business continuity planning

Business Continuity Planning Using NIST SP 800-34

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Concept illustration of business continuity planning showing group of workers, NIST SP 800-34 thought bubbles, calendar, planning boards, and texts of the key components of the NIST SP 800-34 Framework: Develop the Contingency Planning Policy Statement, Conduct the Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Identify Preventive Controls, Create Contingency Strategies, Develop an Information System Contingency Plan, Ensure Plan Testing, Training, and Exercises, and Ensure Plan Maintenance.

Mastering Business Continuity Planning: A Guide Using NIST SP 800-34

In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, businesses face an array of potential disruptions—from natural disasters and cyber-attacks to pandemics and supply chain failures. Ensuring that your organization can continue operations during and after such events is crucial. This is where Business Continuity Planning (BCP) comes in.

By using the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-34 as our frame of reference, this comprehensive guide will delve into the principles of BCP as outlined in NIST SP 800-34, explore sector-specific examples, address common challenges, and present best practices to help your organization stay resilient.

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The Distribute IT Fiasco: Risk Management Done Wrong

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“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” – Charles Darwin.

In today’s business world, where organizations face ever-escalating customer demands and expectations and little room for downtime, logic dictates that businesses today are seriously revamping their business continuity and risk management plans, or developing one if they did not have any.

This is even more pertinent given what we have witnessed in recent months in the areas of data breaches, hack attempts and the underground “war” being waged in cyberspace that has put most of the world’s powerful organizations on the defensive.

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