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An earthquake which has occurred NE of Tonga presents a wide-area tsunami risk, although no initial reports indicate that this has happened. UPDATED
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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Half of London's small businesses don’t have business continuity plans, but 79 percent of large businesses do.
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Companies may be underestimating their risk if they assume that the 1918 pandemic is the worst-case scenario…
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Looks at the efforts of the private sector to implement the ‘Interagency Paper on Sound Practices to Strengthen the Resilience of the US Financial System’.
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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The situation in Bolivia highlights a political risk which needs to be considered by business continuity managers when operating in non-Western countries.
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region: S.America • Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Bill Marotz responds to the recent Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Katrina Investigation Report.
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region:US • Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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A global survey by Ernst & Young has found that many banks are lagging behind in Basel II preparations.
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Businesses offered free support and advice for the development and review of business recovery plans.
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region: Australia • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Penn State researchers have developed software that allows databases to ‘talk to each other’ automatically without compromising the security of the data and metadata because the queries, data communicated and other information are encrypted.
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•Date: 3rd May 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Today's issue includes:
• Pacific Basin countries plan tsunami exercise
• Homeland Security Award: nominations sought for $25,000 prize
• Emergency declared for Connecticut
• New strategy aims to protect Australia’s food supply chain from terrorists
• Management of dead bodies after disasters: a field manual for first responders
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