news headlines: 25th September 2007

TOPOFF 4 to take place in Arizona, Oregon and Guam
October 15-19 sees the largest TOPOFF counterterrorism exercise to date; private sector participation welcomed.
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•Date: 25th Sept 2007• Region: US•Type: Article •Topic: Testing and exercising
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Resilience: a risk management perspective
A multi-layered approach to achieving resilience is required to meet today’s global challenges according to Lloyd’s chairman Lord Levene.
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•Date: 25th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs schedules pandemic planning hearing
‘The Role of Federal Executive Boards in Pandemic Preparedness’:28 September.
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•Date: 25th Sept 2007• Region: US•Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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UK businesses facing new brand protection risk
Change in UK trademark law means brand owners will need to be much more watchful.
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•Date: 25th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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BCI workshop explores business continuity lessons from UK summer floods
21st November 2007, The National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull.
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•Date: 25th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Business Roundtable and the American Red Cross announce a new disaster recovery collaboration
The partnership includes several activities to help the private and non-profit sectors work together to strengthen the US disaster response system
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•Date: 25th Sept 2007• Region: US•Type: Article •Topic: Disaster recovery
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• FSTC launches next phase of Resiliency Model project
• EVault unveils unified recovery platform for fully-integrated backup and recovery solutions
• Solcara offers grants for public sector incident management software
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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