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news headlines: 20th October 2005

Banks and avian flu: planning for a possible pandemic
Many of the assumptions underlying much of today’s business continuity planning will not hold in a pandemic. Pat McConnell explains.
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Date: 20th October 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk man.
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Creating effective business continuity plans
Barry Varley, CEO of independent testing consultancy Acutest, highlights the two main problems that lead to business continuity plans failing.
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Date: 20th October 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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New initiative to explore attitudes to disaster
As part of new research, investigators will explore and address why decision makers either ignore or fail to understand clear evidence of risk.
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Hurricane Wilma update page
This page will be updated with information relevant to Hurricane Wilma contingency planning and disaster recovery
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: US/S.America Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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More details released on UK financial sector market-wide exercise
The FSA has published more information about a large-scale resiliency exercise which will take place on 28th November.
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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New disaster site clearance guidance published by UK government
Aims to help in the restoration of normal services as rapidly as possible after a major incident.
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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US financial services industry business continuity exercise ‘a success’ 
“Backup data centers, work area recovery facilities and backup communications capabilities across the industry performed exceptionally well,” SIA.
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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EC steps up pandemic preparedness planning
The European Commission is preparing a number of initiatives which aim to help Member States co-ordinate their actions.
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: W.Europe/UK Type: Article •Topic: Emergency plan.
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IDC conducts ‘continuous data protection’ survey
CDP will not be used as an exclusive replacement for existing methods of data protection.
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Direct local involvement, better communications needed for improved disaster response: National League of Cities
US local governments should be prepared to ‘be on their own’ for the first 48 to 72 hours of any disaster.
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development publishes pandemic business continuity advice
The New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development has published two documents which offer local businesses business continuity advice in relation to pandemics.
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Date: 20th Oct 2005 • Region: New Zealand Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• US-CERT issues two information security alerts
• UK NHS updates Emergency Planning Guidance
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff testifies before the United States House Select Committee on Hurricane Katrina
• Datacentre Dynamics London 2005
• Strohl Benelux and ContinuityLink offer joint business continuity courses in the Netherlands
• Al-Faris enhances business continuity for Al-Muzaini Money Exchange
• FalconStor launches Primevault Center to provide disaster recovery, archiving and hosting services
• New York Stock Exchange issues business continuity memo
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Intelligent infrastructure management: a catalyst for change within the enterprise

A new planning paradigm: economic consequences of a pandemic

Data recovery checklist

TeleContinuity and EnvoyWorldWide team up to offer ‘continuity of communications’ solutions

Data deletion is not enough…

How to find and motivate employees for business continuity

One year on from Hurricane Ivan: what lessons have been learnt?

New BSI survey highlights areas of weakness in the business continuity planning of Britain’s FTSE250 companies

European Civil Protection exercise to simulate earthquake in Sicily

Global terrorism activity doubled over the last year

NIST coordinating post Katrina and Rita structural damage assessment

Climate change will result in heavier rainfall events for some regions

Business continuity during an avian 'flu pandemic

Business continuity planning in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Fortune 1000 preparedness for uninterrupted access to critical information assessed

Automata launches ‘Technology Continuity and DR Masterclass’

DHS announces ‘Hurricane Recovery Contracting Strategy’

Pandemic planning is important to business continuity : but the majority of plans don’t yet take it into consideration

ICM to develop 1,700 seat outer London business continuity centre

New study looks at risk management in the supply chain

Microsoft announces comprehensive virtualization strategy to enable self- managing dynamic systems

IXEurope expands again

Business continuity: helping firms stand out from the crowd

New York on alert for potential subway attack

A standardized local vs. national response: myths and misconceptions abound

Climate change conference focuses on the ‘big picture’ for businesses

Proposals made to enhance emergency preparedness for Long Island

Case study: supply chain continuity

‘Citizen journalism’: an emerging reputation risk

Information technology risk is increasing

SEC steps in to assist insurers struggling with Hurricane Katrina and Rita losses

Survey shows large companies expect the cost of SOX implementation to decline slightly in second year

Queensland Crisis Centre to handle terrorist incidents

UK Government’s new decontamination service launched

Basel II developments

DHS announces $30 million in preparedness training grants

SunGard Availability Services launches new version of Paragon

Imation develops 'Disk-As-Tape' media cartridge

UK and US businesses unable to effectively measure and report on network security risk

The impact of a dirty bomb: lessons from Katrina

British Standard for Business Continuity Management – development is underway

Mass fatality events have a greater impact on company share value than corporate crises

Research points to huge discrepancy in business continuity planning within UK

The importance of satellites in disaster recovery

Gartner highlights an often ignored security threat: unattended PCs

Microsoft launches System Center Data Protection Manager

System Center Data Protection Manager results in a rash of industry announcements

Bombay Stock Exchange exploring options for second disaster recovery centre

UK scientists start research into preventing the ultimate disaster

Annan calls for a global emphasis on disaster planning

UK businesses given energy supply warning

NASDAQ CIO highlights Capital Markets’ business continuity planning

PIRA decommissioning changes but does not reduce the terror threat

ICM results show strong growth in business continuity division

Mobile malware gets serious…

Hurricane Rita updates

Selling business continuity to finance directors

Singapore Technical Reference for business continuity

Data overload puts UK retail sector under pressure

Federal Reserve: ‘We have no plans to conduct special investigations of business continuity and disaster recovery plans post Katrina’

Avian influenza: no need to panic over situation in Indonesia, says WHO

RMS assesses United States terrorism threat outlook

Success of 7th July business continuity measures must not lead to complacency…

Impact on employees is biggest long-term Katrina-related business disruption worry

Continuity, Katrina and the Fed

Pharmaceutical companies need to improve their risk management framework: KPMG

Keeping an eye on Rita…

What we learned from Hurricane Katrina and what we should do next to improve emergency planning

BCI and DRII undertaking joint business continuity Professional Practices review

Strohl Systems launches new corporate identity and Web seminar program

New suite of ‘on-net’ business continuity services from TelCove

Businesses affected by disasters must act to prevent a 'crisis within a crisis'

Former FEMA director James Lee Witt to lead ‘catastrophe coalition’

Operational risk management: the difference between risk management and compliance

Is it time to revisit the issue of distances to recovery sites?

North America Business Continuity Awareness Week

Bush orders emergency planning review

Many of Britain’s SMEs still ignoring business continuity

Lack of awareness of the Enterprise Act undermines UK business rescue culture

FSTC leading US financial sector business continuity benchmarking project

Coping with the emotional effects of major disasters

Hurricane Ophelia: DHS outlines disaster preparations

Financial Times and Symantec publish business continuity survey results

Financial losses due to information security attacks increasing

Fuel protests: business continuity lessons from 2000

Mike Brown resigns from FEMA post

London’s SMEs must develop business continuity plans NOW…

Survey finds that almost 40 percent of US businesses still say that business continuity planning is not a priority

Financial Stability Forum holds its fourteenth meeting, in London

Earthquake briefing on Capitol Hill

Hurricane Katrina: initial impacts on business continuity thinking

Can removable disk technology supersede tape, fixed disk and hybrid solutions?

New research offers clues to the way we can expect employees to react to different crises

Bharti and IBM to offer joint business continuity services to Indian market

Gartner evaluates the progress of Linux

Scottish businesses not doing enough to guard against terrorist attacks

FSSCC issues status report on the financial services sector’s business continuity response to Hurricane Katrina

Fire, virus and human error are the three biggest threats to corporate data

GemaTech and COLT sign business continuity partnership

HP’s worldwide investment in business continuity and recovery facilities reaches US$100 million

UK faces threat of fuel protests

What can we learn from Katrina?

Fraud risk being ignored by middle market UK companies: KPMG

NASD provides guidance to members affected by Hurricane Katrina

Regulators say insurance industry is prepared for Hurricane Katrina's cost

Al-Qaida threatens more attacks on London




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