news headlines: 10th February 2006

Some thoughts on exercise scenarios and plot lines
Jim Burtles explains how to go about developing suitable exercise scenarios for your organisation.
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•Date: 10th Feb 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: Testing & exercising
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Pandemic business continuity planning – things to consider
A very practical guide to pandemic planning for business continuity professionals, by Dr. Jim Kennedy.
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•Date: 10th Feb 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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It could happen tomorrow…
Not got past the stage of thinking about developing a business continuity plan? Robert Hester offers some advice for SMBs…
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•Date: 10th Feb 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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RIM develops workaround contingency plan for BlackBerry customers
Research In Motion (RIM) has provided an update in the patent litigation between RIM and NTP, Inc. RIM has developed and tested software workaround designs for all BlackBerry handsets operating on converged voice/data networks in the United States.
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•Date: 10th Feb 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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EMC enhances Retrospect
Retrospect 7.5 contains significant improvements over previous versions.
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•Date: 10th Feb 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance briefed on the ‘benefits of mitigation’
The US Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance has received a briefing on how to assess the benefits of disaster mitigation activities.
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•Date: 10th Feb 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• UK government launches National Capabilities Survey, 2006

• Suicide bombers the focus of Project Kalkan meeting

• Potential pandemic impacts on just-in-time logistics highlighted

• Continuity Forum ‘BCM Standard Consultation Briefing and Discussion’

• New NetApp solutions aim at data backup, recovery, and protection challenges

• WHO update: avian influenza situation in Nigeria

• To gain a sense of perspective, it helps to take the blinders off: a rebuttal

• The BCI joins AIRMIC, ALARM, and the IRM to launch ‘The Risk Federation’

• US financial markets business continuity test scheduled

• China's small and medium businesses starting to take business continuity seriously

• Management changes at ICM

• Partnership initiative launched by IAEM and GVF

• Double-Take for Virtual Systems launched

• Emerging threats 2006: VoIP

• GAO publishes ‘Preliminary Observations on Hurricane Response’

• UK Business Continuity Awards: get your entries in

• ‘Friendly worms’ set to be the next big thing in anti-virus protection?

• La Niña conditions in place: NOAA

• Disaster Response Challenge 2006

• Business continuity lessons from Buncefield: SDPL

• Gaining a sense of perspective

• WHO publishes draft proposals for rapid response and containment of high-risk influenza outbreak

• GeoWireless launches US tour showcasing disaster recovery capabilities

• Acronis warns of the risk of Blackworm induced IT continuity problems starting 3rd February

• European Commission planning to strengthen the EU Civil Protection Mechanism

• Annual Message Management and Threat Report

• Warnings of impending worldwide energy crisis are unfounded…

• HP launches new technologies for enhanced data center reliability

• New RMS study reviews Japanese disaster risks

• First east coast US city declared TsunamiReady

• Some myths of crisis and issues communications

• Crisis communications: get it right - the first time

• Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?
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• World Economic Forum meeting examines ways to ‘harness business response to disaster’

• Telstra Europe launches Cambridge data centre

• Potential breakthrough in H5N1 vaccine development

• MP3 players : the security risk and how to manage it

• FSA publishes 2006 Financial Risk Outlook

• New approaches to risk management must be developed…

• Pandemic influenza risk poses unique threat to businesses and must be taken seriously: FSSCC

• Threat related to emerging global employment crisis highlighted by United Nations

• AT&T to conduct its largest-ever network disaster recovery exercise

• Surge in criminal-driven cyber attacks anticipated in 2006: IBM

• UK government launches Energy Review

• Loss of paper documents still a significant threat

• Gil Jamieson appointed as FEMA Deputy Director for Gulf Coast Recovery

• Automata launches ‘Trainers’ Club’

• New 3Com product offers resilient enterprise IP communications

• A decade in business continuity planning

• Incident Action List

• Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?

• Buncefield investigation board established

• Fast-growing private US companies are voluntarily adopting Sarbanes-Oxley principles

• Business Continuity Institute publishes Voluntary Supplier Declaration forms

• European Commission proposes new flood protection directive

• e-mail data management challenges surveyed

• US Department of Agriculture conducting five food defense exercises through 2006

• Avian influenza updates

• Eight best practices in implementing disaster recovery protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

• UPDATED No more excuses…

• Recommendations for improved US crisis and disaster preparedness made by the National Homeland Security Consortium

• European banking industry attitudes towards IT continuity explored

• Patent granted for telecoms continuity product

• Managing Risk and Business Continuity in the Public Sector

• Aon publishes 2006 political risk assessment

• Fire safety reform – UK government gives stakeholders more time to prepare

• American Red Cross and Operation HOPE sign disaster support agreement

• Gulf Coast recovery update published

• AmeriVault acquires Capitalbackup

• Avian influenza updates...

• Sudan 1 revisited

• IBM Australia buys Classic Blue

• Confusion between ‘archiving’ and ‘backup’ highlighted

• Avian influenza updates…

• Enterprise content management storage explored

• Emerging threats 2006: drought

• ICM to issue Voluntary Risk Statement to clients

• BC Management's 5th Annual BC/DR Study underway

• HP researchers looking to turn virus protection methods upside down

• WHO issues update on Avian influenza in Turkey

• Seeing the big picture…

• What business continuity is really all about…

• Damage forecasting service for UK and Western European winter storms launched

• 2006 London counter-terrorism advertising campaign launched

• Automata Technology Continuity and DR Masterclass 2006

• Terms of reference published for UK financial sector Cross-Market Business Continuity Group

• RMS analyses the impact of new TRIA structure

• Maintaining corporate values through an emergency

• DHS provides $765 million funding for high threat urban areas

• WMF flaw could have far-reaching enterprise impact: Gartner

• CBI tells UK organisations to make business continuity a priority

• Despite 2005’s disasters, the vast majority of Americans still believe that ‘it won’t happen to them’

• BCI appoints Technical Services Director

• SNIA survey examines state of storage management

• Final draft of US National Preparedness Goal released

• Updated NFPA 1600 standard out for consultation




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