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Tip – Have your “Grab Bag” ready | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? Tip – Have your “Grab Bag” ready. 7 Comments to read Have your say - Leave a comment! Incidents and disasters are unexpected – by definition. You aren’t going to get any warning of the need to execute your emergency response and incident management plans and you won’t have time to gather together the things you need to be able to execute the plans. Do you have a grab bag? What’s in yours, and where do you keep it? Next Post ». RT @Ann...
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I get knocked down, but I get up again! | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? I get knocked down, but I get up again! 3 Comments to read Have your say - Leave a comment! Knowing that you can restore your website quickly brings enormous peace of mind and keeps you in business. When did you last have to restore a functioning website? The key to this was that:. I had recent and comprehensive backups, of the files and the database;. I knew how to restore the files; and. I had the skills to do so competently. If you...
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What is Business Continuity | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? What is Business Continuity. And how is it relevant to me? Would you lose business if your ‘phones couldn’t be answered? What about if your website went down? Would all your staff know what to do if there was a chemical spill at the factory next door and you had to evacuate? Put a bit more formally:. Business Continuity is a management discipline that ensures an organisation has in place the appropriate measures and plans to:. Putting...
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Why you need to engage a telephone answering service | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? Why you need to engage a telephone answering service. No Comments yet Have your say - Leave a comment! I just received a well-timed email from the excellent people at telephone-answering.biz. Who answer my ‘phone if I’m not around or busy. The salient paragraph reads:. Good advice, and also a good reminder to engage the services of someone like telephone-answering.biz as part of your Business Continuity Plan. Next Post ». Just enter y...
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Case Study – why business continuity is more than disaster recovery | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? Case Study – why business continuity is more than disaster recovery. 1 Comment to read Have your say - Leave a comment! This study illustrates why business continuity is more than just disaster recovery. Although business continuity developed from the IT focused world of disaster recovery, it covers a much wider scope. An over concentration on IT can be short sighted, as this case study illustrates. In the event, the plan was never in...
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? Author Archives: Gareth Howell. Who has access to your systems? Do you change system passwords when an IT person leaves? If not, why not? An article in today’s Register highlights the need to have a Leavers’ policy within all organisations and for that policy to be enforced. The article relates a recent court case where an ex-employee logged into his previous employer’s computer network and…. Continue Reading ». Business Continuity Pl...
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Would you know what to do if… | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? Would you know what to do if. No Comments yet Have your say - Leave a comment! 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;. These are examples of s...
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Who has access to your systems? | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? Who has access to your systems? 4 Comments to read Have your say - Leave a comment! Do you change system passwords when an IT person leaves? If not, why not? An article in today’s Register. Most IT people are nice people (hey, I used to be one myself and still am, sort of) but even in the most friendly of departures, certain formalities need to be observed. If an IT person leaves, make sure that:. If you found this article interesting...
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Does your Business Continuity Plan have one of these? | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? Does your Business Continuity Plan have one of these? No Comments yet Have your say - Leave a comment! A Risk Matrix should form the core of your Business Continuity Plan. Production and maintenance of a CRR is a statutory duty placed on all local authorities in England and Wales as part of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Severe weather causing traffic dislocation and staff being prevented from travelling to work. Failure of the pub...
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What is Business Continuity | Business Continuity UK
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What is Business Continuity. Why do I need a business continuity plan? What is Business Continuity. And how is it relevant to me? Would you lose business if your ‘phones couldn’t be answered? What about if your website went down? Would all your staff know what to do if there was a chemical spill at the factory next door and you had to evacuate? Put a bit more formally:. Business Continuity is a management discipline that ensures an organisation has in place the appropriate measures and plans to:. Putting...