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news headlines: 25th - 26th May 2006

Business continuity training: a snapshot
The final results of Continuity Central’s recent survey, which explored user views on the current state of BC training provision.
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Date: 26th May 2006 • Region: UK/US/World Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Pandemic planning: a review of respirator and mask protection levels
Many business continuity planners are considering the use of respiratory protection equipment to reduce the threat to staff from pandemic influenza – but such equipment may be of little genuine use, says Jeff Charlton.
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Date: 26th May 2006 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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DHS launches Ready Business Mentoring Initiative
Aimed at helping owners and managers of small and medium-sized businesses prepare business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
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Date: 26th May 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Contingency Planning Exchange’s Washington DC Chapter launch meeting
Continuity Central reports on this recent event.
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Date: 26th May 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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IBM introduces ‘next-generation storage virtualization software’
Will help organizations virtualize their infrastructures over longer distances.
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Date: 26th May 2006• Region: World Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Securing software
Information security attacks are one of the prime causes of IT downtime, and many of these are related to software vulnerabilities. Kevin Beaver and Caleb Sima highlight six common weaknesses in the software development life cycle that lead to vulnerable code and explain what can be done to avoid this problem.
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Date: 25th May 2006 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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UCF, Georgia researchers: New Orleans is the US city most at risk of hurricane damage in 2006
Climate conditions also are ripe for more disruptions to Gulf oil and gas production.
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Date: 25th May 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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CD available to help businesses in Eastern England deal with business crime and make terrorism preparations
Includes a comprehensive risk management guide.
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Date: 25th May 2006• Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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WHO concerned about cluster of human H5N1 deaths in Indonesia
No sign of diseased poultry in the immediate area: raises the spectre of human-to-human H5N1 transmission.
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Date: 25th May 2006• Region: Asia Pacific Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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New ISO standard aims to ensure the security of financial transactions on the Internet
Sets out best practice frameworks and defines control objectives and supporting procedures to manage risks.
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Date: 25th May 2006• Region: World Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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DHS outlines Hurricane Season preparations
DHS is “dramatically increasing the nation’s stockpiles of relief supplies, retooling FEMA for the 21st century, updating disaster plans, supporting state and local partners, and emphasizing individual and community preparedness”.
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Date: 25th May 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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‘Learning from disasters’
The Business Continuity Institute’s London Forum is running a seminar with the above title on 7th June 2006 at IBM's Sampson House.
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Date: 25th May 2006• Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Terrorists hiding computer files in plain sight: steganography less observable than encryption
Ames Laboratory researchers detect secret files lurking within digital images.
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Date: 25th May 2006• Region: US Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Hurricane Names for 2006
• Buncefield Briefing Days
• DHS issues Notice of Change to National Response Plan
• Disasters declared in three US areas

• Hurricane preparedness web-seminar
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

Hurricane season: there’s good news and there’s bad news

Guidelines for improving and protecting corporate reputation

Emerson survey looks at power outage costs to US businesses

IAEM pushes for Paulison appointment

America unprepared…

SEC details next steps for Sarbanes-Oxley implementation

Business continuity plan development

The anatomy of Business Process–specific Key Operational Risk Indicators : Part two

In their own words…

Business continuity / wireless gateway solution for enterprises launched

SNIA Europe end user survey looks at current data storage practices

Pacific Wave 06

‘Business Checklist for Pandemic Flu Planning’

Last minute actions to protect your business from storm damage

‘Array Business Continuity Flex Plan’ aims to help companies deal with emergency surges in remote access

Web@Work survey highlights keylogging threat

Typhoon Chanchu impacts SE Asia

New England flooding: FEMA sitrep

Comprehensive survey into business continuity activities of UK organisations published

Business Continuity Awareness Week – the journey

ICM opens 1700 seat Romford recovery centre

Federal workforce not ready to telework during influenza pandemic

UK government starts making contingency plans for potential energy shortages in 2006/2007 winter

GAO reports on the military response to Katrina and the lessons learned for future disasters

CapRock expands disaster recovery satellite services in preparation for 2006 Hurricane Season

Business Continuity Award winners...

VoIP: business continuity thoughts

Survey explores status of pandemic ‘flu continuity of operations planning in US Federal government

IBM brings autonomic computing to grid environments

SunGard announces first quarter 2006 results

‘Preparing for a pandemic: strategies for business continuity when a crisis hits home’

Business continuity program management – a critical and often overlooked aspect

Tune-up your business continuity plan

Report into the London terrorist attacks on 7 July 2005 published

Singapore financial sector conducts large-scale industry-wide business continuity exercise

Is your business ready for disaster?

WANdisco launches new high availability disaster recovery solution for Linux

New Unisys IT continuity solutions and server platform

Third Buncefield progress report points to failures of safety systems

Americas & Australasia Business Continuity Awareness Week 2006 underway

Observations of an industry newbie

‘Pacific Peril’

Businesses attacked in Athens

Asia Pacific ministers agree joint avian influenza action plan

New business continuity company launched to target Asia Pacific market

SSL VPNs on the rise, says new study

Crisis communications and disaster response

11 September five years later: where to from here?

Optimising data protection in Linux environments

DHS starts hurricane preparedness exercises

Independent US commission concludes first hearing on roles of National Guard and Reserves in homeland security and disaster response

La Niña not expected to affect 2006 hurricane season

National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: Implementation Plan

Non-US companies struggle with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

US businesses failing to include voice communications in business continuity plans

Survey finds 52 percent of N.American organizations have a disaster recovery or business continuity plan

Coyote Crisis Campaign disaster drill tests bioterrorism and dirty bomb response

Harvard Business Review Report says that a ‘flu pandemic would be single biggest threat to business continuity

ISO workshop meeting explores standardization for international emergency preparedness

Magnitude 8.0 near Tonga: tsunami potential

CBI and KPMG survey business continuity take-up in London’s businesses

20 percent probability of next influenza pandemic being worse than 1918 outbreak: RMS

Interagency report to Congress on financial system resilience

Nationalisation risk rears its head in South America

Letter to the editor…

Basel II: many banks are behind schedule

Assistance for flood affected businesses in Australia

New software protects confidentiality of data while enabling access and sharing

Pandemic simulation exercise reveals potential strains on telecommunications infrastructures

Defining crisis management team competence

Safety first – scenario analysis under Basel II

‘Dissolve FEMA, clear the table, and begin anew’ : Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

Securities Industry Association publishes details of October industry-wide business continuity test

New Zealand survey looks at pandemic planning in regional businesses

DHS predesignates 2006 hurricane season response teams

Data centre development: what makes a perfect raised floor?

Why reputation is a major factor in business continuity and crisis management

Take the ‘compliance self-diagnosis test’…

FRC report critical of preparedness levels in eight hurricane prone US states

Security investments starting to show return on investment for UK companies

3n launches Instacom 4.0, featuring enhanced GIS-enabled notification tools

Many North American life insurers still in planning stage for ‘flu pandemic preparations




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