KUWAIT: The global Business Continuity Awareness Week (18th- 22nd March) was observed by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) in Kuwait at its awareness event held on 19th March themed "Business Continuity: Risks which you can see and the one's you can't".
The event was aptly supported by the Kuwait member firm of Protiviti (www.protiviti.com), a global consulting firm. Mr. Muhammad Ghazali, Business Continuity Expert from Protiviti, who also serves as the Leader of the BCI Kuwait Forum and was adjudged as the Industry Personality of the Year 2012, presented a session on Business Continuity Horizon Scan 2013. He provided a comprehensive view of the top threats faced by 700 Organizations from 62 countries in 2013 along with the analysis of underlying trends, uncertainties and concerns that may cause future disruptions. During the presentation, he highlighted the top six threats for organizations to maintain the continuity of services. In addition, he also discussed the threats to eight business sectors. He pointed out that based on a recent survey unplanned IT and telecom outages, data breach and cyber-attack remained the point of concern for all the eight business sectors. Interruption to utility supply, security incident, and adverse weather secured the remaining three positions, in the top six threats of 2013.
The BCAW Kuwait Forum which witnessed participation from over 75 industry delegates was opened by Nisar A. Khan, CEC Member of BCI Kuwait Forum who thanked the participants for making the BCAW event successful consecutively in its 2nd year. He also appreciated Protiviti for its continuing support to the Forum's endeavors of spreading the awareness and necessity of Business Continuity Management in the organization system.
"Uncertainty looms large on organizations as they are confronted with an ever- increasing range of risks to deal with. Some risks are identified while few are the black swans that swim up on us from nowhere, the high profile, high impact, hard to predict events. Organizations are increasingly demanding solutions that will help them in managing both types of business risks. There is only one solution - Business Continuity (BC). I am glad that BCI is actively serving the GCC industry by conducting awareness sessions on the importance of integrating proper business continuity processes in the organization system and Protiviti will continue to support the Forum endeavors in future as well", said Senthil Kumar, Managing Director & IT Consulting Head for the Middle East Region of Protiviti Member Firm.
The detailed report can be downloadable from the Business Continuity Awareness 2013 Website - www.bcaw2013.org.
About Protiviti
Protiviti (www.protiviti.com) is a global consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in finance, operations, technology, litigation, governance, risk, compliance and internal controls. Through its network of more than 70 offices in over 23 countries, Protiviti has served more than 35 percent of FORTUNE® 1000 and Global 500 companies. The firm also works with smaller, growing companies, including those looking to go public, as well as with government agencies. The Middle East member firm of Protiviti is a leading provider of consulting, internal audit, risk, technology, and transaction services and has a strong presence in the GCC region with offices in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Protiviti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half International Inc. Founded in 1948; Robert Half International is a member of the S&P 500 index.
About Business Continuity Institute (BCI)
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obtain guidance and support from fellow business continuity practitioners. The BCI currently has over 7000 members in 100+ countries active in an estimated 2,750 organizations in private, public and third sectors.
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