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Whether as an opportunity taken, or through government enforced compliance, companies, will have to tackle their environmental impact. What will this mean for the business continuity profession? David Honour speculates.
Read article •Date: 31st October 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Outlines the work of the UK Tripartite Authorities with the private sector over the past year.
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•Date: 31st October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial Sector
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The second annual BridgeHead Software Information Lifecycle Management Audit.
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•Date: 31st October 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has published a report it commissioned looking into the above topic.
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•Date: 27th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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One in 10 of Glasgow's call centres has been infiltrated by criminal gangs, police believe. The scam works by planting staff inside offices or by forcing current employees to provide sensitive customer details. The information is then used to steal identities and fraudulently set up accounts or transfer money.
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•Date: 27th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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The European Commission has decided to allocate 9 Million euros for the pursuit of actions against terrorist attacks, initiated under the pilot project ‘Fight against Terrorism’. This includes actions in relation to critical infrastructure protection, terrorist financing, explosives and violent radicalisation. About half of the funds will go to the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure protection.
Solcara has launched an updated version of its Crisis Control Centre software tool. This new release will make information sharing in crisis situation ‘easier than ever before’. Solcara Crisis Control Centre is an online virtual incident room, replacing whiteboards and flipcharts as the means of capturing and disseminating information during an incident. More details
Multi-million pound outsourcing deal made with SAVVIS.
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•Date: 26th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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The first stage of the process will be the publication of a Scoping Paper and Consultation Questionnaire later in the year.
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•Date: 24th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Civil Contingencies Act
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Provides resilient re-routing of all incoming calls to individual geographic DDIs alongside the ability to provide secure recording of calls from within the telephone carrier’s network.
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•Date: 24th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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The first issue of Continuity Central’s new high level Business Continuity Journal has been published.
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•Date: 20th October 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Lord Levene, Chairman of Lloyd’s, has called for all businesses to make risk management a key priority.
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•Date: 20th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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UK-based business continuity and disaster recovery company NDR has launched a formal partner scheme as it searches for more value added resellers. NDR aims to increase its reseller numbers to about 25 by the end of June 2007. NDR has already recruited two channel managers and will recruit another five channel managers next year. Source: CRN Read article
•Date: 20th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Provides the ability to offer advance warning of flash flooding threats.
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•Date: 19th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Netstore plc has said that ‘it expects shortly to approach ICM’ regarding a possible offer for the company.
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•Date: 18th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Provides guidance on IT continuity and availability management.
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•Date: 18th October 2006• Region: UK•Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The Institution of Civil Engineers’ ‘State of the Nation 2006’ report looks at infrastructure risks and what mitigation measures are needed.
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•Date: 18th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New service helps ‘reduce recovery times by up to a third’.
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•Date: 18th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The UK Cabinet Office has published introductory material on pandemic influenza for businesses and other organisations to raise awareness about pandemic influenza amongst employees. The advice was produced by the Cabinet Office in consultation with the Health Departments and with other government departments. Read the document.
•Date: 18th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Pandemic planning
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UK industry must act to reduce the risk of a similar disaster occuring in future.
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•Date: 13th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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Pandemic planning exercise will run from 13th October to 24th November.
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•Date: 13th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Testing and exercising
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The Health and Safety Executive is providing a new helpdesk to support UK business in the run-up to the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) regulations coming into force soon. The helpdesk can be contacted on 0845 408 9575 or via email at mailto:ukreachca@hse.gsi.gov.uk REACH is a new European regime for the regulation of chemicals, for which HSE will be the Competent Authority (CA), aimed at ensuring a high level of protection for human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals. REACH is expected to undergo its second reading in the European Parliament this autumn and could enter into force as early as April 2007.
•Date: 13th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Manufacturing
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Six places on the board were available.
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•Date: 12th October 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Link Associates International has collated the findings from a range of official reports and published documents produced since the 7 July 2005 London bombings into a central source of reference. This document seeks to capture the lessons identified from the event with specific focus on the business continuity issues. A free copy of the report can be obtained by emailing link.administration@linkassociates.com
•Date: 12th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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Tape usage for archiving drops in UK; but increases in the US.
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•Date: 11th October 2006• Region: UK/US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Further building on the floodplain should be avoided as climate change increases the flood risk the Association of British Insurers has warned. In London alone 500,000 properties, 200 schools, 16 hospitals, and 8 power stations are already situated in the floodplain. Jane Milne, the ABI’s Head of Property, said: “Sensible planning now will reduce the significant costs in the future. ABI members are committed to continuing insurance wherever possible for existing customers, but will look more critically at new builds.”
•Date: 11th October 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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The results of the survey are intended to provide a resource for European businesses by making them aware of the risks they may face when dealing with certain third countries.
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•Date: 6th October 2006• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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“Are we in danger of over complicating what is quite a simple industry and in doing so missing the point of what we are trying to achieve?” asks Tim Armit.
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•Date: 6th October 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The desire for holistic management of IT security is being undermined by complex security purchasing strategies.
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•Date: 5th October 2006• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Will enable Category 2 Responders to provide information as required under the Act.
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•Date: 4th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Civil Contingencies Act
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Anyone responsible for a business premises in England and Wales must take action from 1st October 2006 to comply with fire laws. Fire safety law is now covered by one piece of legislation in most premises and fire certificates have been abolished. Instead, the emphasis is now on preventing fires and reducing risk with a 'responsible person' tasked to ensure the safety of everyone who uses the premises including carrying out checks on fire protection equipment and facilities. More information can be found at the Fire Gateway website http://www.fire.gov.uk. There are a series of guides to assist those preparing fire risk assessments at http://www.firesafetyguides.communities.gov.uk
•Date: 4th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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The EC is to formalise its business continuity activities under a single framework based on the BCI’s Good Practice Guidelines.
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•Date: 4th October 2006• Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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International law firm Norton Rose has selected BT to provide a total business continuity and disaster recovery solution for the next decade. The deal, worth over £5 million, sees Norton Rose using BT to provision its data storage and remote data centre facilities, including related security and high speed network links between centres around the world. As part of its strategy, the law firm is consolidating six separate offices into one central London location. Currently, its primary and secondary data sites are located just half a mile apart within the City in London. Both sites would be difficult to access if central London were closed off following a major security alert, for example. www.bt.com/aboutbt
•Date: 4th October 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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