news headlines: 4th NOvember 2005

Hazard identification and Business Impact Analysis
John Salter provides a paper which leads planners through the BIA process.
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•Date: 4th Nov 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC plan development
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A major pandemic checklist and assessment matrix
What factors should be considered when developing a business continuity plan for pandemic scenarios? Ian Rogers offers some useful checklist style advice.
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•Date: 4th Nov 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC plan development
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HP launches new business continuity and recovery facility
Anaheim, CA, Business Continuity and Recovery Center opened on 3rd November by Mayor Curt Pringle.
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•Date: 4th Nov 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Survey indicates that NAS virtualization is set to double in 2006
74 percent of respondents want to leverage existing backup and recovery procedures.
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•Date: 4th Nov 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Sun expands Java Availability Suite
 Latest version includes software offering multi-site disaster recovery.
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•Date: 4th Nov 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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BS 7799 becomes ISO 27001
 ISO 27001 international information security standard published to replace BS 7799.
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•Date: 4th Nov 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• DHS consults on NIPP Base Plan
• $1.1 million project to strengthen aviation security in the Asia-Pacific region announced
• International Workshop on Standardization for Emergency Preparedness
• Harvard, UNDP and Swiss Re unveil results of climate change study
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• Australian PM warns of ‘specific terror threat’

• President Bush outlines US pandemic influenza preparations and response

• UK Tripartite Authorities publish ‘Financial Sector Business Continuity Annual Report’

• As BT and OFCOM agree final undertakings, GemaTech gains access to BT exchanges

• IAEM makes recommendations for improved US disaster response

• The crisis team and crisis room: a guide to getting the basics right

• NIST urges implementation of recommendations from World Trade Center investigation

• ABI report criticises delivery of UK flood prevention measures

• New Delhi on edge after terrorist attacks

• How Far is Far Enough?

• Mission Assurance Analysis Protocol (MAAP): assessing risk in complex environments

• Gartner tells business continuity leaders to make preparations for the impact of an Avian Influenza pandemic

• Banks and avian flu: planning for a possible pandemic

• Creating effective business continuity plans

• New initiative to explore attitudes to disaster

• Hurricane Wilma update page

• More details released on UK financial sector market-wide exercise

• New disaster site clearance guidance published by UK government

• US financial services industry business continuity exercise ‘a success’ 

• EC steps up pandemic preparedness planning

• IDC conducts ‘continuous data protection’ survey

• Direct local involvement, better communications needed for improved disaster response: National League of Cities

• New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development publishes pandemic business continuity advice

• Intelligent infrastructure management: a catalyst for change within the enterprise

• A new planning paradigm: economic consequences of a pandemic

• Data recovery checklist

• TeleContinuity and EnvoyWorldWide team up to offer ‘continuity of communications’ solutions

• Data deletion is not enough…

• How to find and motivate employees for business continuity

• One year on from Hurricane Ivan: what lessons have been learnt?

• New BSI survey highlights areas of weakness in the business continuity planning of Britain’s FTSE250 companies

• European Civil Protection exercise to simulate earthquake in Sicily

• Global terrorism activity doubled over the last year

• NIST coordinating post Katrina and Rita structural damage assessment

• Climate change will result in heavier rainfall events for some regions

• Business continuity during an avian 'flu pandemic

• Business continuity planning in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

• Fortune 1000 preparedness for uninterrupted access to critical information assessed

• Automata launches ‘Technology Continuity and DR Masterclass’

• DHS announces ‘Hurricane Recovery Contracting Strategy’

• Pandemic planning is important to business continuity : but the majority of plans don’t yet take it into consideration

• ICM to develop 1,700 seat outer London business continuity centre

• New study looks at risk management in the supply chain

• Microsoft announces comprehensive virtualization strategy to enable self- managing dynamic systems

• IXEurope expands again

• Business continuity: helping firms stand out from the crowd

• New York on alert for potential subway attack

• A standardized local vs. national response: myths and misconceptions abound

• Climate change conference focuses on the ‘big picture’ for businesses

• Proposals made to enhance emergency preparedness for Long Island

• Case study: supply chain continuity

• ‘Citizen journalism’: an emerging reputation risk

• Information technology risk is increasing

• SEC steps in to assist insurers struggling with Hurricane Katrina and Rita losses

• Survey shows large companies expect the cost of SOX implementation to decline slightly in second year

• Queensland Crisis Centre to handle terrorist incidents

• UK Government’s new decontamination service launched

• Basel II developments

• DHS announces $30 million in preparedness training grants

• SunGard Availability Services launches new version of Paragon

• Imation develops 'Disk-As-Tape' media cartridge

• UK and US businesses unable to effectively measure and report on network security risk

• The impact of a dirty bomb: lessons from Katrina

• British Standard for Business Continuity Management – development is underway

• Mass fatality events have a greater impact on company share value than corporate crises

• Research points to huge discrepancy in business continuity planning within UK

• The importance of satellites in disaster recovery

• Gartner highlights an often ignored security threat: unattended PCs

• Microsoft launches System Center Data Protection Manager

• System Center Data Protection Manager results in a rash of industry announcements

• Bombay Stock Exchange exploring options for second disaster recovery centre

• UK scientists start research into preventing the ultimate disaster

• Annan calls for a global emphasis on disaster planning

• UK businesses given energy supply warning

• NASDAQ CIO highlights Capital Markets’ business continuity planning

• PIRA decommissioning changes but does not reduce the terror threat

• ICM results show strong growth in business continuity division

• Mobile malware gets serious…

• Hurricane Rita updates

• Selling business continuity to finance directors

• Singapore Technical Reference for business continuity

• Data overload puts UK retail sector under pressure

• Federal Reserve: ‘We have no plans to conduct special investigations of business continuity and disaster recovery plans post Katrina’

• Avian influenza: no need to panic over situation in Indonesia, says WHO

• RMS assesses United States terrorism threat outlook

• Success of 7th July business continuity measures must not lead to complacency…

• Impact on employees is biggest long-term Katrina-related business disruption worry

• Continuity, Katrina and the Fed

• Pharmaceutical companies need to improve their risk management framework: KPMG

• Keeping an eye on Rita…

• What we learned from Hurricane Katrina and what we should do next to improve emergency planning

• BCI and DRII undertaking joint business continuity Professional Practices review

• Strohl Systems launches new corporate identity and Web seminar program

• New suite of ‘on-net’ business continuity services from TelCove

• Businesses affected by disasters must act to prevent a 'crisis within a crisis'




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