news headlines: 1st Dec 2006

Between a rock and a hard place
Steve Dance discusses the interplay between BS25999 and other recent UK legislation.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Top ten security threats in 2007
Predictions by McAfee Avert Labs.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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BCI to launch business continuity management training services
Will be based on the BCI’s Good Practice Guidelines and BS25999.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Fuel cell designed specifically for business continuity market
Provides a high-tech alternative for power protection.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Power man.
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How are North American companies backing up remote office data?
Survey reports on current practices.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Good progress on risk management but more needed, FSA tells insurers
Firms need to further improve the effectiveness of their risk management frameworks.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Half of data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity by 2008: Gartner
However, a flurry of innovation is under way to mitigate the issue.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The US-CCU Cyber-Security Check List 2007
This checklist provides a useful document to assess current information security measures, to highlight potential gaps and to provide ideas for mitigation and protective measures.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Survey looks at pandemic planning in Hong Kong businesses
Over 80 percent of surveyed companies have no budget for pandemic planning.
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•Date: 1st Dec 2006• Region: Hong Kong •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• New national (US) symbol for emergency management unveiled
• Home Office relaunches security website
• Australia BCI forum meetings
• Crisis communications webinar
• Monetary Authority of Singapore publishes Financial Stability Review
• NOAA publishes 2006 Atlantic Hurricane season roundup
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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