news headlines: 5th June 2006

‘London’s emergency plans must be changed’, says London Assembly report into 7th July bombings
Emergency plans ‘focused on incidents but not individuals and processes rather than people’.
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Date: 5th June 2006• Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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International Facility Management Association provides view of current state of pandemic planning
Only 7 percent of respondents have completed pandemic plans; a further 18 percent believe that pandemic issues are addressed in standard business continuity plans, with no special measures being added for pandemic response.
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Date: 5th June 2006• Region: US/World Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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University of Illinois at Chicago launches online ‘Emergency Management and Continuity Planning Campus Certificate’ course
The certificate is composed of five courses and will require a total of fifteen semester hours to complete.
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Date: 5th June 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Australia to lead APEC pandemic response exercise
A regional simulation exercise to test and strengthen emergency communication across the 21 economies of APEC in the event of a human influenza pandemic is being led by Australia this week.
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Date: 5th June 2006• Region: A.Pacific / Austr Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic plan
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BT launches ‘Risk Cockpit’
Provides companies with an easy-to-use, real-time view of risk exposure within their business.
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Date: 5th June 2006• Region: World Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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Disaster planning guidelines for gulf coast businesses
A useful checklist style guide has been made available by Capital One Financial Corporation.
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Date: 5th June 2006 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Drought intensifies and spreads in eastern Australia
• Icelandic storage service provider enters UK market
• SBA extends Katrina and Rita disaster loan deadlines
• UK : Lords Economic Affairs Committee to report on government’s policy on risk

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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

Business continuity training: a snapshot

Pandemic planning: a review of respirator and mask protection levels

DHS launches Ready Business Mentoring Initiative

Contingency Planning Exchange’s Washington DC Chapter launch meeting

IBM introduces ‘next-generation storage virtualization software’

Securing software

UCF, Georgia researchers: New Orleans is the US city most at risk of hurricane damage in 2006

CD available to help businesses in Eastern England deal with business crime and make terrorism preparations

WHO concerned about cluster of human H5N1 deaths in Indonesia

New ISO standard aims to ensure the security of financial transactions on the Internet

DHS outlines Hurricane Season preparations

‘Learning from disasters’

Terrorists hiding computer files in plain sight: steganography less observable than encryption

Hurricane season: there’s good news and there’s bad news

Guidelines for improving and protecting corporate reputation

Emerson survey looks at power outage costs to US businesses

IAEM pushes for Paulison appointment

America unprepared…

SEC details next steps for Sarbanes-Oxley implementation

Business continuity plan development

The anatomy of Business Process–specific Key Operational Risk Indicators : Part two

In their own words…

Business continuity / wireless gateway solution for enterprises launched

SNIA Europe end user survey looks at current data storage practices

Pacific Wave 06

‘Business Checklist for Pandemic Flu Planning’

Last minute actions to protect your business from storm damage

‘Array Business Continuity Flex Plan’ aims to help companies deal with emergency surges in remote access

Web@Work survey highlights keylogging threat

Typhoon Chanchu impacts SE Asia

New England flooding: FEMA sitrep

Comprehensive survey into business continuity activities of UK organisations published

Business Continuity Awareness Week – the journey

ICM opens 1700 seat Romford recovery centre

Federal workforce not ready to telework during influenza pandemic

UK government starts making contingency plans for potential energy shortages in 2006/2007 winter

GAO reports on the military response to Katrina and the lessons learned for future disasters

CapRock expands disaster recovery satellite services in preparation for 2006 Hurricane Season

Business Continuity Award winners...

VoIP: business continuity thoughts

Survey explores status of pandemic ‘flu continuity of operations planning in US Federal government

IBM brings autonomic computing to grid environments

SunGard announces first quarter 2006 results

‘Preparing for a pandemic: strategies for business continuity when a crisis hits home’

Business continuity program management – a critical and often overlooked aspect

Tune-up your business continuity plan

Report into the London terrorist attacks on 7 July 2005 published

Singapore financial sector conducts large-scale industry-wide business continuity exercise

Is your business ready for disaster?

WANdisco launches new high availability disaster recovery solution for Linux

New Unisys IT continuity solutions and server platform

Third Buncefield progress report points to failures of safety systems

Americas & Australasia Business Continuity Awareness Week 2006 underway

Observations of an industry newbie

‘Pacific Peril’

Businesses attacked in Athens

Asia Pacific ministers agree joint avian influenza action plan

New business continuity company launched to target Asia Pacific market

SSL VPNs on the rise, says new study

Crisis communications and disaster response

11 September five years later: where to from here?

Optimising data protection in Linux environments

DHS starts hurricane preparedness exercises





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