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news headlines: 2nd February 2007

Creating shareholder value through business continuity management
Patrick Roberts believes that using scare tactics to promote BC is counter-productive and that focusing on 'risk and return' is a better approach.
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Incident Command Systems and business continuity
By Dave Newsom, Senior Security and BC/DR Consultant and Distinguished Member of Consulting Staff, Alcatel-Lucent.
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Chavez deadline highlights the importance of considering political risks within the context of business continuity
Political risk has tended to be seen as beyond the scope of business continuity planning: events in Venezuela may cause a rethink…
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007 • Region: S.America/World Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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UK government launches Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure
The National Security Advice Centre and National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre have merged.
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Irish backup survey finds ‘shocking practices’
90 percent of companies surveyed are not performing weekly test restores as suggested by best practice…
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007 • Region: W.Europe Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Queensland government issues warning about cyclone threat
Quiet start to the season, but increased cyclone risk from February through to April.
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007 • Region: Australia Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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GSA opens contracts to state and local governments for disaster recovery
The US General Services Administration has announced that state and local governments will soon be able to order products and services from federal contracts to support recovery from major disasters and acts of terrorism.
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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HP sees strong growth in Mission Critical Partnership service
HP has announced new customer wins and fourfold year-over-year growth for its Mission Critical Partnership service in fiscal year 2006, reaching a milestone of more than 150 customers using this flagship service.
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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MessageOne reports 100 percent-plus revenue growth
Revenue from outside North America grew by 400 percent in 2006 and now accounts for 20 percent of MessageOne's business.
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Date: 2nd Feb 2007 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Business continuity briefs
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NIST wants comments on proposed 'hash' competition
• Gartner says worldwide security software revenue will reach $9.1 Billion in 2007
• SNIA’S SMI-S Standard Adopted by ISO and IEC
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

Blue chips asked to disclose climate change risks

FSA publishes Financial Risk Outlook 2007

Gartner warns of potential global business continuity implications of US changes to Daylight Saving Time dates

European blackout of November 2006: important lessons to be drawn

False confidence in IT security exposes business to attack

US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to step up disaster preparedness scrutiny

Cyber war threats examined

UK fraud cases reach record levels

SPRING Singapore & IPOS launch new intellectual property management programme for SMEs

GridWeek 2007

TeleContinuity given the '2007 North American Telecom Services Technology Innovation of the Year Award'

Communicating complex risks

Evolution rather than revolution…

Modeling constraints and statistical issues of consistent operational risk measurement

US use of third party IT continuity services remains focussed on disaster recovery facilities

UK local authorities show considerable progress in risk management

Isn’t it time business woke up to the significance of asset convergence?

IFPMA publishes pandemic preparedness guidance

Sentryx 2007 business continuity training course schedule

Active Power wins SearchDataCenter.com Product of the Year for CoolAir UPS

Political risk improves worldwide: Aon

RMS estimates insured losses of €3-5 billion from Windstorm Kyrill

New guide to managing power protection for critical systems

Influenza updates

Swedish bank suffers huge phishing fraud

XL Insurance launches product recall insurance with integrated crisis management cover

FBI launches e-mail alerts service

Goodwill Industries implements new business continuity solution

Ten things that indicate top management support for business continuity

Is a communications collapse possible in Europe?

Crisis Commander International looking for worldwide resellers

SearchWinComputing.com announces ‘Products of the Year’ winners

Siemens Insight Consulting publishes 2007 business continuity training course schedule

Continuity Forum UK business continuity salary survey report

Business continuity planning to become compulsory for Lexcel accreditation in UK legal profession

FSTC names co-chairs of Business Continuity Standing Committee

SunGard launches new Electronic Vaulting service

Influenza updates

Global Risks 2007

AIRMIC sets up company to promote risk management learning

New members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council

New company offers ‘worst case scenario’ exercising

Widespread power outages in Victoria

New approach to reduce English urban flooding impacts to be tested

The business benefits of business continuity

Business continuity management: helping to align information technology to the business needs

UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat provides an update on CCA duty to promote business continuity

NIC recommends NFPA 1600 standard

INONI launches new business continuity awareness raising tool

ICM completes multi-million pound refresh of workplace recovery PCs

Final Katrina Workshop addresses critical role of standards for emergency preparedness

European Commission to convene oil supply crisis planning group

DHS announces 2007 grant structure for critical infrastructure security work

Double-Take Software launches new products offering full system protection and recovery

NonVerba unveils new business continuity management software

Server virtualization: do’s and don’ts for mission critical manufacturing systems

Business continuity uptake in UAE examined

Advice published on pandemic preparedness planning for US businesses operating overseas

‘Good Security – Good Business’

Enterprises may be over-investing in some areas of data protection

HKBN launches 'bbAid' to support emergency broadband needs for Hong Kong

Ten assumption-busting guiding principles for business pandemic planning

Out in the cold?

Business continuity resolutions for 2007

UK Financial Sector Market Wide Exercise 2006 report now available

Adoption and spending on operational risk management will increase substantially in 2007

The British Red Cross Disaster Response Challenge

Neverfail names new group chief executive officer

Harris Interactive Online survey reviews crisis planning in US companies

2007 set to crank up the pressure on UK networks

Hong Kong authorities struggle to restore Internet connectivity

OSE and Jasdaq exchanges to provide mutual business continuity support

Onyx Group acquires North East England recovery centre

CPM Group bought by 1105 Media

BCM: think culture, not quick fix!

Home working: a strategy for business continuity

Dealing with the headache of business critical systems management

Majority of US organizations have tested business continuity plans in last six months

Interim report into widespread European blackout blames network operators

OSHA develops disaster recovery tool

New Financial Services ISAC committee to consider physical security and business continuity issues

UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat to explore impact of pandemics on the workplace

IEEE-USA launches critical infrastructure protection committee

US National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: six-month status report published

HR as a business continuity resource

Survey looks at UK business continuity investment drivers

Succession planning a weak point

ContinuitySA opens a recovery centre in Botswana

IBM to launch new data governance consultancy service

KPMG launches whistleblowing hotline service for UK companies

Research will examine the effects and impacts of climate change on Australia

Australian Government enhances natural disaster relief arrangements

ICM rejects Netstore offer

Risk attitude of Central and Eastern European companies explored

US National Data Awareness Project launched

Colorado State University publishes 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast

Blackbird Group launches integrated disaster recovery solution for Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory Services

Buncefield Investigation Board update

Scenario planning vs resource planning: old school vs new school?

Top ten tips for a successful RAID implementation

The pandemic threat: Aon assesses the ongoing risk to business

UK companies getting better at business continuity management

‘Natural Disaster Resilience Kit’ launched for Queensland businesses

Secure Freight Initiative launched by DHS and DOE

EU research project boosts security of major events worldwide

New telecoms continuity solution for North American market

Netstore publishes update on ICM acquisition offer

Emergence of avian influenza in Africa increases pandemic risk: UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Peterborough businesses given evacuation map

Business Continuity Student of the Year Award

IBM X-Force predicts security trends for 2007

Office of Emergency Management HQ and EOC opened in Brooklyn

CA launches comprehensive IT recovery management package

New Australian cyclone disaster management plan

The 2006 Excellence in Business Continuity Planning Award




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