Deloitte acquires Simulstrat
Acquisition from King’s College London will bolster Deloitte’s Resilience and Testing practice.
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•Date: 26th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets and companies
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Serco to manage and operate UK Emergency Planning College The Cabinet Office’s Emergency Planning College has announced that an agreement has been reached with Serco to manage and operate the College on its behalf. Under the agreement Serco will take over the management of training and all logistics at EPC, operating the College in partnership with and on behalf of the Cabinet Office for a period of 15 years. The College will be directed by a joint partnership board. Serco will manage all activities on the site, including the design, development and delivery of training, and exploit the excess capacity through complementary activities. In addition Serco will manage the college property and estate, including infrastructure lifecycle and maintenance costs. More details. •Date: 26th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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Consultation on the development of UK civil contingencies qualifications
Runs until Friday 5th March 2010.
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•Date: 25th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Four questions to ask before the CEO faces the media
How to decide your incident spokesperson strategy. By Jonathan Hemus.
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•Date: 23rd Feb 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Fuzzing: helping to avoid zero-day attacks
What is fuzzing? Ari Takanen explains.
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•Date: 23rd Feb 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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Survey looks at key competencies of business continuity managers
Will input into the development of UK national occupation standards for business continuity: you are invited to take part.
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•Date: 23rd Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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FSB survey shows impact of UK severe weather on small businesses The Federation of Small Businesses has published the final results of a survey which explored the impact of the recent severe weather on UK small businesses. Although half (51%) of small firms surveyed said they were prepared for severe weather disruption, staff were unable to get to work because of transport disruptions (29%) and school closures (11%) which meant that parents had to stay at home to look after their children. On average, a small business with seven members of staff saw one employee absent on at least one occasion. Four in ten (40%) said the snow-covered roads led to a disruption of business services and goods; three in ten (29%) saw a loss of growth and demand, 18 per cent lost access to business premises and 11 per cent had to close completely. Small businesses also showed resilience and resourcefulness, putting plans in place to deal with the snow fall: four in ten (42%) put in place policies for remote working, three in ten (30%) offered flexible working hours and 17% bought their own supply of grit and salt. www.fsb.org.uk •Date: 23rd Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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Ownership of governance, risk and compliance role is unclear in many organizations
Nearly half of companies don't have full clarity about who is in charge of governance, risk and compliance: survey.
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•Date: 22nd Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Mobile security – the time has come for action
Advances in mobile device technology are running ahead of changes to corporate defences. By Sean Glynn.
Read article •Date: 12th Feb 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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Business Continuity Awareness Pack launched in UK
Communications specialist Ear Productions has officially announced the launch of a new Business Continuity Awareness Pack in readiness for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2010.
Read article •Date: 12th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Report looks at critical infrastructure vulnerabilities in the European Union
A new ICT risk governance framework which applies common standards across Europe is required...
Read article •Date: 11th Feb 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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UK businesses face new reputation risk: publicity orders
Section 10 of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into effect on 15 February 2010.
Read article •Date: 11th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Market-wide Exercise 2009 report published
The UK’s Tripartite financial authorities have published a summary report of last November’s financial sector business continuity exercise.
Read article •Date: 10th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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ICM and BT in voice continuity agreement
Highly resilient IP-based telephony system being rolled out across 7,500 end points and 14 business continuity centres.
Read article •Date: 5th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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What has the recession taught us about operational risk and resilience?
A new white paper, authored by SunGard Availability Services.
Read article •Date: 3rd Feb 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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UK counter-terrorism response suffers from ‘institutional inertia’
According to Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee.
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UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010 published A report summarising analysis of data compromise cases has been released by Computer Security and Forensics consulting firm 7Safe and the University of Bedfordshire. Anonymised data has been analysed from over 60 computer forensic investigations undertaken by 7Safe. Entitled ‘The UK Security Breach Investigations Report’, it is available from www.7Safe.com/breach_report •Date: 3rd Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: ISM news
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UK government winds down pandemic ‘flu response but warns against complacency
'There is still considerable uncertainty about how the virus will behave over the coming months and years.'
Read article •Date: 2nd Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning UK
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FSA consults on new UK financial sector corporate governance rules
Risk management a large part of what’s on the table.
Read article •Date: 29th Jan 2010 • Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Data centre users confront changing threat landscape
BroadGroup has published the findings of a comprehensive survey into data centre management practices.
Read article •Date: 27th Jan 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Institute of Actuaries releases new enterprise risk management paper
‘ERM for insurance companies – adding the investor’s point of view’.
Read article •Date: 27th Jan 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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