A Manager's Guide to BS25999 is a concise guide to the benchmark for judging an organisation's business continuity management system. Business continuity is something of a mystery to a great many people involved in running organisations today. But the world is changing. There is an apparent growth in the number of threats to the ability of organisations to continue with their business activities. This is coupled with increasingly sophisticated approaches to corporate governance, risk management and corporate and social responsibility. This book will help you to understand the growing need for organisations to demonstrate and provide assurance that, should some interruptive incident occur, they have done everything reasonable to minimise disruption to the continued supply of products or services in which they are engaged. This guide is essential reading to avoid you letting customers down as a result of what would have previously been seen as ‘not your fault', which carries increasingly higher penalties, as business can often be lost for good.