Business continuity news 28 January 2005

news headlines: 28th January 2005

FSA sets out 2005 business continuity goals
Business continuity agenda contained in UK Financial Services Authority’s business plan.
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•Date: 28th January 2005 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Business Continuity Awareness Week confusion looms
North American BCI forums to promote Business Continuity Awareness Week in September rather than March.
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•Date: 28th January 2005 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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World Economic Forum warned about ‘boiling frog’ syndrome
Many companies ‘in denial about the daunting array of risks they face’.
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•Date: 28th January 2005 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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FSSCC annual report details progress on sector-wide business continuity preparedness
Significant progress in ensuring the overall resiliency of the US's financial services infrastructure.
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•Date: 28th January 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Continuity Central the world’s most visited business continuity portal
According to alexa.com statistics.
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•Date: 28th January 2005 • Region: Worldwide •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• SteelEye Technology launches LifeKeeper protected program
• CNT and Taneja Group offer data replication e-seminar
• VERITAS Software reports record quarterly revenue of $574 million
• Administrator’s Pak 5.0 provides comprehensive windows system repair and data recovery functionality
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• Don’t ignore the bigger picture

• Crisis management - the known, the unknown, and the unknowable

• UK government to set up CBRN decontamination service

• NIST and NSA develop common specification language for writing security checklists and related documents

• 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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