news headlines: 26th January 2005

M15 publishes bomb threat procedures for businesses
Includes a recommended checklist of actions as well as evacuation advice.
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•Date: 26th January 2005 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Singapore’s Standard for Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Service Providers explored
Dr Goh Moh Heng and Lim Yew Ban have written a paper which examines the implications of Singapore’s new BC suppliers certification standard.
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•Date: 26th January 2005 • Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Survey finds that employee laptop risks still not being addressed
More than 50 percent of small-to-mid-sized companies do not have formal procedures in place for backing up mission critical data hosted on employee laptops.
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•Date: 26th January 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Strohl Systems launches PLANet 2.0
Enables users to comply with FFIEC business continuity guidelines.
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•Date: 26th January 2005 • Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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New board of directors for the Association of Contingency Planners
The Association of Contingency Planners has announced its new corporate board of directors for 2005.
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•Date: 26th January 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Arkeia MS SQL server hot backup solution
• Summary of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction
• International Disaster Recovery Association 15th annual conference
• NSI Software gains extra $7 million funding
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