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news headlines: 19th May 2004

Crunch time for the BCI? Further responses…
Detailed and constructive responses from various BCI members.
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Date: 19th May 2004 •Region: UK / World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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FalconStor awarded patent for Fibre Channel fail-over technology
Delivers high availability, no single point of failure and support for end-to-end redundancy in storage network architectures.

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Date: 19th May 2004 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Presidential committee details solutions for US telecoms resilience
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee publishes the results of over two years of deliberations.

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Date: 19th May 2004 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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UK guidance on decontamination published
Guidance to help organisations with planning and decontamination of buildings
and infrastructure following a CBRN incident have been published by the UK government.

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Date: 19th May 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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UN appoints director of counter-terrorism body
The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has appointed Javier Ruperez, currently the Spanish ambassador in Washington, to lead the expert team backing up the Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee.

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Date: 19th May 2004 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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NSI Software offers new training and certification programs
eLearning replication and clustering courses now available.

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Date: 19th May 2004 •Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
Financial institutions struggling to fend-off escalating security threats Go

Crunch time for the BCI? Your responses… Go

Crunch time for the Business Continuity Institute? Go

A review of UK and London resilience Go

Federal Government tests continuity of operations plans Go

Is ‘incident’ a better term to use rather than ‘emergency’ and ‘crisis’ within BCM? Go

Basel II takes major step forward Go

Risk of electricity blackouts increasing: survey Go

Gartner highlights the importance of risk assessment in outsourcing contracts Go

Get out of jail free? Go

NASD publishes notice to members on business continuity planning regulations... Go

Continuing the training debate... Go

Australian government publishes terrorism advice leaflet Go

Small businesses understand the importance of disaster recovery but fail to act Go

Canada outlines new critical infrastructure framework Go

The changing face of business continuity Go

9-11 Commission presented with business continuity recommendations Go

Bank failures in mature economies Go

DEFRA makes commitment to business continuity Go

Banning Instant Messaging does not reduce business risks Go

Synstar opens Luxembourg business recovery centre Go

NASDAQ reports that it has successfully completed market-wide disaster recovery tests Go

Emergency notification methods: what are the risks? Go

Building a continuity culture: the importance of measuring attitudes to risk Go

Banks may benefit from delaying advanced compliance to Basel Go

Risk management must be a board issue: Lloyd’s chairman Go

Business continuity training is generally inadequate Go

Business resilience – the next step forward for business continuity Go




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