Business continuity news 19th Dec - 2nd January 2007

news headlines: 3rd - 4th Jan 2007

Harris Interactive Online survey reviews crisis planning in US companies
Highlights top worries and the crisis management plans in place to deal with incidents that occur.
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•Date: 4th Jan 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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2007 set to crank up the pressure on UK networks
ntl:Telewest Business tells businesses to make network resilience and capacity a priority.
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•Date: 4th Jan 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity resolutions for 2007
Ten things to consider adding to your to-do list. By David Honour.
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•Date: 3rd Jan 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Hong Kong authorities struggle to restore Internet connectivity
Undersea cables damaged in an earthquake on 26 December won’t be fully repaired until the end of January at the earliest.
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•Date: 3rd January 2007 • Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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OSE and Jasdaq exchanges to provide mutual business continuity support
Agreement enhances resilience of Japanese stock market.
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•Date: 3rd Jan 2007 • Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Onyx Group acquires North East England recovery centre
Teeside-based Business Continuity Centres (BCC) bought for undisclosed sum.
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•Date: 3rd Jan 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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CPM Group bought by 1105 Media, Inc
New owner for US-based business continuity publisher and conference provider.
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•Date: 3rd Jan 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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• Continuity Forum Conference, Australia
• US disaster declaration activity
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• 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

• ICM seeks to end Netstore speculation

• Future FEMA…

• Risks rise, but liability insurance fails to keep pace

• ACP elects 2007 board of directors

• NEC launches ExpressCluster X WAN edition for Windows

• APEC counter-terrorism exercise in Queensland

• Between a rock and a hard place

• Top ten security threats in 2007

• BCI to launch business continuity management training services

• Fuel cell designed specifically for business continuity market

• How are North American companies backing up remote office data?

• Good progress on risk management but more needed, FSA tells insurers

• Half of data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity by 2008: Gartner

• The US-CCU Cyber-Security Check List 2007

• Survey looks at pandemic planning in Hong Kong businesses

• BS 25999-1:2006 available

• New post-disaster preservative for electronic equipment introduced

• Intellectual property theft by employees is an ignored risk

• No room for complacency on Atlantic hurricane threat

• Medical Journal of Australia warns of weaknesses in Australian pandemic planning

• Call for papers: Business Continuity Journal

• British Standard Institution to launch BS 25999 part one this week

• Six week UK market wide financial sector exercise finishes

• Managing risk: stakeholder perspectives

• Chicago area to get new business continuity facility

• Phoenix IT Group publishes positive results

• Guidance for businesses on assessing future environmental threats published

• Business continuity quotations

• Critical infrastructure protection is all about operational resilience and continuity

• Risk register and assessment tool for download

• New International Workshop Agreement provides emergency preparedness and business continuity guidelines

• New software enables rapid response to time-critical emergencies

• FarStone launches RestoreIT disaster recovery software

• The State of Enterprise Infrastructure In Europe 2006: Forrester Research

• Security spending by US companies examined

• BCI-approved training comes to North America

• Law firms agree that disaster recovery plans are critical but worry about lack of funding

• ‘All-encompassing’ climate change threat must be taken seriously: UN

• Don't overlook records management when developing business continuity plans

• Why information security and business continuity management must dovetail

• Five major priorities for information security : Ernst & Young

• 175 per cent increase in Auckland emergency budget requested

• ChicagoFIRST reaches 25-member mark

• Linus to launch ‘Revive Online’

• No room for complacency on terror threat

• IT Infrastructure Management Association launches

• Are UK organisations losing the war on malware?

• New CA solutions focus on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 risks

• Automata releases training calendar for 2007

• Virtualization and business continuity

• Malicious Code Injection: it’s not just for SQL anymore

• Resilient Community Exercise - Falkirk 2006

• PlateSpin unveils ‘break-through’ disaster recovery alternative

• UK companies more reluctant than US companies to explore new data storage solutions

• FEMA update on Pacific northwest flooding

• RiskMap 2007 surveys the risk climate

• ICM provides an update on possible acquisition by Netstore

• Fraud risk management: developing a strategy for prevention, detection, and response

• National Capabilities Survey 2006 results published

• SunGard Availability Services launches ‘AdvancedRecovery’

• UN agency unveils web portal to help tourism industry respond to disasters

• ‘Navigating Risk: The Business Case for Security’

• Council of the European Union and European Commission conducts crisis exercise

• American Red Cross pushes business continuity

• FEMA publishes 2007 NIMS compliance package

• BCM Challenges for 2007

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