Business continuity news 18th October 2005

news headlines: 18th October 2005

Intelligent infrastructure management: a catalyst for change within the enterprise
Rick Marshall explains what IT continuity and general business benefits an IIM architecture can provide.
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•Date: 18th October 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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A new planning paradigm: economic consequences of a pandemic
Geary W. Sikich takes a detailed look at the potential impacts of a pandemic and asks ‘business continuity planners - what are you doing?’
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•Date: 18th October 2005 •Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Data recovery checklist
The way that storm-damaged media is handled initially can have a major impact on whether data can be recovered from it.
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•Date: 18th October 2005 •Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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TeleContinuity and EnvoyWorldWide team up to offer ‘continuity of communications’ solutions
Combines EnvoyWorldWide’s notification services for business continuity with TeleContinuity’s Survivable Communications Network.
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•Date: 18th Oct 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Data deletion is not enough…
Companies must develop stronger policies relating to the deletion of files from mobile devices.
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•Date: 18th Oct 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Watching Wilma
• IBM reports 2005 third-quarter results
• Energy for the Future
• Sentrx course schedule
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• South Asia earthquake: your donations needed - click here to help

• How to find and motivate employees for business continuity

• One year on from Hurricane Ivan: what lessons have been learnt?

• New BSI survey highlights areas of weakness in the business continuity planning of Britain’s FTSE250 companies

• European Civil Protection exercise to simulate earthquake in Sicily

• Global terrorism activity doubled over the last year

• NIST coordinating post Katrina and Rita structural damage assessment

• Climate change will result in heavier rainfall events for some regions

• Business continuity during an avian 'flu pandemic

• Business continuity planning in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

• Fortune 1000 preparedness for uninterrupted access to critical information assessed

• Automata launches ‘Technology Continuity and DR Masterclass’

• DHS announces ‘Hurricane Recovery Contracting Strategy’

• Pandemic planning is important to business continuity : but the majority of plans don’t yet take it into consideration

• ICM to develop 1,700 seat outer London business continuity centre

• New study looks at risk management in the supply chain

• Microsoft announces comprehensive virtualization strategy to enable self- managing dynamic systems

• IXEurope expands again

• Business continuity: helping firms stand out from the crowd

• New York on alert for potential subway attack

• A standardized local vs. national response: myths and misconceptions abound

• Climate change conference focuses on the ‘big picture’ for businesses

• Proposals made to enhance emergency preparedness for Long Island

• Case study: supply chain continuity

• ‘Citizen journalism’: an emerging reputation risk

• Information technology risk is increasing

• SEC steps in to assist insurers struggling with Hurricane Katrina and Rita losses

• Survey shows large companies expect the cost of SOX implementation to decline slightly in second year

• Queensland Crisis Centre to handle terrorist incidents

• UK Government’s new decontamination service launched

• Basel II developments

• DHS announces $30 million in preparedness training grants

• SunGard Availability Services launches new version of Paragon

• Imation develops 'Disk-As-Tape' media cartridge

• UK and US businesses unable to effectively measure and report on network security risk

• The impact of a dirty bomb: lessons from Katrina

• British Standard for Business Continuity Management – development is underway

• Mass fatality events have a greater impact on company share value than corporate crises

• Research points to huge discrepancy in business continuity planning within UK

• The importance of satellites in disaster recovery

• Gartner highlights an often ignored security threat: unattended PCs

• Microsoft launches System Center Data Protection Manager

• System Center Data Protection Manager results in a rash of industry announcements

• Bombay Stock Exchange exploring options for second disaster recovery centre

• UK scientists start research into preventing the ultimate disaster

• Annan calls for a global emphasis on disaster planning

• UK businesses given energy supply warning

• NASDAQ CIO highlights Capital Markets’ business continuity planning

• PIRA decommissioning changes but does not reduce the terror threat

• ICM results show strong growth in business continuity division

• Mobile malware gets serious…

• Hurricane Rita updates

• Selling business continuity to finance directors

• Singapore Technical Reference for business continuity

• Data overload puts UK retail sector under pressure

• Federal Reserve: ‘We have no plans to conduct special investigations of business continuity and disaster recovery plans post Katrina’

• Avian influenza: no need to panic over situation in Indonesia, says WHO

• RMS assesses United States terrorism threat outlook

• Success of 7th July business continuity measures must not lead to complacency…

• Impact on employees is biggest long-term Katrina-related business disruption worry

• Continuity, Katrina and the Fed

• Pharmaceutical companies need to improve their risk management framework: KPMG

• Keeping an eye on Rita…

• What we learned from Hurricane Katrina and what we should do next to improve emergency planning

• BCI and DRII undertaking joint business continuity Professional Practices review

• Strohl Systems launches new corporate identity and Web seminar program

• New suite of ‘on-net’ business continuity services from TelCove

• Businesses affected by disasters must act to prevent a 'crisis within a crisis'

• Former FEMA director James Lee Witt to lead ‘catastrophe coalition’

• Operational risk management: the difference between risk management and compliance

• Is it time to revisit the issue of distances to recovery sites?

• North America Business Continuity Awareness Week

• Bush orders emergency planning review

• Many of Britain’s SMEs still ignoring business continuity

• Lack of awareness of the Enterprise Act undermines UK business rescue culture

• FSTC leading US financial sector business continuity benchmarking project

• Coping with the emotional effects of major disasters

• Hurricane Ophelia: DHS outlines disaster preparations

• Financial Times and Symantec publish business continuity survey results

• Financial losses due to information security attacks increasing

• Fuel protests: business continuity lessons from 2000

• Mike Brown resigns from FEMA post

• London’s SMEs must develop business continuity plans NOW…

• Survey finds that almost 40 percent of US businesses still say that business continuity planning is not a priority

• Financial Stability Forum holds its fourteenth meeting, in London

• Earthquake briefing on Capitol Hill

• Hurricane Katrina: initial impacts on business continuity thinking

• Can removable disk technology supersede tape, fixed disk and hybrid solutions?

• New research offers clues to the way we can expect employees to react to different crises

• Bharti and IBM to offer joint business continuity services to Indian market

• Gartner evaluates the progress of Linux

• Scottish businesses not doing enough to guard against terrorist attacks

• FSSCC issues status report on the financial services sector’s business continuity response to Hurricane Katrina

• Fire, virus and human error are the three biggest threats to corporate data

• GemaTech and COLT sign business continuity partnership

• HP’s worldwide investment in business continuity and recovery facilities reaches US$100 million

• UK faces threat of fuel protests

• What can we learn from Katrina?

• Fraud risk being ignored by middle market UK companies: KPMG

• NASD provides guidance to members affected by Hurricane Katrina

• Regulators say insurance industry is prepared for Hurricane Katrina's cost

• Al-Qaida threatens more attacks on London

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