Business continuity news 27th May 2009

news headlines: 27th May 2009

Zero-downtime system migrations
The ‘big bang’ method of rolling out new systems – often implemented over the weekend in the hope that everything will be resolved by Monday – exposes companies to considerable risk...
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•Date: 27th May 2009• Region:UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Availability for a brave new world
High availability technologies for DB2.
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•Date: 27th May 2009• Region:UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Pandemic planning actions surveyed
The results of a survey into business response to the Influenza A H1N1 outbreak.
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•Date:27th May 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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ANSI-HSSP releases workshop report on emergency preparedness for persons with disabilities
Considers real-life examples of evacuation of people with disabilities from recent events, the strengths and weaknesses of existing standards, and priorities in creating standards for emergency preparedness.
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•Date:27th May 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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NOAA issues Atlantic Hurricane Season outlook
Forecasters say a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year.
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•Date:27th May 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Hurricane season
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Quality control in business continuity management: interim results
An overview of the results so far from Continuity Central’s latest survey.
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•Date: 22nd May 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity take-up in China
A new study by KPMG has found that a majority of companies in China have established business continuity management programs in place.
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•Date: 22nd May 2009• Region: SE Asia•Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• BCAW Canada
• Latest CERT podcast
• Chloride introduces a modular UPS system
• RecoveryPlanner expands into Brasil
• Joint Business Continuity Institute and Continuity Forum members meeting
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Cyclone Aila hits Bangladesh, India
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• The ‘disruption management model’ for business continuity

• Handling online crises...

• Fugate sworn-in as new FEMA Administrator

• Zenith introduces ARCA

• Pandemic planning webinars and podcasts

• SBA presents the Phoenix Awards for disaster recovery efforts

• Pandemic: don’t be complacent

• Corporate data theft doubles since 2006

• Disaster uncovered

• Unresponsive data centres can lead to supply chain chaos

• ISO report highlights best practices in the use of fever screening equipment as a tool in pandemic preparedness

• New risks emerging for oil and gas sector

• New ISO/IEC standard for IT security

• FEMA stays in DHS: the final word (?)

• Pandemic planning actions surveyed

• AT&T bolsters pan-European disaster recovery resources

• Majority of companies lack the transparency needed to prevent insider threats

• Australian budget provides more cash for disaster resilience

• HP launches business continuity solution for SAP

• Mathematical advances strengthen IT security

• Pandemic planning webinars and podcasts

• Double-Take announces new solution with Microsoft to reduce complexity of remote site recovery

• APRA releases discussion paper on IT security risk management

• Capital One Bank provides disaster planning checklist

• Business continuity management in a recession: luxury or necessity?

• Deloitte report urges governments around the world to step up cybersecurity efforts or face potential disruption

• FSA CEO criticises firms’ risk management approach

• Recovery Point rolls out across the US

• Florida companies taking business continuity seriously

• Aravo Risk launched

• NIST issues draft guide for automating computer security verification

• Urgency at centre of Solvency II implementation programmes

• Pandemics – have we really learnt anything?

• Business continuity providers’ statements on pandemic response

• Network Barometer Report

• Marathon Technologies launches two new high availability software products

• A Framework for Assessing the Systemic Risk of Major Financial Institutions

• Swine influenza is now ‘Influenza A(H1N1)’

• Pandemic business continuity planning – the time to act is now

• Lieberman introduces legislation to help secure the US electric grid

• BCI launches India business continuity awards

• New ISO/IEC standard will help to prevent theft and unauthorized modification of electronic data

• WHO raises pandemic alert level to phase 5

• Telecoms is a weak link in US business continuity planning

• Pandemic preparedness: key questions your chief executive will be asking

• Nine-steps for pandemic planning

• Face masks : when and when not to use them in pandemic situations

• Pandemic plans trigger difficult legal questions

• Senate committee holds hearing on improving US cyber security

• Pandemic plan sense check

• European Data Centre Awards

• Business continuity helps drive UK data culture shift

• 2009 Phoenix Award for Small Business Disaster Recovery

• Business continuity statistics: where myth meets fact

• Quality control in business continuity management

• Solvency II approved by European Parliament

• Global survey: economic downturn drives increased spending on IT security

• Fugate wants FEMA to remain within the DHS

• Major pandemic exercise held in Wales

• 2009 European Risk Management Awards

• New NIST guidelines for organization-wide password management

• UK government publishes draft Flood and Water Management Bill

• RSA president urges 'inventive collaboration'

• Eliminating cloud storage data transfer and recovery bottlenecks

• Tape and disk continue to thrive together

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat Emergency Response and Recovery consultation: deadline coming up

• Severe convective storm seasons are here to stay...

• 2009 Global Risk Management Survey results

• VMware unveils vSphere 4

• New business recovery centre opened in Tamworth, UK

• UK government launches consultation on how to protect crowded places from terrorist attacks

• Materials research could lead to an end to data loss from power outages

• HP ‘puts more up in uptime’

• Voice over IP related threats

• Dates set for 2010 Business Continuity Awareness Week

• Version four of London Flu Pandemic Response Plan published

• Ineffective IT internal audit plans reduce risk management effectiveness

• Survey looks into IT downtime tolerance in UK organizations

• VMware to unveil ‘next generation virtualization technology’

• Final version of Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101 published by FEMA

• 2009 Data Breach Study

• Business Continuity Awards shortlist

• Understanding risks to Seattle's high-rise buildings from a giant Cascadian earthquake

• Isle of Man government to conduct business continuity training exercise

• Novel method predicts impact of a covert anthrax release

• The use of templates in business continuity planning

• Business continuity and disaster recovery - the WAN is a strategic component

• US business continuity salaries and compensation

• Data storage and recovery practices in the UK

• SunGard developing ‘LDRPS for Hospitals’

• Recession changing fraud risk exposure

• The G20 summits: the outcomes for financial sector enterprise risk management

• HP launches new UK business recovery centre

• Disk is the backup medium of choice: UK survey

• Firestorm offers business continuity franchise opportunities

• UK business continuity roadshow

• Cassatt applies internal cloud concept to disaster recovery

• Survey looks into application availability

• Details of UK Market-wide Exercise 2009 announced

• HP unveils ‘Cloud Assure’

• Power outages present a real and growing threat to business continuity: Chloride

• Improving Business Continuity Management: BS 25999 and Beyond

• Resilience in recession

• The role of HR in business continuity management

• DHS releases its own worm detection tool

• ICM launches new ‘Replication as a Service’ solution

• Fraud can tip you over the edge...

• ASIS International releases organizational resilience standard

• Tripartite Authorities reiterate London protests warning

• New online self-assessment tool from BSI British Standards

• BCI briefs MPs about business continuity management

• Data storage practices are not in line with data storage policies: survey

• The BANGs 2009

• Advance made in intruder detection

• NIST stairwell evacuation study published

• Service levels vs. recovery times

• SunGard Availability Services launches new partner program

• UK economy loses £11.1 billion a year to major disruptions, claims the BCI

• Business Continuity Benchmarking Survey 2009

• RIMS publishes paper on ERM technology solutions

• UK Home Office launches new counter terrorism strategy

• ‘Corporate Defense Insights: Dispatches from the Front Line’

• Chartered Management Institute issues its tenth annual report into business continuity in the UK

• New ISO standard for building escape and evacuation plans published

• Overcoming silos seen as biggest challenge to effective enterprise risk management programs

• ENISA publishes IT continuity resources

• Alarm developing competency guidance for UK public sector risk managers

• Online backup gaining ground in UK companies

• iJET issues pandemic preparedness report

• Will al-Qaeda’s next attack on America be a cyber attack?

• Business ‘Survival Guide’ launched by the Business Continuity Institute

• Main US federal disaster relief law has fallen behind modern threat levels, NYU professor finds

• Continuity Software introduces RecoverGuard v4.0

• Natural disaster risks for 2009 assessed

• Gearing up for Global Business Continuity Awareness Week

• City of London Corporation to brief firms on April anti-capitalist protest

• Risk trends in the global life sciences industry examined

• Gartner makes identity and access management predictions

• Lack of end user training is a large and growing threat to IT security

• Latest issue of the Business Continuity Journal available

• Fire damage stats show the importance of ‘every day’ threats

• US to get new Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention American National Standard

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes Emergency Response and Recovery consultation draft

• RFID resilience

• Texas companies get new business continuity options

• Cloud Computing is more than just hype: IDC

• Head in the cloud?

• Standards Australia cancels business continuity standard consultation process

• Selection of Fugate to lead FEMA welcomed

• Security implications of the virtualized data centre

• INTERPOL Secretary General warns against complacency over Al Qaeda

• UK local authorities given high marks for business continuity

• London flood risks examined

• Association of State Floodplain Managers adds its voice to the call for an independent FEMA

• Crisis communications: how to slow or stop negative news

• Flexible working and business continuity

• A tailored diagnostic tool

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