Business continuity briefs:
4th September 2008

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

SIFMA 2008 Business Continuity Planning Conference
October 22, the Grand Hyatt in New York City.
This year's SIFMA BC conference will cover topics including:
- The Latest Business Continuity Management Techniques
- Emerging Business Continuity Regulations
- Telecommuting Strategies and Challenges
- Emergency Notification Systems
- Business Continuity Reporting Concepts
- BCM and Dependencies on Other Critical Infrastructures
- Business Continuity Practices Roundtables
- Measuring Resilience
- Cyber Security Threats and Trends
- 2008 SIFMA BCM Survey Results.
http://events.sifma.org/2008/293/event.aspx?id=5350

New technical note released by CERT
People responsible for computer security incident response and digital forensic examination need to continually update their skills, tools, and knowledge to keep pace with changing technology. No longer able to simply unplug a computer and evaluate it later, examiners must know how to capture an image of the running memory and perform volatile memory analysis using various tools. A new paper from CERT presents a live response scenario and compares various approaches and tools used to capture and analyze evidence from computer memory. Read the paper (PDF)

Data Domain enables outsourced disaster recovery services with new partners
Data Domain has announced that service provider partners BluePoint Data Storage, DSS (Distributed Systems Services, Inc.) and Simply Continuous are delivering new disaster recovery service solutions into enterprise customer environments based on Data Domain deduplication storage systems. With Data Domain systems, service providers can help enterprises of all sizes eliminate tape from their operational backup infrastructure and fully automate their data replication processes for a single monthly fee. Read press release.

Road to Recovery
Friday 26th September 2008, Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh.
The Scottish Continuity Group is organising the above event which is designed to introduce business continuity to companies that are new to the concept. The event is being supported by Jim Mather MSP, the Scottish Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism and also Dave Paterson, Director of City Development, City of Edinburgh Council. http://www.scottishcontinuitygroup.com.

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

Hanna, Ike and Josephine
Track the above storms which are all active threats to the US and Caribbean.

Dutch to boost flood protection measures

•Date: 4th September 2008• Region: Various