ENISA releases report
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has issued a report bringing together business and IT service continuity best practice, methods and tools to enhance organisations' capability for dealing with network and information security (NIS) threats, says Verivox.
Firms are provided a single point from which they can assess how to implement business continuity management within their organisations.
This will enable them to identify potential NIS risks to critical business processes and the infrastructure needed to restore and keep them running.
Poll reveals continuity concerns
A poll of IT professionals and C-level executives by SteelEye Technology has revealed concerns about the potential of IT outages to cause irreversible damage to organisations, states Direct Response.
Some 87% of those surveyed claimed that threats to business continuity have grown more intense over the past 12 months.
Bob Williamson, VP of SteelEye Technology, said that firms depend more than ever on technological efficiency and are thinking more about safeguards - such as voice disaster recovery - to prevent fatal outages.
Businesses lack continuity planning
According to IDC research, more than a fifth of UK businesses do not have detailed business continuity plans, says ComputerWeekly.
The research firm said this indicated a major oversight by some major organisations to understand the risks associated with IT downtime.
The research, commissioned by BT Global Services, also found that while in 63% of companies responsibility for business continuity still lay with IT, it was rising up the corporate ladder.
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