news headlines: 15th November 2007

How to deploy BS25999
A whitepaper supplied by BSI Management Systems America.
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•Date: 15th Nov 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC standards
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Auditing contingency plans
What you do with the contingency plan is as important as the plan itself. By Ken Koch.
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•Date: 15th Nov 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC facilities
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How to select a password management system
‘Envelope technology’ and the story about the ‘never changing password’: by Oded Valin.
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•Date: 15th Nov 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Researcher models effects of crowd configurations on suicide bombing impacts
Recent research indicates that various crowd formations exacerbate or minimize injuries and fatalities in the event of a pedestrian suicide bomb attack.
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•Date: 15th Nov 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Gartner's inaugural Business Continuity Management Summit
March 5-7, 2008, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers in Chicago.
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•Date: 15th Nov 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Survey reveals major weaknesses in enterprise compliance policies
Many companies fail to include data recovery as part of their compliance policies.
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•Date: 15th Nov 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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H5N1 Avian Influenza confirmed in British poultry
Outbreak is a major business continuity threat to UK poultry farms.
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•Date: 15th Nov 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Senate Homeland Security Committee approves bombing prevention legislation
The bipartisan ‘National Bombing Prevention Act of 2007’ will enhance DHS’s ability to better prepare State and local government officials, emergency response providers, and the private sector to deter, detect, prevent, protect against, and respond to terrorist explosive attacks.
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•Date: 15th Nov 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• ‘The Path from Information Security Risk Assessment to Compliance’
• FEMA names new director for Center for Domestic Preparedness
• New radiological remediation guidance for UK agencies
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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