news headlines: 29th September 2006

Defining business continuity
The business continuity profession lacks a simple, clear, definition of what business continuity is. Is one needed? What should it be?
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Crisis management: how to plan for the unknown
As business continuity planners, how do we deal with a novel or unexpected incident, especially when there in nothing in the text books or existing methodologies to provide guidance? By Andrew Fernandes.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Report reveals alarming attitudes to data theft in the UK workplace
UK businesses are the victims of high levels of data theft by staff.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Majority of Canadian executives tell survey that their company has no business continuity plan
Fusepoint/Leger Marketing report says that many Canadian business leaders are ‘asleep at the helm’.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: Canadian •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Wake up to IT's energy crisis, urges Gartner
IT's insatiable and growing appetite for power is creating new risks.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: UK•Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Satyam stages cross-border business continuity exercise in Singapore and India
Simulating a national disaster in India, over 30 engineers flew to Satyam’s Global Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Centre in Singapore.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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Study shows Internet to be resilient against terror attack
Researchers have simulated what would happen to Internet reliability in the United States if terrorists were able to knock out various physical components of the network.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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IBM and Avokia set new record for long-range database clustering
IBM and Avokia Inc. have announced that they have developed a long-range database clustering technology, which is the first of its kind to link active data servers located thousands of miles apart.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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GPS Receivers at serious risk from solar flares
A minor solar flare in September 2005 produced a noticeable degradation of all GPS signals on the day side of the Earth. When scaled up to the larger solar flares expected in 2011-12, Cornell researchers expect massive outages of all GPS receivers on the day side of the Earth.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• ICMA proposes networked approach to emergency management
• WHO Influenza Pandemic Task Force holds first meeting
• Risk appetite: Australian CEOs are more risk-taking than Americans
• NASA launches hurricane data portal
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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