Business continuity news 8th June 2005

news headlines: 8th June 2005

Top ten tips for 2005 hurricane season planning
SunGard Availability Services outlines the lessons learned from being actively involved in many post-hurricane disaster recovery invocations.
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Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Changing IT landscape presents new business continuity challenges
A Gartner report has highlighted five issues which are leading a paradigm shift in the way that organisations use and manage IT.
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•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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FSA sets out a good practice model for financial sector stress testing
Invites comments from firms.
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•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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TelCove enters the disaster recovery and business continuity market
‘Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Transport Solution’ offers solutions for high-bandwidth, high availability data backup and recovery.
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•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Permanent deep-sea sensors set-up to monitor seismic activities
Europe’s first deep-sea seismic sensor will help to provide early warning of tsunamis.
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•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: W.Europe • Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Iron Mountain launches FACTA-ready secure shredding program
• NSI launches enhancements to Double-Take
• FEMA launches enhanced photo library database
• Monetary Authority of Singapore publishes its latest Financial Stability Review
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• 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…

• BSI publishes new fire prevention standards for businesses

• HP launches new portfolio for SMB business continuity market

• The business continuity message is getting through…

• EU and US hold high-level meeting on border and transport security

• FAIA establishes disaster recovery service for members

• HSE makes the case for sensible risk management

• Examining the insider threat

• Batten down the hatches…

• Protecting the bottom line

• One year of SOX…

• Lack of awareness is increasing the phishing threat

• UK Business Continuity Awards winners

• Medium sized UK businesses plan large business continuity and security investments in 2005

• Online Business Continuity Planning Starter Kit launched

• Small and medium-sized businesses facing increasing security and regulatory challenges

• Business Roundtable announces initiative to expand relief and recovery in response to global natural disasters

• An alternate space review checklist

• UK Accounting Standards Board issues Operating and Financial Review standard

• The rise and rise of the chief risk officer

• ‘Getting Serious About Cybersecurity’

• FSA publishes report into off-shore outsourcers’ business continuity arrangements

• FEMA sets out the need for long-term disaster recovery committees

• ‘Assured Recovery’ software launched by XOsoft

• Finance sector struggles with e-mail compliance management and security

• Grenada situation provides wide-area disaster recovery lessons

• Telstra Europe puts business continuity plans to the test

• SOX: what does it mean for UK companies?

• The Association of Contingency Planners reaches 1,500 members mark

• Series of recovery centre open days announced by ICM

• Enterprise risk management: a long-term solution for compliance, governance and sustained growth in shareholder value

• Legal settlement on emergency evacuation needs of people with disabilities

• Restructuring plan revealed by IBM

• Avian influenza: EC proposes updated measures aimed at preventing epidemics

• Business Roundtable publishes business protection guidance

• Basel Committee issues guidance on the compliance function in banks

• ‘Metropolitan Continuity Service’ launched by Lightpath

• IBHS business continuity guide for small businesses

• The top five ways that companies benefit from emergency mass notification systems

• Continuity of operations planning : survival for government

• It never rains in Southern California…

• New survey studies what e-mail continuity measures UK companies are taking

• FEMA outlines enhanced preparations for hurricane disaster recovery

• European Commission sets up expert group to advise on corporate governance developments

• US National Counterterrorism Center and Department of State publish terrorism updates

• Business Continuity Awards short list now available

• SunGard Availability Services releases economic justification tools

• Anti-spam controls are reducing the reliability of e-mail communications

• Solution launched to enforce regulatory compliance for employees and third parties

• Factors to be considered when selecting a business continuity planner and partner

• Do-it-yourself information availability not worth the effort: IDC

• Universal Imaging Utility 2.0 : the next evolution in disk imaging

• Outstanding disaster recovery efforts rewarded with the SBA Phoenix Award

• Web server attacks and website defacements increase by 36 percent

• Is climate change a business continuity issue?

• Iron Mountain issues advice on privacy issues with backup tapes

• HP looks to broaden its approach to business continuity

• SunGard publishes first quarter 2005 results

• Synstar to open new Thames Valley business recovery centre

• Measuring operational risk management systems under Basel II

• IBM launches ‘Resilience Program Assessment’ service

• Unisys “overcomes time and distance barriers of IT disaster recovery”

• Is grid computing technology coming of age?

• Outsourcing trend starts to fall off

• Australian Prudential Regulation Authority publishes business continuity regulations

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