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iconIs the UK government passing the buck on business continuity?
Does a House of Commons exchange about business continuity in SMEs constitute an abdication of responsibility?
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•Date: 3rd July 2009• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconDown economy is prompting upper management to get more involved with disaster recovery
Jerome M. Wendt explains why this is occurring.
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•Date: 3rd July 2009• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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iconThe White House announces H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit
Will be held on July 9, 2009 at the Natcher Conference Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
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•Date: 3rd July 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning US
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iconEuropean Commission chairs Gas Coordination Group extraordinary meeting
Discusses contingency measures to prevent a repeat of last winter’s gas supply disruption problems.
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•Date: 3rd July 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconCERT Resiliency Management Model being rolled out
CERT has begun releasing the individual process areas of the CERT Resiliency Management Model, a capability model for operational resiliency management.
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•Date: 3rd July 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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iconEntry deadline extended for India business continuity awards
New closing date for entries is 31st July 2009.
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•Date: 3rd July 2009• Region: India •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconInfluenza A(H1N1) update page
UPDATED This page is being updated with news and resources as the incident develops.
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•Date: 3rd July 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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IconBusiness continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Taking the Next Steps: What Business Continuity Needs for Legitimacy
• Intellect reports on UK data centre industry
• Unisys attempts to break through barriers to adoption of cloud computing

• Training DVDs from the BCI
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts

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iconA high return, low impact, exercise regimen
Conducting effective functional exercises in large organizations. By Renée Sherrill.
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•Date:2nd July 2009• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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iconMaximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPOD)
UPDATED What is it, where did it come from and why is it important to your organization?

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•Date: 2nd July 2009 • Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC plan development
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iconAon survey looks into supply chain risk trends
‘Risk in 21st Century Supply Chains.’
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•Date: 2nd July 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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icon‘Resilience in Converged Networks’
New good practice guidance from the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.
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•Date: 2nd July 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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iconUK to get new critical infrastructure advisory body
‘Infrastructure UK’ will identify the country’s long term infrastructure needs and will analyse interdependencies and threats.
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•Date: 2nd July 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconDouble-Take Software launches a new version of Double-Take for Linux
Enhancing availability of critical Linux-based IT workloads.
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•Date: 2nd July 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

Symantec publishes more results from fifth Annual IT Disaster Recovery Survey

US Environmental Protection Agency highlights the role of HVAC systems in pandemic flu transmission

‘Facilities Physical Security Measures Guideline’

UK government schedules National Resilience Extranet briefing sessions

‘Effective data protection – reality and risks’

Virtualization and disaster recovery: survey results

UK utility networks extremely vulnerable to disruption and failure

UK government publishes its first Cyber Security Strategy

Alarm Annual Risk Management Awards winners announced

BT and CERT-In sign MOU to address computer related crime in India

Europe’s communications, media and technology firms taking risk management more seriously

UK Met Office predicts quiet north Atlantic tropical storm season

European Commission proposes a new policy to enhance chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear security in the EU

Cloud confusion

Crisis Survivor launches Twitter-based crisis communication service

The need for clustered storage in large-scale video surveillance deployments

The Flu Pandemic Game: a business continuity training resource

Standards Australia publishes Mailroom Security handbook

Disaster Recovery Institute of Canada presents 2009 Award of Excellence

Survey looks into the effect of the recession on UK operational risk management

New supply chain risk management solution

Telecoms resilience in the UK: the ‘last mile’ is the weakest link

The keys to effective pandemic communications

Pandemic phase six: what do business continuity managers do next?

New ISO standard aims to help prevent storm damage to structures

UK Climate Projections launched: what changes will organizations need to prepare for?

KROLL ONTRACK announces data recovery breakthrough for Apple Xsan

Highlights from the AIRMIC conference

DHS coordinates national continuity plan exercise

SunGard expands UK network of resilient data centres

NIST issues latest guidelines for teleworking security

Canadian Business Continuity Awareness Week

Survey highlights disconnect between IT and business executives when it comes to business continuity and DR

No time for complacency in pandemic planning: Aon

EMC launches new business continuity services for VMware environments

Distributed security: a new sharing approach to online security

Vendor risk management is becoming a core enterprise competency: Gartner

Lack of good house-keeping contributes to SAP downtime

H1N1 is not the only infectious disease we should be concerned about

Australia’s critical infrastructure operators briefed on e-security issues

Business continuity salary and compensation reports now available

Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPOD): BSI committee response

UK government gives an update on critical infrastructure flood resilience

Fugate meets with US Chamber Of Commerce National Security Task Force

New appliance eliminates network security blind spot

The Australian National Audit Office publishes business continuity ‘Better Practice Guide’

Lloyd's warns of resurgence of expropriation risk

New Homeland Security Advisory Council Members sworn in

‘Risk Intelligence in the Age of Global Uncertainty’

Florida gets new recovery facility

BIA: the Emperor’s new clothes?

Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPOD)

Security considerations for US Smart Grid and Smart Metering deployment

Data corruption is fastest growing threat to business continuity

The 2009 Business Resiliency Survey

Fugate meets with private sector representatives

Aon publishes updated Terrorism Threat Map

A new benchmark for backup performance: Total Time to DR

Pitney Bowes to offer Stand-By Recovery Service

AT&T publishes results from eighth annual US business continuity study

London Regional Resilience Forum publishes Severe Weather Debrief

Many North American SMBs have poor quality business continuity plans

Strong results for ICM

ISO starts work on unsafe product recall standard

Business Continuity Awards winners

Lessons from the credit crunch

Separating fact from fiction when using synchronous replication for DR

Help us to help you...

Quo vadis BCM?

NIST defining cloud computing

Survey looks into Web 2.0 use, policies and security in businesses worldwide

Influenza A(H1N1) update page

In the ‘hot seat’ – chairing a crisis management meeting

Business continuity salary and compensation reports now available

Power related downtime causes large losses for Indian businesses

Alarm announces 2009 annual awards finalists

2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season: information and updates

Zero-downtime system migrations

Availability for a brave new world

Pandemic planning actions surveyed

ANSI-HSSP releases workshop report on emergency preparedness for persons with disabilities

NOAA issues Atlantic Hurricane Season outlook

Quality control in business continuity management: interim results

Business continuity take-up in China

The ‘disruption management model’ for business continuity

Handling online crises...

Fugate sworn-in as new FEMA Administrator

Zenith introduces ARCA

Pandemic planning webinars and podcasts

SBA presents the Phoenix Awards for disaster recovery efforts

Pandemic: don’t be complacent

Corporate data theft doubles since 2006

Disaster uncovered

Unresponsive data centres can lead to supply chain chaos

ISO report highlights best practices in the use of fever screening equipment as a tool in pandemic preparedness

New risks emerging for oil and gas sector

New ISO/IEC standard for IT security

FEMA stays in DHS: the final word (?)

Pandemic planning actions surveyed

AT&T bolsters pan-European disaster recovery resources

Majority of companies lack the transparency needed to prevent insider threats

Australian budget provides more cash for disaster resilience

HP launches business continuity solution for SAP

Mathematical advances strengthen IT security

Pandemic planning webinars and podcasts

Double-Take announces new solution with Microsoft to reduce complexity of remote site recovery

APRA releases discussion paper on IT security risk management

Capital One Bank provides disaster planning checklist

Business continuity management in a recession: luxury or necessity?

Deloitte report urges governments around the world to step up cybersecurity efforts or face potential disruption

FSA CEO criticises firms’ risk management approach

Recovery Point rolls out across the US

Florida companies taking business continuity seriously

Aravo Risk launched

NIST issues draft guide for automating computer security verification

Urgency at centre of Solvency II implementation programmes

Pandemics – have we really learnt anything?

Business continuity providers’ statements on pandemic response

Network Barometer Report

Marathon Technologies launches two new high availability software products

A Framework for Assessing the Systemic Risk of Major Financial Institutions

Swine influenza is now ‘Influenza A(H1N1)’

Pandemic business continuity planning – the time to act is now

Lieberman introduces legislation to help secure the US electric grid

BCI launches India business continuity awards

New ISO/IEC standard will help to prevent theft and unauthorized modification of electronic data

WHO raises pandemic alert level to phase 5

Telecoms is a weak link in US business continuity planning

Pandemic preparedness: key questions your chief executive will be asking

Nine-steps for pandemic planning

Face masks : when and when not to use them in pandemic situations

Pandemic plans trigger difficult legal questions

Senate committee holds hearing on improving US cyber security

Pandemic plan sense check

European Data Centre Awards

Business continuity helps drive UK data culture shift

2009 Phoenix Award for Small Business Disaster Recovery

Business continuity statistics: where myth meets fact

Quality control in business continuity management

Solvency II approved by European Parliament

Global survey: economic downturn drives increased spending on IT security

Fugate wants FEMA to remain within the DHS

Major pandemic exercise held in Wales

2009 European Risk Management Awards

New NIST guidelines for organization-wide password management

UK government publishes draft Flood and Water Management Bill

RSA president urges 'inventive collaboration'

Eliminating cloud storage data transfer and recovery bottlenecks

Tape and disk continue to thrive together

Civil Contingencies Secretariat Emergency Response and Recovery consultation: deadline coming up

Severe convective storm seasons are here to stay...

2009 Global Risk Management Survey results


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