Major Trends in BCP Today
From keynote speech by Belinda Wilson, Hewlett-Packard

• Compliance with legislation (e.g., Sarbanes Oxley) is the main driver of BCP today
• Management's top concern has become 'reputation', not 'revenue'
• There is poor linkage between BCP and crisis management at the moment
• Many managers still think 'business continuity' means just 'data recovery'
• There is less focus on recovery time (RTO), more focus on recovery point (RPO)
  • [Ed: means more focus on how much data a company is willing to lose]
• Having Work Area Recovery (WAR) space has become more important
• Having data (particularly email) has become more important than system recovery

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