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Resilience is an increasingly important topic in the provision of digital services. Digital technology offers the prospect of ‘24/7’ services, a model which can only be sustained through constant monitoring and planning to ensure continuity of service. Increasing demands on the networks, increasing concerns about security, and increasing economic and social consequences from their failure, makes resilience a pressing concern. Business continuity planning continually refines and extends these protections to ensure that the right services are supplied to the right people at the right time.

Digital preservation is part of resilience planning and shares a core set of concepts and practices with business continuity management. Both work towards robust data provision through processes of risk assessment, disaster planning, security-testing and on-going monitoring; both use replication and redundancy to mitigate or prevent data loss; and both require a detailed understanding of what information is where and who is allowed to access it. But because digital preservation and digital resilience are designed to combat different types of threat, there is a risk that they are not aligned as effectively – or as efficiently – as they could be. How might a digital preservation plan contribute to organisational resilience? How might business continuity management contribute to a long term information strategy?

This DPC briefing day will provide a forum for members to review and debate the latest development in business continuity management and how it aligns with digital preservation. Based on commentary and case studies from leaders in the field, participants will be presented with emerging policies, tools and technologies and will be encouraged to propose and debate new directions for research.

The day will include discussion of key topics such as:

• Intelligent enterprise risk management
• Disaster planning and disaster recovery
• Digital continuity
• Business processes and preservation

Places are FREE to paid up DPC members and guests. Pre-registration should be completed before Friday 18th May 2012. For details on how to become a DPC member see here.

Registration is now open for non-members at a cost of £250.00 (VAT exempt) per person. Please note payment terms described below: Full payment to be received in full before the event (by the 18th May 2012). N.B. There will be a £50.00 no show/cancellation fee if you do not notify us within one full week of the event date.