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Business continuity news and information: UK

Near misses and direct hits
	Don't ignore the small day-to-day incidents which take place in your organization: they may be the early warning signs of something much bigger. By Jim Preen. >> Read more

Social media and business continuity
The one thing you can’t do about social media is ignore it. By Mike Jacobs.

Supply chain resilience
Supply chain continuity management has been much discussed over the past year but many organizations struggle to get beyond the basics. In this article John Robinson provides advice on how to take control of this area.

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Business continuity and risk – what is in scope?
Are we right in our approach to risk assessments to be only looking at the physical / IT related / reputational risks and ignoring the much larger questions out there such as the financial instability in the markets?

Playing Jenga in the data centre
Power issues are a growing cause of data centre-related disaster recovery invocations. Andrew Des’Ascoyne explains why this is the case.

Business continuity management lessons from English public disorder incidents
BCM professionals must begin to look at what happened and assess how well plans and processes stood up to the events, says Gary Hibberd.

Reports

Final version of UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011 published

UK Cabinet Office publishes new guidance on critical infrastructure resiliency

Future energy risks are ‘top threat’ to UK organizations

‘IT - the hidden risk in your business’: a new report by the Business Continuity Institute

New report looks at Internet resilience

Summary of UK financial sector cyber exercise published