news headlines: 6th July 2007

Designing a business continuity training program to maximize value and minimize cost
Susan Yardis provides some thoughts on the above subject and a useful list of ideas.
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•Date: 6th July 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Inspector Morse on BS 25999…
…With some help from Oxford Continuity’s Paul Humphreys.
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•Date: 6th July 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New US emergency planning standards released for public comment
Stakeholder reviews of ‘Emergency Management Standards by EMAP’ requested by July 31, 2007.
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•Date: 6th July 2007• Region: US•Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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The corporate management of crises
Docleaf has published a report on an investigation into the level of readiness of UK companies to manage crises.
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•Date: 6th July 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Finjan warns about ‘crimeware kit’ for targeting businesses’ data
Kit includes a new Trojan variant which relays sensitive data collected during employees’ online activity to hacker websites, using a SSL-encrypted format.
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•Date: 6th July 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs schedules hearing on dirty bomb vulnerabilities
‘Dirty Bomb Vulnerabilities: Fake Companies, Fake Licenses, Real Consequences,’ will be held on July 12.
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•Date: 6th July 2007• Region: US•Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• TAMP Systems RiskWatch, Inc. agree partnership
• dbaDIRECT adds new redundant backup facility
• New book: ‘Principles and Practice of Business Continuity’
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Monsoon rains worst in 25 years
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