Business continuity news 7th July 2005

news headlines: 7th July 2005

Major incident taking place in London
A series of six explosions has taken place on the tube and bus networks. This page is being updated regularly.
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•Date: 7th July 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Crisis communications management readiness questionnaire
A checklist to help organisations ensure that they have covered critical areas of crisis communications.
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•Date: 7th July 2005 •Region: Africa/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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Survey examines ‘E-mail Criticality, Support and Migration’
A detailed survey by The Register has demonstrated how e-mail has become mission critical to most businesses.
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•Date: 7th July 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Strohl Systems launches BIA Professional 4.0
New version of Strohl’s business impact analysis software provides improved control for administrators.
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•Date: 7th July 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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New ‘PCMCIA write-blocking pod’ enables the capture of computer forensic evidence from removable media
New product launched by Vogon International.
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•Date: 7th July 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Data Governance Council formed by IBM, American Express, Merrill Lynch, World Bank and others
New organisation will help businesses tackle security, privacy, compliance and business intelligence challenges.
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•Date: 7th July 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• G8 summit blockades cause business continuity problems

• How to determine what are mission critical organisational activities

• Memorandum ranks States for chemical incident threat

• New business continuity tool helps companies identify and mitigate power related threats

• BCI announces revised Academic Syllabus for business continuity courses

• Suicide bomber sensors would not reduce casualties

• A risk management self assessment framework

• BCI on the hunt for a ‘Technical and Development Director’

• G8 summit risks must not be ignored: Marsh

• Protecting against catastrophic data loss

• VERITAS Backup Exec software exploit poses serious threat

• Complacency – the biggest business continuity threat to SMEs

• The future of enterprise data back-up and recovery

• Complexity – friend or foe?

• Technology failures increasingly damaging to reputation

• Critical infrastructure protection driving US government disaster recovery investments

• Oil dependence creates severe US security and economic risks

• Report into UK tsunami risk published

• The emerging threat of intellectual property indemnification

• NIST World Trade Center investigation highlights improvements needed for tall buildings safety

• The always-on network: strategies for achieving high availability of IT systems

• North America seconds away from another extreme wide-area blackout

• 2005 Global Security Survey published by Deloitt

• Rentsys expands Mobile Recovery Center fleet

• Department of Homeland Security conducting comprehensive exercise to test continuity of operations plans

• Disaster recovery for Asian firms' treasury operations explored

• RAND study says US terrorism insurance system falling short

• Iberian companies facing drought-related business continuity problems

• Global oil supply disruption exercise scheduled

• Business continuity for small businesses

• Boring, boring business continuity…

• Classic Blue acquires Securix Australia’s IT security business

• Small firms waste two weeks a year waiting for server reboots

• CapRock launches communications disaster recovery service

• Designing today’s SANs

• Hurricanes will intensify as the earth warms: NCAR climate expert

• ABK offers UK business continuity managers new disaster communications options

• NISCC warns businesses about increase in targeted Trojan e-mail attacks

• SunGard Availability Services launches ‘Information Availability for Small and Midsize Business' program

• FSTC project results in comprehensive inventory of global business continuity regulations

• Increased reliance on IT driving business continuity purchases

• Combined audit preparation and IT continuity planning software package now available

• AIRMIC and CBI launch workplace rehabilitation campaign

• Gartner survey ranks viruses and worms as top IT security threats

• New survey explores business continuity trends

• Date set for introduction of revised UK COMAH major accident hazards regulations

• Confidence lacking in reliability and restorability of backups

• IT profession sees risk of removable media: but turns a blind eye

• IBM, SunGard, and GoldenSource launch EDM Council

• Building true business continuity solutions over IP

• UK government backs proposals to establish natural disaster scientific panel

• Dubai’s day without power

• The five most over-hyped IT security threats

• The intrinsic benefits of business continuity management

• Department of Homeland Security launches Listo Negocios

• New risk assessment software addresses building threats

• BCI launches Pakistan Business Continuity Forum

• UK government consults on ways of increasing the resilience of the power supply network

• Top ten tips for 2005 hurricane season planning

• Changing IT landscape presents new business continuity challenges

• FSA sets out a good practice model for financial sector stress testing

• TelCove enters the disaster recovery and business continuity market

• Permanent deep-sea sensors set-up to monitor seismic activities

• Dragging operational risk management into the 21st century

• North America Business Continuity Awareness Week agenda set out

• Gartner issues supply chain continuity warning

• Work-related ill health causing huge problems for UK businesses

• Companies still failing to make succession plans

• Confessions of a CTO

• The seven laws of information risk management

• Little known Puente Hills fault could cause the US’s costliest ever earthquake

• Business continuity: Tampa-St. Petersburg survey paints a mixed picture

• Crisis communications case study: BellSouth

• FSA to lead detailed benchmarking project to assess the resilience of the UK financial sector

• Telework as a business continuity strategy

• Revised draft Civil Contingencies Act regulations, guidance and implementation timetable published

• NIST to release more recommendations from World Trade Center investigation

• Agreement aims to forge stronger global defences against epidemics

• The future of high availability

• It’s a funny business…

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