The Relationship between Reputational Risk Management and Business Continuity

Alexander Klotz, Tibor Konya and Abtin Maghrour

INTRODUCTION

The Center for Strategic and International Studies has provided an outlook on the most important trends that will shape our world through to the year 2035. Seven areas of change have been identified: population; resource management; technology; information and knowledge; economics; security; and governance.11Source: Seven Revolutions, http://csis.org/program/seven-revolutions With these trends and in particular their interconnections as outlined in the research, businesses will face a higher number of potential threats and disruptions. Together with the growing complexity of business itself, each and every disruption may cause higher and more sustainable impact.

Within this fast-paced environment in particular, banks and financial institutions are more and more exposed to the failure of business processes and outages of IT or other crucial resources. The “outage” of IT refers to a period during which IT systems are not available. The reason for an IT outage can be technical failure, human error (caused, for example, by IT administrators) or power failure.

Additionally, increasing regulatory requirements call for stronger control, monitoring and management regarding

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