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news headlines: 16th Jan 2007

Global Risks 2007
World Economic Forum report assesses 23 ‘core’ risks facing companies around the world.
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Date: 16th January 2007 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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AIRMIC sets up company to promote risk management learning
Current executive director, David Gamble, to step down to manage the new enterprise.
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Date: 16th January 2007 • Region: UK/World Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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New members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
DHS Secretary Chertoff has appointed five new members to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) and its senior advisory committees.
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Date: 16th January 2007 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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New company offers ‘worst case scenario’ exercising
Will help companies evaluate how business continuity plans will perform during an extreme situation.
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Date: 16th January 2007 • Region: UK/World Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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Widespread power outages in Victoria
Many parts of Melbourne, Geelong and eastern Victoria without power following bushfire damage.
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Date: 16th January 2007 • Region: Australia Type: Article •Topic: Power man.
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New approach to reduce English urban flooding impacts to be tested
Huge increase in economic cost of urban flooding anticipated: DEFRA attempts to mitigate.
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Date: 16th January 2007 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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• US-CERT warns of active exploitation of vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup
• Complex and Built Environments: Capstone Guidance on Integrated Safety Management
• DataCore launches virtual infrastructure solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity
• Business Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza: Second National Summit
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

The business benefits of business continuity

Business continuity management: helping to align information technology to the business needs

UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat provides an update on CCA duty to promote business continuity

NIC recommends NFPA 1600 standard

INONI launches new business continuity awareness raising tool

ICM completes multi-million pound refresh of workplace recovery PCs

Final Katrina Workshop addresses critical role of standards for emergency preparedness

European Commission to convene oil supply crisis planning group

DHS announces 2007 grant structure for critical infrastructure security work

Double-Take Software launches new products offering full system protection and recovery

NonVerba unveils new business continuity management software

Server virtualization: do’s and don’ts for mission critical manufacturing systems

Business continuity uptake in UAE examined

Advice published on pandemic preparedness planning for US businesses operating overseas

‘Good Security – Good Business’

Enterprises may be over-investing in some areas of data protection

HKBN launches 'bbAid' to support emergency broadband needs for Hong Kong

Ten assumption-busting guiding principles for business pandemic planning

Out in the cold?

Business continuity resolutions for 2007

UK Financial Sector Market Wide Exercise 2006 report now available

Adoption and spending on operational risk management will increase substantially in 2007

The British Red Cross Disaster Response Challenge

Neverfail names new group chief executive officer

Harris Interactive Online survey reviews crisis planning in US companies

2007 set to crank up the pressure on UK networks

Hong Kong authorities struggle to restore Internet connectivity

OSE and Jasdaq exchanges to provide mutual business continuity support

Onyx Group acquires North East England recovery centre

CPM Group bought by 1105 Media

BCM: think culture, not quick fix!

Home working: a strategy for business continuity

Dealing with the headache of business critical systems management

Majority of US organizations have tested business continuity plans in last six months

Interim report into widespread European blackout blames network operators

OSHA develops disaster recovery tool

New Financial Services ISAC committee to consider physical security and business continuity issues

UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat to explore impact of pandemics on the workplace

IEEE-USA launches critical infrastructure protection committee

US National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: six-month status report published

HR as a business continuity resource

Survey looks at UK business continuity investment drivers

Succession planning a weak point

ContinuitySA opens a recovery centre in Botswana

IBM to launch new data governance consultancy service

KPMG launches whistleblowing hotline service for UK companies

Research will examine the effects and impacts of climate change on Australia

Australian Government enhances natural disaster relief arrangements

ICM rejects Netstore offer

Risk attitude of Central and Eastern European companies explored

US National Data Awareness Project launched

Colorado State University publishes 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast

Blackbird Group launches integrated disaster recovery solution for Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory Services

Buncefield Investigation Board update

Scenario planning vs resource planning: old school vs new school?

Top ten tips for a successful RAID implementation

The pandemic threat: Aon assesses the ongoing risk to business

UK companies getting better at business continuity management

‘Natural Disaster Resilience Kit’ launched for Queensland businesses

Secure Freight Initiative launched by DHS and DOE

EU research project boosts security of major events worldwide

New telecoms continuity solution for North American market

Netstore publishes update on ICM acquisition offer

Emergence of avian influenza in Africa increases pandemic risk: UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Peterborough businesses given evacuation map

Business Continuity Student of the Year Award

IBM X-Force predicts security trends for 2007

Office of Emergency Management HQ and EOC opened in Brooklyn

CA launches comprehensive IT recovery management package

New Australian cyclone disaster management plan

The 2006 Excellence in Business Continuity Planning Award

ICM seeks to end Netstore speculation

Future FEMA…

Risks rise, but liability insurance fails to keep pace

ACP elects 2007 board of directors

NEC launches ExpressCluster X WAN edition for Windows

APEC counter-terrorism exercise in Queensland

Between a rock and a hard place

Top ten security threats in 2007

BCI to launch business continuity management training services

Fuel cell designed specifically for business continuity market

How are North American companies backing up remote office data?

Good progress on risk management but more needed, FSA tells insurers

Half of data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity by 2008: Gartner

The US-CCU Cyber-Security Check List 2007

Survey looks at pandemic planning in Hong Kong businesses

BS 25999-1:2006 available

New post-disaster preservative for electronic equipment introduced

Intellectual property theft by employees is an ignored risk

No room for complacency on Atlantic hurricane threat

Medical Journal of Australia warns of weaknesses in Australian pandemic planning

Call for papers: Business Continuity Journal

British Standard Institution to launch BS 25999 part one this week

Six week UK market wide financial sector exercise finishes

Managing risk: stakeholder perspectives

Chicago area to get new business continuity facility

Phoenix IT Group publishes positive results

Guidance for businesses on assessing future environmental threats published

Business continuity quotations

Critical infrastructure protection is all about operational resilience and continuity

Risk register and assessment tool for download

New International Workshop Agreement provides emergency preparedness and business continuity guidelines

New software enables rapid response to time-critical emergencies

FarStone launches RestoreIT disaster recovery software

The State of Enterprise Infrastructure In Europe 2006: Forrester Research

Security spending by US companies examined

BCI-approved training comes to North America

Law firms agree that disaster recovery plans are critical but worry about lack of funding

‘All-encompassing’ climate change threat must be taken seriously: UN

Don't overlook records management when developing business continuity plans

Why information security and business continuity management must dovetail

Five major priorities for information security : Ernst & Young

175 per cent increase in Auckland emergency budget requested

ChicagoFIRST reaches 25-member mark

Linus to launch ‘Revive Online’

No room for complacency on terror threat

IT Infrastructure Management Association launches

Are UK organisations losing the war on malware?

New CA solutions focus on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 risks

Automata releases training calendar for 2007

Virtualization and business continuity

Malicious Code Injection: it’s not just for SQL anymore

Resilient Community Exercise - Falkirk 2006

PlateSpin unveils ‘break-through’ disaster recovery alternative

UK companies more reluctant than US companies to explore new data storage solutions

FEMA update on Pacific northwest flooding

RiskMap 2007 surveys the risk climate

ICM provides an update on possible acquisition by Netstore

Fraud risk management: developing a strategy for prevention, detection, and response

National Capabilities Survey 2006 results published

SunGard Availability Services launches ‘AdvancedRecovery’




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