Business Continuity Planning, a Step-By-Step Guide with Planning Forms

"Kenneth Fulmer, CBCP, has produced an important and useful guide for the business continuity planning novice… and upholds many of the principles you will find promoted and supported by the Business Continuity Institute and encouraged as part of Business Continuity Management good practices… In more than thirty years as a business continuity practitioner, I have seen many small and medium-size businesses pay the penalty for lack of preparedness. Often, overwhelmed by the jargon employed by many practitioners and the mistaken concepts that business continuity is too costly, that it is only for the "big boys," and that they do not have the resources or knowledge base, they choose to take the risk instead. For many, it is an unfortunate choice because much can be done with reasonable commitment to avoid business disruptions or mitigate the impact for those that are unavoidable… In this excellent primer, Mr. Fulmer sets out a simple, concise, and, most of all, logical roadmap both for developing the justification for a business continuity/disaster recovery program as well as for developing and maintaining the resultant plan.

Larry Kalmis, FBCI, Project Executive, Virtual Corporation and Chairman, Business Continuity Institute

KENNETH L. FULMER, CBCP, has been involved in the Business Continuity Planning field for more than 20 years. He has been a member of the Disaster Recovery Institute International since 1991 and a Certified Business Continuity Planner since 1992. Ken s career has spanned 27 years in the computer-related industry and he has published, trained and spoken on business continuity issues.

After beginning his career as a public school teacher in Silver Spring, MD, Ken moved into the corporate world, serving as a Bank Officer for Imperial Bancorp (now Comerica Bancorp) in New York, and then as a National Account Executive with Digital Equipment Corporation, now Hewlett Packard.

Ken's Third Edition of Business Continuity Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide with Planning Forms builds upon the foundation of the two previous, highly successful editions.