The business continuity management program (BCM) covers the prevention, response and organization of actions required after an event which could significantly disrupt business operations. This ongoing program is more than an IT recovery plan. Here are the steps and components of a BCM, their relationships and the winning conditions necessary to implement such a program within a...

Nowadays, information security is a very common term used in the business world. Previously, security was simply a matter of installing a firewall to protect a corporate network by adding barriers to prevent intruders from access it. In the last few years, information has become electronic, or should I say virtual, in its primary form. What used to be on hard copy or paper...

What is the value of the information stored on your computer equipment or paper documents? What would the impacts be if your personal or confidential information fell into the wrong hands (e.g. financial loss, loss of image / reputation, regulatory or legal non-compliance)? Can you be certain that a proper destruction method was used on the information (whether in digital or...