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Business Continuity Lead Auditor Course Special Offer

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We are pleased to be able to offer you access to the BSI's BS 25999 Lead Auditor at a massive saving of well over £1000!  
 
COURSE INFO:
 
The 5 day course will be run in central Manchester commencing on the following dates - 
 
6 June 2011 (2 places left @ £1000 + VAT)
18 July 2011 (£1100 + VAT)
 Refreshments and lunch included.  
 
The BSI advertised rate of circa £2300 per delegate however I can offer the course at significant discount rate per delegate (rate negotiable for multiple bookings). 
 
 

Business Continuity Standards

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This is the information and news update portal of the Continuity Forum focused on Business Continuity and Resilience Management related Standards and related matters.
 
Through these pages we'll bring you the latest information on the developments in the world of Standards affecting Business Continuity, Resilience, Emergency Management, Security and Crisis Management.
 
Business Continuity Standards information, news and advice
A significant amount of our day to day work involves working within the various standards bodies committee structures on developing and maintaining Business Continuity and Resilience based standards in the UK and Internationally. We represent the views of users, consultants and service providers where we provide consistent support, contribution and continual development for the sector.  
 
Business Continuity and Resilience News and Information   
 
Click to buy any BSI or ISO Standard Our extensive knowledge of Business Continuity and Resilience standards and regulation covers public and private sector organisations of all sizes and types ... no matter what the question help is just a phone call away! 
 
More on our involvement with Standards
 
Our involvement in developing standards for Business Continuity started in 2000 when a wide group of organisations including BSI, Loss Prevention Council, ABI, BCI and representatives from government, as well as industry experts and leading companies met at Burnham Beeches Hotel in Buckinghamshire for the first special industry summit.
 
The Continuity Forum presented the findings and recommendations from a year long research programme looking at the emerging Business Continuity Sector and what was needed to provide a sound foundation for development and growth.
 
The results recommended that three key pillars were needed to be worked on ensure the development of the sector into a mature discipline.
 
Significantly, the pillars needed a solid foundation that provided, through industry consensus, definitions and a proper framework that properly described the whole disciple of Businsess Continuity.
 
In other words, Industry Standards.
 
Within a year or so of the Summit, regulation had started to appear across a number of industry areas and the work to started on creating, firstly a Publicly Available Specification (PAS56) and then BS 25999 from the BSI that went on to be the most successful management systems standard in their history. 
 
The Continuity Forum are members of the BCM/1, SSM/1 and RM/1 committees of the BSI and the BCM.01 group from ASIS that developed the BCM.01 Standard for Business Continuity for North America.  
 
Our work is ongoing with contributions in these areas continuing and being extended to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) on both Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience
 
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how Business Continuity or Resilience may benefit your organisation please do get in touch and we'll be please to advice you. 
 

 

 
 

HML renews BS 25999

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Financial outsourcer HML has had its BS25999 Business Continuity Planning Certificate renewed for the second year in succession.
 
KPMG visited HML’s Skipton and Derry sites to assess the company’s Business Continuity Management System and related planning, preparation and governance.
 
Dave Edlin, HML’s Business Continuity Specialist explained why external accreditation is so important for organisations: “Gaining the BS25999 Certificate gives HML’s stakeholders peace of mind that should the unexpected occur, business will continue as close to normality as possible.
 

ISO announce new ICT security standard to improve Business Continuity resilience

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ISO security standards and Business Continuity
 
 
The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has released a new set of international guidelines to help protect and ensure the security of information and communication technologies and boost Business Continuity capabilities.
 
ISO/IEC 27031:2011 is aimed at all organisations regardless of their type, size and complexity and it is hoped that through the adoption of the standard greater resilience against hacking, denial of service and malware attacks will be seen.
 

BS25999 achieved by Vocal

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The British Standards Institute has awarded Vocal, best known for its iModus notification system,  full BS25999 accreditation – the British standard of business continuity management. The accreditation incorporates the entire organisation and including the iModus system. 
 

Maintaining continual improvement momentum in BCM

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Does the phrase continual improvement turn you cold?
 
Do you feel under pressure to keep reinventing the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) wheel?
 
What is continual improvement?
 
If you think that you have to find new ways to improve your Business Continuity system every day for the rest of your life, relax. Continual improvement is a state of mind as much as identifying tangible improvements.
 
Take a look at what is meant by the words continual and improvement. 
 

ISO22301 BCM Standard review period closes 28th February

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BSI are asking for comments from stakeholders and professional on the  revised ISO standard 22301 Societal Security - Business Continuity Management Systems Requirements. ISO 22301 follows the main principles of BS25999 and BCM.01 and could potentially replace them over time, so you input is important. 

 

This revision has seen clarification, elaboration and alignment to the ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard. 

 

The draft version is issued to allow comments from interested parties; all comments will be given consideration prior to publication and is accessed through the BSI online Draft Review System. 

 

The review period closes on 28th February and please do contact us directly if you would like any further information on the process or the Standard

 

To access the system please click here 

 

 

 

 


 

Consultation for BS31000 Risk Management Code of Practice starts

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BSI are publishing today the revised BS standard 31100 Risk Management Code of Practice as a Draft for Public comment. 

 

Your assistance in reviewing the Code of Practice and providing feedback would be much appreciated. 

ANSI approve ASIS/BSI BCM.01 standard

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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved the ASIS/BSI BCM.01 2010 standard for Business Continuity Management. 

 

The full name for the standard is ANSI/ASIS/BSI BCM.01:2010, Business Continuity

Dr Marc Siegel

Management Systems - Requirements with Guidance for Use (Joint ASIS International and British Standards Institute (BSI) Standard) and whilst a mouthful it reflects the very close collaboration throughout the whole development process between ASIS and the BSI.  This approach led to a multi-national team being involved with committee formed responsible for the development being co-chaired by Dr Marc Siegel (US) and Kevin Brear (UK) and that also included Russell Price from the Continuity Forum.

 

BS25999 awarded to EC Group

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EC Group has become the first promotional handling and fulfilment company to be awarded BS 25999 certification in Business Continuity Management from BSI. EC Group provides outsourced marketing services. 

BS25999 Certification for Altius Associates Limited

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Altius Associates Limited (“Altius”) are the first financial services company in the world to achieve official accreditation to the Global Industry Standard for Business Continuity, BS25999. 
 

Fun video from BSI - everyone's a winner

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Business Continuity Forum events news information
A fun video from the BSI showing that a crisis can come from the most unexpected and even impossibly unlikely sources.  This one's a 14million to one chance.
 

New skills based National Occupational Standard takes shape

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August 16th 09:00

The Continuity Forum is pleased to invite contributions to the public consultation for the New National Occupational Standard for Business Continuity developed by the Council for Administration and supported by the Continuity Forum and a variety of stakeholders interested in developing access and skills across organisations of all types and sizes across the UK. 

The Consultation phase is marks the result of 12 months effort distilling the complexities of BCM into a format more easily accessible to personnel outside of the professional sector. 

For more details on the project please visit the main announcement page HERE!

 

US Futures Trading Commission looks to introduce new BCM/DR rules

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Business Continuity Forum Support guidance 25999 standards 

The US Commodity Future Trading Commission is proposing to introduce new regulations affecting Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, based on an expected standard for Designated Contract Markets and the associated Derivative Clearing Organisations. The CFTC has recommended that rule changes be put in place requiring both DCM’s and DCO’s to harden measures that aim to prevent wide scale disruption to Commodity trading arising from an event. 

Standards Australia emphasises Risk Management in AS/NZS5050 BCM Standard

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The latest Standard to the be released titled “AS/NZ5050 - Business Continuity Managing disruption-related risk” comes from Standards Australia and arrived just a few months before the US BCM Standard jointly developed by the BSI and ASIS . 

 

In an interesting departure from established convention the Australia/New Zealand Standard takes different slant on key aspects of the process and connects far more with with risk management principles than others. The Standard itself declares that “the approach (taken) to managing disruption-related risk described in the Standard is through application of AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009, Risk management—Principles and guidelines.”

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