Business continuity briefs:
1st May 2008

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

Venezuela hit by wide-area power outage
On Tuesday 29 April, Venezuela suffered a major power outage which affected large areas of the country. The capital city, Caracas, was left without electricity for hours. The outage was caused by a forest fire; the subsequent local outage led to a chain reaction.

‘Getting in front of social engineering’: CERT podcast
A new CERT podcast discusses social engineering attacks. Items in the podcast include:
* Why we're susceptible
* Identifying social engineering attempts and attacks
* Detective, corrective, and preventive actions.
http://www.cert.org/podcast/

Neverfail sees strong growth
Neverfail has announced that the company grew by 61 percent during the company's fiscal year ending March 31 2008.
Among the company's highlights this year was:
- Signing of a partnership with Vodafone UK, part of the world's leading international mobile telecommunications group, to offer a co-branded service for BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers
- Worldwide expansion into the Middle East, Australia and Asia Pacific
- Significant growth in verticals such as financial services, technology, government, healthcare and manufacturing.
Read press release

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

•Date: 1st May 2008• Region: Various