Basel Committee publishes consultation paper on ‘high-level principles for business continuity’ The principles promote a ‘common base level of resilience across national boundaries’. Read article •Date: 22nd Dec 2005 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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The five stages of pandemic response planning
Charlie Straker provides a practical checklist to help business continuity managers develop pandemic response plans. Read article •Date: 16th Dec 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes ‘Telecoms Resilience Assessment 2005-06’ Comprehensive risk assessment provides useful information for business continuity managers in both the public and private sectors. Read article •Date: 16th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Comment: Business intelligence projects should not be offshored…
Offshoring BI projects results in the introduction of unnecessary and unjustifiable business risks, says Nakis Papadopoulos. Read article •Date: 16th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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R.R. Donnelley acquires Critical Mail Continuity Services Limited UK print and mail business continuity provider sold. Read article •Date: 16th Dec 2005 • Region: UK/N.America•Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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UK government forms new Cabinet committee to coordinate pandemic planning The Health secretary Patricia Hewitt will chair a new Cabinet committee which has been established to coordinate pandemic planning. The published remit for the committee is "to guide the preparations for a potential influenza pandemic and related international activity" •Date: 16th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: UK pandemic planning
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UK financial system given high marks for resiliency
The tripartite authorities’ Resilience Benchmarking project has found that core parts of the financial system have highly resilient IT systems; but there is room for improvement… Read article •Date: 15th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Adam Continuity in action in Buncefield disaster Following Sunday's explosion and fire at the Buncefield depot near Hemel Hempstead, Adam Continuity responded to a live invocation. The company in question’s live site is just a 0.25 miles from the refinery and took quite a battering. After consulting the emergency services, the client decided to relocate and invoked their disaster recovery contract. Adam Continuity worked through the day and night to build the recovery suite into an environment that users would feel comfortable with and one that delivered all the functionality of the live site. For the company in question it was business as usual on Monday morning. •Date: 15th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity lessons from Buncefield
48 hours after a huge explosion at a UK fuel depot, firefighters were still trying to extinguish the fire. Various BC lessons can be gleaned from the incident. Read article •Date: 13th Dec 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Pandemic or pandemonium? Drawing on crisis management best practice to prepare for the worst
Chris Woodcock looks at the crisis management and communications aspects of pandemic planning. Read article •Date: 13th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: UK pandemic planning
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UK tripartite authorities set out financial sector crisis management arrangements Statement published to make clear where responsibilities lie. Read article •Date: 13th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Teleworking - business continuity opportunities and threats
IDC predicts that there will be 200 million more mobile workers worldwide by 2009 - bringing significant challenges as well as benefits to business continuity managers. David Honour looks at some of the issues that need to be considered. Read article •Date: 9th Dec 2005 • Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Flexible working: time to take the next step? Flexible working will be essential if organisations are to continue to operate effectively during a pandemic. So why not leverage the business continuity investment to drive down overheads, improve the working environment and adopt flexible working as standard business practice? Read article •Date: 9th Dec 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Global Study looks at regional differences in contact / call centre disaster recovery preparedness
North American Call Centres lagging behind; Asia-Pacific and Africa/Middle East regions leading the way. Read article •Date: 8th Dec 2005 • Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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UK government promises additional spending on security, counter-terrorism and disaster planning During his Budget Report Statement to the House of Commons, Gordon Brown announced new funding commitments. Read article •Date: 6th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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European insurance companies ignoring business resilience investments when setting premiums Overlooking this fundamental factor means insurers may be setting premiums incorrectly. Read article •Date: 6th Dec 2005 • Region: UK / W.Europe • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Metropolitan Police Authority conference: 'Together Against Terror?' The Metropolitan Police Authority will be holding a one-day conference 'Together Against Terror?' on Monday 12th December 2005 with the aim of widening the London and national debate on how society should respond to the terrorist threat. MPA are inviting the public to join the debate by answering ten key questions, which will also be put to delegates on the day, published on the MPA website at http://www.mpa.gov.uk •Date: 6th Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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VoIP and business continuity: a work in progress The interim results of Continuity Central’s latest survey show a lack of consensus on the risks of VoIP. Read article •Date: 1st Dec 2005 • Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Companies flirting with brand disaster… Avoidable records management failures are impacting company reputations, according to new research by AXS-One. Read article •Date: 1st Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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UK Home Office publishes its latest CBRN newsletter CBRN News Issue 4 provides news from the government’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Resilience Programme. The newsletter is designed to be an interactive forum bringing together topical articles and interviews, as well as providing the opportunity for stakeholders to air their views. Read a copy •Date: 1st Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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New information security risk software tool launched
A new CD-ROM is now available from BSI Business Information to help organisations protect their business critical information. Developed by ÆXIS Security Consultants and XiSEC Consultants Ltd, RA2 Art of Risk is more than just a risk assessment tool as it is designed to help businesses to develop an ISMS in compliance with the ISMS specification ISO/IEC 27001:2005, and the code of practice for information security management ISO/IEC 17799:2005. For more information, please visit www.bsi-global.com/RA2 •Date: 1st Dec 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: ISM
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