There is no getting away from it: one way or another all our businesses are vulnerable to risk, whether from an act of terrorism, unusual weather conditions, unreliable service providers or thoughtless or careless employees. Our work can be brought to a standstill, our clients disappointed and at worst we lose income and reputation. Forget the headline events. As has been pointed out before, it is the simple things that tend to go wrong: 90% of all catastrophes are “quiet catastrophes”, for example failures in heating causing staff to walk out, or air conditioning faults leading to computer crashes.
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Introduction
BS 25999 Business Continuity Management
Risk and business continuity management is, without doubt, due diligence. Planning for crisis or disaster is an aspect of management that can only be short changed at your peril. However, it is a complex science, and not a five minute job.
There are of course a range of tools to assist and to help create process. However, until relatively recently, there has been little effort to create a generally accepted framework.
PAS56 BSI, in conjunction with the BSI originally published a guide which established the process, principles and terminology of BCM. Specifically, PAS 56 described the activities in and 'outcomes' of establishing a business continuity management process, and provided a series of recommendations for good practice.
It provided a generic management framework for incident anticipation and response, as well as describing evaluation techniques and criteria. It was produced through the British Standards Institution. The sponsors were the BCI and Insight Consulting, although a number of other organizations were consulted during the development, including Sainsbury's, EDS, The Post Office and the OGC.
The Emergence of BS25999
In November 2006 and official standard was published to replace PAS56. This was BS 25999-1. It was produced through the British Standards Institution (Subcommittee BCM/1/-/2), which constituted representatives from a number of organizations and industry bodies. Others were additionally consulted during the development.
Is It A Standard?
Yes. In fact BS25999 will actually embrace two standards: BS 25999-1 and BS 25999-2. The former is a code of practice (which is the document based upon PAS56, as desribed above) and altter is a specification, which is yet to be published.
It is also important to understand that a standard does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract.
So What Is It For?
It is intended to provide assistance to the person responsible for implementing business continuity management within an organization. It describes a framework and process for the Business Continuity Manager to use and offers a range of good practice recommendations.
WHAT NEXT? Hopefully this website can offer some instruction and background. Please feel free to browse the pages above. A copy of BS25999 itself can be obtained from SD's: BS25999 Download Site. Alternatively, it is included in the BS25999 Starter Kit.
more
BS 25999 is BSI's standard in the field of Business Continuity Management (BCM). This standard replaces PAS56, a Publicly Available Specification, published in 2003 on the same subject.
Contents
1 Structure
2 Contents
3 Timelines
4 See also
5 External links
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tqmcintl Industry: Consulting Location: Mumbai : Maharashtra : India ISO 9001 QMS ISO 13485 ENGINEERING NEWS UP-DATE ISO 22000 Explosion protected not Flame proof WTO CRO ISO TQM Information Security Management and ISO 27001 Software QA ISO 17025 CE Marking ISO 14000 GMP requirements SA 8000 ISO 20000 COBIT COPC STANDARD Lean Six Siqma ISO 17021 5 S Energy Manager boiler and pressure vessels eSCM useful Reference tables ERP Management Consultant hotels and restaurants Fami QS Food borne diseases and infections storing food grains Halal and Kosher wet tissues ready made garmets marking Inspection, measuring and testing equipment
Risk and business continuity management is, without doubt, due diligence. Planning for crisis or disaster is an aspect of management that can only be short changed at your peril. However, it is a complex science, and not a five minute job.
There are of course a range of tools to assist and to help create process. However, until relatively recently, there has been little effort to create a generally accepted framework.
PAS56 BSI, in conjunction with the BSI originally published a guide which established the process, principles and terminology of BCM. Specifically, PAS 56 described the activities in and 'outcomes' of establishing a business continuity management process, and provided a series of recommendations for good practice.
It provided a generic management framework for incident anticipation and response, as well as describing evaluation techniques and criteria. It was produced through the British Standards Institution. The sponsors were the BCI and Insight Consulting, although a number of other organizations were consulted during the development, including Sainsbury's, EDS, The Post Office and the OGC.
The Emergence of BS25999
In November 2006 and official standard was published to replace PAS56. This was BS 25999-1. It was produced through the British Standards Institution (Subcommittee BCM/1/-/2), which constituted representatives from a number of organizations and industry bodies. Others were additionally consulted during the development.
Is It A Standard?
Yes. In fact BS25999 will actually embrace two standards: BS 25999-1 and BS 25999-2. The former is a code of practice (which is the document based upon PAS56, as desribed above) and altter is a specification, which is yet to be published.
It is also important to understand that a standard does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract.
So What Is It For?
It is intended to provide assistance to the person responsible for implementing business continuity management within an organization. It describes a framework and process for the Business Continuity Manager to use and offers a range of good practice recommendations.
WHAT NEXT? Hopefully this website can offer some instruction and background. Please feel free to browse the pages above. A copy of BS25999 itself can be obtained from SD's: BS25999 Download Site. Alternatively, it is included in the BS25999 Starter Kit.
more
BS 25999 is BSI's standard in the field of Business Continuity Management (BCM). This standard replaces PAS56, a Publicly Available Specification, published in 2003 on the same subject.
Contents
1 Structure
2 Contents
3 Timelines
4 See also
5 External links
//
more
tqmcintl Industry: Consulting Location: Mumbai : Maharashtra : India ISO 9001 QMS ISO 13485 ENGINEERING NEWS UP-DATE ISO 22000 Explosion protected not Flame proof WTO CRO ISO TQM Information Security Management and ISO 27001 Software QA ISO 17025 CE Marking ISO 14000 GMP requirements SA 8000 ISO 20000 COBIT COPC STANDARD Lean Six Siqma ISO 17021 5 S Energy Manager boiler and pressure vessels eSCM useful Reference tables ERP Management Consultant hotels and restaurants Fami QS Food borne diseases and infections storing food grains Halal and Kosher wet tissues ready made garmets marking Inspection, measuring and testing equipment
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