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news headlines: 24th August 2004

Financial institutions see reputational risk as the greatest threat
According to a recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Economist Intelligence Unit.

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Date: 24th August 2004 • Region: UK/World Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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Winternals Recovery Manager helps minimise the risks of deploying Windows XP Service Pack 2
Provides rapid rollback of undesired changes to critical system files and settings.

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Date: 24th August 2004 • Region: N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Research and Markets publishes new Safety Program Template
Research and Markets has launched a new 60-page disaster recovery planning template which can be used by any size of enterprise to develop a customised Safety Program.

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Date: 24th August 2004 • Region: W.Europe/World Type: Article •Topic: Disaster rec.
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Betrusted launches ‘Trusted Backup’ service
Managed backup and recovery service for desktop/laptop and server-based data.

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Date: 24th August 2004 • Region: N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Australian suppliers are being ‘locked out' of domestic homeland security market
According to research published at the Safeguarding Australia 2004 conference.

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Date: 24th August 2004 • Region: Australia Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• Achieving resilience – best practices in business continuity

• Surviving unplanned downtime…

• New version of RecoveryPAC Web to be launched in September

• US regional differences in business continuity planning identified

• Viewing the continuity development process with 20/20 vision

• UK businesses complacent about communications disaster planning

• The highs and lows of continuity software

• Colour co-ordinated…

• Recovery centre location is top concern for UK business continuity managers

• Northeast America blackout anniversary offers reminder of importance of emergency backup power

• IT continuity spending set to rise

• Survey identifies main stumbling blocks to successful operational risk management

• Advanced energy storage technologies offer new back-up power options

• HP makes bid to acquire Synstar

• Moving towards an interactive approach

• Addressing the challenges of data protection

• 9/11 has had little impact on spending on business protection and security by mid-sized companies

• Many business networks are not prepared for power outages

• The challenges of security management

• Irish Competition Authority to investigate IBM’s acquisition of Schlumberger Business Continuity Services (Ireland)

• ASIS publishes draft business continuity guideline for public review

• Synstar survey reveals skills are most prized, yet BC teams are still chosen according to authority

Remote physical security and reducing downtime in the data centre

Strohl Systems releases LDRPS update

London Resilience Partnership publishes 2004-5 plans

Business continuity plan development explored

Archiving has a nasty sting in the tail – ignore it at your peril!

Best practice: how to use automated notification systems

Business continuity software survey

Terror in the US: what are the real threats?

Civil Contingencies Secretariat provides more information on how new LA funding will be delivered

European Commission publishes Basel II implementation proposals

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority publishes draft business continuity management standard

Flood protection: European Commission to coordinate improved risk management

Federal Preparedness Circular updates continuity of operations guidance

UK government doubles funding for local authority emergency planners

What's under the business continuity umbrella?

The risks of e-mail mismanagement

September to be National Preparedness Month in US

European Commission sets out new guidelines for approach to saving companies in difficulty

Can you afford multiple disk drive failure?




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