What can we learn from the Optus outage?

What can we learn from the Optus outage? 9 November 2023. The Optus outage and what lessons we can learn from it  Yesterday, over 10 million private and business customers were affected across the country when one of Australia’s largest telecommunication providers crashed. This left many of them without telephone service or internet access for…

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ISO 27001 Annex A control 5.30: ICT readiness for business continuity

ISO 27001 Annex A control 5.30 ICT readiness for business continuity 26 October 2023. ISO 27001 Annex A control 5.30 ICT readiness for business continuity Qudos has published an extensive massive series of articles over the past year on the latest version of ISO 27001. Those are all still available from links here. Now, we are take…

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Business continuity and ISO 22301

Business continuity and the ISO 22301 standard 19 May 2020   Business continuity management is dealing with the impact of disruptions in order to continue providing services or products. That is, at least to acceptable levels and time frames. A BCMS (or business continuity management system) will integrate arrangements for prevention and recovery to build…

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