news headlines: 25th January 2008

Business continuity 2008: Middle East
Samir Pawaskar highlights business continuity challenges which are unique to Middle East organizations.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region:M.East •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Corporate Manslaughter Act enforcement should move business continuity ‘human factors’ up the agenda in the UK
Human resources: where business continuity and health & safety meet.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Survey reveals widespread vulnerability to email outages
But many companies fail to implement high availability solutions or develop disaster recovery plans.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Cypress Communications wins telecom disaster recovery award
Receives Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award in the field of hosted VoIP solutions for telecom disaster recovery.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Majority of malicious websites are now legitimate sites compromised by attackers
According to Websense Security Labs report.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Foreign fighter networks: implications for multinational corporations
GeoCritical highlights an emerging threat.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region: M.East •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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BCI workshop aims to align ICT continuity with corporate BCM
21st February 2008, The Marriott Victoria & Albert Hotel, Manchester.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Chloride to provide ‘greener’ UPS solutions
Using advanced flywheel energy storage technologies.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Network emulation for business continuity testing
Sameer Gupta explains how to test network business continuity plans in the lab environment rather than on the live network.
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•Date: 24th January 2008• Region:UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The SANS Institute’s ‘top ten cyber security menaces for 2008’
During December, 2007, twelve cyber security SANS Institute veteransworked together to compile a list of the attacks most likely to cause substantial damage during 2008.
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•Date: 24th January 2008• Region:US/ World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Virtual desktops for enterprise disaster recovery
New desktop DR solution enables cost-effective business continuity using employee home PCs.
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•Date: 24th January 2008• Region:US/ World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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US National Response Framework released
UPDATED Mixed response to National Response Plan successor.
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•Date: 24th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Avalution offers free BS 25999 readiness self-assessment
• myCOOP 6.0 BCM software enhanced
• Public confidence in US education institutions’ business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities jumps
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Global warming may reduce hurricanes hitting US
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