Swine influenza update page The current situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern: WHO Emergency Committee. This page will be updated with news and resources as the incident develops. Read article •Date:26th-30th April 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Telecoms is a weak link in US business continuity planning US survey finds that only 1.5 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a plan for voice continuity. Read article •Date:30th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Nine-steps for pandemic planning Advice from the TABB Group. Read article •Date: 30th April 2009• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Pandemic plans trigger difficult legal questions Managing sick and concerned workers, navigating quarantine barriers and liabilities are just a few of the impact areas facing managers, says a Pillsbury attorney. Read article •Date:30th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Senate committee holds hearing on improving US cyber security “We know our cyber infrastructure is insecure and our security capabilities are inadequate,” states Chairman Joe Lieberman. Read article •Date:30th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Major disasters declared for Alabama and Arkansas - FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the State of Alabama. The assistance will supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, tornadoes, and straight-line winds during the period of March 25 to April 3, 2009. Albert Lewis has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=11409
- Federal disaster aid has also been made available for the State of Arkansas to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and tornadoes on April 9, 2009. W. Michael Moore has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=11408 •Date:28th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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2009 Phoenix Award for Small Business Disaster Recovery SBA award highlights Massachusetts business owners Juan and Luis Yépez for outstanding disaster recovery efforts. Read article •Date:28th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared for Georgia FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the State of Georgia to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, tornadoes, and straight-line winds beginning on March 26, 2009, and continuing. Terry L. Quarles has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=11388 •Date:28th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Fugate wants FEMA to remain within the DHS Declaration made at Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee nomination hearing. Read article •Date:24th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Peak 10 announces new VirtualDR service offering Peak 10 has announced the enhancement of its managed services portfolio with the addition of a new virtualized service. VirtualDR leverages Peak 10’s virtualization services so that customers can implement reliable, cost-effective disaster recovery solutions in multiple data centers. Peak 10’s VirtualDR product offers companies a software-based approach to replication. This solution enables full, differential or hybrid backups of customer owned or hosted virtual machines to dissimilar hardware in geographically redundant data centers. www.peak10.com •Date:24th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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New NIST guidelines for organization-wide password management Provides guidance on effective password management and is designed to raise awareness of the changing threats against passwords. Read article •Date:23rd April 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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RSA president urges 'inventive collaboration' The only way to effectively deal with the escalating global cyber-threat. Read article •Date:23rd April 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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Tape and disk continue to thrive together Two-thirds of storage environments rely on combined solution, study finds. Read article •Date:23rd April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Major disasters declared for Florida and Indiana FEMA has made two major disaster announcements:
- For Florida to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, tornadoes, and straight-line winds beginning on March 26, 2009, and continuing.
- For the State of Indiana. The assistance will supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding during the period of March 8-14, 2009. •Date:23rd April 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Severe convective storm seasons are here to stay... RMS releases US severe storm report as peak tornado season approaches. Read article •Date:23rd April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Materials research could lead to an end to data loss from power outages The ferroelectric materials found in today's ‘smart cards’ may eliminate the time-consuming booting and rebooting of computer operating systems by providing an ‘instant-on’ capability as well as preventing losses from power outages Read article •Date:21st April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Using Elevators in an Emergency The US NFPA has published a podcast where NFPA principal life safety engineer Ron Cote talks about the use of elevators in an emergency evacuation. Listen to the podcast. •Date:17th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing
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Final version of Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101 published by FEMA CPG 101 serves as the emergency plan foundation for both public and private sector planning in the United States. Read article •Date:15th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Understanding risks to Seattle's high-rise buildings from a giant Cascadian earthquake There is a growing consensus that this fault zone ruptures in magnitude 9+ earthquakes. Read article •Date:15th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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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. •Date:15th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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The use of templates in business continuity planning Brian Zawada explores the pros and cons of template use and provides some helpful tips. Read article •Date: 8th April 2009• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC plan development
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US business continuity salaries and compensation The results of BC Management’s annual survey. Read article •Date:8th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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SunGard developing ‘LDRPS for Hospitals’ Special version of LDRPS business continuity management software for the healthcare environment. Read article •Date:8th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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New ‘Venyu’ for data protection AmeriVault and NTG have announced the launch of ‘Venyu’ — a newly combined company created to deliver commercial-grade, customizable solutions for data protection, availability and recovery. Bolstered by the financial strength and stability of parent company PHNS, Venyu gives small-to-medium sized businesses more reliable data protection and recovery alternatives and eliminates the need for courier services, back-up tape and on-premise hardware. www.venyu.com •Date:8th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Firestorm offers business continuity franchise opportunities Firestorm Franchising LLC has announced that it will begin accepting applications for business continuity planning and consulting franchises. Read article •Date:3rd April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Cassatt applies internal cloud concept to disaster recovery Cassatt Corporation has successfully tested a new, cost-effective solution to data center disaster recovery that uses an internal cloud computing approach to make use of the virtual and physical resources that organizations already have inside their data centers. Read article •Date:3rd April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Survey looks into application availability The number of applications needing very high availability has increased in the past two-to-three years. Read article •Date:2nd April 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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DHS releases its own worm detection tool Can be used by the federal government, commercial vendors, state and local governments, and critical infrastructure owners and operators to scan their networks for the Conficker/Downadup computer worm. Read article •Date:31st March 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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Emergency declaration for Minnesota FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Minnesota to supplement state and local response efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding beginning on March 16, 2009, and continuing. Michael H. Smith has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=11269 •Date:31st March 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Chertoff to lead security and risk management advisory firm Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has formed a security advisory firm, The Chertoff Group, which will advise corporate and government clients on security and risk management issues. The firm helps clients at each stage of the security process with a focus on prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. •Date:31st March 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing
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ASIS International releases organizational resilience standard ‘ASIS SPC.1-2009: Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness and Continuity Management Systems—Requirements with Guidance for Use.’ Read article •Date:27th March 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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NIST stairwell evacuation study published Study finds that not enough is known about the factors impacting evacuation variables. More work proposed. Read article •Date:27th March 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC facilities
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RecoveryPlanner expands into Canada RecoveryPlanner, developers of RPX, web-based business continuity management software, has opened two new data centers in Canada. These centers will be used to host the RPX software for RecoveryPlanner’s Canadian clients and others who desire RPX hosting in that country. The new RecoveryPlanner hosting facilities are located in SAS 70 Type II certified data centers in two geographically dispersed locations in Canada. To learn more about RPX and/or its hosting facilities in Canada, please call us at 877.455.9990 •Date:27th March 2009• Region: Canada •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC software
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Major disaster declared For North Dakota FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the State of North Dakota to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding beginning on March 13, 2009, and continuing. Acting FEMA Administrator Nancy Ward said the assistance was authorized under a major disaster declaration issued for the state by President Obama. Michael J. Hall has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=11268 •Date:27th March 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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