Business continuity news 6th Nov 2007

news headlines: 6th November 2007

Asia Business Continuity Awards: full results
The first-ever Asia Business Continuity Awards were presented last week at the Seventh Annual Business Continuity Management Conference in Singapore.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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MI5 Director General gives update on terrorist threat
Al Qaida's British campaign is dynamic and evolving.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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DHS publishes list of notifiable chemicals
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards: Appendix A is a list of chemicals that, if possessed by a facility in a specified quantity, trigger a requirement to complete and submit an online consequence assessment tool called a Top-Screen.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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SteelEye launches continuous data protection solution for Linux
By combining ‘any point in time rewind’ with replication to multiple local and remote sites, SteelEye Data Replication for Linux v6 brings advanced data protection to Linux.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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ContinuitySA invests R33m in Midrand Recovery Centre
Company has extended and upgraded its recovery centre in Midrand, South Africa.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:S.Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Pandemic planning for utilities
A new guide, ‘The Microbiological Threat to the National Power Grid: Advanced Pandemic Planning for Utilities Executives’ has been published.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Iron Mountain continues expansion in Ireland with acquisition of Datastroy
• English FMD surveillance zone lifted
• New government website tracks US Drought
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Cairo under shadow of toxic black cloud
   - Floods in Vietnam, Typhoon Peipah nears
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• The loneliness of the business continuity manager

• Low risk of wide-area power disruption in UK this winter

• Health and Safety Commission calls for sensible approach to risk

• Additional dates for Certified Business Resilience Auditor seminar

• Zero byte scripts still fooling today’s signature-based malware detection software

• California wildfires disaster recovery update page

• National Recovery Guidance published by UK government

• Singapore Computer Systems wins inaugural Asia Business Continuity Award

• Network set-up to support business continuity managers in UK universities and higher education establishments

• Hurricane Katrina Mississippi recovery update

• ‘Operational risk: the sting is still in the tail but the poison depends on the dose’

• Summer floods disaster recovery update

• BCI workshop to address finance sector business continuity issues

• World Conference on Disaster Management sold

• How unified encryption management (UEM) is changing the threat landscape

• World Conference on Disaster Management sold

• Mick Williams to retire

• Elevators DO have a role in tall building evacuations

• FEMA attempts to restore damaged reputation

• NetEx rolls out ‘Recovery On Demand’

• Business continuity planning for REAL people

• Many global banks can’t estimate annual risk and control costs

• IAEM puts National Response Framework ideas to DHS

• Pandemic planning updates

• UK Government News Network wins crisis management PR award

• ‘Risk Management in Emerging Markets’

• Survey looks at business continuity priorities of Australian CIOs

• In the past three years 62 percent of enterprises experienced major risk events: almost half were not well prepared

• Use of off-site data replication and automated application recovery tools surges

• DRI International issues position statement on NFPA 1600

• ‘Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan’t

• SunGard Availability Services makes senior appointment

• City of London Police upgrades business alert system

• HP launches enhanced Business Service Management software

• OSHA issues new combustible dust instruction

• Banks failing to take a holistic approach to information risk management

• ‘Emergency Planning for the Financial Services District’ conference

• MessageOne introduces the Incident Collaboration Center

• Survey shows strong link between effective governance and corporate reputation

• Average cost of ‘greynet’ security incidents doubles

• India gets new tsunami warning system

• SunGard officially opens new Leatherhead workplace recovery centre

• Wearable sensor could help provide a ‘dashboard’ for human resource health

• Crisis communications — readiness checklist

• Survey explores the state of corporate disaster recovery planning

• IBM to open Cork business continuity centre

• Canadian Securities Industry reports on business continuity test

• UK businesses underestimate the threat of economic crime

• Insurer offers combined war, terrorism and political violence business insurance policy

• Backups bite back

• European Commission gives final warning to 12 Member States over failure to prepare emergency plans for chemical plants

• Personnel insurances related to business continuity planning

• Why data protection must be central to any business continuity plan

• ‘Mega-shelter’ agreement for Oregon

• Scottish businesses reminded of the need for business continuity planning

• Iron Mountain extends server data protection portfolio

• The Business Continuity Journal, Volume Two Issue Three

• Waiting for the auditor

• Disaster risk reduction has never been more pressing: UN

• Guidance on the UK Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act published

• Businesses divided over who poses the biggest threat

• The true extent of UK flood risk is underestimated

• 3n launches Instacom 5.0 mass notification solution

• 'Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers’

• UK local authorities failing when it comes to some aspects of disaster recovery planning

• UK Pre-budget Report fails to provide extra money for flood protection

• National Strategy for Homeland Security published

• Public comment period for Draft National Response Framework extended

• Gartner identifies the top 10 strategic technologies for the next three years

• Government report examines UK humanitarian assistance capability

• Records management is a weak area in many US organizations

• When it comes to corporate reputation, negativity is contagious

• BSI confirms BS 25999 event details

• Compliance is no barrier to financial sector remote working

• Avoiding the resilience trap

• Teradata offers new data disaster recovery assessment service

• The ‘green’ business continuity manager

• What happened to ILM?

• Is the likelihood of an influenza pandemic over-played?

• Australian government says that Critical Infrastructure Protection Modelling and Analysis (CIPMA) software is ready for use

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory researches community resilience

• American population's preparedness for disaster or emergency improves

• CA launches comprehensive solution for IT governance, risk, and compliance

• A challenging weekend in the life of a business continuity manager

• ABI presses UK Government for action on flood risk

• DHS provides new grants for national preparedness training initiatives

• Homeshoring will be the next big trend in the contact centre sector: BT

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat gives guidelines on Local Resilience Forum Telecommunications Sub-Groups

• Energy and floor space constraints will cause significant disruptions to US enterprise data centers during next three years

• Iron Mountain expands in South Africa

• When trauma strikes your workplace

• The features of good planning

• NOAA to provide more specific warning information for severe weather

• LRQA launches BS 25999 services

• Major risk factors for managing the quality of goods sourced from China

• Windows Server 2008 release candidate ready for customer review

• New report highlights 'pandemic fatigue'

• BSI launches online BS 25999-1 assessment tool

• ‘Influenza Pandemic: Opportunities Exist to Clarify Federal Leadership Roles and Improve Pandemic Planning’

• Intellect launches working group on data breach notification

• TOPOFF 4 to take place in Arizona, Oregon and Guam

• Resilience: a risk management perspective

• US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs schedules pandemic planning hearing

• UK businesses facing new brand protection risk

• BCI workshop explores business continuity lessons from UK summer floods

• Business Roundtable and the American Red Cross announce a new disaster recovery collaboration

• Beyond competence: identifying and understanding non-technical competencies for crisis management team members

• New UK emergency protocol agreement

• US financial services sector gears up for pandemic planning exercise

• Gartner says CIOs must manage IT risk as business risk

• IT risks rising up audit committee agendas

• Business Continuity – The Risk Management Expo 2008

• IT disaster recovery planning – choosing the right backup strategy

• COSO releases discussion document

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