Business continuity news 5 July 2006

news headlines: 5th July 2006

In the spotlight: the human side of business continuity planning
IBM Global Technology Services has provided a paper exploring the above issue and giving a useful checklist of questions to ask when planning.
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•Date: 5th July 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Draft version of BS 25999-1 now available for download
BSI wants your comments on the proposed new Code of Practice for Business Continuity Management.
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•Date: 5th July 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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DHS completes National Infrastructure Protection Plan
NIPP available for download; Sector-Specific Plans that complement it and detail the risk management framework will be released within 180 days.
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•Date: 5th July 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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UK IT director survey finds that only one third of respondents have a documented business continuity strategy
Research carried out by The Bathwick Group in conjunction with IBM.
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•Date: 5th July 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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HSE issues new safety alert to fuel depot operators as a result of ongoing Buncefield investigation
Alert may also be relevant to non-fuel depot sites storing hazardous substances in large tanks where gauges are used.
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•Date: 5th July 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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Selling business continuity investment to the boss
Advice published by Purdue University may help in this area.
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•Date: 5th July 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Selling to the board
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• Avian influenza – WHO issues update on situation in Indonesia
• ICM shows City analysts around London Essex Business Continuity Centre
• Business Continuity 2006
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• A perfect storm – why are some operational losses larger than others?

• When the writing’s on the wall…

• Intellectual property theft and business continuity: a case study

• Continuity Central and BCI to publish journal of record for the business continuity profession

• New ISO/IEC standard developed to help businesses detect IT intruders

• New research challenges current US disaster and terrorism response strategies

• Flooding in North-East United States: update page

• Draft version of business continuity British Standard to be released on Monday July 3rd

• Flooding in North-East United States: update page

• Banking banana skins poll results

• ‘Plan for power’, says Datacentre Networking Group

• ACP initiative to help US small and medium-sized businesses develop business continuity plans

• New e-book published: ‘101 uses for emergency notification’

• Disaster recovery unwrapped...

• Report warns of lack of preparation to recover the Internet following a catastrophic cyber disruption

• Comment on the Cadbury recall

• ‘Is Net neutrality bad for national preparedness?’

• Ensuring the availability of America's power grid

• CITYSAFE launches Virtual Exercise System

• People aspects of business continuity: consider the built environment

• Striking the balance between storage security and availability

• Technology, media and telecoms companies are business continuity laggards

• 2005 Hurricane Season WAS enhanced by global warming: National Center for Atmospheric Research

• Metropolitan Police Authority invites businesses to take part in 'Counter-Terrorism: The London Debate'

• TOPOFF 4 and Forward Challenge 2006 exercise completed

• Risk managers told to punch their weight

• Data leakage: a real business continuity issue

• AT&T's 2006 business continuity study

• Consumer businesses face increasing threat from intellectual property theft

• Auckland major power outage: the business continuity impacts

• Many companies don't realise they are taking huge risks due to gaps in insurance cover for environmental incidents

• Tek-Tools releases Backup Policy Auditor

• Five application integration trends to watch

• Department of Homeland Security publishes review of catastrophic event preparedness

• How prepared are UK businesses for disaster?

• Continuity Central supporting Times business continuity supplement

• Buncefield explosion cost local businesses £70 million

• Business continuity a priority for the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority

• Reliability is not availability

• Business continuity and disaster recovery in customer services

• Isolated approach can risk the best laid business continuity plans

• International Oracle Users Group survey on high availability trends

• US agencies provide financial institutions with hurricane-related business continuity advice

• Food and drink companies 'dared' to address risk and crisis management needs

• Companies see the risk of removable media but still turn a blind eye

• Business continuity unwrapped...

• ‘The Risk Intelligent Enterprise ERM Done Right’

• NIST releases report on Katrina-Rita impacts on structures

• ‘List of business issues for firms to consider when planning for a pandemic’

• Factoring climate change into risk assessment and management processes

• Reputational risk assessment

• Current UK NHS emergency and continuity of operations plans are ‘vastly inadequate’

• Business Continuity Management British Standard to be available for public review in July

• ‘Business continuity oversight expectations for systemically important payment systems (SIPS)’

• Auckland businesses suffer wide-area power outage

• APEC Pandemic Response Exercise report

• Florida prepares for Alberto

• Securing the mail stream

• Standardization for enterprise power security and continuity

• Testing still the business continuity weak link

• Counter terrorism and business

• Continuity Central shortlisted for BT IT security journalism awards

• Automata International Business Continuity Summer School

• European Commission helps to establish $70 million avian ‘flu facility at the World Bank

• Significant differences exist between how directors understand risk and how their companies manage risk

• Lords Select Committee publishes review of Government risk management policies and activities

• BCI publishes Italian version of Business Continuity Good Practice Guidelines

• Instant Messaging attacks jump 500 percent in May

• GAO reports on US tsunami preparedness

• IBM to launch pandemic preparedness consulting service

• ‘London’s emergency plans must be changed’, says London Assembly report into 7th July bombings

• International Facility Management Association provides view of current state of pandemic planning

• University of Illinois at Chicago launches online ‘Emergency Management and Continuity Planning Campus Certificate’ course

• Australia to lead APEC pandemic response exercise

• BT launches ‘Risk Cockpit’

• Disaster planning guidelines for gulf coast businesses

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