news headlines: 5th SEPTEMBER 2003

Armed against the activist
David Honour explores the business continuity measures that can be put in place to protect companies from activist attacks.
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•Date: 5th September 2003 •Region: Worldwide •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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FSA warns listed companies to prepare for new accounting standards
Failure to comply to new IFRS could be a very real business continuity issue for UK firms.
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•Date: 5th September 2003 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The Business Roundtable urges Gilmore Commission to promote partnerships
US private sector and governments organisations need to be encouraged to work together to enhance Homeland security efforts.
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•Date: 5th September 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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8th annual Disaster Resource Guide
170 pages of resources for business continuity and disaster response, free to US professionals.
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•Date: 5th September 2003 • Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Call for papers : 14th World Conference on Disaster Management
The Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (CCEP) is calling for presentations for next year's WCDM.
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•Date: 5th September 2003 • Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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ORION: multi-platform managed availability solution launched
Supports data replication through server and application fail-over for IBM iSeries, Microsoft Windows 2000 and the Linux Redhat and SuSE operating systems.
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•Date: 5th September 2003 •Region: Worldwide •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New critical Microsoft vulnerability discovered
Details published in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-037.
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•Date: 5th September 2003 •Region: Worldwide •Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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