Help! I’m an observer at my first disaster recovery exercise... Sean Doherty, BCM Adviser for RBC Royal Bank IT division, provides some advice. Read article •Date: 27th Nov 2008• Region:UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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EU Agency publishes a new study on how to counter financial sector information security risks ‘Information security awareness in financial organisations.’ Read article •Date: 27th Nov 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Pilgrims Group launches course to keep business travellers safe Security and risk management expert Pilgrims Group Ltd has launched a course this month with the aim of providing expert advice and guidance to business executives and staff travelling abroad. The courses which will be held at a location convenient to the client will be available to employers and staff, and will provide advice on topics including threats and risks, situational awareness, planning and preparation, health and first aid, airport, taxi and hotel safety and security, crime avoidance, kidnap avoidance and hostage survival. www.pilgrimsgroup.com •Date: 27th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Events
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LINK Associates forms new division: MediaLINK UK business continuity company LINK Associates has launched a new division called MediaLINK. Based in LINK’s London office, MediaLINK is led by communication specialist Mike Hogan, formerly head of Global Media Relations at Shell International. “MediaLINK aims to help clients in two ways. Firstly we provide a bespoke crisis management training scheme to help keep media onside as the drama unfolds. But we go one step further; we provide Issues Management expertise which could prevent a crisis becoming full-blown,” explained Mr. Hogan. www.linkassociates.com •Date: 27th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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UK government to speed-up flood defence investment Announcement made during the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Pre-Budget Report Statement. Read article •Date: 25th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Sembcorp offers BS 25999 consultancy New service based on Sembcorp’s own experience of becoming BS 25999 certified. Read article •Date: 25th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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ICM parent publishes interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2008 Phoenix IT Group plc, the parent of ICM, the UK-based business continuity company, has announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2008. Highlights include:
* Revenue up 25.4 percent to £127.8m (2007: £101.9m)
* Profit from operations of £11.5m (2007: £11.2m)
£9.3m)
* Profit before tax of £7.5m (2007: £7.5m)
* Business continuity order book of over £100m for the first time. Read the results press release. •Date: 25th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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The impact of the global financial crisis on the business continuity market The final results of a recent survey by Continuity Central show that the effects of the credit crunch vary markedly from region to region. Read article •Date: 20th Nov 2008• Region:Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK Parliamentary Group formed to explore critical infrastructure issues The APPGI is being chaired by former Construction Minister, Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP. Read article •Date: 19th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business Continuity Institute publishes 2009 workshops programme For the past year the BCI has been running a series of professional workshops exploring different areas of business continuity. It has now published its 2009 workshops programme. Read article •Date: 19th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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European Commission presents energy security strategy Aims to avoid the risk of energy disruption in the future. Read article •Date: 17th Nov 2008• Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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UK government responds to the work of the Buncefield MIIB Good progress has been made in implementing the recommendations from the Major Incident Investigation Board. Read article •Date: 17th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Counter-terrorism competition open to design students The UK Home Office has launched a competition to encourage the next generation of designers and architects to consider and include innovative counter-terrorism measures in their designs within crowded spaces. More details. •Date: 17th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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New exercise toolkit from Ear Productions ‘Flood Collection’ can be used to add realism to desktop exercises. Read article •Date: 13th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing & exercising
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Local councils in SW England meet to agree 'sensible' approach to risk Twelve district and county councils sign up to 'ten principles of sensible risk management'. Read article •Date: 13th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector
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Ultimate power protection? Hydrogen fuel cell project seeks to show how the technology can be used to take whole buildings off national grids. Read article •Date: 11th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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When to surrender? At what point does an incident move beyond the capabilities of business continuity strategies? And how does an organization know when this point has been reached? Ian Charters addresses these questions. Read article •Date: 7th Nov 2008• Region:UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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BS 25999 user report available from the BCI Captures the lessons learned from the recent workshop, ‘Is BS 25999 Working for You?’ Read article •Date: 6th Nov 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC standards
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SunGard gets five year contract from London School of Economics SunGard Availability Services has announced that it has won a five year information availability contract with The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The new agreement, which is scheduled to be fully implemented by the end of 2008, will see SunGard provide LSE with data centre space in two of its resilient data centres, its London Technology Centre, near West London and TC2 in London's Docklands. LSE will use SunGard's Electronic Vaulting to backup and recover all of its critical systems and data held on 97 servers, totalling over 40 terabytes of data, helping to ensure that students and staff are able to access critical information despite interruption. SunGard will also provide LSE with its fully managed E-mail Availability Service and provide archiving capability for the School’s e-mail system. www.sungard.co.uk •Date: 6th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New risk management standard published BS 31100:2008 Risk Management Code of Practice is now available. Read article •Date: 4th Nov 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Survey finds that business continuity information is not being disseminated in many UK organisations Less than 50 percent of UK workers have been advised what to do in the event of their workplace becoming inaccessible. Read article •Date: 4th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Civil Contingencies Secretariat joins the BCI Partnership The BCI has announced that the UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat, a department of the Cabinet Office, is to join the BCI Partnership. The CCS will work alongside Founding Partners who have committed resources, time and expertise to help drive awareness of business continuity. http://www.thebci.org •Date: 4th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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Sembcorp achieves BS 25999 certification Sembcorp UK has become BS 25999 certified. David Guy, Sembcorp senior vice president, said: “It is a great honour and a significant achievement for our business to be recognised in this way. It means we can demonstrate to our customers, shareholders and employees that we have robust systems in place that allow us to cope in just about any eventuality.” More details (PDF) •Date: 4th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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A snapshot of risk management in UK companies BSI British Standards’ annual Business Barometer provides a picture of current risk management activity within British businesses. Read article •Date: 4th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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UK government issues new business continuity guidance: ‘Business Continuity Management for Fuel Shortages’ Joint Cabinet Office and Department of Energy and Climate Change document. Read article •Date: 31st October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New virtualization-based IT disaster recovery and backup service launched Aimed at the UK mid-market. Read article •Date: 31st October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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First food industry BS 25999 certification
Lyons Seafoods, Europe’s leading processor of king prawns, has become the first UK food and drink business to gain a BS 25999 certification from the British Standards Institution for its business continuity management system. Lyons Seafoods now has 300 different business interruption plans which are being continuously updated. The certificate was awarded to Lyons Seafoods after two years of continuous work with BSI, proving its success in building and imbedding a continuity culture across the whole business, and at all levels. •Date: 31st October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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HP developing new business continuity facility in Rugby, UK Centre will offer 450 work-area recovery positions; replaces two HP legacy sites. Read article •Date: 30th October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Lloyds brings UK flood threat into focus Adds major Thames Valley flooding to its list of the world’s most costly potential disasters. Read article •Date: 30th October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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EC proposes ‘Critical Infrastructure Warning Information Network’ Commission proposes a new information-sharing tool at EU level to better protect critical infrastructure. Read article •Date: 28th October 2008• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Downtime in critical systems surveyed Half of organizations ‘have experienced significant downtime in critical IT systems over the last twelve months.’ Read article •Date: 28th October 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Counter terrorism exercise at Crystal Palace (UK) A counter terrorism exercise is taking place at Crystal Palace from 26th-30th October 2008. The multi-agency event will exercise the response to the aftermath of a terrorist attack using a chemical device and in particular the recovery and identification of fatalities of the incident. •Date: 28th October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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