Business continuity news 11th March 2008

news headlines: 11th March 2008

Overcoming preparedness fatigue
In the absence of an event or other external mandate, how do you keep management engaged and willing to continuously invest in organizational preparedness?
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region US/:World •Type: Article •Topic: Selling to the board
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Business discontinuity – five common mistakes and how to avoid them
Brian Davey provide some hints and tips on how to avoid five false assumptions organisations can make when implementing their business continuity management programme.
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region UK/:World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Cyber Storm II exercise underway
US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom taking part.
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region:US/Various•Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual business continuity survey
This year’s survey is supported by the Cabinet Office.
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Worldwide information security spending expected to increase in 2008
According to Cisco study.
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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A third of UK businesses leave their back-up tapes in the office overnight
69 percent of small to medium-sized companies have not tested their backup systems in the last six months.
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Covad launches business continuity service
• New York Bankers Service Corporation selects Strohl Systems to provide business continuity planning software for members
• Lahore hit by bomb attacks
• Major disaster declared for Illinois
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Cyclone Jokwe lashes Mozambique
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