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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.
IT hosting company, The Planet, has announced the availability of its new highly scalable and on-demand storage cloud service. In what is claimed to be an industry first, The Planet has merged on-premise storage performance with cloud storage capabilities to offer ‘the industry’s only geographically distributed cloud storage platform’. www.theplanet.com
Two day conference: January 28th & 29th 2009, Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington, London.
John Milne, head of business continuity management, Financial Services Authority, will chair this conference which is the premier forum for discussion of all business continuity and disaster recovery concerns of the financial services sector. http://www.cityandfinancial.com/cpdr8
Research from Vodafone UK has revealed that once out of the office many employees are flouting security policies designed to protect corporate applications and data. Many are engaging in online activities whilst mobile that they would not consider whilst in the office. IT departments have been successful in controlling user behaviour in the office, but struggle to maintain this control over an increasingly mobile workforce. Risky behaviours by employees working away from the office not only expose corporate networks to potential threats from the viruses and malware commonly found on less respectable sites, but also to unforeseen costs.
CA has announced that it has teamed with PricewaterhouseCoopers to deliver a joint governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution to help companies improve operational efficiencies and better manage their risk and compliance initiatives. Together, PwC and CA can deliver an enterprise GRC solution to help reduce the risk of business interruption due to non-compliance with critical industry, governmental or IT regulations and standards. PwC's GRC professionals have deep industry experience, and can help companies identify and define an integrated GRC lifecycle framework while CA’s GRC Manager solution can help enable the implementation of an effective risk and compliance program. Read press release
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•Date: 19th November 2008• Region: Various |
