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news headlines: 10th August 2007

Business continuity standards
An overview of the results of a worldwide survey.
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Date: 10th August 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Is IT security missing the mark?
Data loss and theft continues to create business continuity problems – is this partly due to companies focusing resources on the wrong areas of IT security? By Dr. Jim Kennedy.
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Date: 10th August 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Looking to move up the business continuity career ladder?
Owen Jobling provides some useful advice.
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Date: 10th August 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC jobs
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NOAA updates Atlantic Hurricane Season outlook
As we enter the peak months of the Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA scientists are predicting an 85 percent chance of an above-normal season.
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Date: 10th August 2007• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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SNIA releases 100 year archive requirements survey report
Archive practitioners confirm ‘long term information retention crisis’.
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Date: 10th August 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Continuity² launches two-year business continuity training programme
Course is carried out during various sessions over the two year period, allowing students to develop their business continuity knowledge whilst carrying on their ‘day job’.
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Date: 10th August 2007• Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Training and events
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Solcara Control Centre to be implemented at UKvisas
• Peak 10 enters Atlanta market
• SunGard announces second quarter 2007 results
• Queensland government signs emergency warning agreement with ABC
• Former Survive Membership Services director joins ICM

• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

Gartner issues ‘virtual worlds’ warning

Sir Michael Pitt to chair UK flooding lessons learned review

Business continuity management in UK companies

Consumerization in the enterprise could ‘cripple IT’

Asia Business Continuity Awards 2007

Changes at the top at Strohl Systems

Study examines the success of social distancing during influenza pandemics

WHISPIR launches in New Zealand

HR 1 ‘Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007’ signed

Osterman Research survey looks at e-mail downtime

Phoenix wins its largest ever business continuity contract

Springfield, Australia, to get two new disaster recovery centres

Looking ahead: exploring ‘what if’ in the oil and gas industry

Small Business Disaster Response and Loan Improvements Act unanimously passed by US Senate

Demystifying data de-duplication: choosing the right solution

Will your computing facilities survive a heatwave?

BSI plans global launch for BS 25999 Part 2

365 Main reports on root cause of generator failure during power outage

Dialogue Group to acquire majority holding in Continuity SA

New incident management system for remote locations

Business continuity lessons from Buncefield

Canadian Standards Association publishes draft of Z1600 Standard on Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs for public review

Paulison testifies on FEMA reforms for 2007 Hurricane Season

UK police looking for volunteers for major Casualty Bureaux exercise

‘Step-change’ in level of UK fraud: KPMG

European SMEs have a false sense of security

Registration now open for US pandemic 'flu exercise

New risk for UK organisations: corporate manslaughter

SHARE user group publishes ‘Top five strategies to employ to ensure business continuity’

GAO report finds that Federal Agencies have ‘persistent weaknesses’ in information security

Frequency of Atlantic hurricanes doubled over last century: researchers

MarquisNet opens new co-location and disaster recovery facility

Case study: relocation of AIB’s main data centres

Inspector Morse on BS 25999… PART TWO

The bonding between bandwidth, backup and continuity

Property insurance as it relates to business continuity planning

The clustered revolution: a paradigm shift in the storage industry

THINKstrategies survey looks at selection criteria for outsourced backup services

‘The Terrorist Threat to the US Homeland’

Sentryx extends business continuity training locations

DHS gives final details of Homeland Security Grants

New software takes the guesswork out of change impact analysis

Malware 2.0 targets Web 2.0

‘More central government support needed following major incidents’: Buncefield Major Incident Investigation Board

2007 Terrorism Threat Map

NIST begins technical study of South Carolina warehouse fire

SunGard to acquire VeriCenter

Westlin and Zogmo collaborate to provide dual data center IT continuity solution

The rise and rise of horizon scanning in risk management programmes

UK government announces review to learn lessons from June floods

FERMA speaks out against moves towards an ISO risk management standard

Canadian Award for Business Continuity Management presented to CIBC Mellon's Elizabeth Beaver

GAO asked to evaluate DHS disaster response capabilities

ALARM Annual Awards 2007

Catching the data wave

Rethinking telecommunications backup strategies

COOP Systems releases myCOOP Version 6.0

Virtualization services market to reach $11.7 billion by 2011

Web seminar to focus on business continuity in the public sector

Business Continuity Institute takes the examination route

Survey finds business continuity failures in Irish government departments

New IBM data storage solutions provide virtualization and grid computing capabilities

DRI Asia Pte Ltd and DRII part company

SonicWALL solution provides recovery facility alternative

UK leads the way in supporting global disaster risk reduction partnership

GAO reports on status of US critical infrastructure protection

Designing a business continuity training program to maximize value and minimize cost

Inspector Morse on BS 25999…

New US emergency planning standards released for public comment

The corporate management of crises

Finjan warns about ‘crimeware kit’ for targeting businesses’ data

US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs schedules hearing on dirty bomb vulnerabilities

Understanding and applying BS 25999-2

INTERPOL proposes a new international anti-terror strategy

Severe flooding continues to impact Kansas

BCI to launch special interest groups

IBM opens Randburg Business Continuity Centre

NDR expands its inner London recovery centre

Update on World Trade Center 7 NIST investigation

Hurricane response and recovery resources available from OSHA

Is not having a business continuity plan ever an acceptable risk?

Achieving NERC CIP compliance utilizing ISO 17799:2005

Basel II and financial institution resiliency

UK business continuity salary survey report

Countries must step up disaster reduction efforts: UN

Zeus launches data center load balancing solution

BSI to develop BS 25777 ICT Continuity

Unified communications critical to disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning

‘Overview of Financial Sector Pandemic Flu Planning’

Survey of facilities managers highlights their key role within business continuity management

Gateshead gets a workplace recovery centre

Fire suppression system backup

Sydney prepares for an APEC experience

Storage virtualization: enabling better business continuity

Instant messaging emerging as mission critical business tool

Details of FEMA National Advisory Council published

NIST WTC recommendations spur new model building codes

Virginia Tech signs up with 3n

Lessons from the frontline

Pyxis study reveals business continuity planners' preference for handhelds over laptops

Sandia and FDA develop new food safety risk assessment system

Virtualization survey identifies new security challenges

Egenera awarded N+1 disaster recovery patent

The time to act is always now

New Civil Contingencies Act implementation guidance

Taking a serious threat seriously: FBI-led nuclear terrorism conference

DTI ‘targets the weakest link’

E-mail disaster recovery market explored

EVault offers VMware users hot backups and faster restores of entire virtual machine environments

Duplicating the success of data deduplication

The ‘consumerization’ of IT is a major threat to enterprise security: Gartner

Phoenix to develop new recovery centre in Farnborough

New International Health Regulations come into force

Additional Federal assistance made available to states impacted by the 2005 hurricane season

Are Solid Oxide Fuel Cells the future for power protection?

Pakistan Prime Minister promises an end to power shortages

September will be Fourth Annual US National Preparedness Month

AT&T survey sees high take-up of business continuity amongst London businesses

Report published on Cumpston 06

Fuel cells as a business continuity measure

Is IT downtime out of control?




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