The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of connecting endpoints -- and users -- to the resources they need in a time of disruption. Remote working is key to a pandemic business continuity ...

Editor's note: This article was expanded and updated in November 2017. Business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning are critical activities for organizations of any size. This article ...

This chapter will focus on leveraging a collaborative planning approach so that the team emerges from the process understanding the plan without needing to use it. It will describe the steps to ...

In the past, most enterprises defined a disaster as an act of nature–a hurricane, tornado, flood or fire that wipes out their ability to conduct business as usual. Today, with worldwide networks, 24/7 ...

To understand the importance of disaster planning, employers and their counsel need look no further than the events surrounding extreme weather and storms in different parts of the country, such as ...

What will you do if the building you operate in is damaged to the point where it is unsafe to work? Or if utilities won’t be available for weeks or longer following a disaster? Disasters happen. They ...

Building an incident response team (IRT) is a good first step along the path toward effective business continuity event (BCE) management. But the team needs a plan to follow when an event occurs. A ...

In previous posts, we examined understanding the business, the relationship between event response and recovery efforts, and how to build an incident response plan. The natural next step after initial ...

“This six-step COVID-19 business continuity plan has been developed by the ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ILO-ACT/EMP). This tool is designed to support EBMOs assist its members during the ...