Concerns growing over enterprise data centre / center data protection and disaster recovery capabilities
SEPATON Data Protection Index finds that massive data growth is creating backup and recovery difficulties.
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•Date: 30th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Data centres / centers
Changing attitudes to risk management
Corporate risk management, viewed largely as a means of crisis management in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, has moved up the corporate agenda as a key to competitive advantage, according to a new report by Accenture.
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•Date: 30th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
The mobile security conundrum
As the lines between portable computers and mobile devices become blurred organizations need to act to address security vulnerabilities which could lead to data breaches and downtime. By Andy Cordial.
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•Date: 29th June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Supply chain continuity in US SMBs
Saia 2011 National Trends in Small to Medium-sized Businesses study highlights supply chain continuity practices.
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•Date: 29th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
‘Active self-defense strategy’ is the best deterrent against cyber-attacks
Law professor Jay P. Kesan warns that an active self-defense regime is a necessity in cyberspace, especially to protect critical infrastructure.
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•Date: 29th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
Audit report identifies business continuity testing as a weak area in various major Australian government agencies
25 percent of critical government agencies ‘did not test BCP’s as part of normal business practice’.
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•Date: 28th June 2011 • Region: Australia •Type: Article • Topic: BC testing & exercising
UK businesses nervous about future power related business continuity threats
Power reliability already a serious issue for many businesses; and the situation is likely to deteriorate.
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•Date: 28th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Downtime in online business operations examined
New survey reveals worrying reliance on one data centre despite high number of outages.
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•Date: 28th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Staffordshire workplace recovery facility launched
A brand new and fully-equipped workplace recovery centre has been launched by Internet Central Ltd in Staffordshire,UK.
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•Date: 28th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: Recovery facilities
NFPA to update FEMA’s Ready Business web content
Contract will bring the content of Ready Business into alignment with the current (2010) edition of NFPA 1600.
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•Date: 28th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Distribute IT failure highlights the importance of maintaining offsite backups
Belts and braces business continuity requires an offsite backup of critical data on physical media.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: Australia / World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
UK organizations preparing for J30 strike
Britain faces the largest co-ordinated strike action for many years; actions could impact private as well as public sector organizations.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
BSI publishes new risk management code of practice and guidance
‘BS 31100:2011: code of practice and guidance for the implementation of BS ISO 31000’.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
‘Core Competencies in Public Service Risk Management’
‘Alarm, the UK public risk management association, has announced the release of a set of Core Competencies for Public Service Risk Management.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: Public sector
Minimising the risks of cloud computing
Key issues for businesses looking to minimise the risks of moving to a cloud computing model.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Two months of US severe weather results in $21.65bn economic loss
According to Aon Benfield study.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery
UK companies at risk from inadequate social media policies
The majority of UK employees have not been provided with clear guidance on using social media networking sites, according to a new study from Protiviti Inc.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
Does your company's business insurance cover all losses in the event of a disaster?
RGL Forensics helps businesses identify coverage for disaster losses which extend far beyond buildings and equipment.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery
Business continuity management: reflections from disaster
The Asia Pacific region experienced more than its fair share of natural disasters in the first quarter of 2011; but what impact have these events had on attitudes to BCM in the region, and what lessons have been learned? Ernst & Young, Australia, has provided a paper which explores these questions.
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•Date: 22nd June 2011 • Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Supply chain vulnerabilities likely to rise
Cyber, ‘hacker’, pirate and terrorist attacks are expected to rise across the global supply chain over the next 20 years and firms should plan now to protect their assets, says a new PwC report.
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•Date: 22nd June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
Final version of industrial control systems security guide published by NIST
Provides specific guidance on how to reduce the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to malicious attacks, equipment failures, and other threats to the operation and reliable performance of underpinning control systems.
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•Date: 22nd June 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure
The business continuity problems of patching
50 percent of businesses have suffered IT failures due to software updates gone wrong.
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•Date: 22nd June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Cloud: overcoming the fear
A better understanding of cloud computing is needed to combat CFOs’ concerns over security and loss of control says Keith Tilley.
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•Date: 21st June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
DHS publishes risk management strategy for the global DNS system
Describes how the IT sector and DNS communities can address risks to enhance the resiliency and safety of the Internet and aims to ensure that cyber networks can bounce back quickly if a major attack or disaster strikes.
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•Date: 21st June 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
The need for the introduction of a new layer of security to lock down public and private clouds
It is becoming apparent that a new security mechanism should be added to existing network layer protocols, such as IP, to provide for a more resilient, manageable and scalable trust environment. By Ben Maas, DCIG.
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•Date: 21st June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
IBM launches SmartCloud for disaster recovery and data archiving
New cloud services extend backup, archiving and recovery services for critical data and applications.
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•Date: 21st June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Mobile security reaching a tipping point for organizations
Various significant security breaches that have occurred in 2011 have dramatically highlighted the link between information security and business continuity. In this article Rob Rachwald discusses an issue which is adding fuel to the fire: the growing security threat posed by mobile devices.
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•Date: 16th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article
Systematic workload reprovisioning: an overview
Systematic workload reprovisioning will become increasingly prevalent in leading-edge enterprises for high-risk workloads during the next five years: Gartner.
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•Date: 16th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
A growing threat to corporate networks: employee-owned devices
Over half of large UK businesses allow the use of employee-owned devices; but many of these are insecure and unmanaged.
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•Date: 14th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
US Commerce Department proposes new policy framework to help protect companies where the Internet is business-critical
Aimed at businesses that rely on the Internet but which are not part of the critical infrastructure sector.
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•Date: 15th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Shortlist published for the Emergency Planning Society Resilience Awards
The winners will be announced at the Resilience Awards and Symposium Dinner on the evening of July 5th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow.
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•Date: 15th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency Planning
FUD holding back corporate cloud usage
Cloud threats discussed by round table panel: fear, uncertainly and doubt being engendered by media hype.
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•Date: 14th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
NOAA and coastal states discuss local tsunami preparedness needs
Conference highlights lessons learned from recent Japan tsunami.
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•Date: 14th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency Planning
ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel discusses small business preparedness
Helping US small businesses develop business continuity and disaster recovery plans formed the heart of discussions at a May 25 workshop of the ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel.
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•Date: 10th June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards
Does your company suffer from risk blindness?
Research identifies seven types of underlying risk that companies often overlook.
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•Date: 10th June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
‘IT - the hidden risk in your business’: a new report by the Business Continuity Institute
The BCI has published a new report which summarises the discussions at its IT Risk Management Roundtable which was held in March 2011.
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•Date: 10th June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Entry deadline extended for the BCI Asia Business Continuity Awards
The Business Continuity Institute has announced that the deadline for entries for the 2011 BCI Asia Business Continuity Awards has been extended to 30th July 2011.
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•Date: 10th June 2011 • Region: Asia/ Asia Pacific•Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Political violence, strikes, riots, civil war and war are key business continuity threats: Aon
‘While terrorism remains a very real threat around the world, the reality is that threats to business continuity are also coming from political violence in all its many forms’.
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•Date: 8th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
IT disaster recovery planning: US and UK comparisons
A survey by Neverfail shows significant differences between the US and the UK when it comes to IT disaster recovery planning.
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•Date: 8th June 2011 • Region: US/UK •Type: Article • Topic: ICT Continuity
World IPv6 Day
World IPv6 Day (8 June, 2011) provides a chance to test how well Internet-based applications will transition to IPv6.
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•Date: 8th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Risk and the Boardroom Agenda
A new paper from Marsh explores the ‘unprecedented risk management challenges’ that organizations face today and proposes strategies for managing these risks.
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•Date: 8th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
New report highlights sea level rise threats to Australia’s coastal businesses
Assets worth AUD $226 billion exposed to climate change impacts.
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•Date: 8th June 2011 • Region: Australia •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Five reasons to move technology business continuity and disaster recovery to the cloud
But don’t do anything until you have conducted a business impact assessment...
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•Date: 7th June 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
ContinuitySA expands service offering with Immix acquisition
Will enable ContinuitySA to offer ‘Continuity as a Service.’
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•Date: 7th June 2011 • Region: Africa •Type: Article • Topic: BC companies
Germany e-coli outbreak latest
Bacterium is a new strain and is resistant to many conventional antibiotics.
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•Date: 3rd June 2011 • Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Energy security risks mapped
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA rated ‘high risk’ for short-term energy security – Canada most secure: Maplecroft report.
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•Date: 3rd June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
FEMA, Red Cross and Ad Council launch US business continuity ad campaign
New Ready Business public service advertisements to urge small businesses to prepare in advance of an emergency.
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•Date: 3rd June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
How employees’ holiday technology risks impact corporate networks
Survey reveals that over a quarter of respondents planning a trip abroad in 2011 admitted they would connect their devices to any available PC. And more than half confessed to inserting the same gadgets into their work PCs.
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•Date: 3rd June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
The 2011 AT&T Business Continuity Study
AT&T has published the results of its annual survey into business continuity planning in the US.
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•Date: 2nd June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics
FEMA pressured to speed up publication of National Disaster Recovery Framework
Senators call on Secretary Napolitano to provide a timetable for releasing and implementing the final NDRF.
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•Date: 2nd June 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning
Strategic Risk Awards presented
Rentokil Initial wins business continuity category.
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•Date: 2nd June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
Results of the Banana Skins 2011 survey
What are the greatest risks facing insurance sector organizations over the next 2-3 years?
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•Date: 2nd June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Financial sector
Australia’s disaster management under the spotlight
Australia needs a national inquiry to review the way natural disasters are managed...
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•Date: 2nd June 2011 • Region: Australia •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning
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