news headlines: 14th April 2005

NIST publishes World Trade Center collapse study
Future practices and technologies identified that potentially could have enhanced building performance and life safety capabilities on 9-11.
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•Date: 14th April 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC facilities
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Most common items which are overlooked in business continuity plans
Edwards Information has published a checklist of easily forgotten issues.
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•Date: 14th April 2005 • Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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European Commission to undertake Europe wide pandemic response exercise
Will test crisis management, pandemic response plans and inter-operability.
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•Date: 14th April 2005 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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DHS provides new grants for protecting transit systems
Over $141 million in targeted anti-terrorism grants.
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•Date: 14th April 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 may pose new business continuity threat
Automatic deployments of SP2 started this week – could cause downtime causing application problems.
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•Date: 14th April 2005 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Microsoft releases public beta of Data Protection Manager
• Telecommunications Resilience and Recovery Association conference
• Brunei Shell Petroleum and Brunei Ministry of Finance sign disaster recovery agreement
• New site to help UK businesses tackle identity fraud
• Business Continuity Basics
• Lab testing kit error could trigger influenza pandemic
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