Business continuity news 1st August 2007

news headlines: 1st August 2007

Business continuity lessons from Buncefield
A review of the business continuity themes contained within the Major Incident Investigation Board’s report.
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•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Canadian Standards Association publishes draft of Z1600 Standard on Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs for public review
Deadline for comments is September 17th, 2007.
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•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: Canada •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Paulison testifies on FEMA reforms for 2007 Hurricane Season
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee questions Paulison.
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•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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UK police looking for volunteers for major Casualty Bureaux exercise
Terrorism-based mass casualty exercise will take place on Tuesday 13th November.
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•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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‘Step-change’ in level of UK fraud: KPMG
Insider frauds continue to proliferate; creating real business risks.
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•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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European SMEs have a false sense of security
Survey finds a worrying discrepancy between IT managers' perception of the protection they have in place and their real state of security.
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•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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THINKstrategies survey looks at selection criteria for outsourced backup services
UPDATED What are the differing needs of various sized businesses?
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•Date: 1st August 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• RMS Estimates cost of UK floods to reach £3.25 billion
• Neverfail delivers continuous availability for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 users
• Weyerhaeuser selects HP
• Floods show gap between disaster recovery plan haves and have-nots
• Scottish Continuity Group event: ‘Road to Recovery’
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Central China braces for biggest flood crest of Yangtze River
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• Registration now open for US pandemic 'flu exercise

• New risk for UK organisations: corporate manslaughter

• SHARE user group publishes ‘Top five strategies to employ to ensure business continuity’

• GAO report finds that Federal Agencies have ‘persistent weaknesses’ in information security

• Frequency of Atlantic hurricanes doubled over last century: researchers

• MarquisNet opens new co-location and disaster recovery facility

• Case study: relocation of AIB’s main data centres

• Inspector Morse on BS 25999… PART TWO

• The bonding between bandwidth, backup and continuity

• Property insurance as it relates to business continuity planning

• The clustered revolution: a paradigm shift in the storage industry

• THINKstrategies survey looks at selection criteria for outsourced backup services

• ‘The Terrorist Threat to the US Homeland’

• Sentryx extends business continuity training locations

• DHS gives final details of Homeland Security Grants

• New software takes the guesswork out of change impact analysis

• Malware 2.0 targets Web 2.0

• ‘More central government support needed following major incidents’: Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board

• 2007 Terrorism Threat Map

• NIST begins technical study of South Carolina warehouse fire

• SunGard to acquire VeriCenter

• Westlin and Zogmo collaborate to provide dual data center IT continuity solution

• The rise and rise of horizon scanning in risk management programmes

• UK government announces review to learn lessons from June floods

• FERMA speaks out against moves towards an ISO risk management standard

• Canadian Award for Business Continuity Management presented to CIBC Mellon's Elizabeth Beaver

• GAO asked to evaluate DHS disaster response capabilities

• ALARM Annual Awards 2007

• Catching the data wave

• Rethinking telecommunications backup strategies

• COOP Systems releases myCOOP Version 6.0

• Virtualization services market to reach $11.7 billion by 2011

• Web seminar to focus on business continuity in the public sector

• Business Continuity Institute takes the examination route

• Survey finds business continuity failures in Irish government departments

• New IBM data storage solutions provide virtualization and grid computing capabilities

• DRI Asia Pte Ltd and DRII part company

• SonicWALL solution provides recovery facility alternative

• UK leads the way in supporting global disaster risk reduction partnership

• GAO reports on status of US critical infrastructure protection

• Designing a business continuity training program to maximize value and minimize cost

• Inspector Morse on BS 25999…

• New US emergency planning standards released for public comment

• The corporate management of crises

• Finjan warns about ‘crimeware kit’ for targeting businesses’ data

• US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs schedules hearing on dirty bomb vulnerabilities

• Understanding and applying BS 25999-2

• INTERPOL proposes a new international anti-terror strategy

• Severe flooding continues to impact Kansas

• BCI to launch special interest groups

• IBM opens Randburg Business Continuity Centre

• NDR expands its inner London recovery centre

• Update on World Trade Center 7 NIST investigation

• Hurricane response and recovery resources available from OSHA

• Is not having a business continuity plan ever an acceptable risk?

• Achieving NERC CIP compliance utilizing ISO 17799:2005

• Basel II and financial institution resiliency

• UK business continuity salary survey report

• Countries must step up disaster reduction efforts: UN

• Zeus launches data center load balancing solution

• BSI to develop BS 25777 ICT Continuity

• Unified communications critical to disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning

• ‘Overview of Financial Sector Pandemic Flu Planning’

• Survey of facilities managers highlights their key role within business continuity management

• Gateshead gets a workplace recovery centre

• Fire suppression system backup

• Sydney prepares for an APEC experience

• Storage virtualization: enabling better business continuity

• Instant messaging emerging as mission critical business tool

• Details of FEMA National Advisory Council published

• NIST WTC recommendations spur new model building codes

• Virginia Tech signs up with 3n

• Lessons from the frontline

• Pyxis study reveals business continuity planners' preference for handhelds over laptops

• Sandia and FDA develop new food safety risk assessment system

• Virtualization survey identifies new security challenges

• Egenera awarded N+1 disaster recovery patent

• The time to act is always now

• New Civil Contingencies Act implementation guidance

• Taking a serious threat seriously: FBI-led nuclear terrorism conference

• DTI ‘targets the weakest link’

• E-mail disaster recovery market explored

• EVault offers VMware users hot backups and faster restores of entire virtual machine environments

• Duplicating the success of data deduplication

• The ‘consumerization’ of IT is a major threat to enterprise security: Gartner

• Phoenix to develop new recovery centre in Farnborough

• New International Health Regulations come into force

• Additional Federal assistance made available to states impacted by the 2005 hurricane season

• Are Solid Oxide Fuel Cells the future for power protection?

• Pakistan Prime Minister promises an end to power shortages

• September will be Fourth Annual US National Preparedness Month

• AT&T survey sees high take-up of business continuity amongst London businesses

• Report published on Cumpston 06

• Fuel cells as a business continuity measure

• Is IT downtime out of control?

• WHO moves on plans for H5N1 influenza global vaccine stockpile

• Contingency planning for potential UK postal strike

• Retrofitting buildings to reduce chemical and biological hazard risks

• ‘UK Financial Sector Business Continuity Quarterly Summary’ published

• New South Wales picks up the pieces after storms and flooding

• Risk managers support insurer willingness-to-pay index

• The rising tide: climate change and business continuity

• Business continuity – is India prepared?

• Northeastern Pennsylvania to provide back-up location for Wall Street firms

• AIRMIC urges insurers and brokers underwriters to take more notice of clients’ business continuity activities

• Senate Committee to review federal government’s telework policy

• Blackberry business continuity paper published

• SBA briefs Congress on new disaster recovery plan

• Tropical Cyclone Gonu

• ICM acquisition latest

• Queensland to get new Chemical Incident Environmental Advisory Service

• Survey shows uncontrolled network access ‘causing CTO's sleepless nights’

• Why virtual machines need virtual storage

• Making business continuity easier to understand

• Good risk management is an essential criterion of market-leading businesses

• BSI asks for comments on BS 25999 part two

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