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Business continuity and disaster recovery articles

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How to navigate software platform migration
  • Article
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Whether driven by cost, functionality, security or compliance, software migration is a complex process that requires careful planning. ICAEW highlights key considerations for practices and businesses looking to migrate.
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Cyber security: outlook for 2025
  • Article
  • 30 Jan 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Cyber resilience is a key concern for governments, with many exploring ways to address the cyber threat and promote national resilience. What is the outlook for 2025?
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Now cybercriminals can buy the tools to fool you
  • Article
  • 07 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
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
  • ICAEW Insights
Cyber Security Awareness Month: Deepfakes are becoming an increasingly prevalent part of the cyber-security lexicon. So how easy is it for criminals to create a clone 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
  • ICAEW Insights
Poll of chief internal auditors reveals AI, cyber and digital threats will dominate the risk landscape for 2025 and beyond.
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Have you tested your IT resilience?
  • Article
  • 24 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
When an IT update causes systemic disruption, how should businesses and their advisers respond in terms of their own IT testing and planning?
Why the resilience statement hasn’t gone away
  • Article
  • 18 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Despite the government dropping a requirement for UK plc to produce a resilience statement, some businesses still see the benefits of adopting its principles.
How do resilient companies manage adversity?
  • Article
  • 09 Oct 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Insights from a recent ICAEW round table offer a practical guide for businesses navigating the complexities of corporate governance, resilience and risk management in uncertain times.
Proposals strengthen big business assurance and resilience claims
  • Article
  • 20 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
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.
Navigating government-imposed sanctions in administration
  • Article
  • 05 Jun 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
The case of freighter airline CargoLogicAir illustrates some of the tricky issues that arise for insolvency practitioners dealing with the administration of businesses subject to sanctions.
NAO highlights COVID-19 business support counter-fraud failures
  • Article
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
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.
Businesses must take action to weather geopolitical storms
  • Article
  • 23 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
As the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine approaches, Chartered IIA is urging business leaders to prepare for further geopolitical incidents as global pressures rise.
Ukraine crisis: where does your auditor stand?
  • Article
  • 28 Mar 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Understanding your auditor’s Russian trading position is key to audit committees managing potential reputation and sanction risks, experts warn.
Exclusive The evolving role of the CFO
  • Article
  • 17 Nov 2021
  • Christian Doherty
In a post-pandemic world, the role of the CFO will move away from being strictly financial as new challenges arise, says Christian Doherty
Climate code red, new business models and resilience
  • Article
  • 10 Aug 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report published this week made for gloomy reading, but it was pretty much as expected, says Richard Spencer, Director, ICAEW Technical Thought Leadership.
Exclusive How to thrive in a crisis
  • Article
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • Alan Haig
Business resilience is key to recovering from disruption. Alan Haig explains how a disaster recovery plan is not enough on its own – businesses need foresight and strategies. Management must have a written resilience plan and be ready to expect the unexpected
Are you using the right tool for the job?
  • Article
  • 29 Dec 2020
  • Rick Payne
Scenario planning, rolling forecasts, contingency planning and so on are all techniques used to inform decision-making and deal with the uncertainties arising from the pandemic. But which approach is the right one for you?
Rebuilding retail, hospitality and manufacturing
  • Article
  • 18 Jul 2020
Some of the industries hit hardest by COVID-19 have included retail, manufacturing and hospitality. As thoughts turn to restarting them after lockdown, accountants will play a pivotal role in the efforts to rescue businesses in these three sectors.
Adapting to COVID-19: The Bank of East Asia story
  • Article
  • 17 Jul 2020
Sir David KP Li from The Bank of East Asia explains how his organisation’s business model responded to the challenge of COVID-19.
Exclusive How to deal with people problems
  • Article
  • 06 Apr 2020
  • Jo Faragher
When things go wrong, there is a human factor involved – and knowing how to deal with people is the key to putting things right. Jo Faragher talks to the experts.
Exclusive Business continuity
  • Article
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • David Adams
To minimise the impact of major disruption, businesses need an effective continuity strategy.
Exclusive What's your emergency?
  • Article
  • 06 Jun 2014
  • Frederick Gentile
Having contingency plans is essential to keep business moving during a crisis. Frederick Gentile explains how to minimise disruption, particularly when senior staff are suddenly lost.
Exclusive Template: risk assessment framework
  • Article
  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Bernard Marr
A risk assessment framework that allows organisations to capture their key risks. It is designed to be a working document that is part of the overall business performance management system.
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