ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In addition to being a Fellow of the Institute of Business Continuity Management, 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 trainee computer operator. Big Blue was one of those forward thinking organisations that practised business continuity management (BCM) long before the expression had even been coined. But back then, in the 1970s, with the exception of periodic 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 12 months ...

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