The annual DRI International Awards of Excellence are presented to leaders and innovators in the fields of business continuity, technology recovery, and crisis and risk management.
What did Continuity Central readers find most interesting during 2020? Out of more than a thousand pieces of content published in 2020, here are the top ten feature and news articles…
The 2021 Business Continuity Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner has been scheduled for 7pm on Thursday 17th June at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square. The Business Continuity Awards are now in their 23rd year; celebrating excellence in business continuity, security, and resilience.
Building owners and managers are being encouraged to consider the threats associated with their water supply, as the new ‘business normal’ includes lower occupancy and therefore new concerns for water systems designed for higher loads and flows.
With future pandemic lockdowns highly possible in 2021 how can business leaders use pandemic learnings from the first UK lockdown to improve their workplace recovery planning? Chris Butler explains…
The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) has scheduled its next biennial industry business continuity planning test for Saturday October 23, 2021. As with the previous IIROC-sponsored industry BCP test in 2019, the test date coincides with industry test dates in the United States
Despite prior warnings that infectious disease pandemics presented a high-impact threat, COVID-19 seemed to catch governments and companies off guard. What other threats exist which the world can and should prepare for? Peter Groucutt says that top of the list is a global cyber attack – such as on a major cloud provider…
For many retailers, websites have been more important than ever this year as pandemic-hit consumers turned to ecommerce in preference to bricks-and-mortar shopping. In turn, website performance has never been more important but new research for Google shows that downtime is an increasing issue.
David Wiseman, VP Secure Communications at BlackBerry, looks at communication strategies in the context of organizational resilience and provides some tips for starting 2021 on a strong foot in this area.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
