|
'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published in the last
24 hours.
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning that hackers are now taking advantage of demand for public wireless hot-spots and are setting up fake Wi-Fi connections designed to steal personal information and files. Airport terminals seem to be particular targets, with Atlanta, New York LaGuardia and Los Angeles airports all reporting the discovery of such scams.
October and November 2007, London.
Fresh from its successful September series of events around the UK, the Continuity Forum has now announced four events running in October in London focused on crisis management, exercising the BCM plan, post-event recovery and the BS25999 standard. For more details on these events please visit www.continuityforum.org/events/1110/ccentral
A poll by Storage Expo which surveyed 343 organisations has found that 7 out of 10 do not have the mechanisms in place to destroy regulatory-expired records. The problem is that this data requires money to support it, opens up potential for misuse and investigation, and without removal will continue to foul up storage facilities for an organisation. The softest consequences of failure to control the archiving schedules for data is that it requires continued investment to support its existence – the hardest consequence is that it demonstrates weak IT governance and lays an organisation open to prosecution or fines.
World weather impacts
•Date: 16th October 2007• Region: Various
|
