Business continuity news 29 June 2006

news headlines: 29th June 2006

Draft version of business continuity British Standard to be released on Monday July 3rd
60 day public consultation period will run until 31st August 2006.
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•Date: 29th June 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Flooding in North-East United States: update page
This page provides an update on the current situation and access to disaster management information and resources.
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•Date: 29th June 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Banking banana skins poll results
Regulatory overkill is identified as the greatest risk facing the financial sector.
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•Date: 29th June 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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‘Plan for power’, says Datacentre Networking Group
UK businesses should be taking steps to help protect their long term energy supplies, concluded industry experts speaking at a recent meeting of the UK Datacentre Networking group.
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•Date: 29th June 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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ACP initiative to help US small and medium-sized businesses develop business continuity plans
ACP has teamed up with the Institute for Business & Home Safety.
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•Date: 29th June 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New e-book published: ‘101 uses for emergency notification’
Dorian Cougias, best-selling author of ten disaster recovery books and a professor of computer science at the University of Delaware, has written an e-book which profiles 101 emergency communication scenarios.
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•Date: 29th June 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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• Business Continuity Management Auditors’ course
• Tsunami early warning system set to become operational in Indian Ocean by end of July
• Planned strike by state electricity workers likely to result in widespread blackout in Nigeria
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

• Survey: Business continuity one year on from July 7th TAKE PART

• Disaster recovery unwrapped...

• Report warns of lack of preparation to recover the Internet following a catastrophic cyber disruption

• Comment on the Cadbury recall

• ‘Is Net neutrality bad for national preparedness?’

• Ensuring the availability of America's power grid

• CITYSAFE launches Virtual Exercise System

• People aspects of business continuity: consider the built environment

• Striking the balance between storage security and availability

• Technology, media and telecoms companies are business continuity laggards

• 2005 Hurricane Season WAS enhanced by global warming: National Center for Atmospheric Research

• Metropolitan Police Authority invites businesses to take part in 'Counter-Terrorism: The London Debate'

• TOPOFF 4 and Forward Challenge 2006 exercise completed

• Risk managers told to punch their weight

• Data leakage: a real business continuity issue

• AT&T's 2006 business continuity study

• Consumer businesses face increasing threat from intellectual property theft

• Auckland major power outage: the business continuity impacts

• Many companies don't realise they are taking huge risks due to gaps in insurance cover for environmental incidents

• Tek-Tools releases Backup Policy Auditor

• Five application integration trends to watch

• Department of Homeland Security publishes review of catastrophic event preparedness

• How prepared are UK businesses for disaster?

• Continuity Central supporting Times business continuity supplement

• Buncefield explosion cost local businesses £70 million

• Business continuity a priority for the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority

• Reliability is not availability

• Business continuity and disaster recovery in customer services

• Isolated approach can risk the best laid business continuity plans

• International Oracle Users Group survey on high availability trends

• US agencies provide financial institutions with hurricane-related business continuity advice

• Food and drink companies 'dared' to address risk and crisis management needs

• Companies see the risk of removable media but still turn a blind eye

• Business continuity unwrapped...

• ‘The Risk Intelligent Enterprise ERM Done Right’

• NIST releases report on Katrina-Rita impacts on structures

• ‘List of business issues for firms to consider when planning for a pandemic’

• Factoring climate change into risk assessment and management processes

• Reputational risk assessment

• Current UK NHS emergency and continuity of operations plans are ‘vastly inadequate’

• Business Continuity Management British Standard to be available for public review in July

• ‘Business continuity oversight expectations for systemically important payment systems (SIPS)’

• Auckland businesses suffer wide-area power outage

• APEC Pandemic Response Exercise report

• Florida prepares for Alberto

• Securing the mail stream

• Standardization for enterprise power security and continuity

• Testing still the business continuity weak link

• Counter terrorism and business

• Continuity Central shortlisted for BT IT security journalism awards

• Automata International Business Continuity Summer School

• European Commission helps to establish $70 million avian ‘flu facility at the World Bank

• Significant differences exist between how directors understand risk and how their companies manage risk

• Lords Select Committee publishes review of Government risk management policies and activities

• BCI publishes Italian version of Business Continuity Good Practice Guidelines

• Instant Messaging attacks jump 500 percent in May

• GAO reports on US tsunami preparedness

• IBM to launch pandemic preparedness consulting service

• ‘London’s emergency plans must be changed’, says London Assembly report into 7th July bombings

• International Facility Management Association provides view of current state of pandemic planning

• University of Illinois at Chicago launches online ‘Emergency Management and Continuity Planning Campus Certificate’ course

• Australia to lead APEC pandemic response exercise

• BT launches ‘Risk Cockpit’

• Disaster planning guidelines for gulf coast businesses

• Business continuity training: a snapshot

• Pandemic planning: a review of respirator and mask protection levels

• DHS launches Ready Business Mentoring Initiative

• Contingency Planning Exchange’s Washington DC Chapter launch meeting

• IBM introduces ‘next-generation storage virtualization software’

• Securing software

• UCF, Georgia researchers: New Orleans is the US city most at risk of hurricane damage in 2006

• CD available to help businesses in Eastern England deal with business crime and make terrorism preparations

• WHO concerned about cluster of human H5N1 deaths in Indonesia

• New ISO standard aims to ensure the security of financial transactions on the Internet

• DHS outlines Hurricane Season preparations

• ‘Learning from disasters’

• Terrorists hiding computer files in plain sight: steganography less observable than encryption

• Hurricane season: there’s good news and there’s bad news

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