Should you stay or should you go? That’s the big question in thinking out preparedness and plans for disaster recovery and business continuity in the event of a bush fire. In Australia, the damage done in 2009 in Victoria sparked off new debates about the right choice between staying to defend property against bush fires,…
Embedding business continuity management in an organisation certainly gets a mention in standards like BS25999 (with good intentions carrying through to ISO 22301). So it should. As BCM concerns everyone and is only as strong as its weakest link, it needs to be understood and applied by all: hence the embedding into the organisational culture.…
Despite some claims that that data storage and data recovery are set to become two separate items in computing cloud land, at the moment it’s all in there together: data, the applications that handle that data and the infrastructure that needs to be managed in consequence. IT disaster recovery plans involving cloud now have to…
AS/NZS5050, with its title of “Business continuity – Managing disruption-related risk”, caused a few ripples when it was published in 2010. With its focus on risk management, it recommends that disruption should be stabilised as soon as possible, with resumption of mission-critical operations and a speedy return to normal functioning. It also recommends that a…
If there was a crisis, how well prepared would your organisation be to deal with it? While scales of preparedness can only be relative, the following model may help to evaluate the situation. Adapted from part of a presentation at the DEP Expo 2012 on Site Location Response Teams by Martin McNamara, each of the…
HICS – Hospital Incident Command System, or Control System for some – contains guidelines specific to hospital organisations with respect to business continuity requirements. While most people would readily appreciate the life or death nature, literally, of certain activities within a hospital, business continuity and disaster recovery stretch can have a very broad remit. Fires…