Business continuity news 16th March 2007

news headlines: 16th March 2007

Virtual benefits
Erik Giesa explains how virtualization can turn non-performing IT continuity assets into assets which are available for everyday business use.
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•Date: 16th March 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Pandemic planning – a win for everyone
Pandemic planning has more general benefits, says Leslie Whittet.
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•Date: 16th March 2007• Region: Australia/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic plan.
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ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel makes recommendations aimed at bolstering US preparedness
Report looks at Hurricane Katrina lessons.
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•Date: 16th March 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Phoenix sets out details of potential bid for ICM
UK-based Phoenix IT, parent company of business continuity supplier NDR, has provided more details of an offer it is considering making to acquire NDR competitor, ICM.
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•Date: 16th March 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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AIRMIC calls for more data on business insurers willingness to pay
“Many risk managers would put this as their top priority.”
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•Date: 16th March 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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GAO reports into potential impact of a terrorist attack on a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas
People within one mile of such an incident would be burned.
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•Date: 16th March 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Incident or crisis? Why the debate?
BS 25999 has replaced the term ‘crisis management’ with ‘incident management’. Peter Power explains why he thinks this is a mistake. UPDATED WITH READER COMMENTS.
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•Date: 16th March 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Today's issue includes:
• ‘Introduction to Applied Stress Testing’
• Lights! Water! Motion!
• Xiotech's hosted data replication services win Best of Show Award at Data Protection Summit
• MessageOne wins Educational Testing Service contract
• FDA publishes pandemic influenza preparedness plan
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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   - World weather impacts
   - NOAA announces US spring outlook
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• BSI invites comments on PAS 1188

• Business Continuity Awareness Week: Australia

• BCI Benchmark

• Disaster Recovery Information Exchange calls for Toronto-wide exercise

• VaultStor launches highly resilient ‘Disaster Recovery Vault’

• Incident or crisis? Why the debate?

• New edition of NFPA 1600 published

• Global Switch calls for increased scrutiny of IT resilience by company boards

• NIST guide helps with facilities risk assessment

• FEMA’s 2008 budget request

• 2ndWave Software acquires Amcom

• Building service level management into business continuity planning

• Preventing critical data loss

• Bank of America to introduce new disaster recovery purchasing card

• Marsh and Reed conducting business continuity benchmark survey

• Swiss Re study finds below-average catastrophe losses in 2006

• SunGard constructs three new UK workplace recovery centres

• ‘Software as a service’ will have business continuity implications

• Clinical studies provide hope for a pre-pandemic influenza vaccine

• Investment Dealers Association of Canada gives pandemic planning advice

• Asempra granted IT continuity patent

• New evidence that global warming fuels stronger Atlantic hurricanes

• Profits leap at ICM

• Irish businesses get pandemic planning guidance

• IDC predicts that the data protection and recovery management market will more than triple by 2011

• Oil companies told to address risks holistically

• Katrina disaster had its roots in history, politics and engineering

• A permanent solution to US terrorism risk insurance is a matter of national economic security: Willis

• Assessing your legal vulnerabilities

• Business Continuity Journal Volume Two Issue One

• Detailed report into business continuity practices in the UK food and drink sector published

• Economist Intelligence Unit survey highlights the extreme criticality of IT systems

• Bipartisan bill, Improving America’s Security Act of 2007, debated in US Senate

• Senator Kerry calls for reviews of US disaster recovery contracting practices

• Enhancing the resilience of telecommunications

• Barclays survey reviews SME threats

• Signs of the return of La Niña may indicate an active Atlantic hurricane season

• IAEM forms new European regional organisation

• FarStone launches new disk-imaging recovery solution for system builders and integrators

• Virtualization-based IT continuity services announced by SunGard Availability Services

• Survey finds encouraging news on UK business continuity take-up

• FBI warns of ‘vishing’ threat

• Double-Take Software launches Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure

• 2006 was the least costly year of the last two decades in terms of natural disasters

• No SIA industry-wide business continuity test in 2007

• UK NHS to coordinate National Workshop on Pandemic Influenza

• HP launches data backup and recovery aimed at small and medium-size businesses

• RMS releases first commercially available influenza pandemic probabilistic risk model

• SunGard publishes 2006 results

• The 80 percent myth…

• Business continuity standards survey

• Emergency procedures – flowcharts

• Business continuity issues for the UK financial sector 2007

• ‘Emerging Governance Practices in Enterprise Risk Management’

• New US legislation seeks to establish a voluntary certification program for private sector preparedness

• 'Flu pandemic could result in a bandwidth-choking surge in online traffic - telework plans at risk: Computerworld

• UK financial sector authorities publish business continuity activity report

• A third of UK medium-sized companies have no website disaster recovery plans

• ‘Business continuity and risk management the world is changing, are you prepared?’

• AT&T survey looks at business continuity plans of Los Angeles companies

• World's first zinc air fuel cell powered indoor generator demonstrated at Fuel Cell Expo 2007

• Business Continuity Institute publishes Good Practice Guidelines 2007

• DataMonitor research finds financial sector business continuity divide

• SCS launches mobile business continuity facility for Singapore

• Security, storage and disaster recovery are top priorities for IT managed services customers: CompTIA

• The business continuity team as a profit center

• Willis Research Network uses Japanese supercomputer to help predict typhoons, hurricanes and climate change

• Senate Committee questions DHS budget

• IBM launches drive-based tape encryption solution for midsized businesses

• Doing Business in South Asia 2007

• FEMA to get a National Advisory Council

• Resources and advice for managing IT issues related to Daylight Savings Time changes

• Business Continuity Awards 2007

• Deadline looming for BC Management's 6th Annual business continuity compensation/salary survey

• Business and Supply Chain Continuity

• Researchers invent new system to control and quarantine worms attacking computer networks

• Limitations in Australia and New Zealand data centres restricting mission critical market

• Continuous availability computing in a 24x7 world

• Avian ‘flu – Marsh publishes insurance and risk update

• UK businesses urged to be wary of letter bomb threat

• GAO drops two areas and adds three to 2007 high risk list

• Preparing your call centre for a ‘flu pandemic

• 18th Annual Top Technology Initiatives survey results

• British Insurance Brokers’ Association launches business continuity campaign

• Soaring data volumes put pressure on IT infrastructure

• MIT develops measures to predict performance of complex systems

• Public comment period initiated for the US National Incident Management System

• European Commission ‘takes first step towards improving critical infrastructure protection’

• Creating shareholder value through business continuity management

• Incident Command Systems and business continuity

• Chavez deadline highlights the importance of considering political risks within the context of business continuity

• UK government launches Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure

• Irish backup survey finds ‘shocking practices’

• Queensland government issues warning about cyclone threat

• GSA opens contracts to state and local governments for disaster recovery

• HP sees strong growth in Mission Critical Partnership service

• MessageOne reports 100 percent-plus revenue growth

• Blue chips asked to disclose climate change risks

• FSA publishes Financial Risk Outlook 2007

• Gartner warns of potential global business continuity implications of US changes to Daylight Saving Time dates

• European blackout of November 2006: important lessons to be drawn

• False confidence in IT security exposes business to attack

• US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to step up disaster preparedness scrutiny

• Cyber war threats examined

• UK fraud cases reach record levels

• SPRING Singapore & IPOS launch new intellectual property management programme for SMEs

• GridWeek 2007

• TeleContinuity given the '2007 North American Telecom Services Technology Innovation of the Year Award'

• Communicating complex risks

• Evolution rather than revolution…

• Modeling constraints and statistical issues of consistent operational risk measurement

• US use of third party IT continuity services remains focussed on disaster recovery facilities

• UK local authorities show considerable progress in risk management

• Isn’t it time business woke up to the significance of asset convergence?

• IFPMA publishes pandemic preparedness guidance

• Sentryx 2007 business continuity training course schedule

• Active Power wins SearchDataCenter.com Product of the Year for CoolAir UPS

• Political risk improves worldwide: Aon

• RMS estimates insured losses of €3-5 billion from Windstorm Kyrill

• New guide to managing power protection for critical systems

• Influenza updates

• Swedish bank suffers huge phishing fraud

• XL Insurance launches product recall insurance with integrated crisis management cover

• FBI launches e-mail alerts service

• Goodwill Industries implements new business continuity solution

• Ten things that indicate top management support for business continuity

• Is a communications collapse possible in Europe?

• Crisis Commander International looking for worldwide resellers

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