news headlines: 18th May 2007

National Continuity Implementation Plan: great idea but compromising timescales?
An initiative that other countries should follow says Continuity Central’s editor, David Honour.
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•Date: 18th May 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Continuous data protection – hype versus reality
Are true CDP products a solution to a problem that businesses cannot afford to solve?
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•Date: 18th May 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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An ABC of message maps
Message maps support effective communication in a crisis but narrow and rigid message mapping can be a trap in a crisis. John Salter provides guidance on this issue...
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•Date: 18th May 2007• Region: Australia/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis comms
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Hurricane planning updates
A grouping of the latest information and checklists published on this subject.
- FEMA hurricane checklist
- MessageOne offers CIO’s top ten actions to prepare for hurricane season
- New hurricane technique continually monitors landfalling storms
- Storm size, intensity, key to evaluating potential hurricane damage.
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•Date: 18th May 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Lloyd’s panellists discuss businesses' role in mitigating terrorism risks
This issue of home grown terrorism was cited by an overwhelming 98 percent of audience members as “a significant emerging threat to British businesses”.
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•Date: 18th May 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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HP launches security solution to help energy companies reduce risks
HP has introduced an integrated security appliance for energy customers that provides an additional line of defense against cyber-security threats and helps automate compliance tasks
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•Date: 18th May 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Companies are securing the perimeter but failing to protect data from insiders
According to a new survey.
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•Date: 18th May 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Yankee Group report predicts growing demand for fault tolerant servers
Re-emergence of single points of failure in network architectures is driving market growth.
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•Date: 18th May 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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myCOOP enhancement enables easier migration from legacy systems
Easier start for new users of COOP Systems’ business continuity management software package.
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•Date: 18th May 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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GemaTech adds outbound secure voice recording to combined BCMLITE and SVRLITE product
Latest module is the ‘missing piece of the jigsaw’ as far as telecoms business continuity is concerned.
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•Date: 18th May 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• NOAA reports US drought to worsen in southwest
• AlarmPoint Systems launches crisis notification system grant program
• 3rd Business Continuity Management Forum
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - UN disaster officials begin aid assessments in flood-ravaged Uruguay
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