Business continuity news 1 December 2004

news headlines: 1st December 2004

UK Business Continuity Awareness Week 2005
The Business Continuity Institute has announced that the week commencing 13th March will be Business Continuity Awareness Week in the UK.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2004 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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SpyWare becoming a major threat to enterprise environments around the world
According to IDC SpyWare causes significant damage to legitimate software, network performance, and employee productivity.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2004 • Region: N.America / World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Studies show that many businesses ignore the need for succession planning
Two separate reports published yesterday have highlighted the importance of succession planning to business continuity.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2004 • Region: N.America / UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Getting the IT offshore model right
Requires a delicate balancing act between cost savings, human resource management and risk management.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2004 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Data replication now mainstream
The latest Byte and Switch poll has found that 97 percent of respondents use replication techniques for data protection.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2004 • Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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TelCove wins One Call Medical disaster recovery contract
TelCove is providing a SONET ring which redundantly connects One Call Medical's New Jersey headquarters to its collocation space in TelCove's Parsippany, New Jersey, central office.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2004 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Network Alternatives provides disaster recovery solution to Cooper Levenson
• Philippine floods cause major problems
• Final text of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 now available
• Transcript of Tom Ridge resignation speech
• BakBone extends NetVault with enhanced disaster recovery solutions for Linux and Solaris SPARC
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• PAS 56 – defining a standard

• FEMA reports record amount of disaster aid distributed for 2004 Hurricane Season response

• UK financial markets business continuity test yields ‘encouraging results’

• Business continuity on a limited budget: part two

• Only a minority of UK companies fully understand e-mail-use compliance

• MI5 issues CBRN guidance

• UK government sets out way forward for Operating and Financial Review

• Planning for extreme events by understanding risk

• Poor crisis communications puts reputations at risk

• UK companies unprepared for Sarbanes Oxley compliance

• New power supply solution could help remote workers’ business continuity

• Looking ahead – the real threats to business

• Council survey displays need for BC jargon-busting

• The most frequently covered crises

• Business continuity aspects of the Civil Contingencies Act

• UK Civil Contingencies Bill gets Royal Assent

• BIA survey: interim results

• ICM forms logistics partnership with Fraser Eagle

• Business continuity explored...

• UK government to introduce an IT security accreditation scheme

• Business continuity and disaster recovery in the financial services sector

• SunGard Availability Services to acquire Inflow

• Wireless network deployment increasing rapidly but security not keeping up

• New edition of the Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages published

• IBM adds Indigo Stone’s ‘enterprise rapid recovery methodology’ to portfolio

• The ‘tick-a-box’ approach to business continuity

• SBA hurricane disaster recovery support tops $554 million

• EU and US adopt new measures to strengthen maritime container security

• Business continuity on a limited budget

• Reducing computer room risks

• DHS reduces financial service sector terrorist threat level

• FSA calls for improved information security in fight against fraud

• Business Continuity the Risk Management Expo 2005

• Governance rules ‘neglect key areas of risk management’

• Business Continuity Institute annual general meeting

• New generation of business security solutions uses RFID

• MI5 director-general tells companies to invest in business continuity

• UK government should be more open with business on security issues – CBI

• Synstar survey reveals high levels of downtime

• American Power Conversion unveils state of the art thermal test lab

• Civil Contingencies Bill amendment tabled to extend commercial provisions to charity sector

• Making the case for business continuity

• Fixing the backup and recovery problem

• Major hazard industries - improving leadership to reduce risk

• Embedding business continuity management into your organisation

• Business continuity British Standard will be published by mid-2006

• Implementation of Basel II in Australia

• Weak links in the communications network chain remain a serious challenge

• Financial Sector Business Continuity Progress Report

• US industrial facilities’ preparedness to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks still inadequate

• New UK corporate governance law receive Royal Assent

• New psychometric test may help in business continuity team development

• Business continuity software survey results

• Comment: How to avert disaster in the midst of a crisis

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