Business continuity news 24th March 2009

news headlines: 24th March 2009

UK economy loses £11.1 billion a year to major disruptions, claims the BCI
The Business Continuity Institute estimates that 0.8 percent of UK GDP is lost due to lack of business continuity management.
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•Date:24th March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business Continuity Benchmarking Survey 2009
Continuity Forum Pty Ltd and the BCI's Australasian Chapter have launched a business continuity benchmarking study.
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•Date:24th March 2009• Region: Australia/NZ •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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RIMS publishes paper on ERM technology solutions
Executive report provides guidance on the identification and evaluation of appropriate technologies to assist enterprise risk management.
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•Date:24th March 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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UK Home Office launches new counter terrorism strategy
Includes ‘consolidated’ work on national critical infrastructure and greater focus on preparedness for new types of threat.
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•Date:24th March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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‘Corporate Defense Insights: Dispatches from the Front Line’
This paper by Sean Lyons provides a series of interviews with various experts on organizational ‘self-defense’ and resilience.
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•Date: 20th March 2009• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Chartered Management Institute issues its tenth annual report into business continuity in the UK
‘A Decade of Living Dangerously’ is jointly published with the Cabinet Office.
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•Date:20th March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Marsh provides SMEs with business continuity checklist
• New GAO report looks into risk management oversight
• SkyBitz enables disaster recovery teams to have fast and effective response during utility infrastructure outages
• Bull and GlassHouse join forces to deliver storage assessment services
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
- FEMA daily SITREP
- World weather impacts
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• New ISO standard for building escape and evacuation plans published

• Overcoming silos seen as biggest challenge to effective enterprise risk management programs

• ENISA publishes IT continuity resources

• Alarm developing competency guidance for UK public sector risk managers

• Online backup gaining ground in UK companies

• iJET issues pandemic preparedness report

• Will al-Qaeda’s next attack on America be a cyber attack?

• Business ‘Survival Guide’ launched by the Business Continuity Institute

• Main US federal disaster relief law has fallen behind modern threat levels, NYU professor finds

• Continuity Software introduces RecoverGuard v4.0

• Natural disaster risks for 2009 assessed

• Gearing up for Global Business Continuity Awareness Week

• City of London Corporation to brief firms on April anti-capitalist protest

• Risk trends in the global life sciences industry examined

• Gartner makes identity and access management predictions

• Lack of end user training is a large and growing threat to IT security

• Latest issue of the Business Continuity Journal available

• Fire damage stats show the importance of ‘every day’ threats

• US to get new Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention American National Standard

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes Emergency Response and Recovery consultation draft

• RFID resilience

• Texas companies get new business continuity options

• Cloud Computing is more than just hype: IDC

• Head in the cloud?

• Standards Australia cancels business continuity standard consultation process

• Selection of Fugate to lead FEMA welcomed

• Security implications of the virtualized data centre

• INTERPOL Secretary General warns against complacency over Al Qaeda

• UK local authorities given high marks for business continuity

• London flood risks examined

• Association of State Floodplain Managers adds its voice to the call for an independent FEMA

• Crisis communications: how to slow or stop negative news

• Flexible working and business continuity

• A tailored diagnostic tool

• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure leaders introduce FEMA Independence Bill

• BSI looking for reviewers

• Standards Australia releases three-part draft business continuity standard

• You cannot outsource your responsibilities...

• Worldwide survey of VMware users finds that business continuity is the main implementation driver

• VMware brings high availability to virtualization management

• Updated recommendations for protecting wireless, remote access data

• FEMA grants $5 million for sea level rise study in North Carolina

• Asset management and disaster recovery

• IRS business continuity measures investigated

• COSO releases ‘Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems’

• Data storage industry on the verge of a miniaturization leap

• 2009 National Infrastructure Protection Plan

• The impacts of the current economic environment on organizational security

• BSI launches BS 25777

• Deadline extended for Business Continuity Awards nominations

• Supplier instability emerging as a key operational risk factor

• Secretary Napolitano launches DHS ‘efficiency review’

• Cloud computing driving information security budget increases

• Support for keeping FEMA in DHS grows

• Five critical recovery flaws your last DR test might have missed

• First major update to SP 800-53 is available for public comment

• Leading organizations unveil new interoperability specification

• UK business continuity roadshow

• ENISA publishes ‘Country Reports’

• NFPA 1600 committee seeks comments on new version

• IT risk management framework developed by IT Governance Institute

• Study looks into crisis communications processes

• iJET forecasts an increase in operational risk in coming year

• US SMBs taking backup to new levels

• Business Continuity Institute launches ‘BCM World Conference and Exhibition’

• Survey looks into e-mail downtime

• IDC reports on China's disaster recovery market

• Mauritius puts itself forward as a ‘global disaster recovery and business continuity centre’

• New satellite tracked panic alarm has many human resource business continuity uses

• FEMA awards Accenture $58 million contract to help manage flood risk mapping, assessment and planning program

• The human side of business continuity planning

• Clustering is not enough...

• Crisis prevention: how to do it, how to make it work

• Spending on managed services increasing despite recession

• Fighting tomorrow's hackers

• Date set for next PS-Prep consultation meeting

• Twittering about business continuity

• Business Continuity Competencies

• European Parliament calls for mandatory gas supply emergency action plans

• Each lost customer record costs UK enterprises £60

• Computer games can play an important role in evacuation planning and training

• Five golden rules of business continuity management

• Business Continuity Institute updates Good Practice Guidelines

• Corporations are inadvertently becoming the no. 1 security threat to their own customers

• Trusted Computing Group Storage Work Group publishes final versions of three data storage specifications

• UN report gives 2008 disasters summary

• FSA publishes feedback statement on resilience benchmarking

• UK to double pandemic flu drug stockpiles

• SunGard Availability Services completes a refresh of recovery facility desktop PCs in North America

• Lessons learned from the Mumbai attacks

• New US business continuity management standard committee meets for first time

• Phoenix IT, ICM’s parent company, issues interim management statement

• Aon publishes political risk map 2009

• Security for tall buildings: new report

• RIMS executive report outlines next steps for enterprise risk management

• Double-Take extends GeoCluster

• Successful video communication

• Secretary Napolitano issues action directives on FEMA state and local integration and national planning

• What to avoid...

• The short and sweet of proprietary systems with backup/restore utilities

• Golden rules for the crisis spokesperson

• Research identifies risk factors that affected World Trade Center evacuation

• Moving on up...

• Penetration testing is dead; long live penetration testing

• New business continuity training company launched in the UK

• Exploring the link between organisational resilience and crisis management

• Global Risks 2009

• ENISA survey looks into resilience of communication networks

• COOP Systems to launch enhanced version of myCOOP

• An IT continuity snapshot

• Webinar: Continuity in recession

• DHS Secretary Napolitano sets out priorities

• Nominations open for UK Business Continuity Awards

• Banks need to agree global risk management standards: PM

• EU committee sets out energy security blueprint

• BCI ICT Resilience Workshop

• Singapore Exchange introduces new business continuity rules

• Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announces enhancements to Basel II

• BCI Partnership publishes 2009 campaigning activities update

• New CDC report highlights challenges in preparing for public health emergencies in era of declining funding

• Reed cancels BC Expo 2009

• The 2009 challenge: risk awareness

• EMC to open first ‘Center of Excellence’

• Scotland to fall behind on flood risk management?

• Senate committee holds nomination hearing for Napolitano

• eBRP launches SaaS-based business continuity software

• Global financial crisis: enterprise risk management was not to blame

• New strategy developed for curbing computer worms

• Iron Mountain and Microsoft agree cloud-based backup and recovery collaboration deal

• IAEM ‘strongly supports’ the nomination of Governor Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security

• Continuity Forum events February – March 09

• ‘State of the Data Center’

• Adam Continuity launches new disaster recovery centre in Wales

• Survey unveils need for application performance management to improve the reliability of mission critical SOA applications

• Security – the human factor

• King tides – helping New South Wales and South East Queensland prepare for climate change impacts

• Business continuity in 2009

• Malaysian government to develop new financial sector business continuity planning guidelines

• US Senate committee hears lessons learned from Mumbai terrorist attack

• Continuity Forum and the BCI to work more closely in Australia

• Russia/Ukraine gas dispute prompts EU to speed up energy security initiatives

• INONI launches new business continuity management software

• ‘Continuous Auditing & Continuous Monitoring: Using Technology to Drive Value by Managing Risk and Improving Performance’

• Hughes launches Inter-Government Crisis Network

• Satyam fights for survival

• DHS advances Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program consultation process

• 'Principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision'

• CBI calls for UK to take urgent action on energy security

• KPMG survey looks into banking risk management

• ‘A Short Guide to Local Authority Mutual Aid’

• Experts uncover weakness in Internet security

• UK government establishes environmental risk centre

• New study examines how chlorine gas release could affect major metropolitan areas

• Revised NIMS now available

• Protecting seaport cyber security

• Applying IT strategy to protecting people

• Data center/centre transformation a top priority in 2009

• ASIS releases new standard which details chief security officer role

• Pandemic planning slips down the UK business agenda

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