Business continuity news 1st June 2007

news headlines: 1st June 2007

Some considerations for choosing a consultant
Need consultancy help for your business continuity or crisis management program? Joseph Desplaines provides some advice…
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•Date: 1st June 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Making business continuity easier to understand
A short comment by Andrew Sinclair.
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•Date: 1st June 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Maturation of business continuity practice in the Intel supply chain
A paper from the Intel Technology Journal which provides an interesting case study.
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•Date: 1st June 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Ernst & Young survey explores fraud risk management
Employers have a great opportunity to reduce the risk of fraud and create a healthy corporate culture but many are missing the trick.
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•Date: 1st June 2007 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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FEMA issues basic disaster recovery planning advice
Guidance and a checklist for business owners.
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•Date: 1st June 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Scientists discover method to better forecast damaging solar radiation storms
Radio ’screams’ from the Sun provide an early warning.
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•Date: 1st June 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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How can businesses prepare for biological warfare threats?
What if the Bubonic Plague was used as a weapon of mass destruction? Asks NCTA.
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•Date: 1st June 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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The future of work area recovery…
Is the move towards non-office based working having an impact on the need for work area recovery space? This survey seeks to find out…
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Today's issue includes:
• Barbara threatens to be the first land-falling hurricane of the season
• UK REACH chemical risk management regulations come into effect
• Teneros releases high-end appliance to protect 1,000-mailbox exchange servers
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
- FEMA daily SITREP
- World weather impacts
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• 2007 AT&T Business Continuity Study

• Data virtualisation: the basis of file area networking

• IT security – the challenges and opportunities of cultural diversity and dispersed teams

• Vast majority of UK businesses are unprepared for an influenza pandemic

• Asking the right question: penetration testing vs. vulnerability analysis tools, which is best?

• MarquisNet opens new California facility

• Banana Skins 2007

• US financial sector pandemic response capabilities exercise scheduled

• ICM acquisition progressing

• CBRN research taking place in central London

• Double-Take enhanced

• Slow decision-making causing problems in UK business continuity planning processes

• US survey shows many small businesses are complacent when it comes to disaster preparedness

• West Yorkshire gets a new workplace recovery centre

• NOAA predicts above normal 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season

• Hurricane planning updates

• Market-wide Exercise follow-up seminar

• Findings from Chicago’s September 2006 CBD evacuation exercise published

• All3Media Group invests in innovative BCM and crisis management tool

• EVault awarded patent for online backup and recovery technology

• Business continuity deadline looms for UK law firms

• DHS completes risk management framework for critical infrastructure protection

• EMC unveils new backup and recovery capabilities at EMC World

• Strong growth at Phoenix IT Group

• Repeat of Great Mississippi Flood could cost up to $160 billion

• National Continuity Implementation Plan: great idea but compromising timescales?

• Continuous data protection – hype versus reality

• An ABC of message maps

• Hurricane planning updates

• Lloyd’s panellists discuss businesses' role in mitigating terrorism risks

• HP launches security solution to help energy companies reduce risks

• Companies are securing the perimeter but failing to protect data from insiders

• Yankee Group report predicts growing demand for fault tolerant servers

• myCOOP enhancement enables easier migration from legacy systems

• GemaTech adds outbound secure voice recording to combined BCMLITE and SVRLITE product

• US gets a National Continuity Coordinator

• Signs that business continuity is becoming mainstream in the UK

• 'Improving the flood performance of new buildings: Flood resilient construction'

• Business continuity in Oman and UAE explored

• IT security improving within UK organisations

• Pandemic planning updates

• Researchers use simulation to study post-traumatic stress disorder

• Surge of new ISM threats in April

• Message maps: blueprints for pandemic preparedness

• Business Continuity Awards winners

• Emerging risks impeding business development: Lloyd’s

• FBI issues wireless security warning

• Green light for Phoenix ICM bid

• Long term business risks of climate change need to be faced, not ignored

• Marsh pushes the ‘upside’ of effective risk management

• Downtime costs European businesses £300k per hour on average

• IBM unveils plan to combat data center energy crisis

• VMware Workstation 6 now available

• Office-Shadow signs partnership agreement with SIFMA

• BCI Australia becomes ‘The Business Continuity Institute Incorporated’

• CERT publishes details of its resiliency engineering research

• MBO team’s offer for ICM lapses

• US unprepared for wide-area ‘mega-catastrophes’

• New Zealand companies failing to appreciate the importance of reputation risk

• ‘Crisis Communications: A Primer for Teams’

• Automated, all-hazard risk assessment tool launched

• Evacuation and shelter planning

• Evacuate or shelter-in-place?

• Business continuity in the UK food and drink industry

• CDC issues interim guidance for the use of facemasks and respirators in public settings during an influenza pandemic

• Taking data risk management a step further…

• Reserve Bank of Australia to get new business continuity solution

• Concern expressed over security risks in MiFID compliance

• Microsoft on security management…

• SunGard launches BS25999 self assessment tool

• EC considers new data protection regulations

• Pandemic planning for landlords

• New Zealand government consults on power resilience

• NEHRP earthquake hazards meeting

• 'Adapting to Changing Risk Environments: Operational Resilience'

• DHS puts $24 million in the pot for security projects in nonprofit organizations

• Power disruption is fastest growing downtime threat to UK organisations

• New Fibre Channel 4, 2 and 1Gbps transponders boost distance for business continuity storage solutions

• Why real-time asset management is more than just a ‘good idea’ for business continuity

• Survey looks at EMEA data-related business continuity and disaster recovery practices

• Rapid response is key to managing reputation crises

• NIST issues RFID security guidelines

• Strohl presents annual business continuity awards

• ‘Rapid Call Out’ system launched by GemaTech

• Oil companies struggling to keep on top of emerging threats

• The rise and rise of service-oriented architecture

• Six month countdown to data protection crisis begins…

• Multinational corporations are facing increasingly diverse, complex and exotic risks

• Phoenix increases its offer for ICM

• Europe plans for increasing risk of flooding

• Lieberman and Collins express serious concerns over ‘major weaknesses’ in disaster communication plans for US first responders

• Harris survey examines current attitudes to disaster recovery, business continuity and information availability

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes CCA business continuity updatet

• Seven reasons why Serial Attached SCSI will be the new enterprise storage standard

• The rise of SSL VPNs

• New Zealand government departments to increase business continuity spending

• UK businesses warned to act as product recalls soar

• Australian drought contingency statement

• The application of statistical tools to business continuity management

• Interpreting the results of a vulnerability assessment: how to focus on what’s important in your Web application security testing

• Power back-up health check

• North America, South America and Australia Business Continuity Awareness Week

• Business Continuity Management Institute launches six business continuity and disaster recovery certifications in Asia and the Middle East

• Pandemic planning updates…

• Survive closes its doors?

• BlackBerry’s crown slips

• MBO team increases its offer for ICM

• Cisco survey finds that information security focus moves from viruses to information theft

• Symantec tests business-critical software as a service platform

• FEMA makes $29.1 million available for national preparedness training initiatives

• Profile of a fraudster: trusted male manager – and getting away with it for years

• Brisbane gets new CBD emergency plan

• North American business continuity and disaster recovery services market tipped to reach $23 billion by 2012

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