Disaster Recovery and Human Error
The title of this blog post could almost have read “Never send a human to do a machine’s job”.
A New Metric for Business Continuity – the Stupidity Index
If most problems are due to human error, the next metric for understanding risk and business impact might just be the stupidity index. It’s a somewhat tricky concept in a business sense, because stupidity is often context-dependent. The Peter Principle points this out, by stating that in organisations, people are promoted to their highest level […]
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 […]
Security Risk Management – Standing Still is Moving Backwards
The world turns, things change and new security risks continue to appear on the scene. Some organisations bury their head in the sand or cross their fingers. ‘It wouldn’t happen to us’ is their motto. Others make plans using different approaches, some better than others. Then they leave the plan untouched without updating it and […]