news headlines: 13th April 2006

Emerging threats: climate change
A year ago, Continuity Central published an article which asked 'Is climate change a business continuity issue?' 12 months on, we revisit the issue and explore how our knowledge of climate change as a business continuity threat has moved on.
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•Date: 13th April 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Alternate communications during times of disaster
Dr. Jim Kennedy presents some alternatives to enable informed decisions to be made about backup communications.
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•Date: 13th April 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Strategic pandemic planning for business: one size does not fit all
Dan Dorman, Continuity Manager for DHL, highlights one area of pandemic planning which he feels has not yet received much attention: strategy.
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•Date: 13th April 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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One business continuity plan or many minis?
What type of business continuity plans does an organization need? One all-inclusive plan? Many small, functional unit plans? John Glenn explores.
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•Date: 13th April 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC plan development
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Pulling the plug on telecoms business continuity
Feeling confident that your business continuity plan covers everything? Then pull the plug on your telephone system and see what happens, says Graham Chick, chief executive, GemaTech.
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•Date: 13th April 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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How organizations can improve disaster preparedness for hurricane season…
Advice from SunGard Availability Services.
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•Date: 13th April 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Inaugural Strohl Systems User Group Awards presented
The winners are Southern Company, Colorado Springs Utilities and Rex Engstrand of Wells Fargo.
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•Date: 13th April 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Webinar series available on ‘building a business and financial case for mass notification’
In this Webinar series, 3n and two distinguished guest speakers, will discuss the concepts and tools needed to build a compelling business case for mass notification, determine ROI, and ultimately, obtain critical upper management buy-in.
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•Date: 13th April 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Events
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MasterCard Small Business Week survey shows that 84% of US small business owners believe natural disasters won't happen to them
More realistically, 77% believe that they are not as prepared as they could be!
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•Date: 13th April 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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AmeriVault helps to bring online backup to the Chinese market
AmeriVault executives mentor a start-up company focused on bringing backup and disaster recovery managed services to Chinese businesses.
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•Date: 13th April 2006• Region: Asia • Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• ICM sets date for opening of new London Business Continuity Centre
• Companies failing to address the weak link in information security
• Master Plus provides mission critical power protection
• Senior management unaware of implications of MiFID, finds KPMG International survey
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• 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…

• Business continuity training: still room for improvement

• My week with Avian ‘Flu

• New survey shows large gap between awareness and action when it comes to pandemic threat

• AWWA report helps utilities help utilities following disasters

• Staff misuse of the Internet risks damaging reputation of UK companies

• Businesses in the City and central London warned about possible May Day weekend disruption

• UK learns lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

• Cyclone Larry update

• Gulf Coast being prepared for 2006 hurricane season

• New Bahrain data centre offers regional business continuity and high availability services

• Gemini Resilience Workplace 2.0 released

• Ten remote-access failures to avoid in a disaster

• Cyber extortion is now a very real threat – is your business at risk?

• Strohl Systems begins beta test of LDRPS 10

• Are holograms the future for data storage?

• New Zealand government consults on ICT safety and security issues

• Letter to the editor…

• FluPlanner: pandemic modelling software available for download

• UK Tripartite Authorities clarify financial stability and business continuity roles

• Atlantic hurricane frequency and intensity will remain elevated for at least the next five years

• No excuses: CBI warns Scottish businesses to take business continuity seriously

• APRA publishes outsourcing risk management proposals

• Tropical Cyclone Larry update

• Scotland Online invests £1.7m in new Dundee centre

• ‘Managed transition’ is an essential aspect of pandemic planning

• New survey throws doubts on the level of business continuity planning within US companies

• Significant improvements made in broadcasters’ business continuity abilities: National Association of Broadcasters

• Grant provided to enable Nigerian Stock Exchange to develop robust business continuity and disaster recovery plans

• Canadian companies get pandemic planning guide

• FSSCC annual report published

• New disaster recovery solution for Exchange

• Many UK employees have a poor attitude to IT risks

• Business continuity management : the nine deadly sins

• Business continuity and disaster recovery outsourcing issues

• Hundred-year storm hits northern Queensland

• Testing still the weak link in many IT continuity plans: HP survey

• TISP disaster resilience guide available for public review

• Managed services market in Europe forecast to triple in value over next five years

• Avian ‘flu: what does it mean to business continuity?

• Keeping the VoIP house in order

• Business continuity management British Standard update

• Incomplete content management puts compliance initiatives at risk

• NOAA highlights US drought and wildfire concerns

• SBA asks private sector to join policy discussion on disaster response

• FSA asks for feedback on Resilience Benchmarking discussion paper

• Survey explores the growing threat of cybercrime

• Protecting Against Terrorism: new guidance document published for UK businesses

• Business continuity, resiliency and disaster recovery are the top priorities for US CSOs in 2006

• IMF highlights the potential global economic and financial impact of an influenza pandemic

• New mandatory security standard to help Federal Agencies protect information systems

• UK and Europe business continuity salary benchmark study published

• Cash crisis would result in many London businesses not surviving a ‘flu pandemic

• Protecting payment processes

• Australia’s emergency management chief resigns

• FEMA entering next phase of Katrina and Rita recovery

• BC Expo 2006 becomes the UK’s largest ever business continuity event

• Katrina: why risk management failed

• Testing your contingency plans, successfully

• Beware of stereotypes…

• Future trends in data lifecycle management

• ICM to launch new business continuity centre in Scotland

• Drought worsens in Southwest US and southern Plains

• Australian and New Zealand IT budgets on the rise: security and disaster recovery are major focal points

• UN launches central disaster relief fund to speed up emergency assistance

• New Stratus entry-level fault-tolerant server offers 99.999 percent availability

• Business continuity budgets of US companies rising

• Fire damage costs business over £2 million every day: ABI

• ProtectingAmerica.org launched: new national coalition calls for disaster response and recovery reforms

• BT offers telecoms continuity assistance to Cable&Wireless business customers

• SunGard’s second London Technology Centre open for business

• Safer Business: London First working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police to promote businesses protection initiatives

• Sunspots will be an increasing threat to communications and power supplies

• Disaster Recovery Site Selection Matrix

• ICM sees 17 percent growth in business continuity revenue

• FSTC extends business continuity benchmarking project

• World Bank approves $80 million loan to help Colombia to reduce Bogota’s vulnerability to natural disasters

• Baltimore businesses get new disaster recovery option

• National Academies publishes ‘Fact Sheets on Terrorist Attacks’

• Asigra launches ‘Backup Lifecycle’ management solution

• Civil Contingencies Act deadline looming for UK local authorities

• Are local authorities ready to promote BCM to their communities?




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