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IBM Taiwan e-Center awarded BS 25999 Certification

09 January 2009

IBM Taiwan's e-Center has achieved certification to BS 25999 Business Continuity Management, becoming the world's first to receive the international certificate in the area of Business Continuity & Resiliency Services (BCRS).

"With IBM Taiwan's abundant experience in BCRS over 40 years, our e-Center successfully achieved BS 25999 certifcation within six months proving that IBM Taiwan has been equipped with the world-class competence to provide consultancy, infrastructure design for IT governance, business operation process design and integration, and system implementation and maintenance of BCRS," IBM Taiwan Global Technology Services (GTS) Executive Terrance Yang indicated.

"IBM Taiwan's leading position in IT service industry is recognized once again by the IBM e-Center being the first in the greater China region to acquire both ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management Systems and ISO 20000 IT service Management, as well as BS 25999 Business Continuity Management," said Peter Pu, vice-president of BSI Management Systems Taiwan.

IBM headquarters has promised to invest $300 million to enhance IBM's capacity of BCRS, meanwhile; IBM Taiwan has planned further investment in training, equipment, and environment improvement of the IBM e-Center in Lin-kou, added Terrance Yang.

In line with the business nature of the 18 BS 25999 certification recipients, there has become a trend for financial institutes to assess their ability of business continuity management. In Taiwan, in addition to the finance industry, which has to comply the requirement of risk management by the New Basel Capital Accord, those industries including high-tech manufacturing industry should also set up a plan for business continuity, and impact assessment of natural and man-made disasters. A recovery strategy for the short, middle and long terms should also be implemented to increase a company's competitiveness.

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© British Standards Institution 2008. This article was first published on BusinessStandards.com, BSI Group's online corporate magazine, in January 2009. It has been reproduced here with permission.