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news headlines: 27th October 2004

UK financial authorities plan resilience benchmarking project
During 2005 the Tripartite authorities will be making a benchmarking assessment of financial sector business continuity plans.
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Date: 27th October 2004 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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SunGard Availability Services to launch e-mail recovery service
Launch to take place at SunGard’s Connections Information Availability Conference, 2-3 November 2004, Birmingham.
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Date: 27th October 2004 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Symantec turns its attention to IT continuity
Security + Availability = Information Integrity.
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Date: 27th October 2004 • Region: N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: IT cont.
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The SNIA approves new common RAID disk data format architecture
Aimed at making RAID storage more flexible and easier to manage and implement.
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Date: 27th October 2004 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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ASIGRA unveils ‘backup lifecycle management’ software suite
Claimed to be the only backup and recovery software package to deliver information lifecycle management capabilities across multiple corporate sites.
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Date: 27th October 2004 • Region: N.America/World Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
* ADVA and NeoScale provide enterprises with new high-security, high-performance disaster recovery solution
* State of Maryland purchases LDRPS to build and manage continuity plans
* APC launches next generation surge suppressors with added battery backup
* Verio offers managed remote backup solution
* 15th World Conference on Disaster Management
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2003 archive

Top headlines from the past four weeks:
The tape debate

One in four medium-sized firms report loss of backup data: survey

IBM sees surge in network attacks directed toward critical infrastructure providers

Integrating business continuity criteria into your supply chain

The myths of business continuity and disaster recovery

European Commission announces new anti-terrorism measures

MessageOne acquires Evergreen Assurance technology

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Phishing attacks could soon get a lot nastier

US smaller businesses adopting more advanced disaster recovery solutions

Data quality found to be key risk management issue in banking sector

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act signed

IDC expects security solutions investment to more than double by 2008 in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan)

‘Futureproofing’ - the process of active analysis

Businesses showing increased awareness of threats

NIST-led forum releases a new draft set of cyber security requirements for industrial control systems

VERITAS survey explores the current state of UK disaster recovery planning

Study finds that improving business continuity management is third highest priority for US businesses

Governing for enterprise security

Major exercise to test business continuity procedures in UK financial markets

US company relocates staff due to possible sick building syndrome

SANS Institute publishes new list of ‘Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities’

Dealing with downtime

Disk-based backup and restore: reaching the next level

SunGard Availability Services launches ‘fastest mobile recovery service’

What to look for when buying an uninterruptible power system

Crisis communications lessons…

New survey reveals serious deficiencies in disaster preparation in Fortune 1000 companies

Ontrack publishes Data Disaster Scale

Which came first? Business continuity or disaster recovery?

UK businesses ignoring USB plug and play device threats

Virtual Corporation announces updated version of its public domain Business Continuity Maturity Model

Basel Committee highlights the importance of ‘know-your-customer’ standards

SunGard plans to spin-off its Availability Services business

Response: Are we making business continuity too complex?

EMC launches new enterprise replication and data mobility tools

New foundation helps small businesses avoid disaster

Comment: Are we making business continuity too complex?

Is Six Sigma a useful business continuity aid?

Landmark month for Continuity Central

HP confirms that Synstar acquisition has taken place

Europe strengthens its epidemic defences

Asia/Pacific companies making IT security the ‘centrepiece of their business continuity plans’

Majority of Middle East companies planning to implement biometric security

Global banking supervisors pledge deeper cooperation

• President Bush declares fourth major disaster for Florida

• Rebels raise the stakes in Nigeria

• Majority of Irish businesses have a business continuity programme

• HP provides an update on the status of its Synstar acquisition offer

• Accounting for staff following an evacuation

• EC Working Time Directive changes proposed: New approaches aimed at preventing abuse may impact upon business continuity teams




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