Business Continuity For Dummies

About the Authors

Stuart Sterling is one of the Assistant Directors within the Civil Contingencies Secretariat in the UK Cabinet Office, which provides central support to the British Prime Minister; Deputy Prime Minister; Cabinet Ministers; and coordination of the Government’s response to emergencies. Stuart heads up the Infrastructure and Corporate Resilience area within the department and is author of the National Risk Register’s guidance to businesses and business continuity guidance that accompanies the Civil Contingencies Act. Along with being chair of the government estate business continuity forum, Stuart oversaw a group set up to provide support to businesses in preparing for the Olympics. Stuart has spent most of his career in public sector law enforcement and is a law student with a short but successful period within the business environment in the day-to-day running of a business and steering it through the exit process.

Brian Duddridge is the Business Continuity Manager for Welsh Government and is based in Cardiff. He is responsible for corporate business continuity, having introduced a business continuity management system from scratch; the system has since successfully aligned to BS25999. Brian advises a team of six business continuity co-ordinators who are responsible for business continuity arrangements for their respective directorate’s business, across the Welsh Government estate of some 65 buildings. He has prepared a set of strategy working documents including ...