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news headlines: 31st Oct 2006

Will climate change mitigation see the convergence of business continuity and business sustainability planning?
Whether as an opportunity taken, or through government enforced compliance, companies, will have to tackle their environmental impact. What will this mean for the business continuity profession? David Honour speculates.
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Date: 31st October 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Standing Committee on Financial Stability publishes business continuity report
Outlines the work of the UK Tripartite Authorities with the private sector over the past year.
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Date: 31st October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial Sector
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Data storage survey looks at changing practices
The second annual BridgeHead Software Information Lifecycle Management Audit.
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Date: 31st October 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New Zealand law change provides new insolvency options for companies
Aims to help more companies survive periods of financial difficulty.
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Date: 31st October 2006• Region: New Zealand •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Researchers publish review of latest H5N1 variant
Fujian-like (FL) avian influenza is resistant to vaccines.
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Date: 31st October 2006• Region: SE Asia/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic plan
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New EMC Software provides more data recovery options
EMC Corporation has announced a number of new and updated software products that enable customers to improve the recovery objectives of critical applications and data.
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Date: 31st October 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• IDC expects the worldwide virtual tape library market to double by 2011
• New Zealand commits $2 million to Pacific Regional Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Project
• Storage Visions 2007
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:

Business Continuity Journal now available

Continuous data protection comes of age

Dealing with people after disasters

New ISO/PAS helps supply chain continuity

Whitney National Bank learns business continuity lessons from Hurricane Katrina

New research shows the growing threat posed by drought

China industrial development resulting in increasing exposure to earthquakes

Action list for developing a computer security incident response team

3rd Annual Information Security Workforce Study results

Survey explores the likely responses of people to an influenza pandemic

Independent lab finds that NeverFail offers ‘best protection’ for Exchange failure

easyJet outsources critical IT infrastructure

US financial services industry business continuity test ‘a success’

Workforce continuity survey conducted by Forrester

Civil Contingencies Secretariat and Emergency Planning Society to work together to develop a ‘competency framework’ for UK civil protection

GemaTech launches BCMLITE
Option II

Australia National E-Security Awareness Week taking place

IBM to launch Virtual Workplace Continuity service

UK tests ‘intelligent sensors’ for real-time flood warning system

A supervisory perspective on enterprise risk management

Remote working has risks as well as business continuity benefits

Queensland Government publishes pandemic-related business continuity resources

Risk management is essential to every business

NOAA issues US winter forecast update

UK tests ‘intelligent sensors’ for real-time flood warning system

Citrix survey looks at business continuity take-up in various European countries

Outlook for the Queensland Tropical Cyclone Season 2006-07

Financial Services Authority reports on thematic review of stress testing

Compellent’s Thin Replication solution aims to make multi-site replication easier and cheaper

Netstore to make bid for ICM?

BSI launches PAS 77 IT Service Continuity Management framework

UK critical infrastructure risks examined

SunGard launches ‘Enhanced Recovery’

Hawaii earthquake disaster recovery update

BakBone survey predicts increased adoption of replication and disaster recovery solutions in North America

WAN requirements for successful disaster recovery

Buncefield Joint Task Group calls for immediate action

UK financial sector Annual Market-wide Exercise gets underway

US securities industry gears up for business continuity test

NIST issues new computer security guidance documents

Huge fire destroys over 100 factories in Bangladesh

BSI Business Continuity Management Conference

Results of the BCI Board elections

World Bank calls for governments to increase their focus on disaster risks

Companies failing to provide enough resources for risk management

Australian financial sector gets pandemic planning guidance

Business continuity and disaster recovery driving archiving activities

‘After-action report’ for 2005 hurricane season response published

It’s Disaster Awareness Week in New Zealand…

As business continuity complexity increases, don’t forget the basics…

The reinvention of backup and disaster recovery

Corporate crime – the need for prevention and cure

One anti-virus engine is not enough to protect your business, warns GFI

New group CEO for SunGard Availability Services

EU business survey identifies target countries in fight against counterfeiting

European businesses struggle to manage security labyrinth

MarquisNet opens 125-seat Disaster Recovery Service Center near Las Vegas airport

Iron Mountain publishes white paper on changing US electronic discovery rules and e-records management implications

Business resiliency on tour

BIS releases various Basel II and operational risk documents

New technologies tackle remote office backup

European Commission to focus business continuity activities

‘Continuity Program Auditor’ launched

UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat develops Civil Contingencies Act information dissemination portal

Chertoff welcomes passage of FY2007 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill by the US House of Representatives

Revive BCM Toolkit version 7.4 released

Defining business continuity

Crisis management: how to plan for the unknown

Report reveals alarming attitudes to data theft in the UK workplace

Majority of Canadian executives tell survey that their company has no business continuity plan

Wake up to IT's energy crisis, urges Gartner

Satyam stages cross-border business continuity exercise in Singapore and India

Study shows Internet to be resilient against terror attack

IBM and Avokia set new record for long-range database clustering

GPS Receivers at serious risk from solar flares

Pandemic ‘flu preparedness going slowly in the US

TelstraClear conducts successful disaster recovery simulation

Pandemic Response Planning Services launched by Sungard Availability Services

ICM releases financial results

Hazard & Risk Science Review 2006 published

FTC announces acquisition of United Recovery Services

DHS awards $399m critical infrastructure security grants

New Zealand businesses warned to 'prepare for the worst'

How to choose a business continuity consultant

Communicating in a crisis – which technologies can be relied on?

Two new reports into 7th July London attacks published

Attention COMAH operators…

Edge Business Continuity Center opens its doors

Over a third of the UK’s admit their e-mail management system is in ‘complete chaos’

Post disaster worries highlight lack of business continuity awareness raising

Companies failing to keep up with brand and reputation threats linked to information security issues

Gartner highlights five high impact IT security risks

IAEM comments on FEMA reform

New self-healing software diagnoses IT problems based on symptoms

Trends in data recovery management

Details of Annual Market-wide Exercise 2006 published

Disaster recovery is a weak link in US insurance sector business continuity planning

Strohl Systems launches Incident Manager 3.0

The Global State of Information Security 2006

List of riskiest US cities published

Understanding personalities is key to effective business continuity planning

Intelligent data protection in today's enterprise




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