A Manager's Guide to BS25999
A Practical Guide to Developing and Implementing a Business Continuity Management System
Published on 2. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-1-905356-51-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a concise and practical guide to implementing the new benchmark for business continuity management - BS25999. While the number of events that could potentially disrupt the ability of your organisation to continue with its business activities continues to grow, the ramifications are increasingly dramatic. Climate change, terrorism and IT system failure are just some of today's more serious threats - and pressure is growing on all organisations to demonstrate effective, meaningful and dependable emergency preparedness. This guide will help you understand and meet the growing need to demonstrate and provide assurance to partners, customers and stakeholders that, should some significant business disruption occur, you have done everything possible to minimise disruption to the continued supply of the products or services by your organisation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ely
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
319 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905356-51-5 (9781905356515)
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Person
Tony Drewitt is a business continuity practitioner and a professional member of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI). He has been a practising consultant in the field of operational risk management and business continuity management (BCM) since 2001, working with a wide range of small, medium and large organisations to develop BCM policies, strategies and plans.Tony started his career as a mechanical engineer in industry and has held a range of posts in sales and marketing, general management and management consulting. He was a guest lecturer on BCM on Cranfield University's international security management course at the UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Wiltshire in 2003, and is currently working with a number of clients in achieving certification under BS25999.Tony is the author of the already successful ITG publication BS25999: A Pocket Guide.
Content
Introduction Chapter 1: Introducing business continuity management What is business continuity management? BCM policy Chapter 2: Overview of the BCM process BCM life cycle and importance of all its elements Programme management Chapter 3: Understanding the organisation Business impact analysis Risk identification, assessment and management Chapter 4: Determining BC strategyIT Disaster Recovery People The rest of the resource spectrum Chapter 5: Developing the BCM response The incident response structure Triggering the BCM response - activation Business continuity planning Chapter 6: Exercising, maintenance and review Exercises Maintenance and review The BCMS Continuous improvement Chapter 7: Embedding BCM in the organisation's culture Making business continuity effective Chapter 8: Document management and control Reliability Usability Version control Document history Security Chapter 9: Reporting and assurance Corporate governance Supplier assurance Due diligence Chapter 10: Certification System compliance BCMS implementation Certification Certification bodies Chapter 11: Standards and codes of practice The Combined Code on Corporate Governance (UK) Turnbull Sarbanes-Oxley Basel II BS25777 ISO27001 Bibliography Appendix 1: A BCM policy Appendix 2: BCM competencies Appendix 3: A risk register Appendix 4: A crisis management team Appendix 5: A communication cascade Appendix 6: Document templates Appendix 7: A document register Appendix 8: Acronyms & abbreviations ITG resources