If you don’t check, how will you know? I was in town yesterday, posting cards for Christmas. Due to a mistake on my part I inadvertently sent the card intended for my brother in Australia to somebody else: leaving me a card short. In case you weren’t aware, yesterday was the last posting day for…
Don’t get caught out by winter this year. In case you haven’t been watching the news here in the UK, the snow is back. Round here in East Anglia it’s just cold, but snow is falling further north. If you haven’t done so already, have you gone through your winter preparation checklist yet? Have you:…
If you transfer your Business to the Cloud, you’d better be sure they know what they’re doing A lot of business are considering moving some or all of their Information Systems to hosted environments in the Cloud. This has a lot of attractions: The start-up costs are a lot less than having your own hardware…
Business Continuity Planning is about knowing what to do when something bad happens There are many definitions of Business Continuity Planning, but the essence is that people must know how to react when something untoward happens in the business. That way, they can take immediate action to: ensure everybody and everything is safe; prevent…
The consequences of Data Loss can affect others as well as your own company. Consider this in your Business Continuity Planning. A client of mine had an interesting story to tell the other day that should serve to highlight the importance of Business Continuity Planning. I look after their IT systems and he rang to ask…
Do you pay as much attention to your cyber security as your physical security? A Register article warning of ‘disturbing’ levels of cyber-raids prompts me to remind you that it’s not just physical security that the modern business needs to take seriously. I doubt that you leave the office unlocked at night and I daresay…
If you don’t practice your Business Continuity Plan, how do you know it will work for real? One of the few statutory Emergency Response Plans that an employer must have is a Fire Evacuation Plan. This plan details: how to alert staff to the existence of a fire; how staff should react and leave the…
Business Continuity is about knowing what to do when something bad happens There are many definitions of Business Continuity, but the essence is that people must know how to react when something untoward happens in the business. That way, they can take immediate action to: ensure everybody and everything is safe; prevent matters getting worse;…
How flooding in Thailand can affect a business in the UK A news item on Channel Pro leaves me wondering if Chaos Theory really does apply to Business Continuity Planning. Chaos Theory deals with situations in which a very slight change in the initial conditions can have a dramatic effect on the outcome of a…
A Risk Matrix should form the core of your Business Continuity Plan The image above shows an extract from Suffolk County Council’s Community Risk Register (CRR) in the form of a matrix. (Click to see a larger version) It shows the probability and impact of a number of potential events that might create an adverse…
