news headlines: 20th February 2008

Emergency Planning Society publishes Pitt Review briefing note
Aims to ensure that planners are informed about the broad themes of the report and its likely implications.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Sniffing out insider threats
A new and rapid way to spot insider threats from individuals within an organization such as a multinational company is reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Security and Networks.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Dynamics of the storage replication software market are shifting
Higher growth expected from host-based and network/appliance-based replication: IDC.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Information Security Awareness Forum launched in UK
A collection of influential UK groups and industry bodies associated with information security have agreed to form the Information Security Awareness Forum, which, as the name suggests, aims to enhance the awareness and understanding of information security threats within UK organisations.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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The majority of Irish companies have no disaster recovery plan
67 percent of Irish businesses have no disaster recovery plan: survey.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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New light shone on why 1918 flu spread so widely and rapidly
MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans during the 1918 pandemic outbreak that killed at least 50 million people.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Flood assistance extended for 80 Queensland local government areas
The Queensland Government has activated assistance for a further four local government areas in central Queensland, taking the total number of shires where flood support has been triggered this year to 80 shires.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Symantec launches Backup Exec 12
Offers backup and recovery for Windows Server 2008 environments.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• More UK floods funding
• Office-Shadow shakes up leadership team
• Vodafone UK Selects Neverfail to offer uninterrupted availability service For Blackberry
• Security: The Essential Corporate Asset
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Philippine floods
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