Business continuity news 7 February 2006

news headlines: 7th February 2006

To gain a sense of perspective, it helps to take the blinders off: a rebuttal
Dan Dorman, Continuity Manager for DHL, responds to Gaining a Sense of Perspective, an article published recently which asked whether pandemic threats were being exaggerated.
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•Date: 7th Feb 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The BCI joins AIRMIC, ALARM, and the IRM to launch ‘The Risk Federation’
Organisations will work in partnership where it helps to enhance their individual activities.
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•Date: 7th Feb 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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US financial markets business continuity test scheduled
Will take place on Saturday, October 14, 2006.
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•Date: 7th Feb 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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China's small and medium businesses starting to take business continuity seriously
According to a new study by AMI-Partners.
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•Date: 7th Feb 2006• Region: SE Asia • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Management changes at ICM
Operations director, Mike Osborne, steps up to become managing director - business continuity.
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•Date: 7th Feb 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Partnership initiative launched by IAEM and GVF
The two organizations are to coordinate dialog between emergency managers and the satellite industry and to promote training, and certifications.
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•Date: 7th Feb 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Double-Take for Virtual Systems launched
NSI Software, the maker of Double-Take, has announced the availability and pricing of its ‘Double-Take for Virtual Systems’ software.
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•Date: 7th Feb 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• US Department of Homeland Security announces six percent increase in fiscal year 2007 budget request
• Recover Pro Software released
• Asigra unveils latest generation remote office backup/recovery software
• Major disaster declared for California storms
• Global alert after al Qaeda prisoners escape from Yemen prison
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• Emerging threats 2006: VoIP

• GAO publishes ‘Preliminary Observations on Hurricane Response’

• UK Business Continuity Awards: get your entries in

• ‘Friendly worms’ set to be the next big thing in anti-virus protection?

• La Niña conditions in place: NOAA

• Disaster Response Challenge 2006

• Business continuity lessons from Buncefield: SDPL

• Gaining a sense of perspective

• WHO publishes draft proposals for rapid response and containment of high-risk influenza outbreak

• GeoWireless launches US tour showcasing disaster recovery capabilities

• Acronis warns of the risk of Blackworm induced IT continuity problems starting 3rd February

• European Commission planning to strengthen the EU Civil Protection Mechanism

• Annual Message Management and Threat Report

• Warnings of impending worldwide energy crisis are unfounded…

• HP launches new technologies for enhanced data center reliability

• New RMS study reviews Japanese disaster risks

• First east coast US city declared TsunamiReady

• Some myths of crisis and issues communications

• Crisis communications: get it right - the first time

• Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?
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• World Economic Forum meeting examines ways to ‘harness business response to disaster’

• Telstra Europe launches Cambridge data centre

• Potential breakthrough in H5N1 vaccine development

• MP3 players : the security risk and how to manage it

• FSA publishes 2006 Financial Risk Outlook

• New approaches to risk management must be developed…

• Pandemic influenza risk poses unique threat to businesses and must be taken seriously: FSSCC

• Threat related to emerging global employment crisis highlighted by United Nations

• AT&T to conduct its largest-ever network disaster recovery exercise

• Surge in criminal-driven cyber attacks anticipated in 2006: IBM

• UK government launches Energy Review

• Loss of paper documents still a significant threat

• Gil Jamieson appointed as FEMA Deputy Director for Gulf Coast Recovery

• Automata launches ‘Trainers’ Club’

• New 3Com product offers resilient enterprise IP communications

• A decade in business continuity planning

• Incident Action List

• Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?

• Buncefield investigation board established

• Fast-growing private US companies are voluntarily adopting Sarbanes-Oxley principles

• Business Continuity Institute publishes Voluntary Supplier Declaration forms

• European Commission proposes new flood protection directive

• e-mail data management challenges surveyed

• US Department of Agriculture conducting five food defense exercises through 2006

• Avian influenza updates

• Eight best practices in implementing disaster recovery protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

• UPDATED No more excuses…

• Recommendations for improved US crisis and disaster preparedness made by the National Homeland Security Consortium

• European banking industry attitudes towards IT continuity explored

• Patent granted for telecoms continuity product

• Managing Risk and Business Continuity in the Public Sector

• Aon publishes 2006 political risk assessment

• Fire safety reform – UK government gives stakeholders more time to prepare

• American Red Cross and Operation HOPE sign disaster support agreement

• Gulf Coast recovery update published

• AmeriVault acquires Capitalbackup

• Avian influenza updates...

• Sudan 1 revisited

• IBM Australia buys Classic Blue

• Confusion between ‘archiving’ and ‘backup’ highlighted

• Avian influenza updates…

• Enterprise content management storage explored

• Emerging threats 2006: drought

• ICM to issue Voluntary Risk Statement to clients

• BC Management's 5th Annual BC/DR Study underway

• HP researchers looking to turn virus protection methods upside down

• WHO issues update on Avian influenza in Turkey

• Seeing the big picture…

• What business continuity is really all about…

• Damage forecasting service for UK and Western European winter storms launched

• 2006 London counter-terrorism advertising campaign launched

• Automata Technology Continuity and DR Masterclass 2006

• Terms of reference published for UK financial sector Cross-Market Business Continuity Group

• RMS analyses the impact of new TRIA structure

• Maintaining corporate values through an emergency

• DHS provides $765 million funding for high threat urban areas

• WMF flaw could have far-reaching enterprise impact: Gartner

• CBI tells UK organisations to make business continuity a priority

• Despite 2005’s disasters, the vast majority of Americans still believe that ‘it won’t happen to them’

• BCI appoints Technical Services Director

• SNIA survey examines state of storage management

• Final draft of US National Preparedness Goal released

• Updated NFPA 1600 standard out for consultation

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