Business continuity briefs:
Friday 7th January 2005

'Business continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services press releases and other useful resources published in the last 24 hours.

2004 hurricanes lead record disaster year for FEMA
The US Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has reported that it handled 68 major disaster declarations issued by President Bush in 2004, the most for a single year in nearly a decade. According to FEMA data, a record-setting 27 of the total major disasters were declared for hurricane-related damage in 15 states, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, surpassing the previous high of 19 declarations set in 1999. FEMA figures also showed that $4.85 billion of the more than $5.53 billion expended for disaster aid in 2004 was provided for hurricane relief, which topped the previous record of $2.25 billion that has been obligated for hurricane damage in 1998.

Maxell develops ‘super tape’ for critical backups
Maxell Corporation is now shipping a branded Super DLTtape II media product. Maxell jointly developed the media with Quantum Corporation to support the data recording requirements of Quantum’s SDLT 600 tape drive. Super DLTtape II builds upon the success of previous Super DLTtape media with increased reliability, capacity and performance for managing today’s increasingly complex backup environments. Super DLTtape II media optimises the performance of the SDLT 600 tape drive, delivering a native capacity of 300GB (600GB with compression) and a native transfer rate of 36MB/s (72MB/s with compression). www.maxell.com

UK South Midlands Regional Forum dates
The 2005 dates for the above BCI forum have been published:
• 24th February PAS 56/BSI standard
• 16th June 'Suppliers Day'
• 8th September Incident Management Exercise
• 17th November Presentations by Subject Matter Experts
Each half-day event costs £15 for BCI members and £20 for non-BCI members.
Contact Colin Gordon FBCI cwgordon@bydand.co.uk

Oprisk USA 2005
April 5th and 6th 2005
Risk and Operational Risk magazine’s seventh annual operational risk US event. Through a series of in-depth presentations, panel discussions and extensive networking opportunities, this two-day congress will enable delegates to hear from a large number of international operational risk experts, who will provide insights into current operational risk issues and practical solutions to enable businesses to successfully implement operational risk procedures. www.opriskusa.com

Phishing stats for November 2004 published
The Anti-Phishing Work Group and Websense have reported that there was a 29 percent increase in phishing attack sites reported in November 2004 compared to September. The month saw 51 brands being hijacked for phishing campaigns. http://www.antiphishing.org/APWG_Phishing_Activity_Report-Nov2004.pdf

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