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iconJuggling information security, business continuity and overall preparedness
Should business continuity and information security be a single role? Christopher Burton discusses.

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•Date: 9th Feb 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconIs business continuity management a dead-end?
In order to progress, the business continuity profession needs to develop executive gravitas, says Nathaniel Forbes. UPDATED WITH READER COMMENTS

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•Date: 9th Feb 2010 • Region: SE Asia/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconIn-crisis decision making: ‘resolving the dilemma’
The first in a series of articles on crisis decision making by Dennis C. Hamilton, Hon FBCI.

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•Date: 5th Feb 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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iconRegister now for the Business Continuity Awareness Week launch event
Webcast, 22nd March 2010, 12 noon GMT.

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•Date: 5th Feb 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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iconICM and BT in voice continuity agreement
Highly resilient IP-based telephony system being rolled out across 7,500 end points and 14 business continuity centres.

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•Date: 5th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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iconIT security 2010
Stonesoft warns of heightened risk.

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•Date: 5th Feb 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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iconCloud Computing Adoption: survey results
Study finds that security and integration concerns are not preventing enterprises’ adopting cloud computing.

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•Date: 5th Feb 2010 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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iconNIST issues expanded draft of Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy
Draft for public review and comment; includes more detailed technical inputs.

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•Date: 4th Feb 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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iconUS Department of Homeland Security publishes Quadrennial Homeland Security Review
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has now delivered the final Quadrennial Homeland Security Review report to Congress.

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•Date: 4th Feb 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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IconBusiness continuity briefs
The issue includes:
• Business Continuity Professionals of the Carolinas Quarterly Meeting
• Major disaster declared for Arkansas
• Records Management Society Annual conference
Warning issued for Iowa Spring flooding
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP

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iconWhat has the recession taught us about operational risk and resilience?
A new white paper, authored by SunGard Availability Services.

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•Date: 3rd Feb 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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iconUK counter-terrorism response suffers from ‘institutional inertia’
According to Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee.

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•Date: 3rd Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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iconAPRA releases guidance on the management of security risk in information and information technology
Aims to target areas where APRA’s ongoing supervisory activities continue to identify weaknesses.

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•Date: 3rd Feb 2010 • Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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iconGlobal Banking Banana Skins 2010
Poll identifies top threats to banks.

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•Date: 3rd Feb 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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iconDHS details Fiscal Year 2011 budget request
Janet Napolitano has unveiled the DHS’s $56.3 billion fiscal year 2011 budget request.

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•Date: 2nd Feb 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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iconUK government winds down pandemic ‘flu response but warns against complacency
'There is still considerable uncertainty about how the virus will behave over the coming months and years.'

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•Date: 2nd Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning UK
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February Business Continuity Briefs

Major disaster declared for North Carolina

NFPA 1600 2010 Edition: What You Need to Know

Is the focus on financial risks diverting attention from other risks?

Double-Take Software Launches Double-Take Availability for Linux Version 4.6

UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010 published




More January business continuity news

Managed emergency communications systems

Maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPOD) and external vendors

FSA consults on new UK financial sector corporate governance rules

Continuity Software launches RecoverGuard version 5.0

New ISO/IEC standard on risk assessment published

The 17th annual Political Risk Map

WHO defends pandemic management

US government failing on bioterrorism response planning

New Northern California data center for SunGard Availability Services

Data centre users confront changing threat landscape

Institute of Actuaries releases new enterprise risk management paper

New tool provides a cloud-based ‘immune system’ for computers

Cloud computing changing the risk landscape

HP creates IT risk, availability and security services portfolio

India urges WHO to address concerns that H1N1 is a ‘false pandemic’

UK terrorism threat level increased

A short tour of business continuity management standards

A classic BCM blooper?

Ten to-do's for audit committees in 2010

Risk modelling – the secret to successful post-merger network convergence

Microsoft calls for cloud computing legislation

Fifth annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report

Remedy IT Service Management Suite to be available via SaaS

Corporate data loss is a widespread problem which most organizations respond to inadequately: Kroll Ontrack survey

Study looks at Istanbul earthquake risk

Severe weather impacts on UK business continuity surveyed

The Global Risk Report 2010

ASIS Foundation releases CRISP report on preventing burglary in commercial and institutional settings

Counting the cost of the summer 2007 UK floods

Organizations place renewed emphasis on protection of enterprise PC data: IDC

Retreat, defend, attack? How to respond to sea level rises?

The art of effective exercising

Proposed ASTM Homeland Security Standard to aid in development of emergency operations centers

2010: the top 10 South African business continuity issues

Business continuity lessons from the current severe weather

The 2010 Global Enterprise Risk Management Survey

Federation of Small Businesses calls for review of UK severe weather contingency planning

UN calls for international support in wake of Haiti quake

Survey finds widespread supply chain risk management failures

Sendmail makes 2010 predictions

More details of Australia and New Zealand Business Continuity Awareness Week activities published

UK companies unprepared for London 2012

The Symantec 2010 State of the Data Center Study

ChicagoFIRST sums up recent cyber attack exercises

Future IT

Power issues need to remain high on business continuity managers’ to-do lists

US gears up for cyber-attack exercise

UK must urgently address gas dependency imbalance: Institution of Civil Engineers

New security and availability certification scheme for UK telecoms companies

Business impact assessment and damage reporting for effective crisis management

BCM Institute launches business continuity auditor certification courses

Survey benchmarks pandemic planning by businesses

2010 to be the year of the cloud for UK businesses?

Guidance on risk management for charities published

Northern Ireland Flooding Taskforce organizes public consultation sessions

UK government needs to do more to raise awareness of business continuity: BIBA

2010 Business Continuity Awards open for entries

Business continuity in Australia and New Zealand

Natural catastrophes resulted in $58bn economic loss in 2009

Short-term school closures may worsen flu pandemics, University of Pittsburgh study finds

January Business Continuity Briefs

The BCI 2nd China Conference

A forensic analysis of Hurricane Katrina's impact: methods and findings

Federal Communications Commission to hold public forum on proposal to create an emergency response interoperability center for public safety broadband communications

Teneros launches new hosted disaster recovery service to preserve critical email continuity

Neverfail debuts Continuous Availability Director

MarquisNet and Colo5 in disaster-recovery services joint-operating agreement

New BakBone technology for remote offices instantaneously recovers applications and data to any point in time

US Department of Labor's OSHA announces 'OSHA Listens' to solicit comments and suggestions from stakeholders

Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0 sets new performance and energy savings standards for high availability backup and recovery

CIOs say the future looks bright but cloud computing and governance remain issues on the horizon


UK severe weather business continuity survey

Cyber Defence

New data protection powers for UK ICO

University Hospitals implements new emergency notification system


UK government steps down pandemic briefings

World Continuity Congress Singapore 2010

European Commission approves Danish terror insurance scheme

Q&A on UK council grit and salt supplies

Media and Business Continuity

The Red Cross Disaster Response Challenges

PINpoint listed by the Canadian government

Cable&Wireless gains BS 25999 certification

SunGard gets new chief financial officer

Change of date for the 20th World Conference on Disaster Management

Recent US disaster declarations


December business continuity news 2009

ICM acquires Office Shadow

2010: will a new decade bring new data centre paradigms?

Over one third of SMBs willing to risk a 40 percent revenue hit due to their inability to recover from a disaster

Competition launched for the best business continuity writing

2010 will see IT move toward virtualization, cloud computing and an accompanying need for greater system availability

VMware SMB survey results

Cloud Industry Forum kick-starts Code of Conduct

HP launches cloud computing services

NIST updates automated computer security validation guidelines

The role of satellite broadband in disaster management

DHS schedules more events in ‘Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Learning Series’

PwC gets BS25999 certified

More organizations employ chief risk officers

O2 achieves BS25999 certification

EU Gas Coordination Group meets

New Civil Contingencies Act Enhancement Programme document released

When does brainstorming work best?

New initiative from UK government aims to ‘prevent next global pandemic’

President Obama releases ‘National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats’

Record rise in the cost of fire damage in the UK

Scottish Government looks to take the lead in risk management

Unisys predicts a biometrics boom in 2010

What makes a good business continuity manager?

The 2010 Future Threat Report

Progress made in financial sector risk management

Downtime in focus

Cisco publishes Annual Security Report for 2009

New ‘Risk IT’ framework from ISACA

SunGard launches ‘Continuity Management Solution’

COAG meeting reviews Australia’s disaster management and critical infrastructure protection arrangement

‘Mobilizing Against Pandemic’

Secretary-General updates the Fifth Committee on status of UN business continuity arrangements

Brightening up print and mail business continuity...

Making the board listen

Changes ahead for Office-Shadow

The solution to successful risk communication...

New DHS supported study will look into protection against chemical attacks and how to step-up emergency planning efforts

Another survey finds that security concerns are holding back cloud computing adoption

New Solaris Cluster software launched

The current state of email management strategies

Companies eyeing the private cloud: Gartner

‘State of Resilience’: second annual report

UK government consults on Civil Contingencies Act Arrangements for London

CDC publishes guidance for emergency shelter management for the 2009-2010 flu season

BCI awards inaugural ‘Gifted Grades’

December's Business Continuity Briefs

Iron Mountain joins Cloud Security Alliance

FEMA administrator Craig Fugate swears in Tony Russell as new Region VI administrator

Major disaster declared for the State of Nebraska

360°IT

Exercise Midwinter

FERMA expands as the Norwegian Risk Management Association joins

EMC announces Retrospect 7.7 for Windows

Glendale protects lives and property with Everbridge Emergency Notification System

5th Annual Business Continuity Conference

COOP Systems selects Janus-SI as European distributor

New IBM facility offers disaster recovery services to South Korean companies

Major disasters declared in the US

Rod Ratsma to lead Marsh Business Continuity Management team

CEO succession planning continues to be boom or bust

‘Rising Levels? Public awareness and understanding of risks from flooding’

Secretary Napolitano announces grant guidance for more than $2.7 billion in Fiscal Year 2010 grant programs

The BCI announces its 2nd China Conference

Readout of Secretary Napolitano’s meetings with real estate, professional sports, media and financial leaders in New York City

FEMA and the FCC announce adoption of standards for wireless carriers to receive and deliver emergency alerts via mobile devices

Major disaster declared for Arkansas

HP helps businesses maximize uptime in IT environments



November business continuity news 2009

Cloud computing: resiliency is the key to success

Benefits of enterprise modelling for business continuity management

Change is in the air?

Security concerns holding back cloud adoption

Developing Europe's resilience to disasters

Data backup and restore challenges surveyed

Warning issued over mobile working risks

Federation of Small Businesses opens emergency fund for flooded UK businesses

Business Continuity Management People

RMS performs analysis for catastrophe bond covering H1N1 flu pandemic

Many US organizations are not fully prepared for workplace unavailability

ICM holds its ground

Achieving ‘telephony as usual’

Consumer business organizations need to reassess threat landscape

Record rainfall causes widespread flooding in NW England, SW Scotland and North Wales

Time to recover and reducing cost are the biggest backup challenges...

Gas Coordination Group sees overall good level of preparedness in EU

ISO 31000:2009 now available

IRM welcomes new ISO 31000 standard

Ponemon Institute Study identifies federal security ‘mega trends’

Human error is increasingly the cause of enterprise data disasters

UK government commits to progressing flood legislation

The end of the world as Hollywood knows it...

New climate change scenarios highlight potential European impacts

Secretary Napolitano meets with private sector critical infrastructure leaders

A business continuity checklist

‘Interim planning considerations for mass gatherings in the context of pandemic (H1N1)2009 influenza’

The results of the 2009 BCI board election

FEMA seeks comments on National Flood Insurance Program

Enhance the security of your virtual environments

Business continuity in 2010

Reclaiming fault tolerance

Best practices in information security

Radius introduces Business Continuity Power Generation line

Pandemic planning: why working from home may not be an effective solution

Business continuity management in the Middle East

SunGard unveils ‘a new evolution in BCM software’

IIROC postpones business continuity test

CERT makes business continuity podcast available

Disaster Recovery Stakeholder Forum meets in New York

Solvency II adopted

Canadian organizations invited to submit nominations for the APEX pandemic planning award

UK government consults on measures to improve the resilience of critical infrastructure

‘Doing Business During an Influenza Pandemic’

Cloud-based services gain ground rapidly: but confusion still exists

A look at outsourcing through business continuity glasses

The DHS Private Sector Preparedness (PS-Prep) Program and Standards

Clearing the fog from the cloud

US legislation aims to reform SBA's disaster recovery role

Report: climate change impacts on risks in the oil and gas industries

FEMA extends PS-Prep comment period

Emergency Communications and Continuity Planning through your Blackberry Smartphones

Quality control in business continuity management

Why is DRI speaking out against organizational certification?

IT risk management is evolving: OpenPages survey

Researchers make anti-rootkit advance

Plague attack: an international bioterrorism tabletop exercise

Recession remedies cause IT crises: Kroll Ontrack

Internet bandwidth supply may not meet demand during a severe pandemic

Wellington work-area recovery boost

New US National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center opened

GemaTech launches Portable Recovery Unit for telecoms continuity

Concorde Informatics launches MirrorVAULT


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