Natural disasters and other catastrophic events are increasingly disrupting business around the world. The hurricanes, fires and superstorms of 2012 illustrate the importance of including robust business continuity management (BCM) with strategic planning. To help enterprises identify impacts that emerging technology trends can have on BCM, global IT association ISACA released a new white paper titled “Business Continuity: Emerging Trends.”
The complimentary white paper provides an overview of the impacts, benefits and opportunities of four emerging technologies as they relate to BCM: virtualization, cloud computing, mobile devices and social networks. It identifies challenges, and governance, assurance and risk management practices.
“ISACA’s annual IT Risk/Reward Barometer survey demonstrate that enterprises are still wary of mobile computing issues, such as BYOD, and of hybrid and public cloud,” said Salomon Rico, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, Deloitte Mexico Information & Technology Risk Services partner and chair of the white paper’s development team. “Thefindings indicate that enterprises are cautiously accepting the technologies in order to reap the benefits they present, and underscore the need for enterprises to be diligent and plan for them in their BCM strategies.”
