BUSINESS CONTINUITY NEWS AND FEATURES

February 2011 business continuity news

• Virtualization increases backup and disaster recovery complexity, warns Acronis

• Getting real about deduplication ratios

• Enterprise risk management gaining ground

• Social media and crisis response

• US bill to address serious cyber security threats introduced

• Avalution enhances business continuity software offering

• Solar storm provides a preview of threats to come

• EU cyber security agency warns of risks associated with new types of cookies

• A large area of the US is at risk from moderate to major flooding this spring

• Deadline extended for Business Continuity Awards 2011 entries

• New report highlights key lessons from the Buncefield disaster

• Cloud industry trends and best practices

• SunGard releases results

• The big virtualization win: backup, restore and disaster recovery

• Building a storage-efficient data center

• Equinix launches Business Continuity Trading Services in North America

• DRI International’s Qualifying Exam re-written

• Watch out for ‘Boy-in-the-Browser’ attacks

• Trends in business continuity plan testing and exercising

• COAG meeting agrees to immediate deployment of new Australian National Strategy for Disaster Resilience

• Secretary Napolitano publishes fiscal year 2012 DHS budget request

• Recovery Point expands mainframe hot-site services

• Examples of good practice in public sector business continuity management

• US survey identifies the top barriers to data protection deployments

• Aviva surveys UK small and medium businesses about business continuity

• Small business disaster recovery year-in-review: SBA webinar

• Comments requested on draft ISO 22301 business continuity standard

• Report discusses future UK critical infrastructure challenges

• Information security from a business perspective

• MI5 updates advice to businesses on terrorism protection

• Mainframe thoughts

• BCI updates business continuity Legislations, Regulations, Standards and Guidelines document

• NIST releases draft cloud computing guides

• London Assembly committee discusses future flood risk

• ClearView launches innovative Business Impact Analysis and Exercise Management modules

• SunGard Availability Services announces general availability of Enterprise Cloud Services in North America

• New backup and recovery software ‘reduplicates’ backup data for optimal recovery times

• January major disasters roundup

• Cyclone Yasi update page

• Business continuity in UK SMEs

• US ‘monster winter storm’ : update page

• Maplecroft and Marsh issue Egypt business risks briefings

• UK Strategic National Guidance on CBRN decontamination

• US and UK discuss global supply chain security

January 2011 business continuity news

• Business continuity, the cloud and the Mad Hatter

• When the business itself threatens business continuity

• Advice for organizations selecting an infrastructure-as-a-service provider

• DHS discontinues color-coded alert system

• Cloud backups fail the RTO test

• Payments Contingency Exercise 2010 report available

• Business Continuity Awareness Week 2011: 21st-25th March

• FSA consults on the 2011 Resilience Benchmarking Programme

• Risk and business continuity management in New Zealand

• UK financial authorities release details of sixth Market Wide Exercise

• Resource scarcity will be a growing threat for government and businesses

• New version of ICM Emergency Office 'will revolutionise the business continuity market'

• The top 10 South African business continuity issues for 2011

• How to design end-to-end resilient networks

• Marsh highlights increasing water supply-related threats to businesses

• United Nations: 2010 was one of the worst years for disasters

• Your top three challenges: interim results

• Frontier Technology survey identifies the biggest IT challenges to UK companies in 2011

• New business continuity solution for BlackBerry Enterprise Server

• Liverpool gets its own recovery centre

• New guide to cyber security incident management

• Queensland floods updates

• BS 25999 needs a continuity capability statement

• Business continuity and public cloud computing

• 2011 Aon Political Risk Map

• EMC claims backup and archiving breakthrough

• ENISA provides cloud security and resilience advice

• New IBHS guidelines aim to help businesses reduce earthquake damage to property

• UK government launches phase two consultation on the Civil Contingencies Act Enhancement Programme

• The Global Disaster Recovery Index

• OECD report provides a comprehensive analysis of the risks and impact of cyberattacks

• Impacts of recent snow on UK businesses may have been over-hyped

• Beyond recovery: the real conversation on distancing between production and recovery

• Why business continuity software sceptics are right. And why they are wrong...

• Quick survey: Your top three challenges

• Weaponised malware - how criminals could use digital certificates to cripple organizations

• Top ten business continuity tunes

• Political Risk Atlas 2011

• Global Risks 2011

• Research highlights cloud business continuity benefits

• 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey

• US Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants bill becomes law

• Emerson Network Power claims breakthrough in UPS technologies

• Business Continuity in the Supply Chain Workshop series

• Maximum tolerable period of disruption: a new definition
Comments by Continuity Central readers

• Lloyds highlights 2011’s emerging risks

• New NIST publications provide recommendations for managing information security as a key component of mission-critical functions

• Maximum tolerable period of disruption: a new definition

• Business Continuity Institute publishes new Dictionary of Business Continuity Management Terms

• UK terror threat level raised for public transport sector

• Entries open for Business Continuity Awards 2011

• DHS announces partnership with WCO

• Cloud: resilience trumps ROI for CFOs

• IBHS provides US business owners with severe weather business continuity advice

• Avoiding the dangers of groupthink during business continuity planning

• NCS expands business continuity and disaster recovery center / centre in Singapore

• The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority consults on new business continuity management standard

• Survey: the biggest challenges to corporate networks in 2011

• A taxonomy of operational cyber security risks

• Alberta gets new business continuity forum

2010

December business continuity news

• Virtualization: risks and opportunities

• Crisis management in a nutshell

• Swine flu returns: in the media!

• BS25999 Users’ Workshop report

• Quantum survey looks at disaster recovery strategies

• UK winter resilience audit published

• New edition of ‘The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management’ now available

• ASIS International and BSI release joint business continuity management ANSI standard

• UK financial authorities release details of sixth Market Wide Exercise

• Canada financial sector business continuity test scheduled

• The Third Annual State of Resilience Report

• New patent “holds the key to enterprise class business continuity and disaster recovery”

• Stop consenting to infrastructure failure and business disruption...

• D2D2D is practical, possible and in all likelihood more affordable than D2D2T

• COSO releases results of two surveys on the current state of enterprise risk management and risk oversight

• SunGard Availability Services expands its London Technology Centre

• EU’s cyber-security agency highlights smartphone risks

• An introduction to ISO 22301: the ISO standard for business continuity

• The European Risk Management Benchmarking Survey 2010

• The meaning of risk appetite: or “Finally, monsieur, a wafer thin mint”

• CA Technologies study measures North America downtime impacts

• Google targets business continuity market

• UK businesses warned of increasing norovirus threat

• PwC comments on cyber attacks to defend WikiLeaks

• Linus launches new version of Revive business continuity management software

• US Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council signs cybersecurity research agreement with NIST, DHS

• Senate committee expresses disappointment over some aspects of PS-Prep

• Report captures pandemic preparedness lessons from major US universities

• Securing privileged identities: a critical area of cloud securit

• New ISACA guide highlights strategies for minimizing virtualization risks

• Start preparing for 2011 hurricane season now

• London Assembly questions London Olympics executives

• November major disasters roundup

• Two new challenges for BCM software: delivering BCMS management process and management system auditing

• Human error is a factor in the majority of IT downtime incidents

• December is Critical Infrastructure Protection Month in the US

• Accelerated SaaS adoption in finance functions is creating downtime risk: NCC Group

• US companies could save $6 billion annually in file restore costs by adopting deduplication

• Attitudes to risk management explored

• ICM explains Servo merger decision

• UK CFOs still wary of the cloud

• European Union appoints crisis response chief

• Gartner makes IT predictions for 2011 and beyond

• NOAA sums up 2010 hurricane season

November business continuity news

• Ensuring infrastructure resilience in an online world

• Measuring operational resilience

• ‘Investigating signs of compromise on a corporate network’

• Continuity Shop publishes 2011 business continuity training course schedule

• How to incorporate cloud computing into your business continuity plans

• Survey looks into mainframe backup challenges

• BSI launches survey on BS 25999 usage

• Results of the sixth annual Symantec Disaster Recovery Study published

• Paper documents still mission critical for many

• Cloud Industry Forum launches Code of Practice

• Lessons learned from going through the BS 25999 certification process

• Public and private sectors must partner on cyber security to prevent a “cyber 9/11”

• Unisys security predictions for 2011

• Onyx opens new Glasgow workplace recovery centre

• ANSI-HSSP releases final report on emergency preparedness for persons with disabilities and special needs

• Vocal releases iModus application for BlackBerry

• Risk managers are increasingly playing a role in business continuity

• Institution of Civil Engineers comments on Cornwall floods

• Cybersecurity best practices and policy issues discussed at November ANSI Caucus

• Cloud Security Alliance unveils governance, risk management and compliance toolkit

• Business continuity: laying down the right foundations to build a solid strategy

• 2011 SunGard Business Continuity Software International User Group Forum

• 2011 predictions for cloud computing, virtualization and identity federation

• Choosing a business continuity consultant: and avoiding being sold snake oil

• Top ten security trends for 2011

• ContinuitySA confirms change of major shareholder

• Lessons learned or lessons lost?

• Interim findings from Cyber Europe 2010 published

• First payment acceptance disaster recovery technology for merchants launched

• New study reveals regional water supply risks

• SunGard Availability Services launches blog series

• Continuity Commander launched by ContingenZ

• Not all business interruption insurance policies can be relied on...

• New NIST guidance on managing WiMAX network risks

• ISO standard on preparedness and continuity management systems moves forward

• Insurance sector views on business continuity

• Encryption deployments are a significant source of downtime

• ‘Preparedness and Response to a Mass Casualty Event’

• UK Environment Agency plans changes to flood warning service

• Thoughts on MTPoD

• First ever pan-European cyber-attack simulation exercise takes place

• London Assembly discusses business continuity issues relating to 2012 transport plans

• DDoS attack on Myanmar highlights the risk of relying on the Internet for mission critical services

• Business Continuity Institute presents ‘Gifted Awards’

• October disasters roundup

• Business Continuity Institute publishes supply chain failure research

• Internet connectivity missing from many disaster recovery plans

• 13th annual Ernst & Young Global Information Security Survey

• DHS publishes new edition of Risk Lexicon

• Introduction of standardised core Pre-Qualification Questionnaire by UK government is an opportunity to embed business continuity planning into the procurement process

• VMware Data Protection Report 2010

• ‘Business Continuity Planning for 2011’

• Top five business continuity lessons learnt from the FIFA 2010 World Cup

• Gartner surveys data center / centre infrastructure challenges

• Social media does not change the rules of crisis communications

• Buyer beware: PS-Prep auditor training and organization certification

• Recognising the risk-mitigating impact of insurance in operational risk modelling

October business continuity news

• FEMA publishes business continuity exercises for private sector organizations

• European Commission acts against France and Luxembourg for flood prevention compliance failures

• Social media threats surveyed

• 8-bit ISA cards, 11 year old computer systems and other hazards of server virtualization

• Security professionals are missing key information risks

• The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2010

• Queensland government announces projects to boost natural disaster resilience

• European disaster response moves forward

• Government of Canada launches National Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

• Institution of Civil Engineers voices concern over UK flood defence funding

• The keys to successfully managing supply chain risk

• BSI launches survey on BS 25999 usage

• FEMA and American Red Cross partnership will strengthen mass care during a disaster

• Winter Resilience Review : Final Report published

• Onyx opens new UK workplace recovery centre

• London Assembly looks into London 2012 business continuity impacts

• NOAA forecasts ‘another Winter of extremes’ for the US

• Aberdeen releases new research into off-site storage and computing capabilities and their importance to successful disaster recovery

• UK government Spending Review: ABI comments on flood investment plans

• Plan for the ‘Maximum of Maximums’ Fugate tells State emergency managers

• Cyber threats to economic welfare do not stop at the public sector

• UK business overlooking Olympic risks: Deloitte

• UK National Security Risk Assessment published

• ‘Perspective on Preparedness: Taking Stock Since 9/11’

• Kroll Ontrack sees huge growth in the number of NAS recoveries being performed

• Vision Solutions launches major updates to Double-Take product suiter

• Capabilities of public cloud business continuity services not widely understood

• Information theft at global companies surpasses all other forms of fraud for first time

• Newly discovered threats use advanced evasion techniques to bypass current network security systems

• SunGard Availability Services launches ‘Replication-as-a-Service’

• Survey looks into criticality of IP networks

• Cyberwars : a real and present danger

• Cloud Security Alliance provides detailed pre-purchase risk assessment checklist for cloud services purchases

• ICM completes multi-million pound VoIP system roll-out

• Lost in translation

• RES-Q expands disaster recovery services across Atlanta Metro Area

• If your head’s in the cloud, keep your feet on the ground

• UK government looking into the impacts of a future severe space weather event

• Awareness of the risks of poor information management and records keeping is rising: AIIM survey

• Global Magnitude releases recoverEASE Risk Mitigator and Continuity version 2.0

• UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat starts public consultation on ‘The Role of Local Resilience Forums: A Reference Document’

• Globalisation strains critical infrastructure

• A new way to manage disasters

• Exploiting new challenges in enterprise risk management

• ICM launches new version of Shadow-Planner

• The 2010 IBM Global IT Risk Study

• Cyber threats forecast for 2011

• Stuxnet is a malware paradigm shift: EU cyber security agency

• Social media a vital tool in crisis communications: survey

• Hungarian toxic sludge disaster highlights the importance of considering environmental risks

• BSI publishes guidance on human aspects of business continuity management

• FEMA Independence Act of 2009 given deadline extension

• Marathon Technologies claims a breakthrough in fault tolerant computing

• State of the Internet 2010: A Report on the Ever-Changing Threat Landscape

• September major disasters summary

• 2nd BCI Continuity & Resilience Awards winners

• DHS moves forward in efforts to aid small business preparedness planning

• Business continuity during industrial action

• Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure issues Stuxnet guidance

• Onyx Group to open new Teesside recovery centre

• Major flooding exercise planned for England and Wales

• Cyber Storm III completed

• Business Continuity Awareness Week 2011 update

• Commission to boost Europe's defences against cyber-attacks

• Marsh highlights unusual business continuity threat: bedbugs

• 2010 FERMA risk benchmarking survey results published

September business continuity news

• Managing facility disruption

• SunGard Availability Services expands data center facilities at Carlstadt campus

• Five reasons why object storage is the best choice for cloud storage environments

• Research looks into the impact of virtualization on data protection strategies

• New model predicts disaster impacts on cities

• Downtime fears are slowing adoption of Exchange 2010 in the UK

• The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction’s International Day for Disaster Reduction Campaign

• Businesses over-confident about IT network resilience

• Virtualization: the way ahead

• UK government increases ‘Irish-related terrorism’ threat level

• Increased ROI from emergency communications systems

• ANAB announces PS-Prep accreditation guidance

• Next generation IP addressing is a ‘disaster waiting to happen’

• Business resilience in the supply chain

• Space weather company warns of solar storm dangers

• Risk appetite explored

• Updated version of PAS 96, Defending food and drink, now available

• US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee assesses terrorism threat

• Clearview Continuity gains ISO 27001 accreditation for new business continuity plan management service

• ICM publishes invocation statistics

• TAMP Systems updates business continuity software offering

• New research improves ability to detect malware in cloud computing systems

• EU strengthens rules on security of gas supply

• The real end game of virtualization is automated IT operations

• Volcanic ash cloud impacts in retrospect

• UK flood summit looks beyond 2013

• Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 502: FEMA

• The future role of BCM in contemporary corporate defence

• Council of Europe ministerial conference to discuss Europe-wide co-operation on natural and technological risk prevention and management

• Olympics: “it will not be business as usual” says City of London Corporation

• US warned of looming national crisis in water quality and supply

• UK Business Continuity Limited offers 30 new recovery locations

• MI5 Director General gives an update on the threat to UK security

• Alignment with or full certification to BS 25999? Which should I choose?

• Scientists develop device to enable improved global data transmission

• NIST data release aims to help inform the technical-basis for evacuation planning of high-rise buildings

• Delhi companies plan for Commonwealth Games disruption

• UK out of step with the rest of the world when it comes to planned spending on information security

• Real IRA warns mainland banks to expect attacks

• CA Technologies publishes 'Avoidable Cost of Downtime 2010 Report'

• UK businesses need clearer data on climate risks: CBI

• Cross-sector business continuity exercise takes place in Manchester (UK)

• Mapping new paths for a stressed-out Internet

• Watching Igor

• The shifting sands of business continuity management

• Business Continuity Institute on the hunt for non-executive directors

• New light shed on PTSD

• COOP Systems announces new features for myCOOP

• INTERPOL issues global alert for increased terror threat if Qur'an burning in US goes ahead

• MTPD: what business continuity professionals think about it and how they calculate it

• The buck stops here: why the CEO is responsible for everything

• Forrester report looks into business continuity and disaster recovery

• FEMA publishes public-private partnership resources

• ASIS International moves forward with organizational resilience maturity model

• ICM takes Shadow-Planner to the next level

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service adoption growing: Yankee Group survey

• Error in climate change models may mean that sea level rises will not be as rapid as previously expected

• Support website for Canterbury earthquake is operational

• BSI provides an update on the new PAS 200 guide to crisis management

• Information security starts before software purchase

• NIST finalizes initial Smart Grid Cyber Security Guidelines

• Most organizations are reluctant to virtualize mission critical applications: survey

• August major disasters roundup

• AS/NZS 5050 standard ‘not in line with progressive BCM thinking’

• World's first full in-browser VNC access allows management of cloud servers during a denial of access scenario

• Misconfigured networks are the main cause of breaches

• Get ready for Earl

• Institute for Southern Studies report says that Katrina disaster response lessons have still not been learned

August business continuity news

• Managing social media risks

• Future IT

• Five years later – how New Orleans flood risk has changed since Hurricane Katrina

• Calculating acceptable downtime

• Quick survey: MTPD

• Global security threats have reached record levels

• ‘Why Disaster Recovery Is Different In Healthcare’

• DEF CON survey looks into cloud hacking

• Atlantic Hurricane Season steps up a gear

• Transformer demand outstripping supply: threatens long-lasting power disruptions

• Business continuity trends, triggers and technology

• US public health agencies get disaster preparedness funding

• Pakistan flooding disaster resources

• Top 10 tips from business continuity practitioners for achieving BS 25999 certification

• Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure updates guidance on managing insider threats

• Five years after Hurricane Katrina and Gulf Coast building codes are still inadequate

• One of the main topics at the Ninth ANSI-HSSP Plenary will be crisis management

• ‘Deadly sins of data disaster recovery planning’

• Five imperatives for extreme data protection in virtualized environments

• Why don’t more companies purchase online data backup?

• GAO report finds that US public-private cybersecurity coordination is still lacking

• Regional pandemic exercise taking place in South-East Asia

• Backup complexity seen as top challenge in managing enterprise data storage: survey

• ‘Who Wants To Be A Business Continuity Planner?’

• Microsoft targets the business continuity market

• Overcoming the unpredictability of crisis response

• Social media usage during disasters surveyed

• As the WHO declares that the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic has ended, worries grow about a new microbiological threat: NDM-1

• Feedback requested on UK National Occupational Standards for Administrators working in BCM

• Social media usage during disasters surveyed

• AS/NZS 5050:2010 reviewed

• Atlantic Hurricane Season: no room for complacency

• Most UK businesses are ignoring future climate related risks

• ASIS International invites applications to participate in Organizational Resilience Maturity Model development committee

• ‘Piloting Supply Chain Risk Management for Federal Information Systems’

• Ten keys to online data backup

• PD 25666:2010 now available from BSI

• The top five undiscovered vulnerabilities most commonly found on enterprise networks

• July disasters roundup

• 3PAR introduces unified management console for multi-site storage replication

• Pakistan and Afghanistan flooding disaster resources

• Re-writing the CEO job description to ensure reputation protection

• Cloud Industry Forum completes public consultation on new Code of Practice

• “Don’t cut flood defence spending” : ABI tells UK government

• Is pandemic planning now a laughing stock? Full results of the recent Continuity Central survey

• National Flood Emergency Framework for England published

• DMTF releases new Open Cloud Standards Incubator documents

• Post-flood safety and recovery tips

• VMworld 2010

• Sign up for 2010 National Preparedness Month

• COOP Systems announces new hosting capabilities

• Music to my ears....

• Cloud Security Alliance launches ‘Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge’

• Vocal wins Emergency Planning Society’s ‘Most Innovative Product of the Year’

• Interim report of the Winter Resilience Review published

• Kroll Ontrack releases results of its Global Data Loss Causes Survey

• With two years to go, UK businesses are urged to factor the 2012 Olympics into business continuity plans

• Double-Take Software stockholders approve Vision Solutions merger agreement

• Some thoughts on resilience

• Cloud computing attitudes

• Software-as-a-service protection strategies : research results

• IBM unveils zEnterprise System

• UK coalition government commits to keeping arrangements for resilience and civil contingencies within central government

• WHO maintains pandemic status for H1N1 influenza

• SNIA launches Cloud Backup and Recovery Special Interest Group

• NIST publishes draft cloud computing and virtualization security guidance

• New software seeks to integrate business continuity and enterprise risk management

• Twelve Chicago southland education institutions sign mutual aid agreement

• Future US water supply risks examined

• DHS’s long range strategic plans criticised

• Exercise Citius Torch tests London Olympic security preparedness

• Hurricane season 2100

• UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure publishes guide to managing online social networking risks

• Code of Conduct seeks to address IT maintenance related-downtime

• Food for thought...

• The challenge of setting up recovery centres in Africa

• SAS 70 is not proof of security, continuity or privacy compliance: Gartner

• CFTC issues proposed business continuity and disaster recovery regulation for DCMs and DCOs

• Winners of US National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge announced

• NATO disaster response exercise scheduled for September

• SunGard creates new enterprise risk management framework

• Communication and funding are the biggest challenges to business continuity

• Ipswitch survey looks at World Cup impact on corporate bandwidth

• RMS reviews US terrorism trends

• Researchers focus on cloud computing availability

• Get Ready Week 2010

• Practitioners’ ethics

• In-crisis decision making: five steps to wow!

• Natural disaster risks assessed

• Many east Africa businesses lose Internet access due to SEACOM undersea cable fault

• Understanding Security in Cloud Storage

• June natural disaster roundup

• Terrorism trends

• New US Federal web portal launched to provide Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and recovery information and resources

• Updated computer security NIST guidelines focus on security assessment plans

• Compushare enhances Critical Systems Recovery solution

• Pandemic planning: a business continuity success story

• Q: When is a backup not a backup?

• Deduplication: the pros and cons end users are not always told

• EMC Atmos decision highlights one of the risks associated with cloud computing

• BT strike is off, for now: decision gives business continuity managers more time to assess telecoms dependencies

• European businesses and cloud computing

• International operational sustainability standard for data center operations published by Uptime Institute

• Two reports into UK pandemic response published

• Human aspects of business continuity management

• INONI launches ‘managed business continuity software’

• 6th Data Centres Europe Awards presented

• 2010 Hurricane Season resource page

• Critical infrastructure resilience strategy launched by Australian government

• Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants reauthorization passes Senate

June business continuity news

• New business continuity standard published by Standards New Zealand and Standards Australia

• Is pandemic planning now a laughing stock?

• UK business continuity managers consider potential impacts of BT strike

• BCI publishes new guide to business continuity guidance documents around the world

• NHS Resilience PAS 2015: Guidance for NHS-funded organizations

• Survey looks into UK downtime trends

• A business continuity plan for all seasons

• I've changed my mind about tape...

• Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly criticises WHO and governmental pandemic handling

• BICSI European Conference report

• New blast resistance standards published in US

• Prepare web-applications for IE9

• Supply chain continuity: navigating through supply chain dead zones

• New satellite-based emergency communications service provides US companies with additional telecoms continuity options

• AT&T wins Frost & Sullivan 2010 Product Leadership of the Year Award for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services North America

• Do-it-yourself private storage clouds

• BS25999 Users’ Workshop report

• US small businesses ignoring business continuity

• How enterprises can secure the cloud

• BCI and KPMG launch 2010’s Continuity and Resilience Awards for India

• DHS adopts three business continuity standards

• The 2010 Business Continuity Benchmark Report

• Airmic discusses integrating business continuity and enterprise risk management

• Don’t let a disaster turn into a cashflow crisis

• Report identifies future mega-earthquake hotspots

• State of the Nation: Infrastructure 2010

• GCC heatwave may cause power problems for local businesses

• ‘Security awareness: Turning your people into your first line of defence’

• Enterprise risk management lessons from the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe

• Secure access during a business continuity plan invocation

• A tale of two hacks

• Using new UK ICO powers as a force for change

• New method aims to better identify emerging risks

• ChicagoFIRST conducts telecommuting test

• New Cybersecurity Bill introduced in US

• The case for specialist business continuity management software

• In-crisis decision making: participate or fail

• Zero data loss disaster recovery: inhibitors

• As the football World Cup starts in South Africa Aon Benfield publishes regional earthquake risk report

• Companies with strong physical risk management deliver more stable earnings

• Deloitte 2010 security survey: financial institutions making identity and access management tools their top priority

• NIST WTC recommendations are basis for new set of building and fire codes

• ColoHouse Miami Data Center gets new ‘Business Continuity Wing’

• The disaster recovery practices of leading IT organizations

• ‘Who would have thought that would happen?’: new BCI report

• Cloud? There’s a herd of elephants in the room...

• New CEO for SunGard Availability Services

• PS-PREP: expedite, do it right, and create awareness

• The risks of social media explored

• BCI London Forum surveys workarea recovery trends

• Atlantic Hurricane Season expected to be worse than initially forecasted: Colorado State University

• WHO assesses H1N1 pandemic situation

• BANG announces the winners of the 2nd Annual Alternative Awards in Business Continuity Management

• Twitter and business continuity

• Speed things up...

• SunGard publishes 2009 business continuity invocations log

• BICSI to launch data centre standard

• When to use elevators in an emergency evacuation

• Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to adopt pandemic report

• Floods dominate May disasters

• Aon publishes Terrorism Threat Map

• BCI and KPMG launch 2010’s Continuity and Resilience Awards for India

• The Survivability Analysis Framework

• 2010 Hurricane Season resource page

• US National Flood Insurance Program expires

• Lack of network scrutiny causes business continuity headaches

• Digital copiers and information security

• Failure mode analysis in data centres

• Toward a global risk map

• New UK corporate governance standard aims to enhance risk management

• Canadian ministers publish ‘National Strategy and Action Plan for Critical Infrastructure’

May business continuity news

• When is a black swan not a black swan?

• Business continuity software survey : SunGard’s response

• ‘Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready’

• Number of UK droughts likely to increase

• Business continuity planning in the United States

• Business Continuity Institute starts ‘Discipline Mapping’ project

• US SBA presents annual disaster recovery awards

• UK print and mail disaster recovery provider expands capacity

• The 2010 Business Continuity Awards

• Brainstorming for outliers

• Business continuity software quick survey: final results

• Report describes the CERT ‘Resilience Management Model’

• New computer security threat warning

• New crisis management measures for future European volcanic ash crises

• Probability of mega-quake hitting Pacific Northwest coast of the United States assessed

• ‘Security for Cloud Computing Users’: survey results

• Information risk examined

• SunGard Availability Services completes UK PC refresh

• Risks of water scarcity and droughts in Europe explored

• Demand for supply chain insurance grows as a result of the volcanic ash crisis: Marsh

• Business Resilience in the Supply Chain

• ‘The link between business interruption insurance and BCM’

• Eliminating data center hotspots

• Risk & Resilience Expo cancelled

• Double-Take Software to be acquired by Vision Solutions in $242 million deal

• Nearly $790 million in new US critical infrastructure and preparedness grants announced

• Europe’s volcano risks studied

• Cloud security study

• Neverfail launches continuous availability solution for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

• UK gets new ‘National Security Council’

• How is the new UK government likely to approach business continuity promotion?

• New study looks into network resilience of 30 European countries

• Backup and disaster recovery still a difficult area for many businesses

• Five tips for adopting cloud gateways

• When it comes to information security many employees are ‘the enemy within’

• In-crisis decision making: practice makes perfect

• Lessons from L’Aquila

• Recovery Point upgrades private fiber network to optical

• IBHS publishes new guidelines aimed at reducing wildfire risks to property

• The UK gets a ‘DisasterNet’

• New workforce continuity facility opens in Washington

• ContinuitySA provides more Cape Town recovery space

• Terror trends examined

• 9th Annual BCM Study

• Policies and procedures during disaster recovery

• BlackBerry Enterprise Server not being included in business continuity plans

• Outcome of the EU Extraordinary Transport Council

• SunGard Availability Services showcases new Sacramento Data Center

• EU Transport Ministers meet to agree volcanic ash response

• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman comments on the attempted Times Square terrorist attack

• Volcanic ash disruption update page