news headlines: 11th April 2008

Business continuity budgets holding up
The results of Continuity Central’s recent survey.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Risk managing the future
Dr David Hillson explains that risk management is not just about preventing the undesirable, it’s also about steering businesses towards success.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Initial observations from TOPOFF 4 exercise released
Officials met on April 10 to discuss preliminary exercise observations.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Outsourcing code development – is it a risk worth taking?
Many companies overlook mandating security when outsourcing software development: Quocirca report.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Many organizations putting all their eggs in one basket when it comes to email servers
New study finds risk-taking is common in corporate data centers.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity salary survey: your input requested
BC Management is asking all business continuity professionals to take part in its annual Compensation Benchmarking Survey.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Australia-New Zealand Business Continuity Awareness Week 2008
Continuity Forum is partnering with KPMG in Australia and AMP in NZ to run a series of events linked to the regional Business Continuity Awareness Week 2008, which is taking place between 28 April - 2 May 2008.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: Australia/NZ •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Business continuity quality assurance webinars
• IBM buys Israeli data recovery and back-up solutions company
• EMC to acquire Iomega
• Fujitsu delivers affordable business continuity for medium-sized enterprises
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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