The 2009 H1N1 pandemic wasn't as devastating as some experts feared, but financial institutions still learned some valuable lessons that can be applied to future emergencies.
Interview with Gartner's Roberta Witty
Organizations have made strides in business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning. But BC/DR professionals need to sharpen their business skills to truly protect their organizations.
This is the stance taken by Roberta Witty, research VP at Gartner. In an exclusive...
The call to aid the devastated country of Haiti came just hours after a 7.0 earthquake hit the impoverished Caribbean island on Tuesday.
Just as quickly as the tweets came in asking for donations, so too came the cyber criminals looking to divert funds from legitimate charities to their own pockets.
We've experienced two waves of the H1N1 pandemic. What lessons have we learned?
Sue Kerr, President of Continuity First, a business continuity/disaster recovery consultancy, talks about how organizations have handled H1N1. She also discusses:
the state of BC/DR;
Challenges facing organizations today;
2010...
When Anne Marie Staley first became a business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) professional, many organizations minimized the role.
Times clearly have changed. In this post-9/11 world, BC/DR functions have emerged to play critical roles in protecting organizations from natural, man-made and pandemic...
I rarely turn on TV news anymore (hey, I live in front of a computer screen!), but twice last week I found myself watching cable news shows, and here's what I saw:
Increased demand during a severe pandemic could exceed the capacities of Internet providers' access networks for residential users and interfere with teleworkers in the securities market and other sectors, the Government Accountability Office says.
Schools are back in session in the U.S., the weather is cooling, and the fall flu season is close at hand.
So, how should businesses and government agencies prepare for the expected widespread return of the H1N1 virus?
Regina Phelps, a noted expert in pandemic preparedness, updates us on H1N1,...
While the Novel A (H1N1) influenza virus (commonly known as Swine Flu) may have been off the radar over the summer, business continuity experts warn that organizations must be prepared for the virus to return with a vengeance.
Schools are back in session in the U.S., the weather is cooling, and the fall flu season is close at hand.
So, how should businesses and government agencies prepare for the expected widespread return of the H1N1 virus?
Regina Phelps, a noted expert in pandemic preparedness, updates us on H1N1,...
As summer draws to an end, schools reopen and Labor Day arrives, there's something else that everyone is looking to return: the H1N1 flu virus. U.S. organizations handled the so-called swine flu virus spread in the spring, but now is the time to ask: Are you and your staff ready for its return?
This past Independence Day weekend, hackers targeted government and business websites in the United States and South Korea, causing confusion for network managers to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate web traffic.
Security related incidents such as these have become not only more numerous and...
The H1N1 threat has put business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) in the headlines. But behind the scenes, the discipline has long been active in helping global organizations respond to myriad natural and man-made disasters.
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