news headlines: 18th October 2007

Survey explores the state of corporate disaster recovery planning
Symantec research finds that nearly half of full scenario testing conducted fails.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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IBM to open Cork business continuity centre
Official launch on Thursday 8 November 2007.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Canadian Securities Industry reports on business continuity test
The Canadian Securities Industry has issued a bulletin giving a brief report on the recent industry-wide business continuity test.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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UK businesses underestimate the threat of economic crime
Fraud is a real, and growing, business risk according to the 4th biennial Global Economic Crime Survey.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Insurer offers combined war, terrorism and political violence business insurance policy
New Hiscox policy covers hard to insure risks.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Backups bite back
Backup volumes in many organisations have grown so large they are causing business disruption by tying up systems, storage, and network capacity and hogging valuable IT resources according to new research.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:UK/N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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European Commission gives final warning to 12 Member States over failure to prepare emergency plans for chemical plants
Austria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden will receive written warnings.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Manufacturing
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Neverfail launches new ‘Neverfail Replicator’ data replication solution
• ‘Business Resilience: A More Compelling Argument for Information Security’
• French businesses impacted by national travel strike
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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