Business continuity news 6 July 2006

news headlines: 6th July 2006

FSA publishes Resilience Benchmarking Project feedback and draft business continuity management guide
Guidance aims to help infrastructure providers and regulated firms in their BC planning by identifying and sharing examples of business continuity practice.
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•Date: 6th July 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Board members on risk: new Ernst & Young study
Survey of non-executive board members finds that most believe that corporate risk levels have risen in the last two years.
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•Date: 6th July 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction: nominations now being accepted
Deadline for entries is 29 June 2007.
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•Date: 6th July 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Civil Contingencies Secretariat launches the ‘Local Response Gateway’
‘A central gateway to improve the way that central government departments communicate with civil protection practitioners’.
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•Date: 6th July 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Hackers' heaven…
Corporates still leaving security back doors open...
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•Date: 6th July 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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• Guide to Business Continuity Management
• Mumbai floods cause major business continuity problems
• Business Continuity, Storage and Security conference
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• In the spotlight: the human side of business continuity planning

• Draft version of BS 25999-1 now available for download

• DHS completes National Infrastructure Protection Plan

• UK IT director survey finds that only one third of respondents have a documented business continuity strategy

• HSE issues new safety alert to fuel depot operators as a result of ongoing Buncefield investigation

• Selling business continuity investment to the boss

• 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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