Business continuity news 8th December 2006

news headlines: 8th Dec 2006

Scenario planning vs resource planning: old school vs new school?
Scenario planning does NOT have a role to play in business continuity plan development emphasises Saul Midler.
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•Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: Australia/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Top ten tips for a successful RAID implementation
Using RAID technology? Alex Young provides some help.
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•Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The pandemic threat: Aon assesses the ongoing risk to business
A sense of complacency seems to be creeping in…
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•Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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UK companies getting better at business continuity management
According to the latest British Standards Institution Business Barometer.
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•Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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‘Natural Disaster Resilience Kit’ launched for Queensland businesses
Part of long term survival strategy for cyclone-threatened areas.
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•Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Secure Freight Initiative launched by DHS and DOE
Aimed at preventing a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb attack on US soil.
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•Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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EU research project boosts security of major events worldwide
Develops a handbook of best practice for security at major events.
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•Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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New telecoms continuity solution for North American market
CallSureDR aimed at small and medium enterprises.
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•Date: 8th Dec 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in the Financial Services Sector
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning Conference
• Telstra Europe launches remote back up solution for UK businesses
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

Business Continuity Journal now available

• Netstore publishes update on ICM acquisition offer

• Emergence of avian influenza in Africa increases pandemic risk: UN Food and Agriculture Organization

• Peterborough businesses given evacuation map

• Business Continuity Student of the Year Award

• IBM X-Force predicts security trends for 2007

• Office of Emergency Management HQ and EOC opened in Brooklyn

• CA launches comprehensive IT recovery management package

• New Australian cyclone disaster management plan

• The 2006 Excellence in Business Continuity Planning Award

• ICM seeks to end Netstore speculation

• Future FEMA…

• Risks rise, but liability insurance fails to keep pace

• ACP elects 2007 board of directors

• NEC launches ExpressCluster X WAN edition for Windows

• APEC counter-terrorism exercise in Queensland

• Between a rock and a hard place

• Top ten security threats in 2007

• BCI to launch business continuity management training services

• Fuel cell designed specifically for business continuity market

• How are North American companies backing up remote office data?

• Good progress on risk management but more needed, FSA tells insurers

• Half of data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity by 2008: Gartner

• The US-CCU Cyber-Security Check List 2007

• Survey looks at pandemic planning in Hong Kong businesses

• BS 25999-1:2006 available

• New post-disaster preservative for electronic equipment introduced

• Intellectual property theft by employees is an ignored risk

• No room for complacency on Atlantic hurricane threat

• Medical Journal of Australia warns of weaknesses in Australian pandemic planning

• Call for papers: Business Continuity Journal

• British Standard Institution to launch BS 25999 part one this week

• Six week UK market wide financial sector exercise finishes

• Managing risk: stakeholder perspectives

• Chicago area to get new business continuity facility

• Phoenix IT Group publishes positive results

• Guidance for businesses on assessing future environmental threats published

• Business continuity quotations

• Critical infrastructure protection is all about operational resilience and continuity

• Risk register and assessment tool for download

• New International Workshop Agreement provides emergency preparedness and business continuity guidelines

• New software enables rapid response to time-critical emergencies

• FarStone launches RestoreIT disaster recovery software

• The State of Enterprise Infrastructure In Europe 2006: Forrester Research

• Security spending by US companies examined

• BCI-approved training comes to North America

• Law firms agree that disaster recovery plans are critical but worry about lack of funding

• ‘All-encompassing’ climate change threat must be taken seriously: UN

• Don't overlook records management when developing business continuity plans

• Why information security and business continuity management must dovetail

• Five major priorities for information security : Ernst & Young

• 175 per cent increase in Auckland emergency budget requested

• ChicagoFIRST reaches 25-member mark

• Linus to launch ‘Revive Online’

• No room for complacency on terror threat

• IT Infrastructure Management Association launches

• Are UK organisations losing the war on malware?

• New CA solutions focus on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 risks

• Automata releases training calendar for 2007

• Virtualization and business continuity

• Malicious Code Injection: it’s not just for SQL anymore

• Resilient Community Exercise - Falkirk 2006

• PlateSpin unveils ‘break-through’ disaster recovery alternative

• UK companies more reluctant than US companies to explore new data storage solutions

• FEMA update on Pacific northwest flooding

• RiskMap 2007 surveys the risk climate

• ICM provides an update on possible acquisition by Netstore

• Fraud risk management: developing a strategy for prevention, detection, and response

• National Capabilities Survey 2006 results published

• SunGard Availability Services launches ‘AdvancedRecovery’

• UN agency unveils web portal to help tourism industry respond to disasters

• ‘Navigating Risk: The Business Case for Security’

• Council of the European Union and European Commission conducts crisis exercise

• American Red Cross pushes business continuity

• FEMA publishes 2007 NIMS compliance package

• BCM Challenges for 2007

• Contributors required…

• Dashboard for major virtualization platforms introduced by IBM

• SunGard announces third quarter 2006 results

• Will climate change mitigation see the convergence of business continuity and business sustainability planning?

• New evacuation and shelter guide for UK emergency planners

• UK Tripartite Authorities release final version of Business Continuity Management Practice Guide

• AT&T staging network disaster-recovery drill in South Florida

• ICM launches ‘packaged’ business continuity service aimed at SMEs

• Hosted business continuity planning software unveiled

• F5 and Double-Take partner to enable enterprises to accelerate data replication over WANs

• Data storage survey looks at changing practices

• New Zealand law change provides new insolvency options for companies

• Researchers publish review of latest H5N1 variant

• New EMC Software provides more data recovery options

• Continuous data protection comes of age

• Dealing with people after disasters

• New ISO/PAS helps supply chain continuity

• Whitney National Bank learns business continuity lessons from Hurricane Katrina

• New research shows the growing threat posed by drought

• China industrial development resulting in increasing exposure to earthquakes

• Action list for developing a computer security incident response team

• 3rd Annual Information Security Workforce Study results

• Survey explores the likely responses of people to an influenza pandemic

• Independent lab finds that NeverFail offers ‘best protection’ for Exchange failure

• easyJet outsources critical IT infrastructure

• US financial services industry business continuity test ‘a success’

• Workforce continuity survey conducted by Forrester

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat and Emergency Planning Society to work together to develop a ‘competency framework’ for UK civil protection

• GemaTech launches BCMLITE
Option II

• Australia National E-Security Awareness Week taking place

• IBM to launch Virtual Workplace Continuity service

• UK tests ‘intelligent sensors’ for real-time flood warning system

• A supervisory perspective on enterprise risk management

• Remote working has risks as well as business continuity benefits

• Queensland Government publishes pandemic-related business continuity resources

• Risk management is essential to every business

• NOAA issues US winter forecast update

• UK tests ‘intelligent sensors’ for real-time flood warning system

• Citrix survey looks at business continuity take-up in various European countries

• Outlook for the Queensland Tropical Cyclone Season 2006-07

• Financial Services Authority reports on thematic review of stress testing

• Compellent’s Thin Replication solution aims to make multi-site replication easier and cheaper

• Netstore to make bid for ICM?

• BSI launches PAS 77 IT Service Continuity Management framework

• UK critical infrastructure risks examined

• SunGard launches ‘Enhanced Recovery’

• Hawaii earthquake disaster recovery update

• BakBone survey predicts increased adoption of replication and disaster recovery solutions in North America

• WAN requirements for successful disaster recovery

• Buncefield Joint Task Group calls for immediate action

• UK financial sector Annual Market-wide Exercise gets underway

• US securities industry gears up for business continuity test

• NIST issues new computer security guidance documents

• Huge fire destroys over 100 factories in Bangladesh

• BSI Business Continuity Management Conference

• Results of the BCI Board elections

• World Bank calls for governments to increase their focus on disaster risks

• Companies failing to provide enough resources for risk management

• Australian financial sector gets pandemic planning guidance

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