news headlines: 22nd September 2006

How to choose a business continuity consultant
On 8th September 2006 we launched our business continuity Wiki, to enable the development of collaborative documents. The first article is now complete and provides advice on how to decide whether an external business continuity consultant would be a useful resource to aid your company’s BCM program and, if so, how to go about choosing one.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Communicating in a crisis – which technologies can be relied on?
A white paper that looks at which commercially available communication systems really work effectively in a crisis.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006 • Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Two new reports into 7th July London attacks published
The reports attempt to capture lessons learned in terms of emergency response, crisis communications and victim aftercare.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006• Region: UK•Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Attention COMAH operators…
Don’t assume that if you comply with COMAH you are covered from a business continuity point of view, warns SembCorp.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Edge Business Continuity Center opens its doors
Tuesday, September 26th sees the ‘Grand Opening’ of a new business continuity facility in Des Moines.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Rec. facilities
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Over a third of the UK’s admit their e-mail management system is in ‘complete chaos’
According to the findings of a survey released by AIIM on ‘Compliance and it’s impact on Information Management’.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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UK SMEs relying on mobile ‘phones for telecoms continuity
UPDATED WITH READER COMMENT Reliance on mobiles is a flawed strategy that has been shown to fail time and time again during recent wide-area disasters.
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•Date: 22nd September 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• CommVault receives highest rating for enterprise backup/recovery software
• Resilient Corp.: America gets a new business resiliency consultancy
• BS 25999-1 two-day conference and workshops
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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