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Report reveals alarming attitudes to data theft in the UK workplace
UK businesses are the victims of high levels of data theft by staff.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Wake up to IT's energy crisis, urges Gartner
IT's insatiable and growing appetite for power is creating new risks.
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•Date: 29th Sept 2006• Region: UK•Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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ICM releases financial results
Strong growth in business continuity division, with revenue up 17 percent.
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•Date: 26th Sept 2006• Region: UK•Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Continuity Forum salary survey: take part
The Continuity Forum is conducting its annual salary survey. This aims to establish an overview of business continuity related salaries in the UK.
The survey is completely confidential. Take part at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?A=148643091E62415
•Date: 26th Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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Communicating in a crisis – which technologies can be relied on?
A white paper that looks at which commercially available communication systems really work effectively in a crisis.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006 • Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Two new reports into 7th July London attacks published
The reports attempt to capture lessons learned in terms of emergency response, crisis communications and victim aftercare.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006• Region: UK•Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Attention COMAH operators…
Don’t assume that if you comply with COMAH you are covered from a business continuity point of view, warns SembCorp.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Over a third of the UK’s admit their e-mail management system is in ‘complete chaos’
According to the findings of a survey released by AIIM on ‘Compliance and it’s impact on Information Management’.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Gartner highlights five high impact IT security risks
Gartner has advised businesses to plan for five increasingly prevalent cyber-threats that have the potential to inflict significant damage on organisations.
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•Date: 21st Sept 2006• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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London Prepared relaunching website
Friday 22nd September will see the relaunch of the London Prepared website, which provides business continuity and emergency planning information for businesses based in the city. http://www.londonprepared.gov.uk/
•Date: 21st Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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Details of Annual Market-wide Exercise 2006 published
Tripartite led business continuity exercise will focus on pandemic preparedness of UK financial services sector.
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•Date: 19th Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Business Continuity – the Risk Management Expo 2007
28th – 29th March 2007, Excel, London.
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•Date: 12th Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat gives Civil Contingencies Act updates
Bruce Mann and Dan Greaves have written articles looking at various aspects of the Civil Contingencies Act and its implementation.
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•Date: 12th Sept 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Civil Contingencies Act
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How to choose a business continuity consultant…
Take part in our first business continuity Wiki: help write the above open source document.
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•Date: 8th September 2006 • Region: World• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Getting to grips with mobilising crisis teams
While most large organisations nowadays have crisis plans in place, mobilising the right people at the right time remains a problem.
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•Date: 8th September 2006 • Region: UK/World• Type: Article •Topic: Crisis man.
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UK SMEs relying on mobile ‘phones for telecoms continuity
Reliance on mobiles is a flawed strategy that has been shown to fail time and time again during recent wide-area disasters.
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•Date: 6th September 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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European heat waves set to become more severe: new research
European heat waves are likely to become much hotter and much more frequent during the course of this century, states new research by the Met Office's Hadley Centre.
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•Date: 6th September 2006• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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BS 25999 certification survey
You can help influence the development of the BS 25999 certification scheme by taking part in a new survey, which is being handled by Continuity Central on behalf of BSI and with the support of the Business Continuity Institute.
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•Date: 5th September 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC standards
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Is London really prepared for the flood threat?
One day London will face a flood of New Orleans proportions, but few organisations that would be affected seem to have business continuity plans that would adequately cope with such an event, warns Mel Gosling.
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•Date: 1st September 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Iron Mountain Digital launches Email Continuity service in Europe
Low cost business continuity solution for e-mail systems.
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•Date: 1st September 2006• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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FSA publishes firm risk assessment framework
The UK FSA has published a paper which highlights and explains important changes it has made to ARROW, its ‘Advanced, Risk-Responsive Operating FrameWork’ which covers all of FSA’s risks, firm-specific, thematic and internal. The document sets out what firms can expect from its risk assessment process and how that differs for firms with and without a Relationship Manager. Read the document (PDF)
•Date: 1st September 2006 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: Financial sector BC
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