Disaster Recovery Planning Directory

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Free Directory

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BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning related organizations

Business Resilience Certification Consortium International

BRCCI is an open non-profit international business resilience certification body committed to global dissemination of business resilience information, knowledge, skills, and competencies through educational and training conferences, courses, workshops, seminars, and materials either online or printed.

Business Continuity Planners Association (BCPA)

The Business Continuity Planners Association (BCPA) is a nonprofit association with the mission to provide an environment to exchange professional and educational information and experiences related to business recovery, crisis management, emergency management, contingency planning, disaster preparedness, or a related professional vocation.

Business Continuity Institute

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 with the mission to promote the art and science of business continuity management. With its 1450 members in 41 countries, BCI promotes the highest standards of professional competence and commercial ethics in the provision and maintenance of business continuity management services. Its aim is to define professional competencies for business continuity professionals, provide an internationally recognized certification program, and promote continuous professional development for maintaining professional competencies.

British Standards Institute (BSI)

Established in 1901, BSI is the national standard body of United Kingdom. One of its main responsibilities includes facilitating, drafting, publishing, and marketing British Standards and other guidelines. BSI addresses business continuity planning in the BS 7799 standard which consists of two parts: part 1, BS 7799-1: 1999 Code of Practice for Information Security Management; and part 2, BS 7799-2: 2002 Specification for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). Part 1 of BS 7799 has been adopted as an international standard (ISO/IEC 17799).

Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)

ISACA is a global organization serving as a centralized source of information and guidance for information governance, control, security and audit professionals. ISACA has been actively publishing IS auditing and IS control standards and guidelines which are followed by professionals worldwide. IT Governance Institute, which is affiliated with ISACA, is responsible for publishing COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) as a framework for Information Technology (IT) security and internal controls. One of the control objectives within COBIT deals with the topic of business continuity.

Survive—The Business Continuity Group

Survive was established in 1981 as a business continuity group with the objective to provide a forum for exchange of information, ideas, and experiences among business continuity professionals. To achieve its objective, Survive publishes a magazine and holds conferences, meetings, and workshops.

The Association of Contingency Planners (ACP)

The Association of Contingency Planners (ACP) is a nonprofit association founded in 1983. It promotes an environment for international networking and information exchange related to contingency and business resumption planning. ACP issues a quarterly corporate newsletter entitled `The ACP Sentinel', which includes business reports, announcements, and planned activities. ACP enables its members to learn about state-of-the-art contingency and business continuity techniques through educational programs at the chapter and corporate levels.

Securities Industry Association's Business Continuity Planning Committee

The disaster of September 11, 2001 prompted the creation of SIA's Business Continuity Planning Committee in October 2001. Its objective is to provide a forum for securities firms, industry organizations, and service providers to share specific plans and business continuity information. The committee is currently divided into nine subcommittees: SIA BCP Command Center, Exchange/Markets, Utilities & Service Providers, Critical Physical Infrastructure and Urban Renewal, Best Practices, Insurance, Catastrophic Events, Industry Testing, and Regional Issues.

Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (DRIE)

Established in 1994, DRIE aims to become the primary source of information and education for contingency planners. It is a Canada- wide organization with chapters in various Canadian cities. DRIE and its chapters organize regular conferences and seminars on the subject of disaster recovery and contingency planning.

American Red Cross

American Red Cross Services responds to disasters that cause human suffering or create human needs. Its mission is to ensure nationwide disaster planning, preparedness, community disaster education, mitigation, and response.

Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness

The Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (CCEP) is a nonprofit organization with objective to raise awareness of the risk of disasters and promote disaster management to individuals, communities, and organizations within Canada. It aims to achieve its objective through activities such as promotion of sound disaster management principles and practices, education and training, career development, research, and services and products. CCEP holds an annual World Conference on Disaster Management.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

FEMA is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government, established in 1979. Its mission is to reduce loss of life and property and protect the nation's critical infrastructure from all types of hazards. FEMA adopts a comprehensive, risk-based, emergency management program of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. FEMA has developed an "Emergency Management Guide" for business and industry to help with emergency planning, response, and recovery.

International Disaster Recovery Association (IDRA)

IDRA was established in 1989 with a focus on voice, data, image, and sensory telecommunications aspects of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Contingency Planning, and Business Continuation. It also has another IDRA special interest group (SIG) that concentrates on security, terrorism, employee safety and workplace violence. It holds an annual conference that covers topics such as contingency planning, risk management, voice, data, image or sensory telecommunications, corporate security, international management, management information systems, emergency management, executive protection, and public safety.

National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA)

NFPA is a nonprofit organization focused on reducing the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life. It issues safety codes and standards, provides education to protect life and property, and promotes professional development and certification programs. NFPA 1600 is a standard issued by NFPA for Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs—to guide the private and public sector in the development of a program for effective disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

ISO is the world's largest developer of standards, having developed more than 14000 international standards for business, government, and society. ISO represents a bridge between public and private sectors through a network of national standards institutes from 147 countries working in partnership with international organizations, governments, industry, business and consumer representatives. ISO has developed a number of standards that address business continuity and risk management.

The Natural Hazards Center

The Natural Hazards Center, associated with the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado, USA, has the objective to disseminate information and increase communication among individuals, researchers, agencies, and organizations actively working to reduce disaster damage and suffering. It provides information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters through annual workshop, research, library services, and online resources.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC)

FSTC is a consortium of leading North American-based financial institutions, technology vendors, independent research organizations, and government agencies. It aims to promote interoperable, open-standard technologies to support critical infrastructure for the financial services industry. The FSTC has a number of Standing Committees to address key financial service technology areas, one of which deals with business continuity for financial services industry.

The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers (AIRMIC)

AIRMIC is a UK based organization dedicated to the field of insurance and risk management. AIRMIC supports its members with self-development, technical awareness, and internal working relationships. Together with the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and ALARM The National Forum for Risk Management in the Public Sector, AIRMIC has formulated a new Risk Management Standard.

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