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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published recently:
Africa’s largest business continuity service provider, ContinuitySA, has enhanced its Complete Continuity Training Academy to include a new course: IT Service Continuity. The two-day course is targeted at IT and business continuity management professionals responsible for the continued uptime of IT services within their organisations. Attendees will not simply be bombarded with theory, but will be taught skills proven in the real world by active BCM practitioners with MBCI (Member of the Business Continuity Institute) certifications. The course is based on the Good Practice Guidelines of the BCI and complies with the British Standard BS 25999 to ensure it is on par with international best practices. For more information contact training@continuitysa.co.za
A new online database launched by the United Nations will showcase successful strategies that businesses and communities are using to adapt to climate change. The database, which can be accessed through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) website, features more than 100 examples from companies such as Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Microsoft and Starbucks. “By showcasing private sector adaptation success stories, we intend to help both communities and businesses become more climate-resilient and to put the benefits and business sense of adaptation firmly on the agenda of the private sector,” said UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Climate risks which affect communities around the world are always also business risks,” she added.
The Insider Threat Center at CERT recently released a new insider threat control that is specifically designed to detect the presence of a malicious insider based on key indicators to IT sabotage activity. The goal is to detect the identity of the attacker, what remote connection protocol he or she is using, and whether the activity is occurring outside of normal working hours, based upon empirical data of malicious insider activity. http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/SIEM-Control.pdf
Three new draft reports published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are designed to help both public and private organizations improve the security of their information management systems by developing capabilities for continuous monitoring of security. Comments are requested on the drafts. The documents are:
Philadelphia Technology Park and Recovery Networks have announced a partnership to provide disaster recovery services to Philadelphia Technology Park customers. The partnership will provide customers at Philadelphia Technology Park with the option to take advantage of Recovery Network's full range of disaster recovery and business continuity services. Recovery Networks will maintain offices at the data center and be on site daily to provide 24/7 support to Philadelphia Technology Park and Recovery Networks customers. The venture will also provide current Recovery Network customers with a premium storage facility to house their data infrastructure.
www.philadelphiatechnologypark.com
www.recoverynetworks.com
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•Date: 27th January 2012 • Region: Various
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