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news headlines: 14th June 2006

Business continuity unwrapped...
During the spring of 2006, Continuity Central, in partnership with SteelEye, conducted a detailed survey into business continuity practices across the world. The full results are now available.
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Date: 14th June 2006 • Region: UK/N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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‘The Risk Intelligent Enterprise ERM Done Right’
A new Deloitte & Touche LLP white paper explores the latest thinking in enterprise risk management.
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Date: 14th June 2006• Region: N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: Op. risk
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NIST releases report on Katrina-Rita impacts on structures
Stricter adherence to standards/codes and more focus on storm surge impacts are the keys to minimizing hurricane damage.
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Date: 14th June 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: BC facilities and buildings
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‘List of business issues for firms to consider when planning for a pandemic’
The UK FSA’s Financial Sector Discussion Group on Pandemics has published a useful checklist for firms making pandemic business continuity plans.
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Date: 14th June 2006• Region: UKType: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Factoring climate change into risk assessment and management processes
The ‘Living with Climate Variability and Change’ conference from July 17th to 21st, 2006, in Espoo, Finland, will bring together private and public sector stakeholders to discuss the above subject.
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Date: 14th June 2006• Region: W.Europe/World Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• UK government tests pandemic ‘flu preparations
• HSE publishes feedback from Buncefield safety alert
• Businesses in Hungarian city of Miskolc hit hard by water contamination
• Researchers develop fail-safe techniques for erasing magnetic storage media - to
protect sensitive data

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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

Reputational risk assessment

Current UK NHS emergency and continuity of operations plans are ‘vastly inadequate’

Business Continuity Management British Standard to be available for public review in July

‘Business continuity oversight expectations for systemically important payment systems (SIPS)’

Auckland businesses suffer wide-area power outage

APEC Pandemic Response Exercise report

Florida prepares for Alberto

Securing the mail stream

Standardization for enterprise power security and continuity

Testing still the business continuity weak link

Counter terrorism and business

Continuity Central shortlisted for BT IT security journalism awards

Automata International Business Continuity Summer School

European Commission helps to establish $70 million avian ‘flu facility at the World Bank

Significant differences exist between how directors understand risk and how their companies manage risk

Lords Select Committee publishes review of Government risk management policies and activities

BCI publishes Italian version of Business Continuity Good Practice Guidelines

Instant Messaging attacks jump 500 percent in May

GAO reports on US tsunami preparedness

IBM to launch pandemic preparedness consulting service

‘London’s emergency plans must be changed’, says London Assembly report into 7th July bombings

International Facility Management Association provides view of current state of pandemic planning

University of Illinois at Chicago launches online ‘Emergency Management and Continuity Planning Campus Certificate’ course

Australia to lead APEC pandemic response exercise

BT launches ‘Risk Cockpit’

Disaster planning guidelines for gulf coast businesses

Business continuity training: a snapshot

Pandemic planning: a review of respirator and mask protection levels

DHS launches Ready Business Mentoring Initiative

Contingency Planning Exchange’s Washington DC Chapter launch meeting

IBM introduces ‘next-generation storage virtualization software’

Securing software

UCF, Georgia researchers: New Orleans is the US city most at risk of hurricane damage in 2006

CD available to help businesses in Eastern England deal with business crime and make terrorism preparations

WHO concerned about cluster of human H5N1 deaths in Indonesia

New ISO standard aims to ensure the security of financial transactions on the Internet

DHS outlines Hurricane Season preparations

‘Learning from disasters’

Terrorists hiding computer files in plain sight: steganography less observable than encryption

Hurricane season: there’s good news and there’s bad news

Guidelines for improving and protecting corporate reputation

Emerson survey looks at power outage costs to US businesses

IAEM pushes for Paulison appointment

America unprepared…

SEC details next steps for Sarbanes-Oxley implementation

Business continuity plan development

The anatomy of Business Process–specific Key Operational Risk Indicators : Part two

In their own words…

Business continuity / wireless gateway solution for enterprises launched

SNIA Europe end user survey looks at current data storage practices

Pacific Wave 06

‘Business Checklist for Pandemic Flu Planning’

Last minute actions to protect your business from storm damage

‘Array Business Continuity Flex Plan’ aims to help companies deal with emergency surges in remote access

Web@Work survey highlights keylogging threat

Typhoon Chanchu impacts SE Asia

New England flooding: FEMA sitrep

Comprehensive survey into business continuity activities of UK organisations published

Business Continuity Awareness Week – the journey

ICM opens 1700 seat Romford recovery centre

Federal workforce not ready to telework during influenza pandemic

UK government starts making contingency plans for potential energy shortages in 2006/2007 winter

GAO reports on the military response to Katrina and the lessons learned for future disasters

CapRock expands disaster recovery satellite services in preparation for 2006 Hurricane Season

Business Continuity Award winners...

VoIP: business continuity thoughts

Survey explores status of pandemic ‘flu continuity of operations planning in US Federal government

IBM brings autonomic computing to grid environments

SunGard announces first quarter 2006 results

‘Preparing for a pandemic: strategies for business continuity when a crisis hits home’

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




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