Business Continuity Planning

Community resilience to natural disasters: the role of disaster entrepreneurship

“…This is achieved by capabilities of the business to “continue delivery of products or services at acceptable levels following a disruptive incident” (ISO, 2012). There is no single approach for business continuity as such plans are idiosyncratic to each organization’s unique situation; however, examples of business continuity planning include critical infrastructure protection, the use of back-up systems, as well as switchovers to alternative suppliers or delivery routes (Nemzow, 1997). Here, we focus on companies that use business continuity planning in an entrepreneurial fashion during natural disasters to retain customers and capture business opportunities.…”

Managing the investment in information security technology by use of a quantitative modeling

“…Geer (2002) argues that security investments cannot be measured solely by a technical indicator, or by the amount of invested money, but through a systematic analysis of the costs of the security measure and the benefits of its implementation (Schechter, 2002). This method is well suited to financial decision-making managers (Nemzow, 1997).…”

Evaluation of a business continuity plan using process algebra and modal logic

“…Quirchmayr [22] presents an overview of business continuity management and addresses the question of how a system should be built in order to cope with a successful intrusion. Landry and Koger [16] show ten common disaster recovery myths. They claim that many organizations are unprepared or do make unrealistic assumptions.…”