyber threats? Mike Smith thinks so...
Business continuity news
BSI to officially launch new crisis management technical guidance
Business impacts of security breaches highlighted by new survey
UK financial sector operational resilience consultation: BCM nirvana or nemesis?
Decision making during crises and how to avoid groupthink
Exploring reaction to the BCI's Continuity and Resilience Report
Research explores the impacts of transformer failure on business continuity
Resilience news
Gartner highlights ‘digital twins’ as an emerging organizational resilience tool
Provisional agreement made to create rescEU: a strengthened EU Civil Protection Mechanism
New report looks at ways of improving US resilience and response to catastrophic power outages
Roundup of November’s major environmental disasters
Resilience lessons learned from Cape Town's severe water shortage
New EU rules aim to improve security of electricity supply in crisis situations
Technology news
Cyber security in 2019: five predictions to consider
Four IT infrastructure predictions for 2019
Report looks at the international development of cyber security standards for the Internet of Things
Large increases in DDoS attacks on e-commerce providers seen on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Many organizations are failing to evaluate business continuity risks across their cloud services
Ten information security and data protection predictions for 2019
