Business continuity news 10 December 2004

news headlines: 10th December 2004

The unexpected benefits of good business continuity
Few realise that the benefits of a BC management programme extend far beyond the ability to recover from unpleasant events.
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•Date: 10th Dec 2004 •Region: N.America / World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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US and UK agree to work together to develop enhanced risk assessment methods for critical infrastructure protection
Formal cooperation agreed to share information and research in many areas of Homeland and civil security.
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•Date: 10th Dec 2004 • Region: N.America/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Public consultation on the UK Civil Contingencies Act regulations and guidance launched
Draft regulations and guidance documents provide much more detail on what business continuity measures are expected.
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•Date: 10th Dec 2004 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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NIST researchers explore long-life DVDs and CDs for data archiving
Long-term project aims to identify the factors which help to extend the life of optical storage materials.
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•Date: 10th Dec 2004 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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SunGard named Waters Magazine's `2004 Best Business Continuity Planning Provider'
"The sheer wealth of SunGard's offering," is the reason behind the award.
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•Date: 10th Dec 2004 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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ANSI/NFPA 1600 business continuity standard included in US Intelligence Reform Bill
The legislation requires the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to promote the standard.
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•Date: 10th Dec 2004 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• SteelEye Technology releases LifeKeeper for Windows version 4.3 and LifeKeeper Data Replication for Windows version 4.0
• IDYIA Inc. agrees partnership with IBM
• New business launched in UK to offer ‘Total Resilience Management’
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More news:
Thursday 9th December
Tuesday 7th December / Weds 8th

Friday 3rd December / Monday 6th
Weds 1st December / Thurs 2nd
Tuesday 30th November

Friday 26th November / Monday 29th
Thursday 25th November
Tuesday 23rd November / Weds 24th

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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• US Treasury reports on business continuity best practices in the financial sector

• Boardroom changes at the Business Continuity Institute

• IBM abandons Schlumberger Ireland acquisition

• When the customer might not always be right…

• Incident management checklist

• NIMS and the Incident Management System

• Singapore takes the lead in business continuity supplier certification

• Telecommunications resiliency best practices for financial institutions

• How effective is mobile telephony in a crisis?

• 2004 Excellence in Business Continuity Planning Award

• Eighth British Academy Lecture focuses on risk

• UK Business Continuity Awareness Week 2005

• SpyWare becoming a major threat to enterprise environments around the world

• Studies show that many businesses ignore the need for succession planning

• PAS 56 – defining a standard

• FEMA reports record amount of disaster aid distributed for 2004 Hurricane Season response

• UK financial markets business continuity test yields ‘encouraging results’

• Business continuity on a limited budget: part two

• Only a minority of UK companies fully understand e-mail-use compliance

• MI5 issues CBRN guidance

• UK government sets out way forward for Operating and Financial Review

• Planning for extreme events by understanding risk

• Poor crisis communications puts reputations at risk

• UK companies unprepared for Sarbanes Oxley compliance

• New power supply solution could help remote workers’ business continuity

• Looking ahead – the real threats to business

• Council survey displays need for BC jargon-busting

• The most frequently covered crises

• Business continuity aspects of the Civil Contingencies Act

• UK Civil Contingencies Bill gets Royal Assent

• BIA survey: interim results

• ICM forms logistics partnership with Fraser Eagle

• Business continuity explored...

• UK government to introduce an IT security accreditation scheme

• Business continuity and disaster recovery in the financial services sector

• SunGard Availability Services to acquire Inflow

• Wireless network deployment increasing rapidly but security not keeping up

• New edition of the Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages published

• IBM adds Indigo Stone’s ‘enterprise rapid recovery methodology’ to portfolio

• The ‘tick-a-box’ approach to business continuity

• SBA hurricane disaster recovery support tops $554 million

• EU and US adopt new measures to strengthen maritime container security

• Business continuity on a limited budget

• Reducing computer room risks

• DHS reduces financial service sector terrorist threat level

• FSA calls for improved information security in fight against fraud

• Business Continuity the Risk Management Expo 2005

• Governance rules ‘neglect key areas of risk management’

• Business Continuity Institute annual general meeting

• New generation of business security solutions uses RFID

• MI5 director-general tells companies to invest in business continuity

• UK government should be more open with business on security issues – CBI

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