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news headlines: 27th January 2005

Don’t ignore the bigger picture
Companies focusing on internal controls risk missing changes in external threat profiles.

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Date: 27th January 2005 • Region: N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Crisis management - the known, the unknown, and the unknowable
Remarks by Mr Donald L Kohn, member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System.

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Date: 27th January 2005 • Region: US/World Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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UK government to set up CBRN decontamination service
Will provide expert advice and guidance on decontaminating infrastructure, buildings and the environment after a CBRN incident.

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Date: 27th January 2005 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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NIST and NSA develop common specification language for writing security checklists and related documents
XML-based Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) language formats checklists for IT security.

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Date: 27th January 2005 • Region: N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• DataMirror launches enhanced high availability solution for iSeries
Multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS
• IDC Security Forum West: Investigating the Next Frontiers in Security and Business Continuity
• Ryan Beck & Co. implements enterprise-wide disaster recovery solution
• VERITAS software Named ‘Best of the Best’ in Redmond Magazine's Annual Readers' Choice survey
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2003 archive

Top headlines from the past four weeks:
M15 publishes bomb threat procedures for businesses

Singapore’s Standard for Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Service Providers explored

Survey finds that employee laptop risks still not being addressed

Strohl Systems launches PLANet 2.0

New board of directors for the Association of Contingency Planners

Determining risk appetite

Building a capable emergency management team

Beware the ‘evil twin’

Case study: How high availability can support business continuity

Comment: Does the business continuity model start in the wrong place? UPDATED WITH READER COMMENTS

Risk outlook for financial sector published by FSA

European IT directors believe that data storage is critical to enterprise business continuity: survey

Symantec and VERITAS announce integration team

Stress testing continuing to evolve as a practical risk management tool

Social continuity – consequential impacts and terrorism

EVault expands operations in the United Kingdom

Voting in Iraq election will take place in the UK, increasing the terror risk

A ‘standards based’ approach to operational risk management under Basel II

The hidden vulnerability of cities to natural disasters: underground spaces

Resilient data centre selection and design

ICM to launch expanded London recovery centre

Caribbean tsunami ‘a matter of when, not if’

Researchers developing crisis management support tool

Japanese government to promote private-sector business continuity

Center of Excellence for Behavioral and Social Research on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism to be established

Nordic IT security overview

US National Response Plan for disasters and terrorist attacks launched

The threat within - why businesses need to manage and monitor employee e-mail usage

Security considerations for Voice over IP systems

How much security is enough?

Report published into UK financial markets business continuity exercise

WAN throughput is limiting factor in many business continuity and disaster recovery plans

Researchers develop new tool to detect bioterrorism agents

SunGard finalises Inflow acquisition

Communicable diseases: business continuity issues

DRI International to promote Global Business Continuity Awareness Week

US Treasury publishes model for regional business continuity coalitions

UK and Ireland spending on IT security expected to double in 2005

The ‘art’ of business continuity – BC recruiting

Business continuity in 2005

Successful business continuity programs: be strategic from the start

IBM helps New York Stock Exchange achieve virtually zero-downtime trading

Technology trends for 2005

Symantec and VERITAS - it's official!

ChicagoFIRST receives Congressional recognition

Majority of UK organisations ignore collaboration risks

AmeriVault launches data replication service

BCM document quality control

Business continuity for beginners

Chartered Management Institute to conduct detailed survey of the UK business continuity market

World Health Organization conference turns the spotlight on pandemic planning

Deloitte releases 2004 global risk management survey results




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