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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published recently:
Telcordia has published a new white paper with the above title. It is based on real life experience accumulated in the past few months by assessing over 15 live IP networks of F500 organizations across the globe. It makes the case for deep configuration assessment and proves the urgent need to proactively and automatically detect and fix configuration errors in IP networks before they cause real damage such as security breaches, network outages or audit failures. Obtain the paper from here after registration.
30 May to 3 June 2010, Davos, Switzerland.
Future risk management solutions will undoubtedly involve a mix of approaches, from state-of-the art technology to forward-thinking policy making and wise institutional governance. Experts from all over the world are invited to submit abstracts and contribute to the unique, interdisciplinary dialogue in Davos. www.grforum.org
May 11-13, 2010, The Mirage, Las Vegas, NV
At CPM 2010 West you can expect an education on:
• How to quantify enterprise risk in your organization
• Building an ERM framework in your BCP
• How business continuity plans support ERM and enable
business objectives
• Emergency management planning tactics
• And much more
http://cpmconferences.com/events/contingency-planning-west-2010/home.aspx
Federal disaster aid has been made available for South Dakota to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm during the period of January 20-26, 2010.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=50603
Federal disaster aid has been made available to the State of Kansas to supplement recovery efforts in the areas struck by severe winter storms and snowstorm during the period of December 22, 2009, to January 8, 2010.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=50598
Based on extensive reconnaissance of the affected area, as well as over 800 meteorological observations, Risk Management Solutions estimates that private market insured wind losses from Windstorm Xynthia will fall between EUR1.0 billion and EUR2.0 billion. This estimate includes wind damage to property, motor, and forestry in France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, and covers the potential impacts of post-event loss amplification – such as a surge in demand for materials and labour – together with direct business interruption costs resulting from the storm damage. The estimate does not include losses from wind damage to infrastructure such as communication networks or power lines. Losses from Spain are also excluded from the range. “In Spain, some discrepancies remain in recorded wind speeds from Xynthia and therefore the extent of damage which will be absorbed by the public Catastrophe Pool is not yet clear,” commented Stefan Beine, senior director, model product marketing at RMS. Together with widespread wind damage, Xynthia created significant storm surge flooding in Western France, with the Vendee, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sevres and Vienne regions declared a state of natural disaster. However, the majority of the losses resulting from the storm surge are expected to be covered under the country’s CAT NAT pool and are therefore not included in the RMS loss estimate.
FEMA daily SITREP
•Date: 12th March 2010 • Region: Various |
