Winter-focused business continuity planning has never been so succinctly tested as it has this year.

With the increasing frequency of cyber attacks on major corporations, this threat to business continuity ranked No. 1 on the Business Continuity Institute’s annual Horizon Scan report, surpassing unplanned IT and telecom outages by one percent.

As clients become more aware of business operation challenges, such as cyber security and disaster recovery, the more their opinions are swayed by a firm’s resiliency.

In a recent poll of American companies, FM Global assessed winter weather preparedness and found that nearly one-third of U.S. firms are ill-equipped to deal with a wintertime disaster.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council released an updated Business Continuity Planning Booklet recently, revising its suggestions for continuity of operations planning, and adding a new appendix to the booklet.

Optimizing your business continuity plan is a matter of knowing you company and knowing what the potential threats to its success are.

Small businesses have the hardest time with continuity of operations planning and insuring their operational integrity against the worst.

As part of his 2016 federal budget proposal, President Obama included a 8.7 percent increase for FEMA, about a $1.06 billion increase.

When it comes to cyber security, enterprises simply cannot afford to lag behind the latest trends and threat awareness reports, but being overzealous also has its downsides.

Servers can overheat for a variety of reasons causing problems for businesses.