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news headlines: 6th October 2005

Quick survey: Pandemic planning for business continuity
This survey aims to discover how seriously business continuity managers are taking the issue of planning for a global pandemic and what measures are being included in BCPs.
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•Date: 6th October 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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‘Citizen journalism’: an emerging reputation risk
Deon Binneman looks at how Blogs are changing the rules of reputation management and protection.
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•Date: 6th October 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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Information technology risk is increasing
Almost 60 percent of companies incurred significant financial damage as a result of systems failure in the past 12 months: Economist Intelligence Unit survey.
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•Date: 6th October 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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SEC steps in to assist insurers struggling with Hurricane Katrina and Rita losses
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox has announced new regulatory relief designed to help ensure that insurers have the capital and liquidity to pay Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims.
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•Date: 6th October 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Survey shows large companies expect the cost of SOX implementation to decline slightly in second year
But no change expecting in costs for smaller companies…
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•Date: 6th October 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Queensland Crisis Centre to handle terrorist incidents
Safeguarding Australia has reported that The Queensland Government is to set up a state-of-the-art State Crisis Centre for terrorist incidents.
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•Date: 6th October 2005 • Region: Australia • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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System Center Data Protection Manager results in a rash of industry announcements
 UPDATED Various vendors give details of how they will incorporate DPM into their offerings.
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•Date: 6th October 2005 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• New business continuity courses in Sweden
• SunGard Availability Services appoints new head of UK sales
• Web security trends report
• Hurricane Stan causes major mudslides
• EVault launches New professional services offerings
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• UK Government’s new decontamination service launched

• Basel II developments

• DHS announces $30 million in preparedness training grants

• SunGard Availability Services launches new version of Paragon

• Imation develops 'Disk-As-Tape' media cartridge

• UK and US businesses unable to effectively measure and report on network security risk

• The impact of a dirty bomb: lessons from Katrina

• British Standard for Business Continuity Management – development is underway

• Mass fatality events have a greater impact on company share value than corporate crises

• Research points to huge discrepancy in business continuity planning within UK

• The importance of satellites in disaster recovery

• Gartner highlights an often ignored security threat: unattended PCs

• Microsoft launches System Center Data Protection Manager

• System Center Data Protection Manager results in a rash of industry announcements

• Bombay Stock Exchange exploring options for second disaster recovery centre

• UK scientists start research into preventing the ultimate disaster

• Annan calls for a global emphasis on disaster planning

• UK businesses given energy supply warning

• NASDAQ CIO highlights Capital Markets’ business continuity planning

• PIRA decommissioning changes but does not reduce the terror threat

• ICM results show strong growth in business continuity division

• Mobile malware gets serious…

• Hurricane Rita updates

• Selling business continuity to finance directors

• Singapore Technical Reference for business continuity

• Data overload puts UK retail sector under pressure

• Federal Reserve: ‘We have no plans to conduct special investigations of business continuity and disaster recovery plans post Katrina’

• Avian influenza: no need to panic over situation in Indonesia, says WHO

• RMS assesses United States terrorism threat outlook

• Success of 7th July business continuity measures must not lead to complacency…

• Impact on employees is biggest long-term Katrina-related business disruption worry

• Continuity, Katrina and the Fed

• Pharmaceutical companies need to improve their risk management framework: KPMG

• Keeping an eye on Rita…

• What we learned from Hurricane Katrina and what we should do next to improve emergency planning

• BCI and DRII undertaking joint business continuity Professional Practices review

• Strohl Systems launches new corporate identity and Web seminar program

• New suite of ‘on-net’ business continuity services from TelCove

• Businesses affected by disasters must act to prevent a 'crisis within a crisis'

• Former FEMA director James Lee Witt to lead ‘catastrophe coalition’

• Operational risk management: the difference between risk management and compliance

• Is it time to revisit the issue of distances to recovery sites?

• North America Business Continuity Awareness Week

• Bush orders emergency planning review

• Many of Britain’s SMEs still ignoring business continuity

• Lack of awareness of the Enterprise Act undermines UK business rescue culture

• FSTC leading US financial sector business continuity benchmarking project

• Coping with the emotional effects of major disasters

• Hurricane Ophelia: DHS outlines disaster preparations

• Financial Times and Symantec publish business continuity survey results

• Financial losses due to information security attacks increasing

• Fuel protests: business continuity lessons from 2000

• Mike Brown resigns from FEMA post

• London’s SMEs must develop business continuity plans NOW…

• Survey finds that almost 40 percent of US businesses still say that business continuity planning is not a priority

• Financial Stability Forum holds its fourteenth meeting, in London

• Earthquake briefing on Capitol Hill

• Hurricane Katrina: initial impacts on business continuity thinking

• Can removable disk technology supersede tape, fixed disk and hybrid solutions?

• New research offers clues to the way we can expect employees to react to different crises

• Bharti and IBM to offer joint business continuity services to Indian market

• Gartner evaluates the progress of Linux

• Scottish businesses not doing enough to guard against terrorist attacks

• FSSCC issues status report on the financial services sector’s business continuity response to Hurricane Katrina

• Fire, virus and human error are the three biggest threats to corporate data

• GemaTech and COLT sign business continuity partnership

• HP’s worldwide investment in business continuity and recovery facilities reaches US$100 million

• UK faces threat of fuel protests

• What can we learn from Katrina?

• Fraud risk being ignored by middle market UK companies: KPMG

• NASD provides guidance to members affected by Hurricane Katrina

• Regulators say insurance industry is prepared for Hurricane Katrina's cost

• Al-Qaida threatens more attacks on London

• Researchers project Hurricane Katrina effects on oil and gas production

• National Preparedness Month 2005 underway

• Department of Homeland Security Hurricane Katrina response update

• Katrina: offers of disaster recovery assistance

• The Center for Continuity Leadership launches two advanced level business continuity workshops

• President Bush sets out Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery priorities

• Be careful when hiring contractors for disaster repairs, warns FEMA

• Katrina disaster recovery response update

• Three other flooding disasters taking place

• United Nations issues avian influenza warning

• BSI publishes new UK biometrics standards

• Katrina: America starts to count the cost of a nightmare

• Hurricane Katrina: initial salvage, recovery and insurance advice

• Men more likely to fall prey to online scams, spam and viruses

• US National Preparedness Month 2005 to kick off with emergency preparedness fair

• New NIST program aims to foster better security checklists

• A second Andrew?

• How will multicore processing affect IT continuity?

• Avian influenza a real and growing pandemic threat

• Managing the risks of counterfeiting in the information technology industry

• Companies at risk from employees’ risky use of USB keys

• Maintaining thriving businesses amid the threat of terrorism

• Confusion between archiving and backup exists in many UK companies



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