How many times a month do we hear on the news about product recalls – on everything from vehicles and produce to toys and pharmaceuticals? How often do we hear about manmade and natural disasters that not only seriously impact the people in a locale – but the businesses that operate in that region?

A new study says that disaster preparedness isn't always top of mind.

Social media can hold the key to transforming enterprise business continuity management (BCM), especially crisis/incident management and communications practices.

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) announced that its annual Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2012 will take place March 19-23.

Catastrophes cost the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry an estimated $38.6 billion in losses during the first nine months of the year.

As 2012 nears, what are the forecasted trends in disaster recovery?

With less than nine months to go to the start of London 2012, over half of small and medium sized businesses expect no disruption to their operations as a result of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to a new report from Deloitte.

About 95% of companies sent employees on business trips to high risk locations last year, says a report on the subject.

Despite the potentially crippling impact of security events on corporate performance, many executives report that their security function is not well coordinated with enterprise risk management or a similar risk function, The Conference Board reports.

Brian J. Allen doesn’t like the unknown, especially when it comes to managing risk at Time Warner Cable, where he is chief of security. Allen, who is also on the Board of Directors of ASIS International and a member of the CSO Roundtable, shares his thoughts on leadership and why the unknown keeps him up at night, yet challenges him as well.