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news headlines: 15th December 2005

UK financial system given high marks for resiliency
The tripartite authorities’ Resilience Benchmarking project has found that core parts of the financial system have highly resilient IT systems; but there is room for improvement…
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Date: 15th Dec 2005 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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UPDATED Business continuity lessons from Buncefield
48 hours after a huge explosion at a UK fuel depot, firefighters were still trying to extinguish the fire. Various BC lessons can be gleaned from the incident.
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Date: 15th Dec 2005 • Region: UK/World Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Tribal thinking in today’s IT environments
Tribal thinking is human nature at its most basic - and may explain one of the more puzzling aspects of IT security. By David M Lynch.
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Date: 15th Dec 2005 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Temple University survey explores public crisis communications
What the general public needs to hear during a disaster and who they expect to hear it from...
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Date: 15th Dec 2005 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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Fail to prepare for ‘flu threat and you risk a law-suit epidemic…
Businesses with no communicable illness policy and response plan may find themselves on legal life support for years to come, if pandemic influenza becomes a reality, according to Littler Mendelson, the US's largest employment and labor law firm.
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Date: 15th Dec 2005 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Adam Continuity in action in Buncefield disaster
• Four weeks remaining to apply for SBA disaster loans
• Storage market grows by 10 percent
• US-CERT warning on Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities

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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
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Remote and mobile workforce boom increases business risks

International SOS survey looks at state of US firms' pandemic planning

UK tripartite authorities set out financial sector crisis management arrangements

Teleworking - business continuity opportunities and threats

Flexible working: time to take the next step?

Beware the blog…

Lloyd's welcomes the step towardsTRIA renewal, but seeks a permanent solution

Joint SBA and Project Restore HOPE scheme launched to help US Gulf Coast disaster recovery

Small US companies see a growing need for business continuity…

Global Study looks at regional differences in contact / call centre disaster recovery preparedness

Using air sampling smoke detection to protect mission critical facilities from fire

More needs to be done to protect US Pacific Northwest from tsunami threat

Tropical Storm Risk consortium offers 2006 North Atlantic hurricane season forecast

Australian Stock Exchange makes business continuity investment

BRMA presents 2005 Excellence in Business Continuity Planning Award

Study reveals challenges in Federal Agencies' continuity of operations preparedness

Businesses believe that pandemic ‘flu is a threat, but few are prepared

European insurance companies ignoring business resilience investments when setting premiums

UK government promises additional spending on security, counter-terrorism and disaster planning

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Annan expresses his disappointment at failure to agree on a comprehensive treaty on terrorism

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in the Financial Services Sector

NOAA reviews 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and looks towards 2006

Companies flirting with brand disaster…

New software enables faster large-scale data migration over IP networks

ACP joins with the Telework Coalition to promote telework as a business continuity response to pandemic influenza

UK financial sector market-wide business continuity exercise takes place

European project takes new approach to information security

The AIM Global Data and Risk Management Survey 2005

Research shows ISM progress but reveals two out of three systems still vulnerable

The always-on network: strategies for achieving high availability of IT systems

Competing in the age of the continuous enterprise…

European Commission adopts a green paper on critical infrastructure protection

Canadian companies’ attitudes to data risk explored

When considering business insurance, don’t forget people…

Central London data centres - too many eggs in one basket?

'Smart' buildings to guide future first responders

Australia should be the hub for Asia Pacific disaster recovery facilities…

FEMA issues statement following signing of US Flood Insurance Act

UK government makes energy crisis contingency plans

UK e-Science project discovers new knowledge about earthquakes

‘Disaster ready’ hard drive launched

Energy prices hammer at US multinationals; threaten business continuity investments

UK Met Office to hold winter briefing for emergency planners and business managers

Prepare for MiFID

Global Health Security Initiative agrees bioterror and pandemic ‘flu action plans

Continuity Central pandemic planning survey results: PART 2

Communications continuity is the weak link in the majority of business continuity plans

Communication just won’t wait...

Tamiflu investigation leaves business continuity planners confused

Business continuity guidelines for coping with a global 'flu pandemic to be developed

Study finds US telecom consolidation will aid network reliability during disasters

2006 Edition of Edwards Disaster Recovery Directory released

International threats to business decrease for second year running

Unencrypted backup tapes ‘still the norm’

'Ready America Homeland' initiative launched

New combined replication / disaster recovery testing solution offers backup flexibility

Continuity Planning Associates launches Crisis Commsuite

Five nines: chasing the dream?

Ensuring a smooth transition : guidelines for successfully migrating data centers

Survey finds limited progress on IT security measurement and reporting

Research and Development Committee established by FSSCC

Microsoft announces new products and solutions

Continuity Central pandemic planning survey results

Beyond disaster recovery: becoming a resilient business

Crisis Checklist: the press office

Long term solutions to Britain’s energy short-fall explored

Experian study analyzes Hurricane Katrina's effect on small business

Airport protection guidelines to be distributed to US emergency planners and airport executives

New technical discussion group launched

IDC survey provides Asia Pacific disaster recovery planning insights

Average UK business suffers 235 hours of downtime every year

US SBA launches pilot program to strengthen banks' role in accelerating small business disaster recovery

New Scientist investigation reveals how easily terrorists can obtain biological weapons ‘building blocks’




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