Business Continuity

As the 2012 Olympics draw closer firms based in the UK have been warned that failing to review and prepare business continuity plans in the face of the games could leave them exposed and inadequately able to deal with potential problems. Steelhenge Consulting has said that many organisations around the UK have failed to take [...]

A report into the average costs of data loss to small and medium-sized UK businesses (SMBs) has concluded that each has spent the equivalent of £200,000 in the past 12 months. Over 2000 SMBs from the EU and further afield in Asia and Africa took part in the survey conducted by Symantec and it found [...]

A study of businesses and organisations based in the UK and Europe has found that many could be placing an unwarranted degree of confidence in their current business continuity plans. Market analyst Marsh produced its annual report into the attitudes and opinions surrounding business continuity management (BCM). The report is based upon input from 225 [...]

A new report published by the Business Continuity Institute has revealed that insurance firms offering policies on business interruption (BI) were more likely to underwrite a firm that had proper business continuity management (BCM) and contingency plans to ensure continued operation when disaster strikes. The report was compiled after a meeting which took place in [...]

Businesses around the UK are being forced to put business continuity plans into action after the eruption of a volcano in Iceland threw volcanic ash into the skies and grounded millions of passengers around the world. So far the ash shows no signs of moving from UK air space and the cost to the economy [...]

A new survey has found that whilst businesses realise that business continuity and disaster recovery planning could be improved by virtualisation, the average firm is not able to implement the necessary changes because of budgetary restrictions and a lack of internal expertise. In a survey of 681 IT professionals carried out by InformationWeek, 37 per [...]

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has revealed that it now believes that more and more businesses are finally instigating proper business continuity planning procedures in order to prevent worst case scenarios from having a serious impact on their ability to operate. A recent survey from the BCI found that 77 per cent of firms can [...]

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has just co-authored a report with the UK Cabinet Office to analyse the state of business continuity management in organisations around the country. The Disruption and Resilience report is arguably the most respected of its kind and the latest edition reveals that 51 per cent of firms do not have [...]

After an SME representative spoke out early last week against the enforcement of PCI DSS regulatory measures, saying that they would damage small businesses, security experts have come out to defend the data security standards, although the issue is clearly complex. Data security expert Jan Fry explained in an interview with SC Magazine that there [...]

Louise Theunissen has recently become the first appointee to the Business Continuity Institute’s (BCI) controlling board that hails from an African nation. Mrs Theunissen became the BCI’s South African representative at the end of 2009 and has since had her place within the UK-based organisation cemented by the recent announcement of her board member status. [...]