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Defining crisis management team competence
Much has already been written on crisis management team leadership but little on what makes an effective CMT member. Lorna Anderson, Group Business Continuity Manager, AEGON UK , is seeking to address the issue, and asks for your help…
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•Date: 28th April 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Data centre development: what makes a perfect raised floor?
Barry Elliott , C.Eng., provides a technical overview of this important aspect of data centre design.
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•Date: 26th April 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Why reputation is a major factor in business continuity and crisis management
Reputation risk is a core aspect of business continuity and crisis management, says Chris Woodcock.
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•Date: 26th April 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Take the ‘compliance self-diagnosis test’…
AXS-One offers ten challenging questions to help assess your organisation’s compliance readiness.
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•Date: 26th April 2006 • Region: UK/W.Europe • Type: Article •Topic: Op. risk
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Security investments starting to show return on investment for UK companies
The financial impact of security incidents affecting large businesses has fallen by 50 percent over the last two years: survey.
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•Date: 26th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Telstra Europe successfully completes ‘black building’ power failure simulation test
Telstra Europe switches off London Docklands hosting centre and resilient business continuity provisions ensure that customers experience no service downtime.
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•Date: 26th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: Testing & exercising
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IXEurope receives the Queens Award for Enterprise
IXEurope plc has been honoured with the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise , the highest accolade in the United Kingdom that can be made to an organisation. The Queen’s Award to IXEurope is being made in recognition of its achievements in developing International Trade. www.ixeurope.com
•Date: 26th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Shortlist for UK Business Continuity Awards
CIR Magazine has published a list of the people and organisations that have been shortlisted for this year’s Business Continuity Awards, to be presented at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on May 11th 2006.
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•Date: 25th April 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Identity management practices now mission critical for businesses
Identity management is now a mission critical process, according to a recent study conducted by Forrester.
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•Date: 25th April 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Buncefield Investigation Board publishes second report
The report focuses mainly on the environmental impact of the incident and emphasises the continuing impact of the incident on the local community and businesses.
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•Date: 25th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Emerging threats: climate change
A year ago, Continuity Central published an article which asked 'Is climate change a business continuity issue?' 12 months on, we revisit the issue and explore how our knowledge of climate change as a business continuity threat has moved on.
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•Date: 13th April 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Pulling the plug on telecoms business continuity
Feeling confident that your business continuity plan covers everything? Then pull the plug on your telephone system and see what happens, says Graham Chick, chief executive, GemaTech.
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•Date: 13th April 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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ICM sets date for opening of new London Business Continuity Centre
On Tuesday 16th May 2006 ICM is officially opening its latest Business Continuity Centre in Romford, a new site designed for the specific demands of the London and Essex markets. This £30m investment allows ICM to provide a large scale outer London business continuity solution to London companies. Only 20 minutes by train from Liverpool Street station, the London Essex centre spans 73,000 sq ft with 1,700 workplace and dealing positions. For more details or to register to attend the launch event, telephone 08701 22 22 00 or visit www.icmore.co.uk/londonessex
•Date: 13th April 2006• Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Lessons from UK Financial Sector Market-wide Exercise published
Lessons include: more work is needed to identify supply chain interdependencies; and greater focus required on people aspects of business continuity planning.
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•Date: 11th April 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Avis Europe developing new Frankfurt facility to provide disaster recovery for UK data centre
Affiniti has announced that it is to provide the infrastructure and support.
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•Date: 11th April 2006• Region: UK/W.Europe • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The do’s and don’ts of dealing with privileged user accounts
One of the biggest issues facing organisations is the elimination of bad practices related to the use of privileged accounts, says Calum Macleod.
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•Date: 7th April 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Overview of UK financial markets contingency plans published
The Tripartite Authorities have published the ‘Money Markets Liaison Group Contingency Matrix’. This provides, in tabular form, a clear and concise overview of contingency planning for all aspects of the UK ’s financial markets.
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•Date: 7th April 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Avian Influenza updates
UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes Avian Influenza resources; Several preventive and control measures agreed by EU Standing Committee; New Zealand pandemic preparedness legislation introduced.
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•Date: 7th April 2006• Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Research reveals UK's senior management has low expectations of network security
38 percent of companies’ security defences were breached in 2005.
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•Date: 7th April 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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New enterprise security appliance protects against unauthorised distribution of confidential company information
Content ‘fingerprinting’ technology detects sensitive information in unstructured documents; language no barrier.
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•Date: 6th April 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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IX Europe plc to trade on AIM
IX Europe has published an AIM Admission Document for its flotation on the London Stock Exchange.  The Company is raising £10 million through an institutional placing at 22p which values IXEurope at a market capitalisation of approximately £38 million.  The Placing has been underwritten by Investec and trading in IXEurope shares is expected to begin on Friday 7 April.
•Date: 6th April 2006• Region: W.Europe/UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Activists create business continuity problem for BAA
A blockade of the Heathrow Headquarters of BAA prevented employees from entering the building.
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•Date: 4th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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FSA establishes financial sector pandemic planning discussion group
The group’s first action has been to help design a questionnaire that has recently been dispatched to key organisations to assess their preparedness for a pandemic.
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•Date: 4th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Power4 launches emergency power service for UK market
Within four hours of an organisation experiencing a power outage, Power4 will have a back-up power solution up and running to ensure business continuity.
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•Date: 4th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Shadow-Planner 3.5 released
Office-Shadow has announced the release of version 3.5 of its business continuity software tool, Shadow-Planner. "We have never had an upgrade as fundamental as this", says Simon Maddox, Office-Shadow CTO. "The most radical improvement is what we call ‘Perspectives’ technology. Quite simply it allows users to 'slice and dice' their plans and procedures to exactly suit their organisation - no matter how large or complex." The release - which took 21 hours of server time just for the data structure conversion - includes 800 improvements to the software. http://www.office-shadow.com/
•Date: 4th April 2006• Region: UK/World • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC software
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