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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published in the last
24 hours.
UK-based Garrison Continuity has announced the award of a major contract by Transport for London (TfL), the integrated body responsible for managing the capital’s transport system. Over the next 12 months, Garrison will develop and deliver a comprehensive business continuity training programme for up to 800 staff as part of a wider strategy to help keep London moving in the event of a major disruption.
Many businesses in several US states have been faced with long power outages due to a storm that brought ice, snow, flooding and strong winds. Read CNN story. A major disaster declaration has been made for Missouri as a result of the storms (See FEMA press release)
End II End Communications has published a new industry briefing entitled ‘The Business Case for Business Continuity: Protecting Your Enterprise From the Costs of Wide Area Network Downtime’. The white paper explores the business drivers that must be considered when making critical path decisions about business continuity for the enterprise WAN, as well as continuity options, technology and actual costs of downtime in the enterprise. Read the paper.
McAfee has announced the availability of a paper from McAfee® Avert® Labs highlighting global identity theft trends, including a dramatic increase in online and computer-based identity theft. According to the report, the number of keyloggers–malicious software code that tracks typing activity to capture passwords and other private information–has increased by 250 percent between January 2004 and May 2006. The white paper, titled, ‘Identity Theft,’ is available for download at http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/white_paper.html
FEMA daily SITREP
Victoria bushfire updates
Snow hits central China
•Date: 17th January 2007• Region: Various
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