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Survey looks at EMEA data-related business continuity and disaster recovery practices
UK at the bottom of the league when it comes to testing.
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•Date: 27th April 2007 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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‘Rapid Call Out’ system launched by GemaTech
Can send up to one million messages per minute to employees, customers or suppliers to notify them of disruptive events.
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•Date: 27th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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Six month countdown to data protection crisis begins…
KPMG warns that UK-based public and private sector organisations are facing a data protection crisis that will affect the way they store paper based files.
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•Date: 26th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Phoenix increases its offer for ICM
Phoenix IT Group plc has issued a stock exchange statement saying that it is to increase its cash and share offer for ICM.
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•Date: 26th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Europe plans for increasing risk of flooding
European Parliament and Council reach agreement on the new Floods Directive.
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•Date: 26th April 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business Continuity Night School
Needhams 1834 has announced the launch of its new “Introduction to Business Continuity” course in a convenient evening-class format. The course is aimed at people who are relatively new to business continuity management, or are seeking to move into the profession, and runs over 9 Wednesday evenings from 6pm – 8pm, starting on 16th May. For further details or to make a booking please email enquiry@needhams1834.com or telephone 020 7353 9498.
•Date: 26th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Events
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Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes CCA business continuity update
Bulletin gives an update on business continuity management activities related to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector BC
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UK businesses warned to act as product recalls soar
Record number of product recalls in 2006; 2007 expected to see even more.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Retail BC
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Teneros partners with 24/7 Mail to deliver e-mail continuity to UK SMEs
Teneros and system integrator 24/7 Mail Ltd have announced that 24/7 Mail will be offering the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance for Microsoft Exchange to its customers. Recently formed, 24/7 Mail's primary focus is providing e-mail continuity solutions to small and mid-size enterprises across the United Kingdom. http://www.24-7mail.co.uk
•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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The application of statistical tools to business continuity management
Patrick Roberts looks at two powerful statistical techniques that have gained widespread acceptance in other areas of risk management and examines whether they can usefully be applied to BCM.
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•Date: 20th April 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Survive closes its doors?
It appears that Survive, the UK-based business continuity membership organisation, has ceased trading.
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•Date: 19th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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MBO team increases its offer for ICM
Now offering 490 pence per share.
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•Date: 19th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Cisco survey finds that information security focus moves from viruses to information theft
Threat profile seems to be changing.
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•Date: 19th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Assessing global outsourcing risks
Companies underestimate the challenges of managing security and privacy in global outsourcing: Gartner.
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•Date: 17th April 2007 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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ICM tug of war continues
Fawkes Limited, the company set up to facilitate a management buy out of ICM, the UK-based business continuity supplier, and Phoenix, an ICM competitor, have both issued statements relating to the acquisition of ICM.
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•Date: 17th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Virtual recovery…
Ian Masters overviews the use of server virtualization technologies for business continuity purposes.
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•Date: 12th April 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Shortlist published for Business Continuity Awards 2007
CIR Magazine has released the list of those companies and individuals who will compete for the Business Continuity Awards 2007 on 10th May 2007.
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•Date: 12th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity is a collective challenge
Resiliency cannot be achieved in isolation, says KPMG.
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•Date: 12th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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ICM launches enhanced hot ship service
200 pre-configured standby IT systems are ready to be dispatched from ICM’s 12 regional Business Continuity Centres.
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•Date: 12th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Intellect announces the launch of the Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Council
RISC will ‘provide a single industry voice and channel of communication for government on strategic issues affecting national security and resilience’.
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•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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UK HSE seeks views on ‘societal risk’
How best to deal with the impacts of major incidents on the area surrounding non-nuclear major hazard sites?
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•Date: 3rd April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Manufacturing BC
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