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BUSINESS CONTINUITY NEWS AND FEATURES

Business continuity and disaster recovery lessons from the response to Hurricane Sandy
Source: NASA This article looks at how SunGard Availability Services managed 342 alerts and 117 disaster declarations related to Hurricane Sandy and what business continuity and disaster recovery lessons were learned as a result.

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Enhancing organizations’ adaptive capacity and resilience through effective decision-making in the recovery phase
A paper by Dr Dean Myburgh, Chris Webb and Dr Erica Seville.
Offshore risks survey: interim results
The interim results of Continuity Central's offshore risks survey have been published: and show some interesting trends.
European Union and United States convene CBRN Risk Mitigation Dialogue
Represents a renewed effort to coordinate EU and US CBRN assistance activities to mitigate CBRN risks of all kinds.
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•Date: 14th June 2013 • US/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism

Report on the terrorist threat to Canada published
On June 13, 2013, the Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, released the 2013 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada.
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•Date: 14th June 2013 • Canada •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism

Potential Continuity of Labour legislation causes a stir in New Zealand
Employment Relations (Continuity of Labour) Amendment Bill aims to allow employers to use volunteers, contractors and casual employees as contingency measures during strikes.
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•Date: 14th June 2013 • New Zealand •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Trimble releases new version of its incident and outage management solution for the water and wastewater industry
• ENISA and ISACA workshop addresses cybersecurity challenges for telecom operators and regulators
• DRP Consultores Mexico & ICOR form training partnership
• Disaster declared for Vermont
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Pandemic Influenza Risk Management: new guidance from WHO
The World Health Organization has published new interim guidance to replace the 2009 Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response advice; includes business continuity planning annex.
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•Date: 13th June 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

‘A Stronger, More Resilient New York’
On June 11, Mayor Michael Bloomberg publically launched a comprehensive plan to increase the resilience of New York’s critical infrastructure, buildings and communities.
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•Date: 13th June 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection

Companies ‘facing succession planning cliff’
Strong succession management programs help to ensure business continuity but many organizations are facing significant shortcomings in this area.
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•Date: 13th June 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

The BCI announces the winners of inaugural European business continuity awards
The inaugural BCI European Awards ceremony took place on the evening of 12th June 2013 at a dinner in Brussels.
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•Date: 13th June 2013 • Europe/UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

NIST publishes draft cloud computing security document for comment
Public comment period runs until July 12th, 2013.
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•Date: 13th June 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing

DRI Awards of Excellence winners
DRI has announced the winners of its 2013 International Awards of Excellence.
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•Date: 12th June 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

How prepared are UK businesses for terrorism?
Not very: according to an assessment of a recent YouGov counterterrorism preparedness survey.
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•Date: 12th June 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• SunGard Availability Services introduces Weather Alert System for US customers
• UK smaller businesses lead the way in secure flexible working
• BANG London June 2013
• 9th Middle East Energy Security (MEESEC) Forum 2013
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AT&T releases results from its 2013 Business Continuity Study
For 12 consecutive years AT&T has conducted an annual study into the state of business continuity in the United States. This year’s survey results have now been published.
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•Date: 11th June 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

The state of risk-based security management
The Ponemon Institute has published the first results from an extensive survey into the subject of risk-based security management.
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•Date: 11th June 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

Immature approach to cyber threats placing organizations at risk: Marsh
Many leading European organizations are still taking an immature approach to cyber risk and have yet to fully embed cyber threats into their risk management strategies as a result.
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•Date: 11th June 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Data protection and recovery software drives storage market growth
Storage software revenues increased 3.2 percent during the first quarter of 2013, according to IDC.
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•Date: 11th June 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC markets & companies

Shadow IT networks putting organizations at risk
IT managers believe that the fragmentation of corporate data across their IT infrastructure and an emerging ‘Shadow IT’ network of user devices or consumer cloud services outside their control, are putting their organizations at risk.
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•Date: 7th June 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

How to get your company board to consider cyber threats as part of corporate risk and business decisions
A new advice document had been published by the UK government’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.
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•Date: 7th June 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

FFIEC forms Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Working Group
Working group to “promote coordination across the federal and state banking regulatory agencies on critical infrastructure and cybersecurity issues.”
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•Date: 7th June 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection

New Executive Director for DRI International
DRI International has announced that it has appointed Brian Makowski as its new Executive Director.
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•Date: 7th June 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

UK government publishes ‘Recovery Handbook For Chemical Incidents’
New guidance document can be used as a planning tool or as part of the decision making process after an incident.
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•Date: 7th June 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning

Virtualization causing ‘major gaps in business continuity readiness’
According to an Osterman Research survey.
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•Date: 6th June 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

The Impact of Mobile Devices on Information Security: survey report
63 percent of businesses do not attempt to manage corporate information on employee-owned devices; 79 percent of businesses experienced a mobile security incident in the past year.
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•Date: 6th June 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

May major disasters roundup
Insurers face minimum $4bn payout from May US storm damage, according to Aon Benfield catastrophe report.
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•Date: 6th June 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: DR general

Phoenix IT Group results published
Phoenix IT Group releases Audited Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 March 2013.
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•Date: 6th June 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC markets & companies

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Vocal announces new business partnership to launch iModus crisis communication solution in Australia
• SunGard Availability Services enhances Managed Oracle Services
• Robert Hirth named new chairman of COSO
• Ovum warns BYOD is here to stay and urges CIOs to respond with a clear strategy
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Winners of the Business Continuity Institute’s Australasian Awards announced
The inaugural BCI Australasian business continuity Awards were presented at an event in Sydney on 4th June 2013.
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•Date: 5th June 2013 • Australasia •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

UK businesses given advice on handling property incursions during G8 Summit protests
A series of protests linked to the 17th-18th June G8 Summit have been planned; Metropolitan Police issues advice for businesses on how to deal with protestors who enter business premises.
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•Date: 5th June 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

SBA announces small business winner of 2013 Phoenix Award
The owners of Amplify Gymnastics, a Joplin-based small business, will receive the 2013 Phoenix Award for Outstanding Small Business Disaster Recovery.
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•Date: 5th June 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: DR general

Public Health England schedules MERS-CoV conference
9th July 2013 event will provide an update on the global and UK situation with regards to the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
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•Date: 5th June 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

Five common IT administrator mistakes that lead to data loss
Based on its day-to-day experiences, Kroll Ontrack has listed five of the most common mistakes made by IT administrators that can lead to data loss.
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•Date: 5th June 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies predicts above-average Atlantic hurricane season
70 percent probability of 12 to 17 named storms with five to 10 of the storms developing into hurricanes.
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•Date: 5th June 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Bridging the business continuity and IT disaster recovery gap
How to increase coordination between the business and IT in preparedness activities. by Jacque Rupert.
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•Date: 31st May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Protecting cloud storage and big data systems
A combination of replication and erasure coding is the future for data protection in cloud storage and big data systems says Paul Carpentier.
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•Date: 31st May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing

Business Continuity Awards 2013 winners announced
CIR Magazine’s annual Business Continuity Awards were presented on 30th May at a ceremony in London.
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•Date: 31st May 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

White paper: Severe weather preparedness and resiliency
Missionmode has published a new white paper to help businesses better prepare for severe weather events.
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•Date: 31st May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

IBHS launches business continuity planning tool to assist US small businesses
The US Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) has announced the release of OFB-EZ: a new, free, business continuity planning tool.
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•Date: 31st May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC plan development

Android antiviral products easily evaded: Northwestern University study
Sensitive data cannot be reliably protected on Android devices.
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•Date: 31st May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• ISACA issues COBIT 5 for Assurance
• Avalution Consulting achieves ISO 22301 organizational certification
• Vision Solutions introduces Double-Take version 7.0
• Crisis and Risk Communication 2013
• Business Continuity in a Box
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The winners of the BCI Middle East Awards 2013
The Business Continuity Institute presented its 2013 business continuity awards at an event in Dubai on 29th May.
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•Date: 30th May 2013 • Middle East •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Novel Coronavirus named as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
MERS-CoV currently displays a 50 percent mortality rate and “Is a threat to the entire world,” according to World Health Organization Director-General.
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•Date: 30th May 2013 • Middle East/World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

Culture more important than strategy when it comes to risk management
Culture is more important to your organizations' future success than your strategy, a keynote speaker said at the Institute of Risk Management’s recent Forum in Ashford, Kent, UK.
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•Date: 30th May 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

Crisis management lessons captured
Highlights from the recent ‘Crisis Management: Building a Strategic 21st Century Capability’ conference.
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•Date: 28th May 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis management

NOAA issues hurricane season forecasts
Active or extremely active Atlantic season predicted; below-normal in other areas.
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•Date: 28th May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Disaster funding fails to focus on prevention
For every US$100 spent on disasters, only US$12 is spent on preventing them in the first place.
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•Date: 28th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery

Quality control of business continuity plans and systems
The final results of Continuity Central’s recent survey into business continuity quality control throw an interesting spotlight on the varying practices across the profession.
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•Date: 22nd May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

Emulating the enemy
Threat emulation is a critical technique in achieving more effective network security. Terry Greer-King explains why.
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•Date: 22nd May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

DRI International recognized for excellence in education
DRI International has announced that it has been recognized for excellence in education by the Order of the Sword & Shield National Honor Society.
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•Date: 22nd May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

NIST publishes initial analysis of Cybersecurity Framework for Critical Infrastructure comments
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has posted an initial analysis of hundreds of comments submitted by industry and the public related to President Obama's ‘Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Executive Order.'
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•Date: 22nd May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• TwinStrata introduces on-demand Disaster Recovery as a Service for VMware users
• Continuity Software launches AvailabilityGuard product suite
• The Asigra 2013 Cloud Backup Summit
• Protect Your Business This Hurricane Season
• Shortlist for BCI Inaugural European Awards announced
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Council of the European Union issues tender for provision of software as a service for a business continuity management system
Contract will be for a framework agreement lasting up to four years.
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•Date: 21st May 2013 • Europe / UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC software

Aon launches guide to risk management information systems
Includes a calculator to demonstrate ROI.
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•Date: 21st May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

Major disaster declared for Oklahoma tornadoes
Disaster declaration makes federal funding available in the counties of Cleveland, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma, and Pottawatomie.
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•Date: 21st May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery

Private sector must engage more in disaster risk reduction: United Nations GAR13 report
The United Nations warns that economic losses from disasters have spun out of control and is calling on the world’s business community to incorporate disaster risk management into their investment strategies to avoid further losses.
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•Date: 17th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery general

KPMG survey looks at c-suite views on top risks
70 percent of c-suite executives say that regulatory changes have caused either substantial or moderate changes in their risk management and reporting processes in the past two years.
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•Date: 17th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

RIMS welcomes the introduction of US Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013
RIMS, the risk management society, has issued a statement commending US Congressman Bennie G. Thompson, the Ranking Member of the Committee of Homeland Security, for introducing the Fostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 2013 that would extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) for 10 years.
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•Date: 17th May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism

New Zealand government Budget provides additional funds for Christchurch disaster recovery
Extra $NZ 2.1 billion brings government’s total spend to $NZ 15.2 billion.
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•Date: 17th May 2013 • New Zealand •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery general

Many manufacturers are blind to potential supply chain business continuity risks
Half of manufacturers lack supply chain visibility beyond tier 1 suppliers: KPMG study.
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•Date: 15th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

The 10th annual Terrorism and Political Violence Map
Forty-four percent of countries measured have identifiable terrorism risk in 2013: Aon.
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•Date: 15th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

Protecting networked control systems from cyber-attack
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a software algorithm that detects and isolates cyber-attacks on networked control systems.
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•Date: 15th May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• WHO update on novel coronavirus infections
• Republic of Korea provides Nepal government with a grant for disaster recovery centre construction
• eBRP 10th annual eBRP User Group Conference 2013
• CSARN Business Continuity Briefing
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Create resilience with automated disaster recovery
Among the hard facts IT leaders don’t want to hear is this one: traditional data protection and backup tools can’t ensure business continuity....
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•Date: 14th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

The advantages of deduplication in virtual environments
Wayne Salpietro and George Crump explain how deduplication reduces backup times and improves recovery efficiency.
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•Date: 14th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

MIT study looks at where the next flu pandemic may come from
Study identifies H3N2 viruses circulating in pigs and birds that could pose a risk to humans.
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•Date: 14th May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

How organizations are improving business resiliency with continuous IT availability
This Forrester technology white paper, which was commissioned by EMC Corporation, has been made available to Continuity Central readers.
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•Date: 13th May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

From chaos to compliance: adapting records retention to the digital age
Document retention should be a straightforward part of a responsible information management plan. The reality couldn’t be further from the truth.
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•Date: 10th May 2013 • UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

APEC officials discuss regional promotion of business continuity
Ways of sharing business continuity expertise and information between APEC countries was also on the agenda.
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•Date: 10th May 2013 • Asia Pacific •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Majority of organizations underestimate scope of privileged account security risk: survey
Despite the repeated abuse of privileged accounts in cyber-attacks, organizations continue to have a difficult time identifying and managing these critical vulnerabilities.
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•Date: 10th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

BCI Asia Business Continuity Awards 2013
Entries are now being accepted for this year’s BCI Asia Business Continuity Awards 2013, with the closing date being 30th June.
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•Date: 10th May 2013 • Asia Pacific •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Canadian government announces third round of Kanishka Project anti-terrorism research
On May 9, the Honourable Vic Toews, Canadian government Minister of Public Safety announced the successful recipients of the third round of funding from the Kanishka Project, worth over $1.7 million. The Kanishka Project is a multi-year investment from the Government of Canada in terrorism-focused research.
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•Date: 10th May 2013 • Canada •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism

SunGard Availability Services recognized for creative marketing campaigns
SunGard Availability Services has been recognized by Content2Converation and Marketo for its creative marketing campaign and innovative campaign distribution execution.
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•Date: 10th May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC companies

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• India stock exchanges run a special trading session to test business continuity strategies
• 2nd International conference on the ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard
• BRiSC 2013
• UK government to review the Riot Act
• Novel coronavirus infection reported in France
• EMC launches its ‘Data Protection Suite’
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High storage costs and performance remain key obstacles to virtualization of critical business apps
DataCore Software’s annual ‘State of Virtualisation Survey’ reveals a widespread desire to virtualize mission critical applications, tempered by cost concerns.
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•Date: 9th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

Cloud governance: five questions boards need to ask
ISACA has issued new guidance outlining key questions for boards of directors to ask to ensure their enterprise’s cloud initiative is in line with business objectives and the organization’s risk tolerance.
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•Date: 9th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing

Association of Contingency Planners webinar on NFPA 1600 Revisions
The Association of Contingency Planners (ACP) will host a webinar on ‘NFPA 1600 - Report on Revisions’ on May 15, 2013.
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•Date: 9th May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Events

Earthquake and flooding events dominate April natural disasters
Impact Forecasting has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disasters that occurred worldwide during April 2013.
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•Date: 9th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery

Natural catastrophes: business risks and preparedness
A new study by Zurich study has looked into how well companies are prepared to cope with natural catastrophes.
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•Date: 8th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

Southern California businesses warned to prepare for potential power outages this summer
A Summer grid outlook identifies local reliability concerns for Southern CA during heat waves.
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•Date: 8th May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

2013 Financial Services Availability Benchmark Study results
Continuity Software has released finance-sector specific results from its recent business continuity benchmarking study.
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•Date: 8th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Financial sector BC

World Risk Day announces additional speakers
US Department of Homeland Security, Bechtel and The New York State Department of Transportation added to the roster of World Risk Day speakers: May 14, 2013.
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•Date: 8th May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Events

Cultural implications of multi-stakeholder resilience building initiatives
Culture impacts on resilience initiatives in both negative and positive ways. In this article Mark Clegg explains what these impacts can be and how culture can be used as a key enabler in devising and implementing robust resilience initiatives.
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•Date: 3rd May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Globally networked risks and how to respond
A paper in the journal Nature by Dirk Helbing, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, has looked at the various global networks that exist and illustrated how cascade effects and complex dynamics amplify the vulnerability of these systems.
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•Date: 3rd May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Business continuity in US real estate companies
Survey reveals that more than half of real estate companies lack business continuity plans.
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•Date: 3rd May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

CPNI publishes research into insider threats
UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure recently conducted a study into insider threats and has now released a summary report.
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•Date: 3rd May 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

WHO issues A(H7N9) update
The World Health Organization has published a sitrep on human infections with the avian influenza A(H7N9) virus.
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•Date: 3rd May 2013 • China/World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Maplecroft’s new range of subnational hazard reports identify business continuity risks
• Iron Mountain reports first quarter 2013 financial results
• Second NIST Cybersecurity Infrastructure Framework Workshop
• 2013 New York City Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Symposium
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IDC survey explores operational resilience
Study finds that enterprise reliance on 'always on' systems is necessary to ensure continual business operations.
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•Date: 2nd May 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

NIST issues major revision of core computer security guide
SP 800-53 update takes a more holistic approach to information security and risk management and calls for maintaining ‘cybersecurity hygiene’.
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•Date: 2nd May 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

‘Self-healing’ cloud technology receives $1 million investment
Breakthrough technology helps cloud and hosting service providers automatically cope with failures and spikes in traffic.
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•Date: 2nd May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC companies & markets

Communications lessons from the Boston Marathon bombing
One clear lesson from Boston is that once again the cellular network proved to be vulnerable during a major incident. Steve Dance highlights lessons that business continuity managers should take on board.
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•Date: 1st May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications

Business Continuity Institute enhances training portfolio
New Good Practice Guidelines Training Course released by the Business Continuity Institute.
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•Date: 1st May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Printers, routers and other Internet-enabled devices being hijacked to participate in cyber attacks
New Prolexic white paper explains how to secure your devices and infrastructure from SNMP, NTP and CHARGEN attacks.
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•Date: 1st May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Resilinc and ICOR partnership to deliver new supply chain resiliency course
Resilinc Corp. and the International Consortium for Organizational Resilience (ICOR) have announced that they have formed a new education partnership to design and deliver a ‘next-generation supply chain resiliency course’.
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•Date: 1st May 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• SBA opens business recovery center in Boston
• EarthLink launches Cloud Disaster Recovery service
• World Risk Day Virtual Summit
• Cintas Document Management UK Ltd. achieves ISO 22301 accreditation
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The tragedy of business continuity
This article looks at five ‘tragedies of business continuity’: ways that organizations fail to get the most from business continuity programmes; and suggests changes that could be made which would allow the full benefits of business continuity to be unlocked. By Alan Walker, MBCI.
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•Date: 26th April 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

How virtual desktops help put employees at the heart of business continuity plans
With advances in technology, businesses now have alternative ways to keep day-to-day activity running when employees can’t make it into their offices.
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•Date: 26th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing

Work starts on 2016 edition of NFPA 1600
NFPA is now accepting electronic submission of public input via its online reviewing process.
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•Date: 26th April 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards

Nominet schedules business continuity test
Nominet, the UK-based domain name registry, has announced that it will be carrying out a business continuity test on Sunday 19th May 2013.
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•Date: 26th April 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC testing & exercising

Winners of the 5th Annual BANG Alternative Awards in Business Continuity Management
The annual BANG awards were presented on 24th April at the Old Doctor Butler's Head in Moorgate, London.
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•Date: 25th April 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Risk leaders struggling to identify and manage major risks: 2013 Aon Global Risk Management Survey
Survey points to a significant decline in risk readiness among many of the survey respondents.
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•Date: 25th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

The 10th annual Excellence in Risk Management survey
Marsh-RIMS survey finds that building organizational risk capabilities through education, providing greater risk input into strategic planning / execution, and establishing key risk indicators (KRIs) to guide the overall risk framework within their organizations are desired by the C-suite.
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•Date: 25th April 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk management

Business Continuity Institute invites votes for industry personality of the year awards
The Business Continuity Institute is organizing a number of regional business continuity awards programmes and is currently inviting public participation in the determination of the Industry Personality of the Year Award for two of these.
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•Date: 25th April 2013 • Various •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Business continuity management: Is your business resilient enough?
• NIST consults on Guide to Attribute Based Access Control
• RIMS announces Australasia and Peru chapters
• Fall World 2013
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RAID-5 reduces long-term reliability of SSD Arrays, warns Skyera
RAID-5 is a well-proven technique for creating hard disk arrays that can withstand the failure of a single disk drive with no data loss. But applying the same RAID-5 concepts to SSD arrays can have the opposite effect and contribute to decreased data reliability, according to Skyera Inc.
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•Date: 24th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

Continuity Software publishes Enterprise Service Availability and Business Continuity Benchmark Survey report
32 percent of the organizations surveyed did not meet their service availability goals for mission critical systems in 2012.
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•Date: 24th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

Results of the 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey published
81 percent of respondents reported that senior management had not been able to put in place effective security, even though it was classed a high priority.
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•Date: 23rd April 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Critical infrastructure providers need to consider smart meters attack risks
Smart meters set to increase the risk of wireless attacks aimed at SCADA, BMS and PLC systems using SDR equipment.
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•Date: 23rd April 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection

Warning issued over flu pan(ic)demics
The hyping-up of early proto-pandemics that may not develop can distract from the real threats.
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•Date: 23rd April 2013 • China/World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

Post-2015 Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction consultation summary document published
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has released its ‘Synthesis Report on Consultations on the Post-2015 Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction (HFA2)’.
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•Date: 23rd April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning

Quality control of business continuity plans and systems
Continuity Central is conducting a survey into the above subject. The results will be freely published for the benefit of the profession: please take part.
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•Date: 19th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

Business continuity updates following the Boston bombs
This page will be updated with business continuity information in relation to the April 15 bombing incident in Boston.
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•Date: 15th - 19th April 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery

A guide to incident planning and leadership
What does effective crisis management look like? Tony Schmitz uses a case study of a fire in a Taiwanese data center to explore this question.
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•Date: 19th April 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis management

Cloud disaster recovery guidance available
Databarracks and NCC have published ‘Guidelines for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud.’
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•Date: 19th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing

New business continuity training course launched: Defensible Decision Making
New PlanB Consulting course is aimed at those who have to take decisions during incidents.
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•Date: 19th April 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Oracle has released multiple updates for Java SE
• Industry partners join the US National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
• Swedish views of the threat landscape
• Microsoft launches Windows Azure Infrastructure Services
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Gartner issues Windows XP and Office 2003 end of life advice
Gartner has provided advice for organizations needing to migrate from Windows XP and Office 2003 due to the related business continuity and security issues.
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•Date: 18th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

European Commission presents two part package to strengthen Europe's preparedness against natural and man-made disasters
The EU strategy on adaptation to climate change; and Green Paper on insurance in the context of natural and man-made disasters.
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•Date: 18th April 2013 • Europe / UK •Type: Article • Topic: DR general

ISO publishes product recall standard
‘ISO 10393:2013, Consumer product recall – Guidelines for suppliers’.
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•Date: 17th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards

The State of Network Security 2013
Poor change management processes lead to network and application outages.
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•Date: 17th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Organizations need to prepare for Windows XP end-of-life
On April 8th 2014 Microsoft will stop supporting XP, giving organizations a firm migration deadline.
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•Date: 17th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

Security, disaster recovery and power issues driving European data centre growth
Digital Realty announces results of annual European data centre demand survey.
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•Date: 16th April 2013 • UK / Europe •Type: Article • Topic: Data centre / centers

Influenza A(H7N9) risk assessment
The World Health Organization has published a risk assessment of the Influenza A(H7N9) virus which has killed a number of people in China.
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•Date: 16th April 2013 • China/World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

ENISA analyses the Spamhaus attack
Main conclusion is that Internet service providers are failing to apply BCP38 and BCP140 best practice recommendations.
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•Date: 12th April 2013 • Europe/UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

An increase in mobile targeted threats is putting organizations at risk of cyber-espionage
Mobile enterprise management tools are failing to prevent spyware infecting smartphones.
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•Date: 12th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

New ‘Scenario Manager’ simplifies crisis response
Omnilert has announced the release of Scenario Manager, a new tool that allows multiple emergency communication actions to sequentially deploy with predefined scenarios.
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•Date: 12th April 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis management

The Australasian Business Continuity Summit
Conference and workshops will be held at Luna Park Sydney on 4th - 6th June 2013.
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•Date: 12th April 2013 • Australasia •Type: Article • Topic: Events

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Central London businesses warned over disruption associated with Baroness Thatcher’s funeral
• UMC becomes the first semiconductor foundry to receive ISO 22301 certification
• SunGard Availability Services announces new agreement with Amerinet, Inc.
• The Emergency Services Show 2013
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New edition of the Business Continuity and Resiliency Journal available
This issue contains five papers, all of which were short-listed for our recent Business Continuity Paper of the Year 2013 competition. The winning entry appears as the first paper.
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•Date: 11th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Advanced BC

Incident response: digital fire drills are the road to faster recovery
Although many organizations may think that they have robust security policies in place, how well drilled are they at responding to security incidents when these occur?
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•Date: 11th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC testing & exercising

Risk in Review
A new PwC survey report outlines the imperative to strengthen risk management techniques around resilience, people, technology, and next-generation risk analytics.
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•Date: 11th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

Department of Homeland Security outlines Fiscal Year 2014 budget request
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has unveiled the Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal year 2014 budget request of $39.0 billion in net discretionary funding.
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•Date: 11th April 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection

IAEM Awards Competition open for entries
The International Association of Emergency Managers has announced that entries are now being accepted for its annual awards.
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•Date: 11th April 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• SunGard Availability Services introduces Recover2Cloud for vCenter SRM
• WHO information on human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus, China
• The ISO 22301 certification process
• 2nd Middle East BCM Summit
• FERMA Risk Management Forum
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A guide to negotiating and assuring cloud services
There is a confusing jungle of advice on the risks of cloud computing and how to manage these risks. This guide provides the top tips to negotiating and assuring cloud services. By Mike Small.
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•Date: 9th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing

ICANN outlines business continuity strategy for new gTLDs
ICANN has announced the selection of three geographically diverse emergency back-end registry operators.
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•Date: 9th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Researchers look into the use of social networks in emergency communications
Disaster communications through social networks is fast but it does have certain limits.
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•Date: 9th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications

New NFPA Authenticity Program protects standards users
Business continuity managers can now be assured that their NFPA 1600 copy is the real thing.
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•Date: 5th April 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards

RAID reaches 25
25th anniversary of RAID commemorated.
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•Date: 5th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

March disasters summary
Severe winter weather brings $1.8bn economic loss to Europe, according to Impact Forecasting’s global catastrophe report.
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•Date: 5th April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: DR general

How the biggest DDOS attack in history highlights interdependencies
Spamhaus attack shows how interdependent our networks have become.
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•Date: 3rd April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Hong Kong government conducts novel coronavirus exercise
Desktop exercise explored how agencies would handle an outbreak.
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•Date: 3rd April 2013 • Hong Kong •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• SIOS launches solution to enable native SQL server failover clustering in the Amazon Cloud
• ‘IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy’
• Crisis Management 2013 - Building a Strategic 21st Century Capability
• DRI2013
• Datacastle introduces groundbreaking RoamSmart technology for protecting mobile workforce data worldwide
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Nominations invited for the 2013 Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has announced the start of the nomination period for the 2013 Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience.
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•Date: 2nd April 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Shortlist for the Business Continuity Awards 2013 published
The winners will be announced and awarded at the Business Continuity Awards Gala Dinner and Ceremony on Thursday 30th May 2013, in London.
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•Date: 2nd April 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

How many organizations really have business continuity management?
Patrick Roberts looks beneath the headline figures published in the recent 2013 Chartered Management Institute business continuity survey.
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•Date: 27th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

Free webinar on ISO 22301
Taking place on Thursday, May 23, 2013 this free webinar features ISO 22301 expert John McGill who will help you understand the ISO standard, why it’s important, how to plan for certification, and what building a business continuity management system entails.
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•Date: 2nd April 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Events

Changing approach to business continuity paying dividends
Business disruptions hit lowest levels in over eighteen years as UK organizations evolve business practices to deliver the available enterprise, says SunGard Availability Services.
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•Date: 27th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

Location risk report published by Aon Hewitt
New York, Singapore, Toronto, London and Montreal ranked as the top five lowest-risk cities in the world.
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•Date: 27th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

The EU and Japan agree to cooperate on disaster management
The overall objective is to focus on learning from preparedness and response experiences.
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•Date: 27th March 2013 • Europe/Japan •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning

Bad backups widespread: Kroll survey
According to a recent survey of its Ontrack Data Recovery customers, Kroll Ontrack found that while 60 percent of respondents had a backup solution in place at the time of data loss, the backup was not current or operating properly.
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•Date: 27th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

UK government launches public-private sector information sharing partnership on cyber security
The Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership.
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•Date: 27th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• American Business Continuity Domes expands to Canada
• National Bank of Abu Dhabi opens upgraded business continuity facility
• xMatters enhances smartphone access to its leading business continuity and IT notification technologies
• Reputational risk and IT in 2013
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Phoenix expands Hamilton Business Continuity Centre
The Centre will hold a formal launch event with guest speakers on Tuesday 30th April.
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•Date: 26th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Recovery facilities

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction requests disaster risk reduction input
Consultation runs until 5th April 2013.
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•Date: 26th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning

APT attacks clarified
Confusion exists as to what exactly an advanced persistent threat is and, even more importantly, how to manage the risks associated with APTs. Christos K. Dimitriadis provides some help.
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•Date: 22nd March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

World Risk Day 2013
May 14, 2013: will focus on ‘Shattering the Project Myth.’
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•Date: 22nd March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Events

World Backup Day: 31st March
The second annual World Backup Day will take place on 31st March and may be a useful vehicle to remind employees and suppliers about the importance of data protection.
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•Date: 22nd March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Events

BATS disconnects headquarters in large-scale business continuity test
BATS Global Markets has published details of a successful business continuity test which took place on March 14th.
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•Date: 21st March 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC testing

Use of cloud for business continuity and disaster recovery on the increase
According to a TechTarget - Computer Weekly survey.
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•Date: 21st March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

Australian Securities and Investments Commission consults on risk management for responsible entities
ASIC has released a consultation paper and proposed regulatory guidance on risk management practices for responsible entities in the managed funds sector.
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•Date: 21st March 2013 • Australia •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management

Number of companies buying cyber insurance up by one-third
More companies are turning to cyber insurance to protect their organizations from the financial consequences of a data breach or cyber-attack, according to a report issued by Marsh.
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•Date: 21st March 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk

Caribbean nations participate in tsunami preparedness test
On 20th March 2013 Caribbean nations participated in a full-scale tsunami alert exercise to test their reaction capacity.
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•Date: 21st March 2013 •Caribbean •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Nexor and Glasswall collaborate to deliver a solution to mitigate the Beebus style of threat
• COSO to issue updated ‘Internal Control-Integrated Framework: 2013’ and related illustrative documents in May
• Avalution Consulting announces Free and Pro versions of Catalyst business continuity software
• ‘ISO 22301 & 22313: Business Continuity Management System Standards and Application for Incident Communication Plans’
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Tips for hospitals adapting to shifting business continuity paradigms
Emerson Network Power shares six tips to help technology-dependent hospitals provide uninterrupted service during extended outages.
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•Date: 20th March 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC in the health sector

Weekly testing critical to recovery of data, applications and systems
Quorum has published a new report that focuses on disaster recovery testing as a critical piece of overall business continuity.
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•Date: 20th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

Winners of the BCI North America Awards 2013 announced
The Business Continuity Institute’s North America Awards 2013 were presented on March 19th at an event at DRJ Spring World, Florida.
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•Date: 20th March 2013 • North America •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

New business continuity software offering launched by SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services has announced the launch of SunGard Assurance, a business continuity management Software-as-a-Service solution.
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•Date: 20th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC software

Be braver with business continuity…
BSI is urging organizations to take the BCM methodology further than many do today.
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•Date: 19th March 2013 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual business continuity research report
Provides a snapshot of business continuity in the UK.
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•Date: 19th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics

The Business Continuity Institute launches 2013 Good Practice Guidelines
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has published the latest edition of the Good Practice Guidelines (GPG). The Good Practice Guidelines are developed by industry experts and provide a 'body of knowledge for good business continuity practice worldwide.
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•Date: 18th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

Bank of Japan publishes business continuity research paper
New paper summarises the findings from the Bank of Japan’s ‘Questionnaire Survey on Business Continuity Management’ which was issued last September.
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•Date: 15th March 2013 • Japan •Type: Article • Topic: Financial sector BC

The backup and disaster recovery challenges facing small and mid-sized businesses
Data protection and disaster recovery planning is a priority but remains a challenge for small and mid-sized businesses, according to the results of ‘Backing up SMBs,’ a recent survey by Spiceworks.
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•Date: 15th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

Data centre downtime incidents examined
Human error poses the biggest internal threat to business continuity as the data centre industry refuses to wake up to change, according to intelligent PDU provider Enlogic.
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•Date: 15th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Data centres

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Creating indestructible self-healing circuits
• The 11th Asia Business Continuity Conference
• Crisis Management and Civil Protection: Shaping the European Standardization Roadmap
• Keynote speakers confirmed for the 23rd World Conference on Disaster Management
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How the cloud facilitates crisis management
Business continuity information in the cloud holds the key to faster recovery says Matt Gordon-Smith.
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•Date: 14th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis management

New distance record for 400 Gb/s data transmission
A team from AT&T has devised a new patent pending technique enabling 400 Gb/s signals to be sent over 100 gigahertz-grid optical networks over ultra-long distances.
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•Date: 14th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity

Cyber attacks – a new edge for old weapons
EU cyber agency warns that urgent action is required to combat emerging cyber-attack trends.
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•Date: 14th March 2013 • Europe/UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Free UK workshops look at the topic of Climate Adaptation, Business Continuity & Risk
March 20th, 22nd & 26th - London, Bristol & Birmingham.
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•Date: 14th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Events

Antibiotic resistance should be added to the UK national risk register: Chief Medical Officer
Issue poses a ‘catastrophic threat.’
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•Date: 13th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning

Report claims that the recovery-as-a-service market will be worth $5.7 billion by 2018
Growth from $640.8 million in 2013.
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•Date: 13th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC markets

US GAO reports on cybersecurity
‘A better defined and implemented national strategy is needed to address persistent challenges.’
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•Date: 13th March 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Research shows how earthquake damage can impact building fire safety performance
Study of the earthquake and fire performance of a full-scale building identifies several areas of concern.
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•Date: 13th March 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC: facilities & buildings

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• BCM Legislations, Regulations & Standards
• Only half of British businesses vet their suppliers for UK Bribery Act compliance
• Maplecroft publishes Natural Hazards Risk Atlas 2013
• Counter Terror Expo
• BCI Annual Lecture 2013
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Choosing a cloud backup service
The top five things to consider. By Greg Onoprijenko.
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•Date: 12th March 2013 • Canada/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing

The BANG Awards 2013
This year’s Alternative Business Continuity Awards will be presented on 24th April in London: entries now being accepted.
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•Date: 8th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Events

Horizon scanning: carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae
The US CDC has issued a warning about the emerging risks posed by bacteria which are becoming more resistant to ‘last-resort antibiotics’.
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•Date: 8th March 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning

Telefónica gains ISO 22301 certification for all UK operations
BSI has awarded Telefónica UK certification to ISO 22301.
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•Date: 8th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards

Flying blind at 100G
Organizations deploying 100G uplinks inside data centers/centres face availability management challenges, says Tim Nichols.
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•Date: 7th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Data centers

UK Parliamentary Group to discuss business continuity
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Management will consider the topic ‘Weathering all storms: is a lack of business continuity holding back the UK economy?’ on March 19th.
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•Date: 7th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Events

Consensus at RSA Conference 2013: PKI is under attack
At the recent RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, a clear consensus emerged: attacks on the trust established by cryptographic keys and certificates are on the rise and important element in today’s threat landscape.
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•Date: 7th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Beyond BCP: Shape of Things to Come
• Firewalls, IDS, IPS and antivirus not effective protection from State-sponsored cyber attack
• Capital Continuity selected as partner by Jersey Telecom Group Ltd
• Canada Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security discusses resilience
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Cloud Security Alliance warns of ‘the notorious nine’ cloud computing top threats
Organizations must make educated risk management decisions regarding cloud adoption strategies.
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•Date: 6th March 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing

FTA and FEMA agree roles for addressing public transit needs in future major disasters
Partnership aims to ensure that the US transit system is more resilient.
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•Date: 6th March 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery

Update published on the US National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security
Highlights progress to date and sets out activities that are expected through 2013.
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•Date: 6th March 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism

Business continuity: certification and experience in the field
Organizations should seek to expose business continuity planners to real disasters says Scott Sanderson.
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•Date: 5th March 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general

UK Cabinet Office requests feedback on cyber security organizational standards
Consultation runs until 14th October 2013 and at the end of the process the government intends to select and endorse an organizational standard that best meets the requirements for effective cyber risk management.
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•Date: 5th March 2013 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM

Implementing ISO 22301
Avalution Consulting has released a new white paper, ‘Implementing ISO 22301: The Business Continuity Management System Standard.’
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•Date: 5th March 2013 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards

NIST seeks input for Cybersecurity Framework for Critical Infrastructure
US National Institute of Standards and Technology seeks cybersecurity views and ideas.
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•Date: 5th March 2013 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection

Business Continuity Briefs
This issue includes:
• Global Disruptors Summit
• Business Continuity Management Playbook on Evaluating BCM Standards
• The Institute of Risk Management announces Global Risk Awards winners
• BCM Video Shorts
• Iron Mountain reports fourth quarter and full-year 2012 financial results
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