Business continuity briefs:
20th - 21st August 2009

'Business continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services press releases and other useful resources published recently:

RSA Conference Europe 2009
20th -22nd October 2009, Hilton London Metropole Hotel, UK.
RSA Conference Europe brings together leading security experts, vendors and enterprise endusers to discuss the latest trends and issues behind the ever-changing nature of information security threats. The Conference delivers its educational content through keynotes, tutorials, and 70+ sessions across 10 tracks. More details.

‘Mitigating Insider Threat: New and Improved Practices’
CERT has issued a new podcast. Featuring Dawn Cappelli Randy Trzeciak Andy Moore and Julia Allen it discusses:
* Analyzing Real-Life Cases: Assessing Risk and Raising Awareness
* Least Privilege and Separation of Duties: Password and Account Management
* Logging, Monitoring, and Auditing: Incident Response.
http://www.cert.org/podcast/

Northern Group Systems becomes the first Northern Ireland based organization to be certified to BS 25999
Northern Group Systems (Environmental Health), a local government group, located in Northern Ireland, has become that region’s first organization to be certified to BS 25999. In a presentation earlier in August, Councillor David Barbour received the award on behalf of the staff of Northern Group Systems (Environmental Health) and Councillor James Currie received the award on behalf of the staff of the ICT Department of Ballymena Borough Council.

Pandemic Planning - Challenging Assumptions; Validating Plans
10th September, Guys Campus, Kings College London
This BCI workshop is intended for those organizations that have already developed pandemic plans. The key sessions are:
* A situation update with a briefing from the central government team responsible for pandemic planning in the UK;
* A presentation of a well-structured plan from Dan Castle of RWEnPower and Business Continuity Newcomer of the Year 2009, to assist in identifying key issues and approaches that must be considered;
* A review of the ways in which a pandemic plan might be tested and exercised, based on a case-study from a well-respected international business.
http://www.thebci.org/pandemicplanningworkshop.html

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

Taiwan approves $2.9 billion for typhoon reconstruction

•Date: 20th - 21st August 2009• Region: Various