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news headlines: 19th November 2004

BIA survey: interim results
Continuity Central is carrying out a detailed survey into how organisations are conducting business impact analyses. Here’s a snapshot of the results to date.
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Date: 19th Nov 2004 • Region:World Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK Civil Contingencies Bill gets Royal Assent
A consultation on the underpinning regulations and guidance package will begin shortly.
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Date: 19th Nov 2004 • Region:UK Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Business continuity aspects of the Civil Contingencies Act
What will the Civil Contingencies Act mean for business continuity practitioners? David Honour explores.
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Date: 19th November 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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ICM forms logistics partnership with Fraser Eagle
Fraser Eagle service will enable ICM to help clients quickly relocate staff to recovery centres.
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Date: 19th Nov 2004 • Region:UK Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Principles of survivability and information assurance
A new document has been published by CERT/CC which provides a organisations with an overview of the ‘ten principles of survivability and information assurance’ .
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Date: 19th Nov 2004 • Region:N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Continuity Central bookstore updated
• E-mail continuity seminars
• Eight best practices for disaster recovery
• BellSouth helps business customers prepare for natural disasters with 'smart' fiber optic service
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2003 archive

Top headlines from the past four weeks:
Business continuity explored...

UK government to introduce an IT security accreditation scheme

Business continuity and disaster recovery in the financial services sector

SunGard Availability Services to acquire Inflow

Wireless network deployment increasing rapidly but security not keeping up

New edition of the Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages published

IBM adds Indigo Stone’s ‘enterprise rapid recovery methodology’ to portfolio

The ‘tick-a-box’ approach to business continuity

SBA hurricane disaster recovery support tops $554 million

EU and US adopt new measures to strengthen maritime container security

Business continuity on a limited budget

Reducing computer room risks

DHS reduces financial service sector terrorist threat level

FSA calls for improved information security in fight against fraud

Business Continuity the Risk Management Expo 2005

Governance rules ‘neglect key areas of risk management’

Business Continuity Institute annual general meeting

New generation of business security solutions uses RFID

MI5 director-general tells companies to invest in business continuity

UK government should be more open with business on security issues – CBI

Synstar survey reveals high levels of downtime

American Power Conversion unveils state of the art thermal test lab

Civil Contingencies Bill amendment tabled to extend commercial provisions to charity sector

Making the case for business continuity

Fixing the backup and recovery problem

Major hazard industries - improving leadership to reduce risk

Embedding business continuity management into your organisation

Business continuity British Standard will be published by mid-2006

Implementation of Basel II in Australia

Weak links in the communications network chain remain a serious challenge

Financial Sector Business Continuity Progress Report

US industrial facilities’ preparedness to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks still inadequate

New UK corporate governance law receive Royal Assent

New psychometric test may help in business continuity team development

Business continuity software survey results

Comment: How to avert disaster in the midst of a crisis

Irish Competition Authority blocks IBM’s acquisition of Schlumberger Business Continuity Services (Ireland) Limited

New report urges financial institutions to tackle human rights issues and risks

GAO publishes report into preparedness of US financial markets

The tape debate … part two

Continuity Central launches RSS newsfeed

UK financial authorities plan resilience benchmarking project

SunGard Availability Services to launch e-mail recovery service

Symantec turns its attention to IT continuity

The tape debate

One in four medium-sized firms report loss of backup data: survey

IBM sees surge in network attacks directed toward critical infrastructure providers

Integrating business continuity criteria into your supply chain

The myths of business continuity and disaster recovery

European Commission announces new anti-terrorism measures

MessageOne acquires Evergreen Assurance technology

• TAKE PART: Business impact analysis survey

Phishing attacks could soon get a lot nastier

US smaller businesses adopting more advanced disaster recovery solutions

Data quality found to be key risk management issue in banking sector

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act signed

IDC expects security solutions investment to more than double by 2008 in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan)

‘Futureproofing’ - the process of active analysis

Businesses showing increased awareness of threats

NIST-led forum releases a new draft set of cyber security requirements for industrial control systems

VERITAS survey explores the current state of UK disaster recovery planning

Study finds that improving business continuity management is third highest priority for US businesses

Governing for enterprise security

Major exercise to test business continuity procedures in UK financial markets




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