Business Continuity Planning Related Organizations

Business Continuity Planners Association (BCPA)
www.bcpa.org

The BusinessContinuity Planners Association (BCPA) is a nonprofit association with the mission to provide an environment to exchange professional and educational information and experiences related to business recovery, crisis management, emergency management, contingency planning, disaster preparedness, or a related professional vocation.

BRCCI
www.brcci.org

BRCCI is an open non-profit international business resilience certification body committed to global dissemination of business resilience information, knowledge, skills, and competencies through educational and training conferences, courses, workshops, seminars, and materials either online or printed.

Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
www.isaca.org

ISACA is a global organization serving as a centralized source of information and guidance for information governance, control, security and audit professionals. ISACA has been actively publishing IS auditing and IS control standards and guidelines which are followed by professionals worldwide. IT Governance Institute, which is affiliated with ISACA, is responsible for publishing COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) as a framework for Information Technology (IT) security and internal controls. One of the control objectives within COBIT deals with the topic of business continuity.

Survive—The Business Continuity Group
www.survive.com

Survive was established in 1981 as a business continuity group with the objective to provide a forum for exchange of information, ideas, and experiences among business continuity professionals. To achieve its objective, Survive publishes a magazine and holds conferences, meetings, and workshops.

The Association of Contingency Planners (ACP)
www.acp-international.com

The Association of Contingency Planners (ACP) is a nonprofit association founded in 1983. It promotes an environment for international networking and information exchange related to contingency and business resumption planning. ACP issues a quarterly corporate newsletter entitled `The ACP Sentinel', which includes business reports, announcements, and planned activities. ACP enables its members to learn about state-of-the-art contingency and business continuity techniques through educational programs at the chapter and corporate levels.

Securities Industry Association's Business Continuity Planning Committee
www.sia.com

The disaster of September 11, 2001 prompted the creation of SIA's Business Continuity Planning Committee in October 2001. Its objective is to provide a forum for securities firms, industry organizations, and service providers to share specific plans and business continuity information. The committee is currently divided into nine subcommittees: SIA BCP Command Center, Exchange/Markets, Utilities & Service Providers, Critical Physical Infrastructure and Urban Renewal, Best Practices, Insurance, Catastrophic Events, Industry Testing, and Regional Issues.

Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (DRIE)
www.drie.org

Established in 1994, DRIE aims to become the primary source of information and education for contingency planners. It is a Canada- wide organization with chapters in various Canadian cities. DRIE and its chapters organize regular conferences and seminars on the subject of disaster recovery and contingency planning.

American Red Cross
www.redcross.org

American Red Cross Services responds to disasters that cause human suffering or create human needs. Its mission is to ensure nationwide disaster planning, preparedness, community disaster education, mitigation, and response.

Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness
www.ccep.ca

The Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (CCEP) is a nonprofit organization with objective to raise awareness of the risk of disasters and promote disaster management to individuals, communities, and organizations within Canada. It aims to achieve its objective through activities such as promotion of sound disaster management principles and practices, education and training, career development, research, and services and products. CCEP holds an annual World Conference on Disaster Management.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
www.fema.gov

FEMA is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government, established in 1979. Its mission is to reduce loss of life and property and protect the nation's critical infrastructure from all types of hazards. FEMA adopts a comprehensive, risk-based, emergency management program of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. FEMA has developed an "Emergency Management Guide" for business and industry to help with emergency planning, response, and recovery.

International Disaster Recovery Association (IDRA)
www.idra.com

IDRA was established in 1989 with a focus on voice, data, image, and sensory telecommunications aspects of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Contingency Planning, and Business Continuation. It also has another IDRA special interest group (SIG) that concentrates on security, terrorism, employee safety and workplace violence. It holds an annual conference that covers topics such as contingency planning, risk management, voice, data, image or sensory telecommunications, corporate security, international management, management information systems, emergency management, executive protection, and public safety.

National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA)
www.nfpa.org

NFPA is a nonprofit organization focused on reducing the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life. It issues safety codes and standards, provides education to protect life and property, and promotes professional development and certification programs. NFPA 1600 is a standard issued by NFPA for Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs—to guide the private and public sector in the development of a program for effective disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
www.iso.org

ISO is the world's largest developer of standards, having developed more than 14000 international standards for business, government, and society.ISO represents a bridge between public and private sectors through a network of national standards institutes from 147 countries working in partnership with international organizations, governments, industry, business and consumer representatives. ISO has developed a number of standards that address business continuity and risk management.

The Natural Hazards Center
www.colorado.edu/hazards

The Natural Hazards Center, associated with the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado, USA, has the objective to disseminate information and increase communication among individuals, researchers, agencies, and organizations actively working to reduce disaster damage and suffering. It provides information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters through annual workshop, research, library services, and online resources.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC)
www.fstc.org

FSTC is a consortium of leading North American-based financial institutions, technology vendors, independent research organizations, and government agencies. It aims to promote interoperable, open-standard technologies to support critical infrastructure for the financial services industry. The FSTC has a number of Standing Committees to address key financial service technology areas, one of which deals with business continuity for financial services industry.

The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers (AIRMIC)
 www.airmic.com

AIRMIC is a UK based organization dedicated to the field of insurance and risk management. AIRMIC supports its members with self-development, technical awareness, and internal working relationships. Together with the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and ALARM The National Forum for Risk Management in the Public Sector, AIRMIC has formulated a new Risk Management Standard.

 

Natural Hazard and Disaster Information

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
www.grid.unep.ch/activities/earlywarning/preview

Through its project of Risk Evaluation, Vulnerability, Information & Early Warning, UNEP has developed an online tool to visualize data on worldwide natural disasters.

USGS—U.S. Geological Survey
www.usgs.gov

USGS is a federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment. The Earth quake Hazard program of USGS provides an online map and a list of last 8 to 30 days of worldwide earthquake activities (earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww).

Incident.com
www.incident.com

This website displays a map of recent hazards and disaster events built on-the-fly from Internet data sources.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
www.faa.gov

FAA's website provides access to preliminary accident and incident data that has been received by the Office of Accident Investigation during the last 10 business days.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema

FEMA's website maintains a library of major US disaster declarations.

American Red Cross
www.redcross.org/news

The American Red Cross provides access to their news articles related to recent disaster events on their website.

Department of Geology, University of California Davis
www-geology.ucdavis.edu/eqmandr.html

The department of geology's website contains recent earthquake information.

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
www.epa.gov/epahome/commsearch.htm

EPA's website contains a database of environmental facts such as pollution, hazardous waste sites, and other regulatory information. The database supports a zip code based search of environmental information about a specific location and community.

NOAA Satellite and Information
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
www.nesdis.noaa.gov

NOAA's website provides timely access to global environmental data and imagery—from satellite and other sources—for various hazards such as dust storms, fires, floods, icebergs, ocean, and severe weather.

 

Business Continuity Related Resources

Rothstein Associates
www.rothstein.com

Disaster Resource Guide
www.disaster-resource.com

Agility Recovery Solutions
www.agilityrecovery.com

Uninterruptible Power Supply and Standby Power Protection from Riello Galatrek UPS
www.riello-ups.co.uk

Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Standby Power Systems provide protection from a wide range of power problems and keep computer, telecoms, medical and industrial processes running during mains power failures. Riello Galatrek is the UK subsidiary of Riello UPS Manufacturing srl - the leading power solutions manufacturer in Europe.

Dr. Backup
www.drbackup.net

Dr.Backup safeguards your valuable documents with an automatic nightly backup over the Internet. FREE trial of our offsite backup solutions is available at www.drbackup.net.

Mutare Software (Emergency/Event Notification)
www.mutare.com

Mutare Software is a leading developer of interactive voice & internet response (IVIR) applications with over 1,000 successfully deployed applications throughout the world. Mutare is proud of its prestigious customer base and focus on complete customer satisfaction.

Mutare's years of voice application experience and unparalleled commitment to service ensure complete satisfaction with your application.

Vital Records Protection
www.vitalrecordsprotection.com

Dedicated to providing educational information about the protection of vital records from fire, disasters, theft and other dangers to risk management experts, small business owners, government officials, and corporate executives.