Corporate manslaughter: new challenges for boardroom and advisers Chris Woodcock highlights the business risks engendered by the new UK Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act. Read article •Date: 29th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Survey looks at business continuity in medium sized UK companies Business continuity take-up is high; but testing is a weakness. Read article •Date: 29th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK organisations rely on team spirit rather than business continuity plans to see them through a crisis: according to employees A new study published by BT Global Services shows that most employees display a severe lack of awareness and understanding of organisational business continuity arrangements. Read article •Date: 29th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Exercise Phoenix The Milton Keynes Business Resilience Forum will be holding ‘Exercise Phoenix’ on Wednesday, 14th May at the Hilton Hotel, Milton Keynes, to help promote business continuity awareness amongst the local business community. Read article •Date: 25th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Solcara links up with Catalysts Ltd Catalysts Ltd have teamed up with Solcara in a deal to develop a range of new products for the business risk management market. As part of the partnership, Solcara will licence its Solcara Communications Centre and Solcara Crisis Control Centre to Catalysts on an OEM basis, for integration into Catalysts’ business risk management application suite, FutureActive. www.solcara.com •Date: 25th April 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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A six step guide for preparing for a fuel shortage As talks aimed at settling the Grangemouth dispute fail and northern Britain faces strike-induced fuel shortages, Andrew Sinclair provides some contingency planning advice. Read article •Date: 24th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Transport and logistics
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BDS to launch water-resistant cabinets for UK market BDS Office Supplies Ltd is to launch a new range of water-resistant cabinets in May 2008 which will help protect vital documents and electronic media in flood-risk areas. The Trident cabinets, manufactured by Schwab in the United States, are the first of their kind in the UK and are only available from BDS. Not only are the cabinets water-resistant, they are also UL (Underwriters’ Laboratories) rated to survive fire, impact, and explosion. The cabinets look no different to a standard filing cabinet and are available in a choice of colours. http://www.bdsoffice.com/schwab.php •Date: 24th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Why did the risk manager cross the road? A cautionary tale by Mel Gosling. Read article •Date: 23rd April 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Organisations in Scotland and N.England warned over ‘month of fuel shortages’ Grangemouth strike threatens fuel supplies warns INEOS. Read article •Date: 22nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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2008 Information Security Breaches Survey published Biannual government sponsored research into UK information security practices. Read article •Date: 22nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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UK needs to take flood hazards more seriously: Pitt A new approach is needed for flood risk planning. Read article •Date: 18th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Malware threat evolving Viruses a much reduced cause of security breaches but other threats take over. Read article •Date: 18th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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BCI Workshop to share user experiences of BS 25999 Event: ‘Is BS25999 Working for You’ Workshop
Date of event: 15th May, 2008
Venue: Reading, Berkshire, UK Read article •Date: 18th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Next Generation Data Ltd to build £200 million data centre in Wales One of the largest data centres in Europe, with redundant power and communications links, is being built in Newport, Wales. Next Generation Data Ltd is investing almost £200 million to convert and upgrade a former semiconductor plant in Newport. The centre, to be called NGD Europe 1, has 400,000 square feet of space that can be divided into 15 separate facilities for individual clients. Geraint Jones, head of IBW North America, said "The new centre will be of special interest to our growing financial services sector, offering business continuity and providing smaller businesses with cost effective access to high quality, robust and secure data-centre services." www.ibwales.com •Date: 18th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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ICM develops ‘Emergency Office’ Helps businesses to quickly provision home working during a crisis; beta-test participants sought. Read article •Date: 16th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Data Centres Europe Awards presented Data Centres Europe held a gala awards ceremony on April 11th at the InterContinental Park Lane Hotel in central London. Read article •Date: 16th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Human resilience strategies: the recovery phase Part four in a series of articles exploring human resource aspects of business continuity management. Read article •Date: 15th April 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity budgets holding up The results of Continuity Central’s recent survey. Read article •Date: 11th April 2008• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Emergency Planning Society AGM and election of board of directors The UK Emergency Planning Society AGM will be taking place during its annual conference on Monday 16th June 2008. Nominations are now being taken for the various director positions for the coming year. Deadline for these is 5th May 2008. More details of the EPS event. •Date: 10th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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BCI revises certification standards for professional practitioners Ten certification skills of business continuity management condensed to six. Read article •Date: 8th April 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business Continuity Awards shortlist published The shortlist of individuals and companies in the running for the 2008 Business Continuity Awards has been released by CIR Magazine. The awards will be presented on 8th May 2008 at a ceremony in London. Read article •Date: 8th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Marsh survey examines European attitudes to business continuity Study finds that companies are failing to overcome a ‘perception gap’ in their approach to BCM. Read article •Date: 8th April 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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London Voluntary Sector Capabilities document published London Resilience has published a guide which provides an overview of the emergency and post-disaster services that are available from various pan-London voluntary organisations. It is intended to assist Category 1 & 2 responders to engage the voluntary sector in planning, training and exercising activities. Download PDF. •Date: 8th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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UK disaster recovery planning activities examined 72 percent of all UK businesses have a disaster recovery plan in place, up from 58 percent two years ago; but testing is still a weak area. Read article •Date: 4th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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RMS calls for UK Government to improve inadequate flood defence information Lack of information is seriously hampering attempts to quantify flood risk. Read article •Date: 4th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Crisis management lessons from Terminal 5 The opening of Heathrow airport’s latest terminal should have been a flag-waving event, however it turned into a public relations and customer service disaster. Charlie Maclean-Bristol draws some lessons from the chaos. Read article •Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Hardware failure remains highest cause of UK business continuity invocations According to SunGard Availability Services. Read article •Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Double-Take Software to receive Investor in Customers award Double-Take Software has announced that it has received an ‘outstanding’ level Investor in Customers (IIC) award. This award is designed to reward excellence in customer service as well as to serve as an independent benchmark of achievement. The IIC recognises organisations that create long-term relationships with customers by understanding and consistently exceeding customer expectations of the services provided. www.doubletake.com •Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Information security policies ineffective without employee buy-in According to the early findings of the 2008 UK Information Security Breaches Survey. Read article •Date: 31st March 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Climate change seen as top emerging risk According to survey of major UK and European companies. Read article •Date: 31st March 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Phoenix IT Group issues period-end trading update The board of Phoenix IT Group plc, parent company of the ICM and NDR business continuity companies, has issued a statement saying that trading for the year to 31 March 2008 has been in line with the board's expectations. The company also announced the appointment of Jeremy Stafford as chief executive of the Group. •Date: 31st March 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Data Centres Europe 2008 Awards short list announced The judges’ panel deciding Awards for the forthcoming ceremony at the 4th Data Centres Europe event, taking place at the Intercontinental Park Lane, London (10-11 April) have announced the shortlisted companies. In the Best Disaster Recovery Provider Award category the judges selected eBRC (Luxembourg), Equinix and Mainroad (Portugal) for the shortlist. •Date: 31st March 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Corporate manslaughter: new challenges for boardroom and advisers
