news headlines: 13th September 2007

‘How to deploy BS 25999’
A new white paper, jointly written by Avalution Consulting and BSI Management Systems America.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: World•Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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NDR is a finalist in National Business Awards
UK business continuity company up for ‘The Cable & Wireless Award for Customer Focus’.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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AIRMIC offers the opportunity to assess different risk management information software packages
Free event takes place on Friday 28th September in London.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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INTERPOL urges integrated global cyber-crime investigation network to combat online threats
“Law enforcement agencies and the private sector need to work more closely together, with countries creating specialist joint units ready to respond to a cyber-threat against their nation or to provide assistance for police anywhere in the world."
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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LINK Associates acquired by SEACOR
Well known independent UK business continuity consultancy company bought out.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets and companies
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COOP Systems adds new capabilities to myCOOP business continuity management software
Includes a premium Software as a Service hosting option, with 99.9 percent SLAs, IP-filtering, forms-based authentication, and a dedicated SQL instance.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: US/Australia/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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Virtualization and business continuity
UPDATED VMworld 2007 has seen a rash of new product announcements. Here we provide a summary of those relating to virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• New Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak confirmed in Surrey
• Perfecting and protecting your performance in a crisis
• SAVVIS opens new data center in Atlanta Metro Area
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Texas prepares for tropical storm Humberto
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