IBA BCP-DR-IT SECURITY INFORMATION FORUM

 

Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Time: 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Venue:

HSBC Building (Map: http://www.hsbc.co.jp/jp/about/map.htm)

Multi-Purpose Room, 10th Floor
3-11-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku

Cost:

¥5,000

(to cover lunch and interpretation fees - payable at the door)

Open to: All staff of IBA members firms

 

CABINET OFFICE OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT BRIEFING ON BCP

 

This meeting was conducted

in Japanese with consecutive English interpretation.

 

Speaker:  

 

Mr. Eiji Aoki, Director for Planning (Mitigation), Cabinet Office of Disaster Management

 

Business Continuity Plan/Planning (BCP) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) for emergency purposes in Japan is a relatively new concept. The focus and priority for firms in Japan has generally been to minimize disruptions caused by natural disasters such as earthquakes, whereas the US and UK focus on terrorism as a leading threat. 

 

Last year, the Japanese government published its first edition of its "Business Continuity Guidelines”. Although these guidelines highlight natural disasters as anticipated risks, BCP/BCM is characterized as a management system in order to prevent the suspension of selected critical operations by reviewing the whole business process, in which they vary from traditional disaster-prevention thinking. Now, the structure and contents of these guidelines are in tune with internationally-recognized BCP concepts. However, since a huge natural disaster will cause wide-spread damage, it will be impossible for a firm to recover alone. Therefore, the guidelines deem cooperation both with neighbors in the community where the firm exists and with its competitors to be indispensable, for this is a concept that has not been addressed explicitly so far. Japan has requested that this provision be made for future ISO standards.
 
Currently, the Cabinet Office is cooperating with more than ten industry groups on creating specific BCP guidelines tailored to each respective industry in order to remove any uncertainty and doubt in Japan's business environment.