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Risky Thinking —
Articles on Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment

These articles and essays about business continuity, risk assessment, threat analysis, and risk management are part of the preparatory work for a book. I hope you find them interesting and useful.

The most recent articles are:

  • Of Backups and Bare Metal Restore

    Your data’s safe, isn’t it? If a disaster happened, you could simply buy new computers, restore from backups, and continue working. Or could you? Welcome to Mike’s First Rule of Real World Backups: backups don’t exist unless you test them. (Full Text)

  • The 2009 Pandemic Flu: A Premature Retrospective

    We may have been lucky once again. The H1N1 / Swine flu epidemic which was first reported in Mexico in 2009 hasn't proved as deadly as early reports suggested it might be. It's influenza. It's a pandemic. It will kill a lot of people over the next three years. But it doesn't look like it will be anywhere near as deadly as the flu pandemic of 1918. It looks like it is another near miss, which means that we may have the chance to learn some lessons from the current outbreak... (Full Text)

  • Business Continuity During a Recession

    The world economic crisis is having an impact on business continuity, disaster recovery, and risk management. But there are some opportunities among the darkening clouds... (Full Text)

  • Looking for Lessons from Mumbai

    The tragic events in Mumbai are rapidly disappearing over the world's news event horizon. Often the only positive feature of any tragedy is to ask what lessons can be learned from it. What lessons can be learned by business continuity planners from the terrorist attacks in Mumbai? (Full Text)

  • Putting Your Plan Where It Counts

    Is your business continuity plan just gathering dust on a shelf somewhere? There are various places parts of your plan should be. (Full Text)

For older articles, see the Risk Article Archive.

Your comments are welcome. There's a feedback link at the bottom of each article.

Michael Z. Bell,
Albion Research Ltd.

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