Retailers should be prepared for emergency situations in which the payment system is down for 72 hours warns the Dutch National Forum on the Payment System (NFPS).
Business continuity
Too often, awareness-raising efforts focus solely on presenting information to employees—explaining plans, procedures, and policies. While this is important, it misses a key opportunity.
This page will be updated through Business Continuity & Resilience Awareness Week as new resources are published by the BCI and others, including Resilience Forward.
Business continuity resources for smaller businesses are quite limited in the global business continuity knowledge base. In the first of three articles seeking to help address this gap, Steve Dance provides a simple guide to the building blocks of a business continuity plan.
Uptime Institute has announced the publication of its 7th Annual Outage Analysis 2025 keynote report, providing data center / centre downtime analysis.
A new set of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Resilience and Emergencies have been published by standard setting organization The Workforce Development Trust, as an initiative of the UK’s Cabinet Office.
Originally used as a consulting term, the concept of a minimum viable company (MVC) is becoming increasingly recognised in cybersecurity, with businesses building strategies designed to protect their core operations to maintain essential services when dealing with cyberattacks.
To mark World Backup Day, Sergei Serdyuk looks at changing trends and challenges in organizational backup strategies.
The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) has announced that its next biennial industry business continuity planning trading simulation test will take place on Saturday October 25, 2025.
While backups provide a level of organizational protection they don’t prevent downtime; and only reduce rather than avoid data loss. Jimmy Tam explains why continuous availability is more appropriate for business continuity.