Information Technology in Business Continuity

Abstract

-Ensuring the continuity of business activity is an important competitive advantage of modern companies. Currently separated two approaches of business continuity management, each with a key role for information technology. Information security means lower risks of downtime due to the actions of intruders. Business process management systems allow you to trace the execution of business processes, timely warn of threats, provide an opportunity to improve the work with clients. Cloud technologies, initially supporting continuity of services, provide quality IT-support to start-ups and small businesses. We determined Business Process Management Systems functionality for business continuity. We have studied the practice of applying cloud technologies in companies and provide basic and advanced models of cloud technologies for business continuity