ABOUT THE EDITOR

A Member of the Business Continuity Institute and an Approved BCI Instructor, Robert Clark is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Member of the Security Institute. In 1973 he joined IBM as a computer operator. Big Blue was one of those forward thinking organisations that practised business continuity management (BCM) before the expression had even been coined; but back in the 1970s, with the exception of periodical fire evacuation drills, BCM was simply referred to as disaster recovery and was entirely focused on protecting the IT environment along with the associated electronic data.

It was less than twelve months into his 15 year IBM career that Robert first became exposed to BCM. Both local and overseas disaster ...

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