news headlines: 20th November 2007

Part two of BS 25999 now available
Specification for business continuity management published by BSI British Standards.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC standards
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The IT disaster recovery plan
Carl Bradbury, MBCI, provides a very useful overview of the process of creating and testing effective IT disaster recovery plans.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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UK businesses getting better at business continuity
According to a BSI survey.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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2008 cyber threats
What changes can we expect to see in terms of information security threats during 2008?
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•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Virtualization usage continues to grow
Two-thirds of large organizations now consider that virtualization is business-critical.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Continuity Software releases RecoverGuard Version 2.0
Helps detect and correct disaster recovery threats.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• IPCC report highlights climate change impacts
• Unknown illness impacts businesses in Angola
• Most UK businesses have inadequate pandemic plans
• Amcom Software and XTEND Communications announce merger
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Bangladesh disaster
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