Business continuity briefs:
15th April 2009

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

FEMA announces nearly $970 Million in Preparedness Grant final allocations
FEMA has announced final allocations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Preparedness Grants for 10 federal grant programs, totaling nearly $970 million in federal funding to assist state, local and tribal governments and private industry in strengthening community preparedness. Awards will be made on a rolling basis over the summer. Read press release.

Linux forensics tools repository released
The CERT forensics tools repository, a collection of add-on packages for Fedora, provides many useful cyber forensics tools for analysts and practitioners. http://www.cert.org/forensics/tools/

EPS Conference and Exhibition 2009
16th & 17th June, the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK.
The planning for this year’s UK Emergency Planning Society’s Conference and Exhibition is fully underway, with the programme now completed. Registration for the event is now open and there is an early booking discount of 5 percent available for all booking before the first week of April. www.epsconference2009.org

IT security gets a boost as survey shows spending up
A survey by Infosecurity Europe has found that spending on information security is likely to increase, according to 55 percent of the 1010 respondents asked. 34 percent expect their spending to remain the same as last year. Only 8 percent expect minor reductions of less than 5 percent of last year’s spending and 2 percent expect significant reductions of more than 5 percent. www.infosec.co.uk

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

•Date: 15th April 2009• Region: Various