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Business Continuity Awareness Week 2017

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2017 will take place from Monday 15th to Friday 19th of May, 2017.

For several years, two of the greatest concerns for business continuity professionals have been cyber attacks and data breaches. In fact, the latest Horizon Scan Report, published by the Business Continuity Institute, showed that 85% and 80% of business continuity professionals respectively expressed concern about the prospect of these threats materializing.

The level of concern is perhaps not surprising when you consider that the BCI’s Cyber Resilience Report revealed that two-thirds of organizations had experienced at least one cyber security incident during the previous year, and 15% had experienced at least ten.

So when asked at the end of Business Continuity Awareness Week 2016 what the theme should be for BCAW2017, the overwhelming response was cyber resilience. As the world becomes more and more digital, so do the threats that it faces. Just as we need to protect our organizations from disruptions that occur in the physical world, so it is important that we also have plans in place to deal with disruptions in the virtual world.

Take this link to the DRIE Toronto BCAW site for more:     http://www.drie.org/toronto/bcaw.php

So what will you do to raise awareness of business continuity and the importance of cyber resilience?