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news headlines: 27th September 2005

UK businesses given energy supply warning
Winter fuel shortages could force business closures says Sir Digby Jones, director-general of the CBI.
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Date: 27th September 2005 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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NASDAQ CIO highlights Capital Markets’ business continuity planning
Steven J. Randich briefs Congress committee about NASDAQ's preparedness in the event of a wide-scale disaster or disruption.
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Date: 27th September 2005 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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PIRA decommissioning changes but does not reduce the terror threat
Yesterday’s historic announcement that the Provisional IRA has completed its weapons decommissioning may, ironically, lead to a strengthening in dissident Irish republican groups.
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Date: 27th September 2005 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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ICM results show strong growth in business continuity division
Business continuity related turnover up 18 percent.
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Date: 27th September 2005 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Mobile malware gets serious…
New ‘proof of concept’ virus cross-infects Bluetooth devices and Windows-based computer systems.
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Date: 27th September 2005 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Typhoon results in evacuations in China and Vietnam
• Canadian Conference on Emergency Management and Event Preparedness
• Business continuity education courses launched in Slovenia
• Council of Australian Governments' Special Meeting on Counter-Terrorism
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
Hurricane Rita updates

Selling business continuity to finance directors

Singapore Technical Reference for business continuity

Data overload puts UK retail sector under pressure

Federal Reserve: ‘We have no plans to conduct special investigations of business continuity and disaster recovery plans post Katrina’

Avian influenza: no need to panic over situation in Indonesia, says WHO

RMS assesses United States terrorism threat outlook

Success of 7th July business continuity measures must not lead to complacency…

Impact on employees is biggest long-term Katrina-related business disruption worry

Continuity, Katrina and the Fed

Pharmaceutical companies need to improve their risk management framework: KPMG

Keeping an eye on Rita…

What we learned from Hurricane Katrina and what we should do next to improve emergency planning

BCI and DRII undertaking joint business continuity Professional Practices review

Strohl Systems launches new corporate identity and Web seminar program

New suite of ‘on-net’ business continuity services from TelCove

Businesses affected by disasters must act to prevent a 'crisis within a crisis'

Former FEMA director James Lee Witt to lead ‘catastrophe coalition’

Operational risk management: the difference between risk management and compliance

Is it time to revisit the issue of distances to recovery sites?

North America Business Continuity Awareness Week

Bush orders emergency planning review

Many of Britain’s SMEs still ignoring business continuity

Lack of awareness of the Enterprise Act undermines UK business rescue culture

FSTC leading US financial sector business continuity benchmarking project

Coping with the emotional effects of major disasters

Hurricane Ophelia: DHS outlines disaster preparations

Financial Times and Symantec publish business continuity survey results

Financial losses due to information security attacks increasing

Fuel protests: business continuity lessons from 2000

Mike Brown resigns from FEMA post

London’s SMEs must develop business continuity plans NOW…

Survey finds that almost 40 percent of US businesses still say that business continuity planning is not a priority

Financial Stability Forum holds its fourteenth meeting, in London

Earthquake briefing on Capitol Hill

Hurricane Katrina: initial impacts on business continuity thinking

Can removable disk technology supersede tape, fixed disk and hybrid solutions?

New research offers clues to the way we can expect employees to react to different crises

Bharti and IBM to offer joint business continuity services to Indian market

Gartner evaluates the progress of Linux

Scottish businesses not doing enough to guard against terrorist attacks

FSSCC issues status report on the financial services sector’s business continuity response to Hurricane Katrina

Fire, virus and human error are the three biggest threats to corporate data

GemaTech and COLT sign business continuity partnership

HP’s worldwide investment in business continuity and recovery facilities reaches US$100 million

UK faces threat of fuel protests

What can we learn from Katrina?

Fraud risk being ignored by middle market UK companies: KPMG

NASD provides guidance to members affected by Hurricane Katrina

Regulators say insurance industry is prepared for Hurricane Katrina's cost

Al-Qaida threatens more attacks on London

Researchers project Hurricane Katrina effects on oil and gas production

National Preparedness Month 2005 underway

Department of Homeland Security Hurricane Katrina response update

Katrina: offers of disaster recovery assistance

The Center for Continuity Leadership launches two advanced level business continuity workshops

President Bush sets out Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery priorities

Be careful when hiring contractors for disaster repairs, warns FEMA

Katrina disaster recovery response update

Three other flooding disasters taking place

United Nations issues avian influenza warning

BSI publishes new UK biometrics standards

Katrina: America starts to count the cost of a nightmare

Hurricane Katrina: initial salvage, recovery and insurance advice

Men more likely to fall prey to online scams, spam and viruses

US National Preparedness Month 2005 to kick off with emergency preparedness fair

New NIST program aims to foster better security checklists

A second Andrew?

How will multicore processing affect IT continuity?

Avian influenza a real and growing pandemic threat

Managing the risks of counterfeiting in the information technology industry

Companies at risk from employees’ risky use of USB keys

Maintaining thriving businesses amid the threat of terrorism

Confusion between archiving and backup exists in many UK companies

SunGard Availability Services launches new Managed Services Portal

Lack of investment in e-mail systems opening companies up to various threats

San Francisco area business recovery vendor fair

Business continuity provides insurance discounts (for some…)

New business continuity software helps manage multiple plans

Australian Government announces new grant for local authority emergency planning activities

New Asigra ‘Autonomic Healing’ process results in zero corruption backups

September to be ‘Backup Awareness Month’ in the UK

MessageOne launches enterprise emergency notification and escalation solution

A check-list for dealing with a fatality involving anyone you have a ‘duty of care’ over

Less than half of all UK businesses have a business continuity plan in place




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