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news headlines: 3rd February 2006

Emerging threats 2006: VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol is both a threat and an opportunity as far as business continuity is concerned.
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Date: 3rd Feb 2006 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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GAO publishes ‘Preliminary Observations on Hurricane Response’
Many of the lessons emerging from the 2006 hurricanes in the Gulf are similar to those GAO identified more than a decade ago…
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Date: 3rd Feb 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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UK Business Continuity Awards: get your entries in
March 8th is the deadline for entering individuals and organisations for CIR Magazine’s Business Continuity Awards.
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Date: 3rd Feb 2006• Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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‘Friendly worms’ set to be the next big thing in anti-virus protection?
Beneficial worms, which will spread rapidly through networks and will patch machines before a malicious worm can attack, will be developed in the near future, reports New Scientist.
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Date: 3rd Feb 2006• Region: US/World Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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La Niña conditions in place: NOAA
Expect northwest storminess and more drought in south/southwest US; could result in increased Atlantic hurricane activity in 2006.
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Date: 3rd Feb 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Disaster Response Challenge 2006
Want to know how well you would cope during a major disaster? Take the Disaster Response Challenge.
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Date: 3rd Feb 2006• Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Speculation about serious drought in South East England ‘not misplaced’: minister
• Floods result in National Emergency being declared in Bolivia
• North West Australia tropical cyclone forecast issued

• Lakeview Technology introduces new MIMIX Vault managed service offering
• Increasing numbers of Japanese companies making business continuity plans
• Starting them early…
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Business continuity lessons from Buncefield: SDPL

Gaining a sense of perspective

WHO publishes draft proposals for rapid response and containment of high-risk influenza outbreak

GeoWireless launches US tour showcasing disaster recovery capabilities

Acronis warns of the risk of Blackworm induced IT continuity problems starting 3rd February

European Commission planning to strengthen the EU Civil Protection Mechanism

Annual Message Management and Threat Report

Warnings of impending worldwide energy crisis are unfounded…

HP launches new technologies for enhanced data center reliability

New RMS study reviews Japanese disaster risks

First east coast US city declared TsunamiReady

Some myths of crisis and issues communications

Crisis communications: get it right - the first time

Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?
Poll results

World Economic Forum meeting examines ways to ‘harness business response to disaster’

Telstra Europe launches Cambridge data centre

Potential breakthrough in H5N1 vaccine development

MP3 players : the security risk and how to manage it

FSA publishes 2006 Financial Risk Outlook

New approaches to risk management must be developed…

Pandemic influenza risk poses unique threat to businesses and must be taken seriously: FSSCC

Threat related to emerging global employment crisis highlighted by United Nations

AT&T to conduct its largest-ever network disaster recovery exercise

Surge in criminal-driven cyber attacks anticipated in 2006: IBM

UK government launches Energy Review

Loss of paper documents still a significant threat

Gil Jamieson appointed as FEMA Deputy Director for Gulf Coast Recovery

Automata launches ‘Trainers’ Club’

New 3Com product offers resilient enterprise IP communications

A decade in business continuity planning

Incident Action List

Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?

Buncefield investigation board established

Fast-growing private US companies are voluntarily adopting Sarbanes-Oxley principles

Business Continuity Institute publishes Voluntary Supplier Declaration forms

European Commission proposes new flood protection directive

e-mail data management challenges surveyed

US Department of Agriculture conducting five food defense exercises through 2006

Avian influenza updates

Eight best practices in implementing disaster recovery protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

UPDATED No more excuses…

Recommendations for improved US crisis and disaster preparedness made by the National Homeland Security Consortium

European banking industry attitudes towards IT continuity explored

Patent granted for telecoms continuity product

Managing Risk and Business Continuity in the Public Sector

Aon publishes 2006 political risk assessment

Fire safety reform – UK government gives stakeholders more time to prepare

American Red Cross and Operation HOPE sign disaster support agreement

Gulf Coast recovery update published

AmeriVault acquires Capitalbackup

Avian influenza updates...

Sudan 1 revisited

IBM Australia buys Classic Blue

Confusion between ‘archiving’ and ‘backup’ highlighted

Avian influenza updates…

Enterprise content management storage explored

Emerging threats 2006: drought

ICM to issue Voluntary Risk Statement to clients

BC Management's 5th Annual BC/DR Study underway

HP researchers looking to turn virus protection methods upside down

WHO issues update on Avian influenza in Turkey

Seeing the big picture…

What business continuity is really all about…

Damage forecasting service for UK and Western European winter storms launched

2006 London counter-terrorism advertising campaign launched

Automata Technology Continuity and DR Masterclass 2006

Terms of reference published for UK financial sector Cross-Market Business Continuity Group

RMS analyses the impact of new TRIA structure

Maintaining corporate values through an emergency

DHS provides $765 million funding for high threat urban areas

WMF flaw could have far-reaching enterprise impact: Gartner

CBI tells UK organisations to make business continuity a priority

Despite 2005’s disasters, the vast majority of Americans still believe that ‘it won’t happen to them’

BCI appoints Technical Services Director

SNIA survey examines state of storage management

Final draft of US National Preparedness Goal released

Updated NFPA 1600 standard out for consultation

Basel Committee publishes consultation paper on ‘high-level principles for business continuity’




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