Business continuity news 10th February 2005

news headlines: 10th February 2005

Businesses threatened by upcoming IT workforce shortage
Gartner's people3 says organisations must implement a workforce planning process to address the threat.
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•Date: 10th February 2005 • Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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7 percent budget increase requested for US Department of Homeland Security in 2006
Includes an additional $20 million for Enhanced Catastrophic Disaster Planning.
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•Date: 10th February 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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EU sets out global climate change mitigation agenda
New business and community resilience measures will be necessary.
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•Date: 10th February 2005 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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McKesson and SunGard Availability Services to offer specialist disaster recovery solution for hospitals
New CC/DR service provides the ‘most comprehensive hospital clinical continuity and disaster recovery solution’.
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•Date: 10th February 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Houston selected for AT&T network disaster recovery exercise
Exercise will begin on Monday, February 21st and a Networking Leaders’ Forum will follow on Tuesday, February 22nd.
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•Date: 10th February 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• IBM wins Metropolitan Transportation Authority contract
• Enterprise Power Security and Continuity Summit
• Microsoft has released a Security Bulletin
• Syncsort releases new version of Backup Express
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Friday 4th February / Monday 7th
Thursday 3rd February
Tuesday 1st Feb - Weds 2nd

Friday 28th Jan - Monday 31st
Thursday 27th January
Wednesday 26th January

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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• SIA publishes Critical Infrastructure Guide

• New research programme aims to increase EU-wide resilience

• Basel II will be the focus of IT investments for Western European Banks in 2006 and 2007

• The ins and outs of workplace recovery

• When activists attack

• Is your business interruption insurance as comprehensive as you think?

• Information security attack summary: January

• New research uncovers security and audit risks exposed in business documents

• Climate change cards put on the table

• New product aims to eliminate computer system crashes and software security flaws

• De Nederlandsche Bank publishes business continuity assessment framework

• Business continuity management slowly gaining ground

• Fraudsters an increasing continuity threat to UK businesses

• FSA sets out 2005 business continuity goals

• Business Continuity Awareness Week confusion looms

• World Economic Forum warned about ‘boiling frog’ syndrome

• FSSCC annual report details progress on sector-wide business continuity preparedness

• Don’t ignore the bigger picture

• Crisis management - the known, the unknown, and the unknowable

• UK government to set up CBRN decontamination service

• NIST and NSA develop common specification language for writing security checklists and related documents

• M15 publishes bomb threat procedures for businesses

• Singapore’s Standard for Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Service Providers explored

• Survey finds that employee laptop risks still not being addressed

• Strohl Systems launches PLANet 2.0

• New board of directors for the Association of Contingency Planners

• Determining risk appetite

• Building a capable emergency management team

• Beware the ‘evil twin’

• Case study: How high availability can support business continuity

• Comment: Does the business continuity model start in the wrong place? UPDATED WITH READER COMMENTS

• Risk outlook for financial sector published by FSA

• European IT directors believe that data storage is critical to enterprise business continuity: survey

• Symantec and VERITAS announce integration team

• Stress testing continuing to evolve as a practical risk management tool

• Social continuity – consequential impacts and terrorism

• EVault expands operations in the United Kingdom

• Voting in Iraq election will take place in the UK, increasing the terror risk

• A ‘standards based’ approach to operational risk management under Basel II

• The hidden vulnerability of cities to natural disasters: underground spaces

• Resilient data centre selection and design

• ICM to launch expanded London recovery centre

• Caribbean tsunami ‘a matter of when, not if’

• Researchers developing crisis management support tool

• Japanese government to promote private-sector business continuity

• Center of Excellence for Behavioral and Social Research on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism to be established

• Nordic IT security overview

• US National Response Plan for disasters and terrorist attacks launched

• The threat within - why businesses need to manage and monitor employee e-mail usage

• Security considerations for Voice over IP systems

• How much security is enough?

• Report published into UK financial markets business continuity exercise

• WAN throughput is limiting factor in many business continuity and disaster recovery plans

• Researchers develop new tool to detect bioterrorism agents

• SunGard finalises Inflow acquisition

• Communicable diseases: business continuity issues

• DRI International to promote Global Business Continuity Awareness Week

• US Treasury publishes model for regional business continuity coalitions

• UK and Ireland spending on IT security expected to double in 2005

• The ‘art’ of business continuity – BC recruiting

• Business continuity in 2005

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