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news headlines: 12th July 2006

Concentration risk high on the agenda
Many questions are being asked; what answers are required? David Honour looks at this hot topic.
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Date: 12th July 2006 • Region: UK/World Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Mumbai bombings: update page
This page will be updated as information related to business continuity becomes available.
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Date: 12th July 2006• Region: Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Continuity Central wins BT IT security journalism award
Continuity Central’s editor, David Honour, has been presented with the ‘Best business continuity story’ award in BT’s IT Security Journalism Awards 2006.
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Date: 12th July 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: PR
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Strohl Systems launches LDRPS 10
Will be available in three distinct and scalable versions.
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Date: 12th July 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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ICM announces contract wins for London Essex Business Continuity Centre
Group says that it shows that London-based companies are changing their approach to recovery facility provision.
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Date: 12th July 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Jersey City’s Exchange Place station will be the venue for US rail security pilot project test
The effectiveness of imaging technologies will be evaluated for detecting explosives from a distance in a rail transportation setting.
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Date: 12th July 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• ‘Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Guide for Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources’
• Florida State University gets $6.2 million grant to build hurricane prediction model
• Interpol issues alert after Al Qaeda suspects escape prison

• San Francisco businesses focus on pandemic awareness and preparedness
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

Mumbai paralysed by coordinated bombing attack

July 7th 2005: looking back for the future

Intellectual property theft and business continuity: a case study
Part two

The Conference Board publishes the results of a comprehensive survey into ‘flu pandemic planning

DHS announces that almost $400 million in grants are available to secure the US’s critical infrastructure

EU launches initiative to enhance ICT security and dependability across the European Community

Avian influenza risk: Defra publishes working document

Iron Mountain calls for records management readiness for MiFID compliance

FSA publishes Resilience Benchmarking Project feedback and draft business continuity management guide

Board members on risk: new Ernst & Young study

UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction: nominations now being accepted

Civil Contingencies Secretariat launches the ‘Local Response Gateway’

Hackers' heaven…

In the spotlight: the human side of business continuity planning

Draft version of BS 25999-1 now available for download

DHS completes National Infrastructure Protection Plan

UK IT director survey finds that only one third of respondents have a documented business continuity strategy

HSE issues new safety alert to fuel depot operators as a result of ongoing Buncefield investigation

Selling business continuity investment to the boss

A perfect storm – why are some operational losses larger than others?

When the writing’s on the wall…

Intellectual property theft and business continuity: a case study

Continuity Central and BCI to publish journal of record for the business continuity profession

New ISO/IEC standard developed to help businesses detect IT intruders

New research challenges current US disaster and terrorism response strategies

Flooding in North-East United States: update page

Draft version of business continuity British Standard to be released on Monday July 3rd

Flooding in North-East United States: update page

Banking banana skins poll results

‘Plan for power’, says Datacentre Networking Group

ACP initiative to help US small and medium-sized businesses develop business continuity plans

New e-book published: ‘101 uses for emergency notification’

Disaster recovery unwrapped...

Report warns of lack of preparation to recover the Internet following a catastrophic cyber disruption

Comment on the Cadbury recall

‘Is Net neutrality bad for national preparedness?’

Ensuring the availability of America's power grid

CITYSAFE launches Virtual Exercise System

People aspects of business continuity: consider the built environment

Striking the balance between storage security and availability

Technology, media and telecoms companies are business continuity laggards

2005 Hurricane Season WAS enhanced by global warming: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Metropolitan Police Authority invites businesses to take part in 'Counter-Terrorism: The London Debate'

TOPOFF 4 and Forward Challenge 2006 exercise completed

Risk managers told to punch their weight

Data leakage: a real business continuity issue

AT&T's 2006 business continuity study

Consumer businesses face increasing threat from intellectual property theft

Auckland major power outage: the business continuity impacts

Many companies don't realise they are taking huge risks due to gaps in insurance cover for environmental incidents

Tek-Tools releases Backup Policy Auditor

Five application integration trends to watch

Department of Homeland Security publishes review of catastrophic event preparedness

How prepared are UK businesses for disaster?

Continuity Central supporting Times business continuity supplement

Buncefield explosion cost local businesses £70 million

Business continuity a priority for the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority

Reliability is not availability

Business continuity and disaster recovery in customer services

Isolated approach can risk the best laid business continuity plans

International Oracle Users Group survey on high availability trends

US agencies provide financial institutions with hurricane-related business continuity advice

Food and drink companies 'dared' to address risk and crisis management needs

Companies see the risk of removable media but still turn a blind eye

Business continuity unwrapped...

‘The Risk Intelligent Enterprise ERM Done Right’

NIST releases report on Katrina-Rita impacts on structures

‘List of business issues for firms to consider when planning for a pandemic’

Factoring climate change into risk assessment and management processes

Reputational risk assessment

Current UK NHS emergency and continuity of operations plans are ‘vastly inadequate’

Business Continuity Management British Standard to be available for public review in July

‘Business continuity oversight expectations for systemically important payment systems (SIPS)’

Auckland businesses suffer wide-area power outage

APEC Pandemic Response Exercise report

Florida prepares for Alberto

Securing the mail stream

Standardization for enterprise power security and continuity

Testing still the business continuity weak link

Counter terrorism and business




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