Ethics of Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryTechnologies: a Conceptual Orientation

Establishing the IT Disaster Recovery Planning Construct

REQUIRED) The concept of IT disaster recovery planning is receiving an increasing amount of attention from IT practitioners and business managers due to its importance in averting disasters and ensuring the continuity of organizations. Surprisingly, little research has been aimed at providing a comprehensive definition of this topic. Thus, this manuscript describes the process by which conceptu...

Integrated business continuity and disaster recovery planning: Towards organizational resilience

Disaster Recovery Planning as part of Business Continuity Management

Nowadays, a well functioning ICT infrastructure belongs to the most critical factors of companies across all branches of business. An importance of ensuring the continued operation of information systems, or the rapid recovery of the systems in the case of emergency, has increased. These needs require creating business continuity management plan and disaster recovery planning. This paper descri...

Towards a business continuity information network for rapid disaster recovery

Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities such as the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 and hurricanes/earthquakes i.e. Katrina (2005), Wilma (2005) and Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004). Most of the recent work has been conducted for crisis management under terrorist attacks and emergency management services ...

From Disaster Response Planning to e-Resilience: A Literature Review

Natural and man-made crises as well as IT-security issues foster the interest in robust and resilient business information systems. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are essential for successful e-business. If ICT technologies interrupt, the whole (e-) business continuity is threatened. ICT interruptions causing serious loss in organization’s reputation, trust and revenues. This ...