Issue Archive: March/April 2008
Cover Story
Buffy Rojas
"What makes us unique is that our business continuity focus is meeting the needs of our customers," says Janko. "For many other organizations it's meeting a time or point objective-an RTO or an RPO. But you really need to put this into business terms. We're at a point at Goodyear where the leadership sees the business value of the process. We're proud of being proactive with planning and forward thinking. We're trying to help set trends for the rest of the industry."
Features
Charles Wallen and Dave White
Organizations have become increasingly aware of the strategic importance of business continuity, security, and the management of operational risk. The term resiliency is being applied to a variety of efforts to improve capabilities to adaptively respond to disruptive events, be they disasters, cyber-attacks, or human error. Building a resilient organization requires a few basics: a clear definition of resilience, a way to measure capabilities, and a roadmap to provide direction for improvement. To that end, the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) and Carnegie Mellon CERT, have developed a resiliency management approach and the supporting Resiliency Engineering Framework (REF).
CI Staff
A Continuity Insights Interview
CI Staff
Results of the 2008 Continuity Insights/KPMG Business Continuity Management Benchmarking Survey
John Stagl
Today we see more people writing articles and giving speeches discussing the continuing evolution of business continuity planning. The proliferation of these presentations on this subject is a clear indication that some enhancements are needed to be an effective management tool in the 21st Century.
Al Berman
As business continuity matures and grows, there is an ever-increasing need to ensure that solution providers are well aware of the complex requirements of business continuity management professionals. An understanding of the strategic, analytic, and tactical components of planning and execution surrounding disaster incidents is vital in supplying the appropriate tools and solutions sets. Without such knowledge, the business continuity professional may be provided with ineffective or failed solutions, which may have catastrophic effects when implemented and executed. In addition, the business continuity regulatory environment has been expanded so that not only is it necessary for an entity to comply, but also more and more regulations are calling for that entity to ensure its vendors (supply chain) are also aligned to the recovery program. This will become increasingly important with the deployment of P.L. 110-53 Title IX ("Private Sector Preparedness Act").
