Continuity standards gain credence

The recently introduced British standard for business continuity will take centre stage at the Business Continuity Expo, which kicks off next week.

According to Robin Rumbles, director of customer experience and compliance, Sungard, interest in the standard has been unprecedented.

"It's the first time in our industry that there has been agreement within the industry that there should be a standard that everybody works towards, and the British Standards Institute (BSI) will tell you that BS 25999 has generated the most interest they've ever had in any standard," he said.

A recent survey from the British Standards Institute showed that business continuity is gaining acceptance within FTSE 250 companies. Almost two-thirds (63 per cent) of those it questioned said they were very well prepared for serious IT failure.

The actual BS 25999 Standard was released by the BSI last November. A previous Code of Practice was released in 2006.

See also:

Disaster recovery professionals welcome BSI standard

The British Standards Institution has published new specs for business continuity  31 Oct 2007

Citrix disaster-recovery plan nears fruition

Project Kent service to provide holistic business-continuity service in beta this month  06 Jun 2007

Security top concern among IT decision makers

A new survey by analyst Forrester finds that the majority of the 1,000 IT decision makers they asked list security as their first priority this year  13 Mar 2007

SunGard offers better data recovery times

New electronic vaulting service sends data backups to two separate data centres  18 Jan 2007

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