Business continuity is the strategic and tactical capability of an organization to plan for and respond to business interruption in a way that allows them to continue business operations at an acceptable, defined level.
Recent events such as Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the flooding in Australia remind us that solid business continuity plans can keep a company up and running, whether the disruption or crisis lasts a few days, a week or even a month.
“The tragic events of today cannot be remedied with words. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. You may be certain that although no one can predict tragedy, we have invested heavily to prevent or mitigate its consequences.”
There are three significant issues facing the online security industry in 2011. None of them are particularly new, but they are approaching crisis point.
According to ACFE research, organizations worldwide lose an average of 5 percent of their revenues each year to fraud. And criminals are using ever-increasing sophistication to pilfer their employers’ assets. Clearly, companies cannot afford to ignore indicators of fraud that may exist. With so much at stake, management must proactively look for fraud.
Like the requirement to review technological needs against current and future applications, so must companies review and assess current training methodologies and objectives in addressing Workplace Violence Prevention and Security Awareness.
It is rare and wonderful when a new infrastructure platform unites with applications to create a truly dynamic technology solution that provides significant leverage to both the cost/benefit equation of
Remember the term “going postal”? It originated in August 1986, when post office employee Patrick Henry Sherrill in Edmund, Okla. shot two of his supervisors and then killed 14 other co-workers and injured several others. He then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
The reactive solution, like the forensics, can be either analog, IP or a hybrid of both. There are reactive solutions that are proprietary systems with all components from a single
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