news headlines: 28th June 2007

Is not having a business continuity plan ever an acceptable risk?
Many enterprises, particularly SMEs (SMBs) do not have a business continuity plan. This paper attempts to quantify the risk that these enterprises are taking, and asks if is this an acceptable risk to take.
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•Date: 28th June 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Achieving NERC CIP compliance utilizing ISO 17799:2005
By Dr. Jim Kennedy, MRP, MBCI, CHS-III, CBRM.
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•Date: 28th June 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Basel II and financial institution resiliency
Nout Wellink, chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and President of the Netherlands Bank, overviews the subject.
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•Date: 28th June 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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UK business continuity salary survey report
Continuity Forum finds that the overall average salary for BC professionals is now £45,552.
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•Date: 28th June 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Countries must step up disaster reduction efforts: UN
Head of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction asks governments to make disaster risk reduction a top priority.
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•Date: 28th June 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Zeus launches data center load balancing solution
Allows enterprises to seamlessly share traffic across globally distributed data centers.
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•Date: 28th June 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• UK gets new crisis communications solution
• Met Office warns of more severe weather for England and Wales
• CIO and CSO Business Continuity Forum 2007
• SBA reopens disaster loan program to small business owners affected by 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Rain floods central Texas
   - Desertification threat to global stability - UN study
   - Brazil's oil boom town sinking, faces floods - study
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