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Various standards and legislation relate to business continuity management - this page overviews the main ones
| The first part of the long awaited British Standard for Business Continuity Management was published by the British Standards Institute in November 2006.
This Standard establishes the process, principles and terminology of business continuity management (BCM), providing a basis for understanding, developing and implementing business continuity within an organisation and to provide confidence in business-to-business and business-to-customer dealings.
Usually published at £90 + post and packing, the BCI are able to offer this publication at:
£80 including post and packing to BCI members
£90 including post and packing to non-members.
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BSI asks for comments on BS 25999 part two
The British Standards Institution has published a draft version of part two of BS 25999 (the business continuity management British Standard). The draft will be available until 3rd August to allow time for business continuity professionals and other interested parties to comment on the contents of the standard.
BS 25999 part two builds on the already published BS 25999 part one. It specifies requirements for ‘establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, exercising, maintaining and improving a documented business continuity management system (BCMS) within the context of managing an organisation’s overall business risks’. It will be used by internal and external parties, 'including certification bodies, to assess an organisation’s ability to meet its own business continuity needs, as well as any customer, legal or regulatory needs'.
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NFPA 1600
The North American business continuity standard: download the 2007 edition (PDF)
ISO17799
A standard for an Information Security Management System. Following the requirements of ISO17799, you will identify, manage and minimise the range of threats to your information. By using ISO17799 as the basis for your ISMS, you can become registered by BSI.
Compliance to this BSI Information Security standard will demonstrate to your stakeholders and third parties that your organisation takes the issues and activities of the protection and preservation of information seriously
More details can be found at at http://www.bsi-global.com/Global/iso27001.xalter
ITIL
Continuity Management, IT Security and Availability Management appear as part of the IT Infrastructure Library’s Service Delivery management practices; designed to ensure that IT services are provided and remain as intended.
Risk management
The IRM’s Risk Management Standard was the result of extensive work by a team drawn from the major risk management organisations in the UK including the IRM, AIRMIC and ALARM. The standard can be downloaded or ordered from www.theirm.org/publications/PUstandard.html
Civil Contingencies Act
The Civil Contingencies Act received Royal Assent on 18th November 2004 and is split into two parts. Part 1 addresses local arrangements for civil protection and part 2 concerns the conditions and scope of the necessary emergency powers. A comprehensive history of related press releases, letters from the Civil Contingencies Secretariat and further information can be found on the UK Resilience website.
Singapore Technical Reference for business continuity
New business continuity guidelines are being launched in Singapore. Entitled the ‘Business Continuity Management Technical Reference’ the document is the result of a project spearheaded by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) with the support of the Singapore Economic Development Board and SPRING Singapore. BCI helped to review the standard. Read the full story
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