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Virtualization brings new security challenges
David Frith explains why existing security measures are no longer enough when it comes to protecting virtual systems.
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•Date: 20th December 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Benn accepts urgent recommendations from Pitt report
"The government agrees with all of the urgent recommendations and will work with all organisations involved in taking them forward as quickly as possible."
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•Date: 19th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Pitt Review makes 15 urgent recommendations
Urges immediate action in a number of areas by government departments and agencies, local authorities and other stakeholders.
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•Date: 17th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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‘Preparing for Pandemic Influenza - Guidance to Local Planners’
The UK Cabinet Office has published updated information on pandemic planning for local authority emergency planners.
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•Date: 14th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Pitt Review interim report into UK floods to be published on Monday 17th December
Will be available online from 9.00 on Monday 17th December.
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•Date: 14th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Confidence in business continuity plan quality increases
According to a Computer Weekly survey.
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•Date: 14th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey shows slapdash staff risk corporate data
A survey of UK office workers has revealed that employees are hugely reliant on access to network data to do their jobs, yet show an alarming apathy about the value of that data. More than half (57 percent) have at some point lost an office work laptop/BlackBerry/USB stick, with the most common loss location being a pub, bar or restaurant. 63 percent of respondents have accidentally deleted data on the networks, whilst 69 percent admitted to saving more than 10 important work files on their PCs alone, causing major potential disruption if they were stolen or damaged. Source: Databarracks
•Date: 14th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity - are we still missing the point?
Are most organisations still too focussed on the reactive aspects of business continuity? Dominic Hill thinks so...
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•Date: 13th December 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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British Red Cross running Disaster Response Challenge again
Event is a good opportunity to stretch your crisis management skills.
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•Date: 13th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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2008 will be the year of disk-based backup
Double-Take Software has given its predictions for the backup market during 2008.
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•Date: 13th Dec 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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UK faces the prospects of new fuel protests
Transaction2007 to start action on Saturday 15th December 2007 at 10:00am.
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•Date: 11th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Cyber crime threatens the core infrastructure supporting critical business activities
Tapping into fibre optic cables is easier than you think!
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•Date: 11th December 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Business resilience benchmarking available for UK market
How does your strategy compare to others in your industry?
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•Date: 11th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Defra publishes contingency plan for exotic animal diseases
Defra's Exotic Animal Disease Generic Contingency Plan has been laid before Parliament. The plan is amended annually and is produced for Defra by the UK Animal Health agency. It includes an overarching plan for dealing with a range of exotic animal diseases, as well as plans for responding to specific diseases including Foot and Mouth Disease, Avian Influenza and, for the first time, Rabies and Bluetongue.
The Contingency Plan can be accessed here.
•Date: 11th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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SAVVIS to ensure business continuity of Augustus Asset Managers’ trading systems
SAVVIS has won a £3.5 million contract from Augustus Asset Managers Limited, an independent investment manager of segregated accounts and hedge funds, in a four year IT infrastructure outsourcing deal to support business continuity of Augustus’ critical IT infrastructure. The SAVVIS business continuity offering includes mirrored, dual data centres and an off-site business continuity suite.
•Date: 11th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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Directors: ignore business continuity at your peril
Directors who fail to take action on business continuity risk accusations of dereliction of duty, warns SunGard Availability Services.
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•Date: 7th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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UK Environment Agency publishes review of the 2007 summer floods
Includes six case studies and over 100 web pages.
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•Date: 7th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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The changing risk profile of key coastal cities around the world
Miami, Guangzhou and New York face the highest risk of future property and infrastructure losses.
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•Date: 7th Dec 2007• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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John Hurrell to become new AIRMIC chief executive
John Hurrell, currently Head of Marsh Risk Consulting (Europe, Middle East and Africa), has been appointed AIRMIC’s new chief executive.
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•Date: 5th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Disaster recovery and data archiving dominate storage concerns for 2008
New survey reveals IT departments’ top storage concerns as they plan for the New Year.
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•Date: 4th Dec 2007• Region:UK/US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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ABI calls for 25-year UK flood management strategy
Association publishes ‘Summer Floods 2007: Learning The Lessons’ document.
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•Date: 4th Dec 2007• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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