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Business continuity and disaster recovery

Articles, eBooks, guides and links on preparing for business risks by developing business continuity or disaster recovery plans.
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Why cyber risk management?
  • Article
  • 09 Oct 2024
Managing cyber risk is a complex ever-evolving field, with numerous interconnected elements that must be considered to ensure comprehensive protection.
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Now cybercriminals can buy the tools to fool you
  • Article
  • 07 Oct 2024
Cyber Security Awareness Month: With phishing attacks becoming increasingly commercialised, businesses need to do everything they can to help employees spot the danger, writes cybercrime journalist Chris Price.
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I deepfaked myself. It was terrifyingly easy
  • Article
  • 07 Oct 2024
How easy is it for criminals to create a deepfake of someone? ICAEW’s Head of Data Analytics and Tech, Ian Pay, decided to experiment with the technology.
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Cyber security tops business risks, but AI on the rise
  • Article
  • 02 Oct 2024
Poll of chief internal auditors reveals AI, cyber and digital threats will dominate the risk landscape for 2025 and beyond.
Proposals strengthen big business assurance and resilience claims
  • Article
  • 20 Jul 2023
Long-awaited audit and corporate governance proposals are put forward by government, but missing elements of the reform jigsaw – including ARGA establishment and PIE definition – still needed, ICAEW warns.
NAO highlights COVID-19 business support counter-fraud failures
  • Article
  • 23 Mar 2023
The government should use lessons learned from the COVID-19 business grant schemes to improve contingency planning and build resilience for responding to future national emergencies, spending watchdog concludes.
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Reports

Special Report 70 - Business resilience
  • Report
  • 2021
Business resilience is a skill not easily learned or acquired, but so vital to the survival and overall success of your business. Use your guide to ensure you have all the right tools in your armoury to succeed in such uncertain times.
How to audit operational resilience
  • Helpsheets and support
  • 2021
  • PDF (145kb)
In this second paper on operational resilience, we will look at how to develop the audit approach. We include recommendations of areas internal audit should focus on and other questions that should be considered.
Exclusive SR67 Problem solving
  • Report
  • 2020
  • PDF (1,647kb)
This month’s special report focuses on solving problems of all shapes and sizes in the workplace. Whatever your position in the hierarchy, there are practical hints and tips included to make your day-to-day work easier and more efficient.
Exclusive Special Report 53: Financial strategy: forecasting issues
  • Report
  • 2016
  • PDF (3,848kb)
This quarterly report discusses high level issues surrounding forecasting - the risk and rewards of making them and global issues which may affect your forecasts.
Business Emergency Resilience Group 10 Minute Plan
  • Helpsheets and support
  • 2016
  • PDF (187kb)
Take 10 minutes to help prepare your business - BERG’s 10 minute plan is designed to help small to medium-sized businesses prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies, such as flooding, cybercrime and civil unrest
Exclusive Special Report 49: Skills and Productivity
  • Report
  • 2015
  • PDF (2,470kb)
This report provides the background and some explanations of the issues surrounding UK productivity including articles by leading think tanks and economists exploring the background and possible reasons for the UK's relatively poor performance.
Exclusive Special Report 45: Risk and recovery
  • Report
  • 2014
  • PDF (2,916kb)
From how the ISO can assist with risk assessments to dealing with insurance claims, this practical and useful report provides guidance to this topic of concern to us all.
State of the Economy Spring 2014
  • Report
  • 2014
  • DOCX (37kb)
The latest snapshot of chartered accountants’ views on the state of the economy, gleaned over the past two months by ICAEW regional directors, show a marked divergence in preoccupations between different regions.
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Webinars

Business resilience
  • Webinar
  • 23 Apr 2021
This webinar from the Business and Management Faculty will explore business resilience and getting it right.
Future proof your organisation - an internal audit approach to operational resilience
  • Webinar
  • 09 Mar 2021
This webinar explores how to develop an audit approach to deliver effective assurance as organisations progress their resilience journeys.
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eBooks

The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides full text access to a selection of key business and reference eBooks from leading publishers. eBooks are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users. If you are unable to access an eBook, please see our Help and support advice or contact library@icaew.com.

Exclusive ISO 27001 controls : a guide to implementing and auditing
  • eBook
  • 2019
  • Bridget Kenyon
  • IT Governance Publishing
This guide is designed to provide you with assistance in establishing, implementing and maintaining your ISMS to help you prepare for ISMS certification... [and] has been updated to reflect the publication of the latest versions of ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002.
Exclusive Building a resilient organisation
  • eBook
  • 2014
  • James Crask | Charley Newnham | Jack Armstrong | Dr. Paul Robertson
  • ICSA Publishing
How to build a resilient organisation – one that is both sustainable and prosperous – is the central focus of this eBook. It helps readers to understand resilience within organisations and how it can be measured, assessed and enhanced.
Exclusive Building a resilient organisation
  • eBook
  • 2014
  • James Crask, Charley Newnham, Jack Armstrong, Paul Robertson
  • ICSA Publishing
How to build a prosperous and sustainable business.
Exclusive Business continuity strategies
  • eBook
  • 2006
  • Kenneth N. Myers
  • Wiley
A practical guide to protecting against unplanned disasters.
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Business press

The Library provides access to leading business, finance and management journals. These journals are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users subject to suppliers' terms of use.
Exclusive A business continuity plan for leading a Ukrainian start-up during a year of war
  • Article
  • 01 Jul 2023
  • Roman Rodomansky
A Ukrainian software development company co-founder shares lessons learnt around the importance of scenario planning, flexibility, decision-making, and guiding customers and employees through uncertainty.
Exclusive Business resilience through demand planning
  • Article
  • 01 Feb 2023
  • Bill Koefoed
Finance professionals can help their organizations weather uncertain market conditions by becoming proficient in demand planning, says Bill Koefoed.
Exclusive Improving business resilience
  • Article
  • 01 Oct 2022
  • Raef Lawson, Daniel Smith
Part of a management accountant’s job is to help guide the company through challenging economic times. Data analytics can help. The article recommends using the Altman Z-score for analysis and gives advice on developing more creative forecasting models to help cope with significant economic shocks.
Exclusive CFOs' evolving views of tech
  • Article
  • 01 Feb 2022
  • Daniel Butcher
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, CFOs have ramped up adoption of technology related to automation, data analytics, and risk management. Topics discussed by the article include the use of hyper-automation, forecasting based on analytics and CFOs' added focus on contingency planning and risk mitigation.
Exclusive Business Interruption Insurance, pandemics, and a very U.K. story of dispute resolution
  • Article
  • 01 Jun 2021
  • Adam Samuel
As the Covid-19 pandemic hit UK businesses hard during 2020, stories emerged that the insurance industry was failing to pay out on its business interruption cover. Adam Samuel looks at how the UK's regulatory and dispute frameworks worked to protect businesses.
Exclusive Be ready: How business continuity planning helps organizations plan for emergencies
  • Article
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Dan R.Reid
The COVID-19 pandemic is just one example of why organizations need a business continuity plan to protect their resources and supply chain. The article gives a business continuity process example and looks at some of the ISO standards relevant to continuity planning.
Exclusive Get smart about cybersecurity
  • Article
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • Kristine Brands
Article details the imperative of having a disaster recovery plan and comprehensive cybersecurity policy in place. Purchasing cybersecurity insurance to mitigate the risk is also an option to be considered.
Exclusive Parametric insurance takes off
  • Article
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • Russ Banham
Article details a new form of insurance - parametric insurance - used primarily to protect businesses against weather-related losses and also other natural phenomena such as earthquakes.

Articles and books in the ICAEW Library collection

The collection of the ICAEW Library & Information Service includes a range of articles, books and reports on business continuity and disaster recovery. Use the links below to see what we have available to request in our Library catalogue (Libcat).
Non-executive directors' checklists
  • Library book
  • 2020
  • M.Wearden
  • ICSA Publishing
An easy-to-use A-Z guide to the key tasks and responsibilities of a non-executive director (NED). Includes sections and checklists on the annual report and accounts, articles of association, balanced scorecard, business continuity and disaster recovery, business ethics and the UK Corporate Governance Code.

External resources - guides and toolkits

Business Continuity Management Toolkit
  • Website
  • Civil Contingencies Secretariat
A government toolkit to help guide you through the steps you will need to take to implement Business Continuity Management (BCM) in your organisation. It is a step-by-step guide taking you through the six elements that make up the BCM lifecycle as set out in the Business Continuity Management Standard (BS25999).
Business Continuity Plan
  • Website
  • Ready.gov
Resources covering how to develop a business continuity plan, from the US Department of Homeland Security. Includes an example Business Continuity Resource Requirements worksheet.
How to create a business continuity plan
  • Website
  • FSB Insurance Service
Learn how to create a business continuity plan with FSB Insurance Service's step-by-step guide, including practical tips for contingency planning and business recovery.
How to write a business continuity plan
  • Website
  • AXA
An AXA guide to business continuity planning, with an easy-to-follow checklist and template so that you can start creating your own plan.
Risk management and business continuity planning
  • Website
  • Business Gateway
Guidance from the Scottish organisation Business Gateway, covering: Why you need to plan for possible crises; Assess and minimise the impact of risks on your business; Plan and test how you'll deal with an emergency.
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External resources - organisations

Business Continuity Institute (BCI)
  • Website
  • BCI
Organisation enabling individual members to obtain guidance and support from fellow business continuity practitioners. The site includes a number of certifications standards, you can also purchase copies of the BCI Good Practice Guidelines.
ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management resources
  • Website
  • BSI
Information on Business Continuity Management publications from the BSI Group, the UK's National Standards Body.
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