June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
204 pages
4h 42m
English
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Why Is Business Continuity Important?
From 2003 to 2014, I gave an annual lecture on business continuity to information security students studying for their master’s degree at the Royal Holloway University of London. On one occasion and before I had even begun the lecture, a particularly difficult student (there’s always one, isn’t there?) asked me what business continuity had to do with information security. I explained that if he listened for a few minutes all would become clear. This he did, albeit rather grumpily.
After my introductory slides, I explained with several real-world examples just what can happen to an organization when information assets are damaged, stolen, or rendered unavailable. The point I was trying to get ...