Author: Mattord and Whitman
ISBN No: 9780128008454
Review date: 15/06/2026
No of pages: 54
Publisher: Elsevier
Publisher URL:
http://store.elsevier.com/Business-Continuity-State-of-the-Industry-Report/Herbert-Mattord/isbn-9780128008454/
Year of publication: 22/08/2014
Brief:
Business Continuity State of the Industry Report, by Herbert Mattord and Michael Whitman
price
£54.99
At just over £1 per page, you might find the price of a report on business continuity (BC) rather steep. And many of those pages are given over to appendices. And the book is written by two American and naturally is largely about the United States. All that said, you do get what the title tells you to expect: a ‘state of the industry report’, whether that’s emerging trends in technology (which is still heavily relied on) and methods (managers are turning to social media to get messages out and to get info in the aftermath of a disaster, whether man-made, economic or natural, when the regular media may falter).
The book or rather report does offer a useful ‘view from the c-suite’ that for instance suggests that executives are taking more of an interest in planning for business continuity, which does mean that they want to see proved the ‘value proposition’ of any plans.
If you as a security manager need convincing that you have to trouble yourself with BC, note that threats that require BC response according to the report in the United States range from hurricanes to IT hacking and breached records. For good or bad, as the authors put it, BC ‘remains a highly reactive industry’, whether the events that require BC are natural (floods and fires), or man-made (power failure). And while BC may have less spent on it in a recession, the reality is, the report suggests, that ‘recessions amplify business risks’.
The report’s a part of the fruit of a partnership between the publisher Elsevier and the Security Executive Council (SEC), a US-based research and advisory services firm for risk mitigation.
Business Continuity State of the Industry Report, by Herbert Mattord and Michael Whitman. Published 2014, by Elsevier. ISBN 9780128008454, £54.99, 54 pages. Visit www.elsevier.com.
