Business continuity news 26th July 2005

news headlines: 26th July 2005

VOIP is a ticking time bomb
VoIP will create an exponential increase of points in the network for unauthorised access and denial of service, says PortWise.
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•Date: 26th July 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Belts and braces…
Prepare for major disasters but don’t overlook the potential minor incidents that could bring your business to a grinding halt.
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•Date: 26th July 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Large-scale terrorist exercise taking place in Queensland
‘Orchid Alert’, is designed to evaluate crisis and consequence management capabilities in the event of a terrorist threat.
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•Date: 26th July 2005 • Region: Australia • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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‘Secure in the Knowledge’
London First and the Met Police publish new business protection guidance.
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•Date: 26th July 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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UN renews call for effective Indian Ocean tsunami warning system
UN project underway but practical and political support from regional governments is essential if the project is to be successful.
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•Date: 26th July 2005 • Region: Asia Pac • Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• FBI outlines ongoing agroterrorism prevention work
• Business Continuity: Thinking the Unthinkable
• Audit of Indian government departments exposes weak IT security
• Japan prepares for tropical storm Banyan
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• A narrow escape…

• Further business continuity lessons from July 7th

• Managing risk is the biggest issue for construction companies

• Some reductions seen in e-crime

• IT Compliance Institute launches project to help with compliance issues

• Failed terrorist attack on London

• Addressing business continuity during mergers or acquisitions

• Flood protection: European Commission starts public consultation programme

• New study exposes small business information security gaps

• Phoenix IT Group makes senior appointment for NDR business continuity division

• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Automatic Updates could cause IT continuity problems

• Data breaches: turn back the tide

• US securities industry plans large scale business continuity test

• ‘Next generation’ business continuity software released

• Quantum decoys foil code-breaking attempts

• Bio-terrorism threat requires 'all-hazard' planning focusing on doctrine as well as technology

• Exercising the Business Continuity Plan

• Business continuity lessons from July 7th

• Recovery roundup

• Business continuity rule #1

• SunGard to develop second London-based ‘technology centre’

• IBM unveils new printers with enhanced security

• Extraordinary Meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council: report

• Six-point agenda for change at the US Department of Homeland Security

• APTA urges DHS to make more funding available for transit security

• Strohl Systems announces inaugural awards program

• Business Continuity Institute Symposium

• Critical success factors for effective crisis management

• Supply chain business continuity explored

• London major incident update

• Crisis management for tourism businesses

• The cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is at the expense of other security spending

• London: business continuity comes into its own

• US terror threat level raised to Orange for mass transit portion of transportation

• Many European countries increase alert levels

• Hurricane Dennis bears down on Cuba, threatens US Gulf Coast

• Major incident in London

• Crisis communications management readiness questionnaire

• Survey examines ‘E-mail Criticality, Support and Migration’

• Strohl Systems launches BIA Professional 4.0

• New ‘PCMCIA write-blocking pod’ enables the capture of computer forensic evidence from removable media

• Data Governance Council formed by IBM, American Express, Merrill Lynch, World Bank and others

• G8 summit blockades cause business continuity problems

• How to determine what are mission critical organisational activities

• Memorandum ranks States for chemical incident threat

• New business continuity tool helps companies identify and mitigate power related threats

• BCI announces revised Academic Syllabus for business continuity courses

• Suicide bomber sensors would not reduce casualties

• A risk management self assessment framework

• BCI on the hunt for a ‘Technical and Development Director’

• G8 summit risks must not be ignored: Marsh

• Protecting against catastrophic data loss

• VERITAS Backup Exec software exploit poses serious threat

• Complacency – the biggest business continuity threat to SMEs

• The future of enterprise data back-up and recovery

• Complexity – friend or foe?

• Technology failures increasingly damaging to reputation

• Critical infrastructure protection driving US government disaster recovery investments

• Oil dependence creates severe US security and economic risks

• Report into UK tsunami risk published

• The emerging threat of intellectual property indemnification

• NIST World Trade Center investigation highlights improvements needed for tall buildings safety

• The always-on network: strategies for achieving high availability of IT systems

• North America seconds away from another extreme wide-area blackout

• 2005 Global Security Survey published by Deloitt

• Rentsys expands Mobile Recovery Center fleet

• Department of Homeland Security conducting comprehensive exercise to test continuity of operations plans

• Disaster recovery for Asian firms' treasury operations explored

• RAND study says US terrorism insurance system falling short

• Iberian companies facing drought-related business continuity problems

• Global oil supply disruption exercise scheduled

• Business continuity for small businesses

• Boring, boring business continuity…

• Classic Blue acquires Securix Australia’s IT security business

• Small firms waste two weeks a year waiting for server reboots

• CapRock launches communications disaster recovery service

• Designing today’s SANs

• Hurricanes will intensify as the earth warms: NCAR climate expert

• ABK offers UK business continuity managers new disaster communications options

• NISCC warns businesses about increase in targeted Trojan e-mail attacks

• SunGard Availability Services launches ‘Information Availability for Small and Midsize Business' program

• FSTC project results in comprehensive inventory of global business continuity regulations

• Increased reliance on IT driving business continuity purchases

• Combined audit preparation and IT continuity planning software package now available

• AIRMIC and CBI launch workplace rehabilitation campaign

• Gartner survey ranks viruses and worms as top IT security threats

• New survey explores business continuity trends

• Date set for introduction of revised UK COMAH major accident hazards regulations

• Confidence lacking in reliability and restorability of backups

• IT profession sees risk of removable media: but turns a blind eye

• IBM, SunGard, and GoldenSource launch EDM Council

• Building true business continuity solutions over IP

• UK government backs proposals to establish natural disaster scientific panel

• Dubai’s day without power

• The five most over-hyped IT security threats

• The intrinsic benefits of business continuity management

• Department of Homeland Security launches Listo Negocios

• New risk assessment software addresses building threats

• BCI launches Pakistan Business Continuity Forum

• UK government consults on ways of increasing the resilience of the power supply network

• Top ten tips for 2005 hurricane season planning

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