Business continuity news 23rd April 2004

news headlines: 23rd April 2004

Emergency notification methods: what are the risks?
Harvey Fawcett conducts a risk assessment of the crisis communications methods available to businesses.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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Building a continuity culture: the importance of measuring attitudes to risk
How to do you know which employees have an appropriate understanding of business risks? John Robinson explains.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Banks may benefit from delaying advanced compliance to Basel
The real priority is to focus on response to Pillars 2 and 3.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: UK/N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: Op.risk
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Inner-outer continuity solution for London
Dual-site recovery strategy offers rapid support for ‘normal’ invocations alongside protection against wide-area incidents.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Future flood risks assessed by UK government team
DTI Foresight project looks 30-100 years ahead – in every scenario the flood risk increases.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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European Community and Department of Homeland Security sign agreement to improve container security
Calls for the prompt expansion of Customs and Border Protection's Container Security Initiative throughout the European Community.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Asian businesses too complacent about disaster recovery
Says Goh Moh Heng, executive director for the Disaster Recovery Institute Asia.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: Asia, SE Asia •Type: Link •Topic: BC general
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Honda extends disaster recovery SAN
Moves from a Novell directory system to Microsoft Active Directory and adds more storage.
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•Date: 23rd April 2004 •Region: W.Europe •Type: Link •Topic: IT continuity
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UPDATED: Business Continuity Summer School
The previously published dates have changed - now to be held on 19th/20th May, 14th/15th June, 14th/15th July, 18th/19th August.
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•Date:23rd April 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• Risk management must be a board issue: Lloyd’s chairman Go

• Taking business continuity training and education forward Go

• IBM introduces ‘world's fastest global business continuity technology’ Go

• ICM doubles its City of London business recovery capacity Go

• Business continuity training is generally inadequate Go

• Business resilience – the next step forward for business continuity Go

• Business Continuity Institute advertises for senior executive Go

• 55 percent of industrial companies addressing supply chain contingency planning issues Go

• IBM acquires Schlumberger Business Continuity Services unit Go

• SIA publishes updated information on ‘Unexpected Market Close’ procedures and implications Go

• Dependency unlimited Go

• BCI outlines its succession plan Go

• Secretariat issues Civil Contingencies Bill update Go

• Business continuity training survey Go

• From disappearing boundaries to security governance Go

• Checklist: protecting employees on new overseas assignments Go

• Further lessons from Manchester Go

• Classic Blue opens Adelaide business recovery centre Go

• Manchester incident displays telecoms dependencies Go

• Ensuring successful project completion - project failure can put business survival in jeopardy. Go

• The threat from within – the challenges of managing internal information security risks Go

• Attitudes to risk survey results: part three Go

• 57 percent growth seen in US Securities spending on business continuity Go

• Before the business continuity plan - what can you do if your organisation doesn’t yet have a BCP, but you want to prepare for emergencies? Go

• VoIP - Vulnerability over Internet Protocol? Go

• Crisis management – don’t forget the people! Go

• Continuity planning for VoIP Go