Foreword
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery have, over the last five years, become critical business issues. The increasing dependence of organizations on IT systems and the growing range of threats they face – from acts of nature to terrorist attacks – mean that organizations unprepared for the worst usually do not survive the unexpected.
Regulatory authorities recognize the challenge and, in the Basel Accord and in legislation from the UK’s Companies Act 2006 to the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, require company directors to take appropriate action to identify and deal with operational risk. Business continuity is one of the most important areas of operational risk and, for companies that wish to identify and apply best management practice in ...
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