Business continuity news 12 May 2006

news headlines: 12th May 2006

Business Continuity Award winners...
CIR Magazine's Business Continuity Awards have been presented - find out who won...
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•Date: 12th May 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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VoIP: business continuity thoughts
Dr. Jim Kennedy highlights areas that should be considered when designing and operating VoIP telecoms systems.
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•Date: 12th May 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Survey explores status of pandemic ‘flu continuity of operations planning in US Federal government
73 percent of respondents admit that they will not show up at their office.
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•Date: 12th May 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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IBM brings autonomic computing to grid environments
Batch-on-Grid’, allows organisations to continue operating during system failures or disasters.
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•Date: 12th May 2006• Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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SunGard announces first quarter 2006 results
SunGard Availability Services revenue increased 4 percent to $330 million for the quarter.
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•Date: 12th May 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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‘Preparing for a pandemic: strategies for business continuity when a crisis hits home’
Jones Lang LaSalle has issued a paper with the above title that provides strategies to help businesses and property owners prepare for a possible pandemic outbreak.
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•Date: 12th May 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• ASIO gets $AUS15.5 million business continuity budget
• Landslide Discussion Forum has first meeting
• TAMP Systems offers new pandemic and health crisis planning services
• Continuity Link looking for Europe-based BCM instructors
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• Business continuity program management – a critical and often overlooked aspect

• Tune-up your business continuity plan

• Report into the London terrorist attacks on 7 July 2005 published

• Singapore financial sector conducts large-scale industry-wide business continuity exercise

• Is your business ready for disaster?

• WANdisco launches new high availability disaster recovery solution for Linux

• New Unisys IT continuity solutions and server platform

• Third Buncefield progress report points to failures of safety systems

• Americas & Australasia Business Continuity Awareness Week 2006 underway

• Observations of an industry newbie

• ‘Pacific Peril’

• Businesses attacked in Athens

• Asia Pacific ministers agree joint avian influenza action plan

• New business continuity company launched to target Asia Pacific market

• SSL VPNs on the rise, says new study

• Crisis communications and disaster response

• 11 September five years later: where to from here?

• Optimising data protection in Linux environments

• DHS starts hurricane preparedness exercises

• Independent US commission concludes first hearing on roles of National Guard and Reserves in homeland security and disaster response

• La Niña not expected to affect 2006 hurricane season

• National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: Implementation Plan

• Non-US companies struggle with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

• US businesses failing to include voice communications in business continuity plans

• Survey finds 52 percent of N.American organizations have a disaster recovery or business continuity plan

• Coyote Crisis Campaign disaster drill tests bioterrorism and dirty bomb response

• Harvard Business Review Report says that a ‘flu pandemic would be single biggest threat to business continuity

• ISO workshop meeting explores standardization for international emergency preparedness

• Magnitude 8.0 near Tonga: tsunami potential

• CBI and KPMG survey business continuity take-up in London’s businesses

• 20 percent probability of next influenza pandemic being worse than 1918 outbreak: RMS

• Interagency report to Congress on financial system resilience

• Nationalisation risk rears its head in South America

• Letter to the editor…

• Basel II: many banks are behind schedule

• Assistance for flood affected businesses in Australia

• New software protects confidentiality of data while enabling access and sharing

• Pandemic simulation exercise reveals potential strains on telecommunications infrastructures

• Defining crisis management team competence

• Safety first – scenario analysis under Basel II

• ‘Dissolve FEMA, clear the table, and begin anew’ : Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

• Securities Industry Association publishes details of October industry-wide business continuity test

• New Zealand survey looks at pandemic planning in regional businesses

• DHS predesignates 2006 hurricane season response teams

• Data centre development: what makes a perfect raised floor?

• Why reputation is a major factor in business continuity and crisis management

• Take the ‘compliance self-diagnosis test’…

• FRC report critical of preparedness levels in eight hurricane prone US states

• Security investments starting to show return on investment for UK companies

• 3n launches Instacom 4.0, featuring enhanced GIS-enabled notification tools

• Many North American life insurers still in planning stage for ‘flu pandemic preparations

• Telstra Europe successfully completes ‘black building’ power failure simulation test

• You're on your own!

• Emerging threats: climate change

• Shortlist for UK Business Continuity Awards

• CCEP launches Canadian Emergency Management and Business Continuity Awards

• The Association of Contingency Planners announces new board positions

• Identity management practices now mission critical for businesses

• Pandemic planning guidelines published by New Zealand government

• NFPA 1600 seminar series

• Buncefield Investigation Board publishes second report

• BOWE BELL + HOWELL to offer print and mail business continuity services

• Interactive doubles capacity of Sydney business recovery centre

• Alternate communications during times of disaster

• Strategic pandemic planning for business: one size does not fit all

• One business continuity plan or many minis?

• Pulling the plug on telecoms business continuity

• How organizations can improve disaster preparedness for hurricane season…

• Inaugural Strohl Systems User Group Awards presented

• Webinar series available on ‘building a business and financial case for mass notification’

• MasterCard Small Business Week survey shows that 84% of US small business owners believe natural disasters won't happen to them

• AmeriVault helps to bring online backup to the Chinese market

• Lessons from UK Financial Sector Market-wide Exercise published

• The Americas & Australasia Business Continuity Awareness Week

• EU Committee of the Regions stresses the need for ‘a concerted EU-wide strategy to combat natural disasters’

• Bioterrorism: Interpol calls for further action

• Avis Europe developing new Frankfurt facility to provide disaster recovery for UK data centre

• Phoenix Award winners names released

• Business continuity planning for pandemic scenarios

• The do’s and don’ts of dealing with privileged user accounts

• Paulison to get top FEMA job

• Overview of UK financial markets contingency plans published

• Avian Influenza updates

• SBA National Small Business Week activities focus on disaster recovery

• Research reveals UK's senior management has low expectations of network security

• Information Assurance and Security in Defence

• Research collaboration to investigate VoIP vulnerabilities

• Corporate mobility becoming mission critical

• CSIA urges DHS to create an all hazards National Information Assurance Policy

• New enterprise security appliance protects against unauthorised distribution of confidential company information

• IBM BCRS sets up high availability infrastructure in Portugal

• The 2006 US tornado season has so far been the most active of the 21st century: NOAA

• Topio offers RoadRunner disaster recovery solutions to VARS

• The anatomy of Business Process–specific Key operational Risk Indicators

• US results of 5th Annual Business Continuity Compensation Survey published

• FSA establishes financial sector pandemic planning discussion group

• US, Canada and Mexico agree joint pandemic planning actions

• Activists create business continuity problem for BAA

• Survey explores the importance of messaging in the enterprise

• Power4 launches emergency power service for UK market

• It’s the people, stupid…

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