Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• Is ‘incident’ a better term to use rather than ‘emergency’ and ‘crisis’ within BCM? Go

• Basel II takes major step forward Go

• Risk of electricity blackouts increasing: survey Go

• Gartner highlights the importance of risk assessment in outsourcing contracts Go

• Get out of jail free? Go

• NASD publishes notice to members on business continuity planning regulations... Go

• Continuing the training debate... Go

• Australian government publishes terrorism advice leaflet Go

• Small businesses understand the importance of disaster recovery but fail to act Go

• Canada outlines new critical infrastructure framework Go

• The changing face of business continuity Go

• 9-11 Commission presented with business continuity recommendations Go

• Bank failures in mature economies Go

• DEFRA makes commitment to business continuity Go

• Banning Instant Messaging does not reduce business risks Go

• Synstar opens Luxembourg business recovery centre Go

• NASDAQ reports that it has successfully completed market-wide disaster recovery tests Go

• Emergency notification methods: what are the risks? Go

• Building a continuity culture: the importance of measuring attitudes to risk Go

• Banks may benefit from delaying advanced compliance to Basel Go

• Risk management must be a board issue: Lloyd’s chairman Go

• Taking business continuity training and education forward Go

• IBM introduces ‘world's fastest global business continuity technology’ Go

• ICM doubles its City of London business recovery capacity Go

• Business continuity training is generally inadequate Go

• Business resilience – the next step forward for business continuity Go