news headlines: 15th AUGUST 2003

Power outages: did you invoke your business continuity plan?
Continuity Central is collecting invocation case studies to publish in a 'lessons learned report'. If your company BCP was activated due to the North American power outages please e-mail us with brief details:
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Power outages: invocation news
SunGard Availability Services has had 100 client invocations.
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•Date: 15th August 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Power outages reveal lack of knowledge on critical infrastructure dependencies
Comment: serious questions need to be asked about the ‘domino effect’.
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•Date: 15th August 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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UPDATED North American Electric Reliability Council issues power outage update
Will take days for complete power restoration.
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•Date: 15th August 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Forbes.com power outage case study
Employees worldwide were impacted, but regained the ability to communicate and access critical information via e-mail in a matter of minutes.
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•Date: 15th August 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Power outage: assessing the impact
Aon's insurance expert Joel Phipps comments.
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•Date: 15th August 2003 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Australian government warns on high risk of terror attacks in Jakarta
Western businesses are high on the target list.
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•Date: 15th August 2003 • Region: Australia / Asia Pacific •Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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Are you indulging in unprotected wireless?
Ian Kilpatrick highlights the business continuity risks associated with wireless networking.
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•Date: 15th August 2003 •Region: UK/Worldwide •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Asia-Pacific Human Resources Conference 2003
SARS risk management and response issues high on the agenda.
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•Date: 15th August 2003 • Region: SE Asia/Asia Pacific •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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