John Wiley & Sons
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Imagine your organisation experiences a loss of computing ability through flood or perhaps theft. Presumably, your insurance would cover the replacement of hardware and your security measures, such as CCTV, may even assist in the apprehension of the thieves. In traditional Security Management terms a measure of success would have been achieved. However, such outcomes would be small comfort if in the meantime your organisations customer base defects to the competition. To forestall such possibilities a further process, that of Business Continuity Management, is required.
As described in this extremely authoritative book: "In terms of business continuity, immediate physical damage is not the most important concern. Of greater importance is the impact on business operations, and how this can be overcome in order to resume the business and survive as a company."
The book is divided into two main sections. The first section is an overview of the subject which includes chapters that answer the questions 'What are we planning for?' and 'What is a Business Continuity Planning Strategy?'. The second section is a practical 'How-to' guide for planning business continuity.
A particularly useful element of this well recommended book, is the very comprehensive case studies appendix. In the appendix over 20 actual incidents are discussed with descriptions on how business continuity either did or could have contributed to a successful outcome. Each study includes a summary of lessons to be learned.
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