Extreme Heat and Grid Stress: A Continuity Playbook
Heat hits workers, server rooms and the power grid at once. A continuity playbook with NWS and grid alert triggers, OSHA context and actions at each threshold.
CPE World: business continuity and resilience insights
Field-tested thinking on keeping an organization running when the building, the network or the whole city goes dark.
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Planner’s Corner
Every program starts with a plan somebody can actually use at 3 a.m. Our annotated outline walks through the five parts a business continuity plan needs (introduction and scope, emergency response, continuity, restoration and maintenance), what belongs in each, and how the old skeleton maps to ISO 22301 and NFPA 1600 today.
Pair it with the business impact analysis guide and the primer on recovery targets and you have the core of a program that will stand up to an audit.
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New analysis from our analysts on continuity, recovery, crisis leadership and preparedness.
Cloud Region Outages: Designing Disaster Recovery Across Providers
Zone vs. region failures, control-plane traps, pilot light vs. warm standby vs. active-active, honest multi-cloud trade-offs and a 30-day plan to start with.
Continuity Planning When the Office Is No Longer the Recovery Site
Hybrid work moved continuity risk from the office to homes, identity systems and regional power grids. How to plan for it, with a first 30 days checklist.
Operational Resilience Rules for Financial Firms, in Plain English
DORA, the UK operational resilience rules and US interagency guidance compared side by side, plus what each one means for a mid-size continuity program.
Building a Resilience Budget the CFO Will Approve
CFOs reject resilience requests built on heat maps and invented decimals. How to price BIA impacts, compare insurance with redundancy and phase the spend.
Hurricane Season Readiness for Small and Midsize Businesses
A time-phased hurricane plan for smaller firms: what to settle before June, what to do at 72, 48 and 24 hours out, and how re-entry and flood cover work.
In the Spotlight
Reference briefings on the questions practitioners keep asking: audits, duty of care, ransomware downtime, EOCs, insurance and more.
- Disasters that shaped continuityFrom 1980s hot sites to the 2024 CrowdStrike outage: the disasters that changed how organizations plan for continuity, and the lesson each one left behind.
- Business continuity careersA practitioner's map of business continuity careers: roles from analyst to head of resilience, entry routes, the skills that count, portfolios and interviews.
- BC Certifications ComparedDRI, BCI, ISO 22301 lead implementer and auditor, IAEM CEM and security credentials compared: what each signals, how it is kept current, and when to pick it.
- Business interruption insurance and BCPHow business interruption insurance and continuity planning fit: triggers, waiting periods, contingent cover, why COVID-19 claims failed, and setting limits.
- Annotated BCP Table of ContentsA modern annotated table of contents for a business continuity plan: what each section must contain, ISO 22301 and NFPA 1660 mappings, and a one-page version.
- Surviving a BCM Audit or ExamHow internal audits, regulatory exams and ISO 22301 certification audits differ, what examiners want, how to build an evidence pack, and how to handle findings.
Why CPE World
CPE World is an independent publication written by people who have run continuity programs, rebuilt data centers, staffed emergency operations centers and argued over holding statements at dawn. We write for the practitioner who has to make the plan work, and for the finance, HR and operations colleagues who get handed a piece of it.
No vendor sponsorships, no gated downloads. Just the methods, checklists and judgment calls we wish someone had written down for us.
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