Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Enhance your corporate resilience and improve your business data security – become BS25999 business continuity management certified this year!
In the past few years of economic uncertainty and terrorist attacks, it has become a necessity to plan for the unexpected. Disasters, when they happen, can cause serious financial damage to an organisation, if effective contingency plans are not implemented.
What you need for your organisation is a highly-effective contingency plan that will protect your business from any external threats and risks.
This site provides information about business continuity, and offers a wide range of materials that will enhance your business continuity planning (BCP). Business continuity and disaster recovery planning are key governance responsibilities. Anyone who has watched the impact of, for instance, cyclones in India, a tsunami in Malaysia, or floods in Pakistan in the recent years, will recognise that the directors must plan for their organisation to overcome natural disasters.
BS25999, which is soon to be replaced by the international standard ISO 22301 (a member of a big family of ISO standards), is the business continuity and business resilience certification standard that has worldwide applicability.
If you would like to read more about business continuity and the BS25999 certification, please sign up below and we will e-mail you our complimentary white paper:
Why is BS25999 important?
- BS25999, the Business Continuity Standard, is of real importance to everyone from board directors, corporate executives and IT managers through to facilities managers and business continuity professionals.
- Service disruptions, delays in responding to customer requests, inability to process transactions in a timely manner, or being unable to resume business in the face of a disaster, can all have significant impact on an organisation's effective operation.
- Recent natural disasters, as well as terrorist activities, have shown that an organisation's resilience to a disaster, and its being able to resume business quickly and efficiently, are directly related to its preparedness to respond to unforeseen events.
- Internationally, organisations in both the public and private sectors are pursuing BS25999 certification, in order to demonstrate to stakeholders and customers that they have adequate business resilience arrangements in place.
- It is particularly relevant for organisations which operate in high-risk environments, such as telecommunications, transport, finance, health, both in the private and public sectors, where the ability to continue operating is paramount for the organisation itself and its customers and stakeholders.
- The Standard provides a framework for managing business continuity and covers the identification of key risks, developing a plan for recovery, and rehearsing the plan in order to restore essential services with minimal downtime.
The responsibility of ensuring that an organisation has developed and tested business continuity and disaster recovery plans lies with the Board of Directors. The Board prepares the plan that deals with all the likely risks that can affect an organisation. Download our BS25999: A Pocket Guide (eBook) today and receive a straightforward introduction to the subjects of business continuity and BS25999.
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What business continuity management is and how it can help your organisation
Business continuity management is a management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organisation, and provides a framework for building resilience and the capability for an effective response which safeguards the interest of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities.
Externally validated, this comprehensive and rigorously-tested business continuity management (BCM) planning standard will help your organisation to:
- Protect your vital assets
- Mitigate risk
- Manage crises
- Recover rapidly from emergencies, both major and minor
- Build confidence among your customers, partners and stakeholders.
Become BS25999 certified this year with the range of these useful ITG resources:
E-mail us, or call +(1)877 317 3454 today, to find out how you can boost your organisation’s resilience with BS25999 certification.