Is the increasing organizational focus on information security having an effect on the traditional demarcation lines between business continuity and information security management (ISM)? Continuity Central recently conducted an online survey to find out.

A recent Continuity Central survey looked at business continuity plan success rates and asked for thoughts on the best ways to debrief after an incident. The survey has now been closed and the results are available, providing some interesting insights.

From 14th to 20th February 2020, Continuity Central conducted an online survey which aimed to capture information to help business continuity managers around the world understand what actions others in the profession are taking in response to or in preparation for COVID-19 infections. The results are now available...

During the final quarter of 2015 Continuity Central conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for 2016. Whilst many of the survey findings are similar to the same survey a year earlier, there are some interesting changes.

During the final quarter of 2016 Continuity Central conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for 2017. This article provides the results of the survey. One surprise from the survey is a significant increase in the number of organizations that will be increasing their spending on business continuity in 2017.

For the past four years Continuity Central has conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the year ahead. This article provides the results of the most recent survey, conducted in Q4 2017. It identifies some interesting changes from previous years…

For the past five years Continuity Central has conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the year ahead. This article provides the results of the most recent survey and identifies some interesting changes from previous years…

During the first quarter of 2015 Continuity Central conducted an online survey asking business continuity professionals about their expectations for the rest of 2015.

Forty-five percent of IT professionals report that their business is impacted if IT is down for just 15 minutes or less, and 17 percent say that disruption occurs the instant an IT outage develops.

In 2013 Continuity Central conducted a survey to explore quality control methods that are being used within business continuity management systems. This survey has now been repeated to see how the trends in this area have changed. The 2014 Quality control and measurement of business continuity management systems survey was conducted online using SurveyMonkey and received 142 responses in total. 84.5 percent of respondents were from large organizations (those with more than 250 employees). Respondents came from around the world, with the most coming from the US (34 percent), the UK (25 percent) and Australia (6 percent).

During May – July Continuity Central, along with the Business Continuity Institute, Disaster Recovery Institute International, and the Association of Continuity Professionals, assisted ClearView and Assurance with the first annual Business Continuity Benchmark Study. Altogether 1,123 responses were received to a survey for the study; and the results are now available in a report which examines the key findings and identifies best-in class organizational attributes that are most highly correlated with business continuity success.

In 2017 Continuity Central published the results of a survey looking at whether the increasing focus on information security is having an effect on the traditional demarcation lines between business continuity and information security management (ISM). In 2018 we repeated that survey to monitor how things have developed and the results of the survey are now available.

Continuity Central recently conducted a wide-ranging survey into business continuity software usage.

In June 2017 Continuity Central published the results of a survey which looked at whether attitudes to the business impact analysis (BIA) and risk assessment were changing. Two years on, we repeated the survey to determine whether there has been any development in thinking across the business continuity profession. The final results are now available.