Business continuity news 22 February 2006

news headlines: 22nd February 2006

UK Business Continuity Service Provider of the Year 2006: vote now
CIR magazine is inviting UK-based Continuity Central readers to help choose the Business Continuity Service Provider of the Year 2006.
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•Date: 22nd Feb 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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UK data archiving activities lag behind US, survey shows
However, more UK respondents than those in the US say that business continuity and disaster recovery is a driver for archiving in their organisation.
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•Date: 22nd Feb 2006• Region: UK/US • Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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Metropolitan Police Authority meeting to explore 'suicide terrorism' issues
A meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority on 23rd February will be considering a paper on 'suicide terrorism', a threat which is specifically addressed through the Met’s Operation Kratos procedures.
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•Date: 22nd Feb 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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STORServer offers new disaster recovery planning and support services
STORServer has launched a new disaster recovery planning and support service which will provide businesses with the help needed to plan and prepare for a disaster and provide on-call support 24 hours a day in the event of an actual disaster.
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•Date: 22nd Feb 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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MessageOne expands communications capabilities in new version of its emergency notification and escalation solution
AlertFind now offers telephone hotline services and incident management capabilities.
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•Date: 22nd Feb 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis comms
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• DHS Nationwide Plan Review Phase 1
• London 2012 Olympic Safety, Security and Resilience Strategy Group established
• Telehouse opens Paris data centre
• $4.8 billion SBA disaster lending authority agreed
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• Will 2006 be the year of storage virtualization?

• European product recalls more than double in 2005

• HSE issues precautionary advice to fuel depot operators following Buncefield investigation progress report

• UK law firms increasingly appointing risk specialists

• Warning issued of potential for catastrophic New Madrid fault earthquake

• Australian government highlights intellectual property risks faced by small businesses

• Ferry system studied as a possible primary disaster recovery service for San Francisco Bay…

• Separating fear from risk…

• Coping with a major security breach? What’s your contingency plan?

• BCI publishes resources for UK and Europe Business Continuity Awareness Week 2006

• Bird flu: overview and economic considerations

• Last chance to take part in the Business Continuity Index survey

• Council of Australian Governments’ holds February meeting

• SEC and PCAOB announce roundtable on internal control reporting requirements

• Room for improvement…

• New ultra-fast 10 GBPS 'London Data Centre Ring' ready for business

• Spring Singapore publishes guide to 'flu pandemic business continuity planning for SMEs

• Chertoff testifies before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

• Identity management: new challenges demand new solutions

• In times of disaster, utilities should help each other…

• Climate change impact on bushfire frequency explored

• Business continuity management becoming mainstream

• Security risk assessment and management in Web application security

• Guidance on corporate governance for banking organisations published by Basel Committee

• Measures to strengthen FEMA announced

• Cyber Storm tests US cyber preparedness

• Some thoughts on exercise scenarios and plot lines

• Pandemic business continuity planning – things to consider

• It could happen tomorrow…

• RIM develops workaround contingency plan for BlackBerry customers

• EMC enhances Retrospect

• Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance briefed on the ‘benefits of mitigation’

• UK government launches National Capabilities Survey, 2006

• Suicide bombers the focus of Project Kalkan meeting

• Potential pandemic impacts on just-in-time logistics highlighted

• Continuity Forum ‘BCM Standard Consultation Briefing and Discussion’

• New NetApp solutions aim at data backup, recovery, and protection challenges

• WHO update: avian influenza situation in Nigeria

• To gain a sense of perspective, it helps to take the blinders off: a rebuttal

• The BCI joins AIRMIC, ALARM, and the IRM to launch ‘The Risk Federation’

• US financial markets business continuity test scheduled

• China's small and medium businesses starting to take business continuity seriously

• Management changes at ICM

• Partnership initiative launched by IAEM and GVF

• Double-Take for Virtual Systems launched

• Emerging threats 2006: VoIP

• GAO publishes ‘Preliminary Observations on Hurricane Response’

• UK Business Continuity Awards: get your entries in

• ‘Friendly worms’ set to be the next big thing in anti-virus protection?

• La Niña conditions in place: NOAA

• Disaster Response Challenge 2006

• Business continuity lessons from Buncefield: SDPL

• Gaining a sense of perspective

• WHO publishes draft proposals for rapid response and containment of high-risk influenza outbreak

• GeoWireless launches US tour showcasing disaster recovery capabilities

• Acronis warns of the risk of Blackworm induced IT continuity problems starting 3rd February

• European Commission planning to strengthen the EU Civil Protection Mechanism

• Annual Message Management and Threat Report

• Warnings of impending worldwide energy crisis are unfounded…

• HP launches new technologies for enhanced data center reliability

• New RMS study reviews Japanese disaster risks

• First east coast US city declared TsunamiReady

• Some myths of crisis and issues communications

• Crisis communications: get it right - the first time

• Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?
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• World Economic Forum meeting examines ways to ‘harness business response to disaster’

• Telstra Europe launches Cambridge data centre

• Potential breakthrough in H5N1 vaccine development

• MP3 players : the security risk and how to manage it

• FSA publishes 2006 Financial Risk Outlook

• New approaches to risk management must be developed…

• Pandemic influenza risk poses unique threat to businesses and must be taken seriously: FSSCC

• Threat related to emerging global employment crisis highlighted by United Nations

• AT&T to conduct its largest-ever network disaster recovery exercise

• Surge in criminal-driven cyber attacks anticipated in 2006: IBM

• UK government launches Energy Review

• Loss of paper documents still a significant threat

• Gil Jamieson appointed as FEMA Deputy Director for Gulf Coast Recovery

• Automata launches ‘Trainers’ Club’

• New 3Com product offers resilient enterprise IP communications

• A decade in business continuity planning

• Incident Action List

• Bin Laden’s truce: is it out of the question to consider the offer?

• Buncefield investigation board established

• Fast-growing private US companies are voluntarily adopting Sarbanes-Oxley principles

• Business Continuity Institute publishes Voluntary Supplier Declaration forms

• European Commission proposes new flood protection directive

• e-mail data management challenges surveyed

• US Department of Agriculture conducting five food defense exercises through 2006

• Avian influenza updates

• Eight best practices in implementing disaster recovery protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

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