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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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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

Tsunami warnings issued for Indian Ocean

The global state of information security

Draft National Response Framework released in US for public comment

NFPA to publish new handbook on the NFPA 1600 Standard

‘Survival of the Fittest: Disaster Recovery Design for the Data Center’

Modulo to launch business continuity software

Inaugural Business Continuity Institute Certificate examination to be held during October

MEPs call for a European natural disaster reaction force

Unknown high mortality illness breaks out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Strohl Systems adds pandemic planning module to PLANet software tool

Double-Take Software launches ‘Recovery Consulting Services’

Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland: Six Years After 9/11

Virtual servers; real problems

UK boards lack real understanding of IT risks facing their companies

Jefferson Parish launches the ‘Business Continuity Network’

Flood review website launched for public comments

More Than 1,700 organizations sign-up to take part in Fourth Annual Homeland Security National Preparedness Month

European Commission hails success of electricity suppliers surveillance system

Eton Mai and Adtapt team-up to provide new business continuity training course

Exercise Winter Willow - lessons learned document published

Protecting your business against extortion bomb threats

Glasgow factory explosion: investigation highlights issues that need considering

Virtualization and business continuity: are you protected?

US gears up for National Preparedness Month

‘Planning for a Possible Influenza Pandemic – A Framework for Planners Preparing to Manage Deaths’

Controlling bandwidth in cloud-based computing approaches

'IT Risk: turning business threats into competitive advantage'

Climate change may result in average UK river levels increasing in future

‘Words Into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework’

The North American plan for avian and pandemic influenza

SunGard schedules official opening of new Leatherhead recovery centre

Outsourcing of critical business infrastructure gathering steam

SBA and US Chamber of Commerce agree to work together to enhance disaster response and recovery

Chertoff appoints new members to Homeland Security Advisory Council

Managing the life cycles of backups

BS 25999 and certification

Business interruption insurance and its relation to business continuity planning

Business continuity and disaster recovery checklist for small business owners

FEMA update on Midwest flooding disaster recovery

WHO report highlights the ongoing pandemic risk caused by established and new pathogens

RMS estimates up to $1.5 billion insured loss from Hurricane Dean

Improving business continuity in the supply chain

Aging UK workforce creates real long-term continuity risks

Disaster early warning systems need to be enhanced: UN agency

SunGard completes VeriCenter acquisition

Accommodating people with disabilities in disasters: new FEMA reference guide

UK government submits application for EU flood funding

Hurricane Dean update page

CIOs and CSOs under pressure to improve business continuity plans

Board directors ‘struggling with corporate risks’

RecoveryPlanner.com releases re-engineered version of BCP software

Invitations issued for US financial services sector pandemic planning exercise

UK government announces advanced supply contracts for pandemic ‘flu vaccine

Business continuity standards

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NOAA updates Atlantic Hurricane Season outlook

SNIA releases 100 year archive requirements survey report

Continuity² launches two-year business continuity training programme

Gartner issues ‘virtual worlds’ warning

Sir Michael Pitt to chair UK flooding lessons learned review

Business continuity management in UK companies

Consumerization in the enterprise could ‘cripple IT’

Asia Business Continuity Awards 2007

Changes at the top at Strohl Systems

Study examines the success of social distancing during influenza pandemics

WHISPIR launches in New Zealand

HR 1 ‘Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007’ signed

Osterman Research survey looks at e-mail downtime

Phoenix wins its largest ever business continuity contract

Springfield, Australia, to get two new disaster recovery centres

Looking ahead: exploring ‘what if’ in the oil and gas industry

Small Business Disaster Response and Loan Improvements Act unanimously passed by US Senate

Demystifying data de-duplication: choosing the right solution

Will your computing facilities survive a heatwave?

BSI plans global launch for BS 25999 Part 2

365 Main reports on root cause of generator failure during power outage

Dialogue Group to acquire majority holding in Continuity SA

New incident management system for remote locations

Business continuity lessons from Buncefield

Canadian Standards Association publishes draft of Z1600 Standard on Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs for public review

Paulison testifies on FEMA reforms for 2007 Hurricane Season

UK police looking for volunteers for major Casualty Bureaux exercise

‘Step-change’ in level of UK fraud: KPMG

European SMEs have a false sense of security

Registration now open for US pandemic 'flu exercise

New risk for UK organisations: corporate manslaughter

SHARE user group publishes ‘Top five strategies to employ to ensure business continuity’

GAO report finds that Federal Agencies have ‘persistent weaknesses’ in information security

Frequency of Atlantic hurricanes doubled over last century: researchers

MarquisNet opens new co-location and disaster recovery facility

Case study: relocation of AIB’s main data centres




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