Factoring in Human Error in Your Business Continuity Planning
Good business continuity training helps managers and enterprises prepare business continuity plans. However, they’ll also need to deal with a further factor – human error. This element is a cause of anything from small business failure to nuclear power plant meltdowns. A little information on the subject can help make business continuity that much more […]
Virtualise All You Want but Business Continuity Must Still Be End-to-End
It started with IT server virtualisation and then continued with cloud computing. Instead of physical machines running a company’s own software applications, we now simply have interfaces to virtual instances of these things. Computing resources are no longer located in a specific piece of equipment on a company’s premises. They are ‘somewhere’ in the cluster […]
Tons of Technology for 2014 – But Does It Help Business Continuity?
At the start of each year, there’s always a long list of IT offerings vying for attention. With many solutions still looking for a problem, it pays to take a moment to consider the business impact rather than being seduced by the high-tech glitter. Here’s a quick rundown of what might affect business continuity in […]
Point of Sale Hacking – a Growing Threat to Business Continuity?
The data breach at the Target Corp, the US supermarket chain, was a shock for many. The personal information of at least 70 million customers was stolen by hackers who intercepted the information as buyers used credit and debit cards at the company’s points of sale. The reputational damage seems to have quickly spilled over […]
Business Continuity and Balancing Expert Resources
People are often cited as the most valuable resource of an organisation. The more capable an employee is and the better trained, the more an enterprise stands to profit – up to a point. Difficulties may begin when a person becomes indispensable because of unique expertise that is essential to the smooth running of the […]
Balancing Acts and the CIO – the Blondini of the Organisation?
150 years ago the Great Blondini, the world-famous tightrope walker, performed incredible feats of balance and daring in his aerial ambulation above Niagara Falls. While today’s Chief Information Office doesn’t always hold crowds breathless with excitement in quite the same way, he or she has a balancing act to get right too. How much detail […]