Business continuity news 22nd May 2007

news headlines: 22nd May 2007

Business continuity deadline looms for UK law firms
On 1st July 2007, business continuity planning becomes mandatory for lawyers and solicitors in England and Wales.
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•Date: 22nd May 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Service based sectors
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DHS completes risk management framework for critical infrastructure protection
17 Sector-Specific Plans completed in support of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan.
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•Date: 22nd May 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Academic group releases plan to enhance the core resiliency of the Internet
Proposes that Internet Root Zone Keys should be controlled by multiple organizations.
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•Date: 22nd May 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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EMC unveils new backup and recovery capabilities at EMC World
Launches the world's largest single system virtual tape library; the latest versions of its data de-duplication, replication and backup software; and new bare metal recovery capabilities.
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•Date: 22nd May 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Strong growth at Phoenix IT Group
A year of continued progress with a 'particularly pleasing' performance from NDR.
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•Date: 22nd May 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Repeat of Great Mississippi Flood could cost up to $160 billion
Research suggests that climate change and global warming are increasing the potential for a regional disaster on the scale of the 1927 one.
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•Date: 22nd May 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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The future of work area recovery…
Is the move towards non-office based working having an impact on the need for work area recovery space? This survey seeks to find out…
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• National Continuity Implementation Plan: great idea but compromising timescales?

• Continuous data protection – hype versus reality

• An ABC of message maps

• Hurricane planning updates

• Lloyd’s panellists discuss businesses' role in mitigating terrorism risks

• HP launches security solution to help energy companies reduce risks

• Companies are securing the perimeter but failing to protect data from insiders

• Yankee Group report predicts growing demand for fault tolerant servers

• myCOOP enhancement enables easier migration from legacy systems

• GemaTech adds outbound secure voice recording to combined BCMLITE and SVRLITE product

• US gets a National Continuity Coordinator

• Signs that business continuity is becoming mainstream in the UK

• 'Improving the flood performance of new buildings: Flood resilient construction'

• Business continuity in Oman and UAE explored

• IT security improving within UK organisations

• Pandemic planning updates

• Researchers use simulation to study post-traumatic stress disorder

• Surge of new ISM threats in April

• Message maps: blueprints for pandemic preparedness

• Business Continuity Awards winners

• Emerging risks impeding business development: Lloyd’s

• FBI issues wireless security warning

• Green light for Phoenix ICM bid

• Long term business risks of climate change need to be faced, not ignored

• Marsh pushes the ‘upside’ of effective risk management

• Downtime costs European businesses £300k per hour on average

• IBM unveils plan to combat data center energy crisis

• VMware Workstation 6 now available

• Office-Shadow signs partnership agreement with SIFMA

• BCI Australia becomes ‘The Business Continuity Institute Incorporated’

• CERT publishes details of its resiliency engineering research

• MBO team’s offer for ICM lapses

• US unprepared for wide-area ‘mega-catastrophes’

• New Zealand companies failing to appreciate the importance of reputation risk

• ‘Crisis Communications: A Primer for Teams’

• Automated, all-hazard risk assessment tool launched

• Evacuation and shelter planning

• Evacuate or shelter-in-place?

• Business continuity in the UK food and drink industry

• CDC issues interim guidance for the use of facemasks and respirators in public settings during an influenza pandemic

• Taking data risk management a step further…

• Reserve Bank of Australia to get new business continuity solution

• Concern expressed over security risks in MiFID compliance

• Microsoft on security management…

• SunGard launches BS25999 self assessment tool

• EC considers new data protection regulations

• Pandemic planning for landlords

• New Zealand government consults on power resilience

• NEHRP earthquake hazards meeting

• 'Adapting to Changing Risk Environments: Operational Resilience'

• DHS puts $24 million in the pot for security projects in nonprofit organizations

• Power disruption is fastest growing downtime threat to UK organisations

• New Fibre Channel 4, 2 and 1Gbps transponders boost distance for business continuity storage solutions

• Why real-time asset management is more than just a ‘good idea’ for business continuity

• Survey looks at EMEA data-related business continuity and disaster recovery practices

• Rapid response is key to managing reputation crises

• NIST issues RFID security guidelines

• Strohl presents annual business continuity awards

• ‘Rapid Call Out’ system launched by GemaTech

• Oil companies struggling to keep on top of emerging threats

• The rise and rise of service-oriented architecture

• Six month countdown to data protection crisis begins…

• Multinational corporations are facing increasingly diverse, complex and exotic risks

• Phoenix increases its offer for ICM

• Europe plans for increasing risk of flooding

• Lieberman and Collins express serious concerns over ‘major weaknesses’ in disaster communication plans for US first responders

• Harris survey examines current attitudes to disaster recovery, business continuity and information availability

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes CCA business continuity updatet

• Seven reasons why Serial Attached SCSI will be the new enterprise storage standard

• The rise of SSL VPNs

• New Zealand government departments to increase business continuity spending

• UK businesses warned to act as product recalls soar

• Australian drought contingency statement

• The application of statistical tools to business continuity management

• Interpreting the results of a vulnerability assessment: how to focus on what’s important in your Web application security testing

• Power back-up health check

• North America, South America and Australia Business Continuity Awareness Week

• Business Continuity Management Institute launches six business continuity and disaster recovery certifications in Asia and the Middle East

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• Survive closes its doors?

• BlackBerry’s crown slips

• MBO team increases its offer for ICM

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• FEMA makes $29.1 million available for national preparedness training initiatives

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• Brisbane gets new CBD emergency plan

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• Council of Australian Governments meeting report

• Assessing global outsourcing risks

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