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Five tips to enhance resilience

Resilience is not about compliance or governance, it’s about a company’s survivability, its mandate and its bottom line, says Padma Naidoo, GM: Advisory Services at ContinuitySA.

Business continuity through a COVID-19 lens

While existing business continuity frameworks did offer benefit, it is evident they can be improved based on the lessons learnt over the past few months, says ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA introduces SME-targeted recovery as a service

<span>Recovery as a service puts work area recovery facilities within the reach of SMEs.</span>

Resilience critical for business success in post-COVID-19 future

<span>Companies must ensure that their business strategy and operations are founded on resilience, says Michael Davies, CEO of ContinuitySA.</span>

ContinuitySA launches cloud-based backup, replication solution for SMEs

ContinuitySA Cloud Connect is an unmanaged service, which keeps costs to a minimum.

ContinuitySA Partnership Programme officially launches

The programme encourages consultants and mid-sized IT companies to partner with ContinuitySA to offer their clients a customised business continuity solution.

ContinuitySA offers new ISO 27001 Lead Implementer training in Johannesburg

The five-day course will run at ContinuitySA's Waterfall campus, in Midrand, from 2-6 March and 3-7 August.

Is your organisation prepared for the coronavirus? Advice from a business resilience expert

Companies should consider the direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic when evaluating whether they are prepared for the coronavirus, says ContinuitySA.

2020 risk outlook: Use GRC to build resilience

GRC activities can be used profitably to develop an integrated risk picture and response, says ContinuitySA.

Utility outages: Are you looking at the big picture?

It would be a mistake to think that load-shedding is the only issue relating to power, says Nadia Veeran-Patel, manager: Cyber Resilience at ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA wins IRMSA Award with Resilience 2.0

Resilience 2.0 takes business continuity beyond the confines of an organisation and addresses the cumulative requirements for an industry sector or complex supply chain web.

You're not resilient if you don't have WAR

The necessity for a company to have a work-area recovery capability should never be ignored, says ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA's Willem Olivier named African Industry Personality of the year

Willem Olivier, GM: ContinuityAfrica, has been named Continuity and Resilience Industry Personality of the Year for 2019.

ContinuitySA offers Complete Continuity Practitioner in October

The five-day programme will run from 21-25 October at its offices in Midrand.

Proactivity is key to effective cyber security

Plan for the worst and know what to do when an incident occurs, says Nadia Veeran-Patel, manager: Cyber Resilience at ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA named Platinum Reseller by Veeam

ContinuitySA has been awarded the highest level in the Veeam ProPartner Programme.

Cyber resilience requires multi-layered approach to be effective

IT systems and the data they contain must be resilient to ensure they can be recovered, even when an unplanned-for event occurs, says Al de Brito, senior consultant: Advisory Services at ContinuitySA.

Helping clients manage risk better

ContinuitySA's corporate membership of IRMSA helps it keep abreast of the changing threat landscape, says Cindy Bodenstein, marketing manager at ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA completes international business continuity management project in record time

Originally slated to take 18 months, the international project was completed in 11 months and under budget.

Heightened risk will characterise 2019: business resilience will be key

It is important to ensure the organisation is resilient enough to deal with whatever risks do materialise, says Michael Davies, CEO at ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA wins IRMSA Award for outstanding contribution to risk management

The award recognises the company's recently developed Business Continuity Resilience App.

ContinuitySA celebrates a decade in Mozambique with plans for growth

Mozambiquan businesses and government departments are becoming more conversant with the value of developing a business resilience strategy, says ContinuitySA.

Recent building fires in Jhb a wake-up call for business, government

A company's resilience is intimately linked to how sound its business continuity plans are and whether it has a suitable work-area recovery facility in place, says ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA honoured at Business Continuity Institute Africa awards ceremony

CEO Michael Davies was named Continuity and Resilience Industry Personality of the Year.

Business continuity management must keep pace with the Digital Age

ContinuitySA has been working on a mobile application for business continuity and resilience.

Business continuity must evolve to provide flexibility to adapt to any situation

Companies must be prepared to adapt to change if they are to remain competitive and recover from unexpected disruptions, says ContinuitySA.

Collaboration is key to building organisational resilience more effectively

In today's volatile environment, companies must anticipate, adapt and respond to incremental and sudden changes or disruptions, says Philippa Chappell, manager: Advisory Services at ContinuitySA.

Five steps to integrating business continuity, cyber resilience

Integrating cyber resilience into the broader business continuity strategy will maximise the company's ability to protect against a data breach and detect when one has occurred and recover from it, says Michael Davies, CEO of ContinuitySA.

Operational resilience: key to organisational resilience

Operational resilience is the ability to adapt to change and withstand disruptions, says Karen Humphris, senior manager: Advisory Services at ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA supports Business Continuity Awareness Week 2018

BCAW 2018, a global event facilitated by the Business Continuity Institute, takes place from 14 to 18 May.

Beware the iceberg!

Insourcing your business continuity management may seem to make sense - until, too late, you realise that 80% of the costs and complexities are hidden, says Willem Olivier, GM: Africa at ContinuitySA.

Fine-tune your business continuity management plan for 2018

Companies must recalibrate their business continuity management and resilience plans in line with the causes of actual disasters in 2017, says ContinuitySA.

ContinuityMauritius opens new facility

The new ContinuityMauritius recovery facility is housed in the Birger Technology Centre, in Phoenix, Port Louis.

Enhance your business continuity skills in 2018: ContinuitySA announces training dates

The company will offer its five-day Complete Continuity Practitioner Programme in February, April, July and October.

Six risks to make you take business resilience seriously in 2018

The ContinuitySA ExCo identified six risks that should be top of mind within an overall drive towards building business resilience.

Use Computer Security Day to strengthen business resilience

Companies must use this day as an opportunity to improve their ability to recover from disaster, says ContinuitySA.

ContinuitySA's Padma Naidoo named Business Continuity and Resilience Consultant of the Year at BCI Africa Awards

Padma Naidoo, Senior Manager: Advisory Services at ContinuitySA, was named as Business Continuity and Resilience Consultant of the Year at the awards this month.

Jeremy Capell named African BCI Industry Personality for 2017

Jeremy Capell, GM, Advisory Services at ContinuitySA, has been named Industry Personality of 2017 by the Business Continuity Institute.

ContinuitySA Global Centre of Excellence receives Continuity and Resilience Team award at BCI Africa Awards

The team received the Continuity and Resilience Team award at this year's BCI Africa Awards.

ContinuitySA scoops three awards at BCI Africa awards ceremony

The Business Continuity Institute Africa awards ceremony was held in Johannesburg on 12 September.