Business continuity news 29th July 2005

news headlines: 29th July 2005

Risk management: What should be, what is and what could be
Bill Sharon examines the ‘risk management continuum’ and why it offers a better approach to enterprise risk management.
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•Date: 29th July 2005 •Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Six Sigma and business continuity
Jack Freson, Certified Black Belt in Six Sigma, explains how the methodology can be helpful in business continuity management.
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•Date: 29th July 2005 •Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Power protection checklist
American Power Conversion provides ten power protection points to consider during business continuity plan development.
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•Date: 29th July 2005 •Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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SunGard stockholders approve acquisition of the company
The transaction is expected to be completed on or about August 11th, 2005.
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•Date: 29th July 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Civil Contingencies Act formally laid before Parliament
Timetable for implementation confirmed.
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•Date: 29th July 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Do women take more business risks than men?
New study looks at whether there are differences between the sexes when it comes to taking risks.
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•Date: 29th July 2005 • Region: US• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Business Continuity Management Forum
• Chertoff sets out key goals for Department Of Homeland Security
• Dates set for UK and Europe Business Continuity Awareness Week 2006
• Business Continuity Management World 2005 Conference
• Virtual Corporation announces BCMM training class for Pacific Rim
• IXEurope wins Global Equities business continuity contract
• Iron Mountain reports second quarter 2005 financial resultsIron Mountain Incorporated
• Survive 16th annual business continuity conference
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More news:
Thursday 28th July
Tuesday 26th July - Weds 27th

Friday 22nd July - Monday 25th
Thursday 21st July
Tuesday 19th July - Weds 20th

Friday 15th July - Monday 18th
Thursday 14th July
Tuesday 12th July - Weds 13th

Friday 8th July - Monday 11th
Thursday 7th July
Wednesday 6th July

Friday 1st July - Tuesday 5th
Wednesday 29th June - Thurs 30th
Tuesday 28th June

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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• DRJ and DRII publish draft of ‘Generally Accepted Business Continuity Practices’

• Resources published for North America Regional Business Continuity Awareness Week

• India floods cause huge business continuity problems

• Survey investigates how organisational structure influences network security

• Criticall launches new version of crisis communications solution

• VOIP is a ticking time bomb

• Belts and braces…

• Large-scale terrorist exercise taking place in Queensland

• ‘Secure in the Knowledge’

• UN renews call for effective Indian Ocean tsunami warning system

• A narrow escape…

• Further business continuity lessons from July 7th

• Managing risk is the biggest issue for construction companies

• Some reductions seen in e-crime

• IT Compliance Institute launches project to help with compliance issues

• Failed terrorist attack on London

• Addressing business continuity during mergers or acquisitions

• Flood protection: European Commission starts public consultation programme

• New study exposes small business information security gaps

• Phoenix IT Group makes senior appointment for NDR business continuity division

• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Automatic Updates could cause IT continuity problems

• Data breaches: turn back the tide

• US securities industry plans large scale business continuity test

• ‘Next generation’ business continuity software released

• Quantum decoys foil code-breaking attempts

• Bio-terrorism threat requires 'all-hazard' planning focusing on doctrine as well as technology

• Exercising the Business Continuity Plan

• Business continuity lessons from July 7th

• Recovery roundup

• Business continuity rule #1

• SunGard to develop second London-based ‘technology centre’

• IBM unveils new printers with enhanced security

• Extraordinary Meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council: report

• Six-point agenda for change at the US Department of Homeland Security

• APTA urges DHS to make more funding available for transit security

• Strohl Systems announces inaugural awards program

• Business Continuity Institute Symposium

• Critical success factors for effective crisis management

• Supply chain business continuity explored

• London major incident update

• Crisis management for tourism businesses

• The cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is at the expense of other security spending

• London: business continuity comes into its own

• US terror threat level raised to Orange for mass transit portion of transportation

• Many European countries increase alert levels

• Hurricane Dennis bears down on Cuba, threatens US Gulf Coast

• Major incident in London

• Crisis communications management readiness questionnaire

• Survey examines ‘E-mail Criticality, Support and Migration’

• Strohl Systems launches BIA Professional 4.0

• New ‘PCMCIA write-blocking pod’ enables the capture of computer forensic evidence from removable media

• Data Governance Council formed by IBM, American Express, Merrill Lynch, World Bank and others

• G8 summit blockades cause business continuity problems

• How to determine what are mission critical organisational activities

• Memorandum ranks States for chemical incident threat

• New business continuity tool helps companies identify and mitigate power related threats

• BCI announces revised Academic Syllabus for business continuity courses

• Suicide bomber sensors would not reduce casualties

• A risk management self assessment framework

• BCI on the hunt for a ‘Technical and Development Director’

• G8 summit risks must not be ignored: Marsh

• Protecting against catastrophic data loss

• VERITAS Backup Exec software exploit poses serious threat

• Complacency – the biggest business continuity threat to SMEs

• The future of enterprise data back-up and recovery

• Complexity – friend or foe?

• Technology failures increasingly damaging to reputation

• Critical infrastructure protection driving US government disaster recovery investments

• Oil dependence creates severe US security and economic risks

• Report into UK tsunami risk published

• The emerging threat of intellectual property indemnification

• NIST World Trade Center investigation highlights improvements needed for tall buildings safety

• The always-on network: strategies for achieving high availability of IT systems

• North America seconds away from another extreme wide-area blackout

• 2005 Global Security Survey published by Deloitt

• Rentsys expands Mobile Recovery Center fleet

• Department of Homeland Security conducting comprehensive exercise to test continuity of operations plans

• Disaster recovery for Asian firms' treasury operations explored

• RAND study says US terrorism insurance system falling short

• Iberian companies facing drought-related business continuity problems

• Global oil supply disruption exercise scheduled

• Business continuity for small businesses

• Boring, boring business continuity…

• Classic Blue acquires Securix Australia’s IT security business

• Small firms waste two weeks a year waiting for server reboots

• CapRock launches communications disaster recovery service

• Designing today’s SANs

• Hurricanes will intensify as the earth warms: NCAR climate expert

• ABK offers UK business continuity managers new disaster communications options

• NISCC warns businesses about increase in targeted Trojan e-mail attacks

• SunGard Availability Services launches ‘Information Availability for Small and Midsize Business' program

• FSTC project results in comprehensive inventory of global business continuity regulations

• Increased reliance on IT driving business continuity purchases

• Combined audit preparation and IT continuity planning software package now available

• AIRMIC and CBI launch workplace rehabilitation campaign

• Gartner survey ranks viruses and worms as top IT security threats

• New survey explores business continuity trends

• Date set for introduction of revised UK COMAH major accident hazards regulations

• Confidence lacking in reliability and restorability of backups

• IT profession sees risk of removable media: but turns a blind eye

• IBM, SunGard, and GoldenSource launch EDM Council

• Building true business continuity solutions over IP

• UK government backs proposals to establish natural disaster scientific panel

• Dubai’s day without power

• The five most over-hyped IT security threats

• The intrinsic benefits of business continuity management

• Department of Homeland Security launches Listo Negocios

• New risk assessment software addresses building threats

• BCI launches Pakistan Business Continuity Forum

• UK government consults on ways of increasing the resilience of the power supply network

• Top ten tips for 2005 hurricane season planning

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