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Business Continuity Links
UK Financial Sector ContinuityContingency Arrangements: CP142: Operational risk systems and control; A Review of Business Continuity Management in Major Financial Groups Post 11 September 2001 - September 2002
UK Government -- Preparing For Emergencies: What You Need to KnowBusiness Continuity Guidance for Businesses The UK Government undertakes a national risk assessment process which identifies disruptive challenges which could affect the UK over a five year period, and assesses their likelihood and impact. The resulting assessments are used to inform the development of contingency plans and emergency response capabilities. The Government believes that businesses may find some of this information useful when developing and reviewing their business continuity plans, and when considering the business continuity requirements for organisations in their supply chain. In particular, businesses may find helpful the 'Planning Assumptions' set out below on the type of major emergencies which the Government judges may arise, and the nature and scale of consequences were they to do so. That does not mean that all activities within individual businesses should be resilient to all of the challenges set out below, which may not neither appropriate nor affordable. Similarly, there may be other risks particular to individual businesses that are not reflected here. Therefore, use of this material should not be a substitute for carrying out business-specific risk assessments which should underpin all emergency planning and business continuity management processes. * Large-scale temporary absence of staff * Permanent or long-term loss of staff * Denial of site or geographical area and displaced persons * Loss of mains electricity * Disruption to transport * Loss of mains water and sewerage * Loss of availability of oil and fuel * Gas * Loss of electronic communications.
US Department of Homeland Security, READY BusinessHow quickly your company can get back to business after a terrorist attack or tornado, a fire or flood often depends on emergency planning done today. While the Department of Homeland Security is working hard to prevent terrorist attacks, the lessons of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks demonstrate the importance of being prepared. When you also consider that the number of declared major disasters nearly doubled in the 1990's compared to the previous decade, preparedness becomes an even more critical issue. Though each situation is unique, any organization can be better prepared if it plans carefully, puts emergency procedures in place, and practices for emergencies of all kinds.
US Department of Homeland Security, READY BusinessHow quickly your company can get back to business after a terrorist attack or tornado, a fire or flood often depends on emergency planning done today. While the Department of Homeland Security is working hard to prevent terrorist attacks, the lessons of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks demonstrate the importance of being prepared. When you also consider that the number of declared major disasters nearly doubled in the 1990's compared to the previous decade, preparedness becomes an even more critical issue. Though each situation is unique, any organization can be better prepared if it plans carefully, puts emergency procedures in place, and practices for emergencies of all kinds.
WebProNewsDisaster Recovery: A Critical Business Issue by John Plain 2004-11-04 "In today's environment, the effects of a long-term operations outage could have catastrophic consequences to an organization, making contingency planning a critical business issue rather than exclusively a data processing issue.
ZDNet AustraliaBusiness continuity and risk management: what's the difference? By Mark Vanston, September 2003 "Organisations need to understand and exploit the synergies between risk management and business continuity."
Americas Community BankersBe Prepared: Crafting and Implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan, by James Swan, Community Banker, MArch, 2006.
ASIS International (ASIS)Business continuity guideline: a practical approach for emergency preparedness, crisis management, and disaster recovery (Draft)
Bank for International Settlements (Basel Committtee)"In response to a request from the Financial Stability Forum in September 2004, the Basel Committee’s Joint Forum decided that there was a need for a compilation of accepted high level principles on business continuity. The Joint Forum set up a formal working group in early 2005 to develop such principles and has now published a consultation paper containing the result of its efforts. The paper is intended to support international standard setting organisations and national financial authorities by ‘providing a broad framework within which more detailed business continuity arrangements might be developed that are more closely tailored to unique sectoral and local circumstances.’ The principles also promote a ‘common base level of resilience across national boundaries.’
Business Continuity Demands CollaborationInformationWeek Research surveyed 100 business-technology professionals in October, 2001 on their companies' business-continuity and IT-contingency strategies.
Business Continuity InstituteThe Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has made Voluntary Supplier Declaration forms available from the Institute’s website. The UK Tripartite Authorities are encouraging all suppliers of recovery facilities to use the BCI's Voluntary Supplier Declaration form to submit information relating to concentration risk. The move follows the Resilience Benchmarking Project report, which asked both UK firms and business continuity providers to be more transparent about business recovery provisions.
Business Continuity Magazine (UK)"Business Continuity is the leading magazine in the UK dealing with issues ranging from disaster recovery and IT security through to business continuity planning and reputation management."
Business Continuity Planning and Emergency PreparednessBusiness Continuity Planning & Emergency Preparedness: Best Strategies for Emergency Planning to Optimize Response and Recovery Success Nov 13-15,2006 Hear case studies that illustrate how industries are preparing for pandemic and natural disasters. Speaker Faculty Microsoft KeySpan Energy ComcastCorporation T-Mobile, USA PNC Financial BellSouth Union Bank of California
BusinessWeek OnlineBe Prepared -- Or Get Sued How prepared are U.S. companies for a terrorist attack? Most experts would say not well enough. Now corporate managers can add a new worry: legal liability. Thanks to little-known government guidelines, if disaster strikes, companies could find themselves fending off huge liability claims even as they struggle to get operations back on track.
Chief Security Officer MagazineCHIEF SECURITY OFFICERS CALL ON U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASED OVERSIGHT OF ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CSO Magazine Poll Reveals Nation’s CSOs Want an Independent Investigation of Blackout. Framingham, MA—August 22, 2003—A new poll of 382 chief security officers (CSOs) and senior security executives conducted by IDG’s CSO magazine reveals the majority (59%) of respondents blame the U.S. electric industry, not the U.S. government, for last week’s blackout. Fifty-five percent (55%) of the CSO respondents, all hailing from organizations in the U.S. critical infrastructure, are asking the federal government to expand its oversight of the electric industry.
CIO.COM - The CIO ExchangeEight Best Practices for Disaster Recovery: Three members of the CIO Executive Council offer their advice on building, testing and deploying disaster recovery plans.
Contingency Planning & ManagementContingency Planning & Management magazine's global information network for the business continuity community, a resource for the multiple responsibilities of the continuity professional.
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| #1 | Service Level Agreement and SLA Guide - Directory of service level agreement template, guidebook, training, and audit resources. | |
| #2 | Business continuity metrics: How much can you afford to lose? - When developing a disaster recovery plan, companies need to evaluate how fast they can get their businesses running again and how much data they can afford to lose. Bob Cramer, CEO of LiveVault Corp., offers tips on key metrics companies should use to make these decisions. | |
| #3 | Saint Lucia Disaster Response Plan - Saint Lucia Disaster Response Plan | |
| #4 | A Design Language for Emergency Operations Center Facilities - "Most EOC layouts can be described in terms of a few basic models, each of which has unique implications for the organizational dynamics it supports. These basic layouts are combined and hybridized to yield almost all real-world EOC floorplans." | |
| #5 | University of Miami Disaster Recovery Plan for Computer Servuces - | |
| #6 | IBM's Web Service Level Agreements (WSLA) Project - The Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) project, developed by IBM, addresses service level management issues within a Web services environment. Issues addressed include SLA specification, creation and monitoring. The project provides: Explicit specifications of servlce level agreements that can be monitored by the service provider, customer and even by a third-party; Ease of SLA creation using template-based authoring tools; and, Distributed monitoring framework for deployment in a single site or across multiple sites by translating SLA data in configuration information for the individual service provider components and third party services to perform the measurement and supervision activities. The WSLA creation and monitoring framework complements various other projects addressing issues on proactive management of a service environment, e.g., provisioning resources, workload management, etc., according to the agreed upon service levels specified via WSLA. | |
