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news headlines: 12th Jan 2007

The business benefits of business continuity
Business continuity is an offensive as well as defensive business strategy – so why is so much focus given to the latter? David Honour comments.
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•Date: 12th Jan 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity management: helping to align information technology to the business needs
Steve Beck explains how BCM can be used to help resolve the important issue of aligning IT to businesses' needs.
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•Date: 12th Jan 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat provides an update on CCA duty to promote business continuity
Stakeholder bulletin sets out the way forward.
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•Date: 12th January 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: CC Act
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NIC recommends NFPA 1600 standard
US State and local governments are asked to make a voluntary adoption of the disaster/emergency management and business continuity standard.
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•Date: 12th January 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector
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INONI launches new business continuity awareness raising tool
Internet-based software enables rapid and verifiable awareness raising.
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•Date: 12th January 2007 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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ICM completes multi-million pound refresh of workplace recovery PCs
More than 5,000 of the latest Hewlett Packard Ultra Slim business PCs have been installed in ICM’s 12 UK locations.
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•Date: 12th January 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Final Katrina Workshop addresses critical role of standards for emergency preparedness
A diverse group of homeland security and emergency preparedness experts gathered yesterday (January 11) in Washington, DC, for a workshop meeting of the American National Standards Institute’s Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP) on the subject of lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina.
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•Date: 12th January 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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• Regional tsunami warning system opened in Canberra
• New Zealand emergency warning system under fire
• Wolseley selects NDR as business continuity provider
• XLink’s next generation of business continuity software for SQL & IIS Server
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• European Commission to convene oil supply crisis planning group

• DHS announces 2007 grant structure for critical infrastructure security work

• Double-Take Software launches new products offering full system protection and recovery

• NonVerba unveils new business continuity management software

• Server virtualization: do’s and don’ts for mission critical manufacturing systems

• Business continuity uptake in UAE examined

• Advice published on pandemic preparedness planning for US businesses operating overseas

• ‘Good Security – Good Business’

• Enterprises may be over-investing in some areas of data protection

• HKBN launches 'bbAid' to support emergency broadband needs for Hong Kong

• Ten assumption-busting guiding principles for business pandemic planning

• Out in the cold?

• Business continuity resolutions for 2007

• UK Financial Sector Market Wide Exercise 2006 report now available

• Adoption and spending on operational risk management will increase substantially in 2007

• The British Red Cross Disaster Response Challenge

• Neverfail names new group chief executive officer

• Harris Interactive Online survey reviews crisis planning in US companies

• 2007 set to crank up the pressure on UK networks

• Hong Kong authorities struggle to restore Internet connectivity

• OSE and Jasdaq exchanges to provide mutual business continuity support

• Onyx Group acquires North East England recovery centre

• CPM Group bought by 1105 Media

• BCM: think culture, not quick fix!

• Home working: a strategy for business continuity

• Dealing with the headache of business critical systems management

• Majority of US organizations have tested business continuity plans in last six months

• Interim report into widespread European blackout blames network operators

• OSHA develops disaster recovery tool

• New Financial Services ISAC committee to consider physical security and business continuity issues

• UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat to explore impact of pandemics on the workplace

• IEEE-USA launches critical infrastructure protection committee

• US National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: six-month status report published

• HR as a business continuity resource

• Survey looks at UK business continuity investment drivers

• Succession planning a weak point

• ContinuitySA opens a recovery centre in Botswana

• IBM to launch new data governance consultancy service

• KPMG launches whistleblowing hotline service for UK companies

• Research will examine the effects and impacts of climate change on Australia

• Australian Government enhances natural disaster relief arrangements

• ICM rejects Netstore offer

• Risk attitude of Central and Eastern European companies explored

• US National Data Awareness Project launched

• Colorado State University publishes 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast

• Blackbird Group launches integrated disaster recovery solution for Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory Services

• Buncefield Investigation Board update

• Scenario planning vs resource planning: old school vs new school?

• Top ten tips for a successful RAID implementation

• The pandemic threat: Aon assesses the ongoing risk to business

• UK companies getting better at business continuity management

• ‘Natural Disaster Resilience Kit’ launched for Queensland businesses

• Secure Freight Initiative launched by DHS and DOE

• EU research project boosts security of major events worldwide

• New telecoms continuity solution for North American market

• Netstore publishes update on ICM acquisition offer

• Emergence of avian influenza in Africa increases pandemic risk: UN Food and Agriculture Organization

• Peterborough businesses given evacuation map

• Business Continuity Student of the Year Award

• IBM X-Force predicts security trends for 2007

• Office of Emergency Management HQ and EOC opened in Brooklyn

• CA launches comprehensive IT recovery management package

• New Australian cyclone disaster management plan

• The 2006 Excellence in Business Continuity Planning Award

• ICM seeks to end Netstore speculation

• Future FEMA…

• Risks rise, but liability insurance fails to keep pace

• ACP elects 2007 board of directors

• NEC launches ExpressCluster X WAN edition for Windows

• APEC counter-terrorism exercise in Queensland

• Between a rock and a hard place

• Top ten security threats in 2007

• BCI to launch business continuity management training services

• Fuel cell designed specifically for business continuity market

• How are North American companies backing up remote office data?

• Good progress on risk management but more needed, FSA tells insurers

• Half of data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity by 2008: Gartner

• The US-CCU Cyber-Security Check List 2007

• Survey looks at pandemic planning in Hong Kong businesses

• BS 25999-1:2006 available

• New post-disaster preservative for electronic equipment introduced

• Intellectual property theft by employees is an ignored risk

• No room for complacency on Atlantic hurricane threat

• Medical Journal of Australia warns of weaknesses in Australian pandemic planning

• Call for papers: Business Continuity Journal

• British Standard Institution to launch BS 25999 part one this week

• Six week UK market wide financial sector exercise finishes

• Managing risk: stakeholder perspectives

• Chicago area to get new business continuity facility

• Phoenix IT Group publishes positive results

• Guidance for businesses on assessing future environmental threats published

• Business continuity quotations

• Critical infrastructure protection is all about operational resilience and continuity

• Risk register and assessment tool for download

• New International Workshop Agreement provides emergency preparedness and business continuity guidelines

• New software enables rapid response to time-critical emergencies

• FarStone launches RestoreIT disaster recovery software

• The State of Enterprise Infrastructure In Europe 2006: Forrester Research

• Security spending by US companies examined

• BCI-approved training comes to North America

• Law firms agree that disaster recovery plans are critical but worry about lack of funding

• ‘All-encompassing’ climate change threat must be taken seriously: UN

• Don't overlook records management when developing business continuity plans

• Why information security and business continuity management must dovetail

• Five major priorities for information security : Ernst & Young

• 175 per cent increase in Auckland emergency budget requested

• ChicagoFIRST reaches 25-member mark

• Linus to launch ‘Revive Online’

• No room for complacency on terror threat

• IT Infrastructure Management Association launches

• Are UK organisations losing the war on malware?

• New CA solutions focus on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 risks

• Automata releases training calendar for 2007

• Virtualization and business continuity

• Malicious Code Injection: it’s not just for SQL anymore

• Resilient Community Exercise - Falkirk 2006

• PlateSpin unveils ‘break-through’ disaster recovery alternative

• UK companies more reluctant than US companies to explore new data storage solutions

• FEMA update on Pacific northwest flooding

• RiskMap 2007 surveys the risk climate

• ICM provides an update on possible acquisition by Netstore

• Fraud risk management: developing a strategy for prevention, detection, and response

• National Capabilities Survey 2006 results published

• SunGard Availability Services launches ‘AdvancedRecovery’



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