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DHS on Tuesday adopted ASIS International’s Organizational Resilience Standard as part of a program designed voluntarily to bolster the resilience of private organizations during man-made and natural disasters and emergencies.
Matthew Harwood writes that as part of DHS’s Private Sector Preparedness (PS-Prep) program, the ASIS resilience standard helps private organizations tailor a cost-effective, holistic resilience plan to ready themselves for a disruptive event.
“In light of the recent events in the Gulf, the importance of resilience cannot be understated,” ASIS international president Joseph R. Granger, CPP, said. “Preparing for, responding to, and recovering from …

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With the start of the 2010 hurricane season, MIR3, the innovator of real-time global notification and response technology, is urging employers to review their current business continuity and disaster recovery plans to keep employees safe and operations running should a hurricane or tropical storm hit.
According to researchers, the 2010 hurricane season is forecasted to be an above average season, with eight hurricanes and 15 named tropical storms likely to form in the Atlantic basin, with four of the storms expected to develop into major hurricanes with sustained winds of 111 …

Author: John Jackson and Dan Dec
continuityinsights.com
Let’s explore one of the recovery strategies most often employed in the recovery solution process: the work-from-home option. Through my involvement with hundreds of enterprise organizations, it is clear that the work- from-home recovery strategy has increased in popularity over the years. There are a number of reasons for that. It is relatively inexpensive for organizations already deploying laptops to employees. It provides fairly high flexibility at an individual level. And, as a recovery solution, it is easily understood by executive decision makers.
However, this option …

Alexandre Guindani, CBCP, SBCI
http://www.rugbrasil.com/
Ten tips to building an effective Business Continuity Program
Many people believe that the creation of a Business Continuity structure itself provides security to the enterprise and makes it safe from interruption, bringing the feeling of task accomplished.
Unfortunately, business continuity is not a mere project; it must be seen as a state of mind. Business continuity, to be truly effective, requires cultural changing.
Also, to be honest, business continuity is not fascinating, nor does it excite or engage people. And this, in my understanding, is the greatest challenge of …

By: Kathleen Lucey
(Source: http://www.continuitycentral.com)
July 13th, 2010
Just yesterday I said to a professional chef with 20+ years of high-level experience in his industry that I was beginning to feel like business continuity was becoming like cooking – everyone thinks that all they need is …