Business continuity news 24 January 2006

news headlines: 24th January 2006

Surge in criminal-driven cyber attacks anticipated in 2006: IBM
Report anticipates a fundamental shift in cybercrime from pervasive global outbreaks to smaller, stealthier attacks targeted at specific companies for extortion purposes.
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•Date: 24th Jan 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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UK government launches Energy Review
Three-month public consultation will explore future supply and security risks.
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•Date: 24th Jan 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Loss of paper documents still a significant threat
Protecting computer data is not enough; paper documentation needs considering too.
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•Date: 24th Jan 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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Business Recovery Managers Association meeting
Thursday January 26th, 2006. Business recovery managers will learn first hand from those who were involved in Katrina response, recovery and continuity situations.
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•Date: 24th Jan 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Gil Jamieson appointed as FEMA Deputy Director for Gulf Coast Recovery
Newly created position will provide a single focal point for coordination of FEMA’s continuing recovery work in the area.
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•Date: 24th Jan 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Automata launches ‘Trainers’ Club’
Aims to assist business continuity managers with company-wide training and awareness programmes.
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•Date: 24th Jan 2006• Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New 3Com product offers resilient enterprise IP communications
Offers centrally-managed, business continuity applications to ensure that phone service, messaging and system management continue to be available at remote sites in the event of wide area network failure.
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•Date: 24th Jan 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Australian government tells businesses affected by bushfires not to worry about tax payments
• Spring Singapore to publish guide on business continuity planning for influenza pandemics
• Disaster funds made available for South Carolina ice storm recovery
• Neverfail Group gains $10 million investment
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• A decade in business continuity planning

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• 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

• UPDATED No more excuses…

• Recommendations for improved US crisis and disaster preparedness made by the National Homeland Security Consortium

• European banking industry attitudes towards IT continuity explored

• Patent granted for telecoms continuity product

• Managing Risk and Business Continuity in the Public Sector

• Aon publishes 2006 political risk assessment

• Fire safety reform – UK government gives stakeholders more time to prepare

• American Red Cross and Operation HOPE sign disaster support agreement

• Gulf Coast recovery update published

• AmeriVault acquires Capitalbackup

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• Sudan 1 revisited

• IBM Australia buys Classic Blue

• Confusion between ‘archiving’ and ‘backup’ highlighted

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• Enterprise content management storage explored

• Emerging threats 2006: drought

• ICM to issue Voluntary Risk Statement to clients

• BC Management's 5th Annual BC/DR Study underway

• HP researchers looking to turn virus protection methods upside down

• WHO issues update on Avian influenza in Turkey

• Seeing the big picture…

• What business continuity is really all about…

• Damage forecasting service for UK and Western European winter storms launched

• 2006 London counter-terrorism advertising campaign launched

• Automata Technology Continuity and DR Masterclass 2006

• Terms of reference published for UK financial sector Cross-Market Business Continuity Group

• RMS analyses the impact of new TRIA structure

• Maintaining corporate values through an emergency

• DHS provides $765 million funding for high threat urban areas

• WMF flaw could have far-reaching enterprise impact: Gartner

• CBI tells UK organisations to make business continuity a priority

• Despite 2005’s disasters, the vast majority of Americans still believe that ‘it won’t happen to them’

• BCI appoints Technical Services Director

• SNIA survey examines state of storage management

• Final draft of US National Preparedness Goal released

• Updated NFPA 1600 standard out for consultation

• Basel Committee publishes consultation paper on ‘high-level principles for business continuity’

• The five stages of pandemic response planning

• Comment: Business intelligence projects should not be offshored…

• Are we missing the point of pandemic planning?

• Warning issued about Al Qaeda plans to target American interests in China

• UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes ‘Telecoms Resilience Assessment 2005-06’

• US Congressional Budget Office reports on the potential impacts of an influenza pandemic

• NFPA makes agreement with Canadian Standards Association

• Lessons Learned from the 2005 Hurricane Season

• Unitrends launches IT Rapid Recovery System for small and mid-sized businesses

• R.R. Donnelley acquires Critical Mail Continuity Services Limited

• UK financial system given high marks for resiliency

• UPDATED Business continuity lessons from Buncefield

• Tribal thinking in today’s IT environments

• Temple University survey explores public crisis communications

• Fail to prepare for ‘flu threat and you risk a law-suit epidemic…

• Pandemic or pandemonium? Drawing on crisis management best practice to prepare for the worst

• Remote and mobile workforce boom increases business risks

• International SOS survey looks at state of US firms' pandemic planning

• UK tripartite authorities set out financial sector crisis management arrangements

• Teleworking - business continuity opportunities and threats

• Flexible working: time to take the next step?

• Beware the blog…

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