UK financial sector Market-wide Exercise 2009
Business continuity exercise will take place on 17th and 20th November 2009. Read article •Date: 30th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Avoiding risk from software non-compliance
Over 60 percent of IT managers perceive a business risk to the organization they work for because of unmanageable IT estates. Read article •Date: 29th Sept 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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UK police discuss pandemic planning
Police North West Region Business Continuity Managers Group meeting roundup. Read article •Date: 29th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning UK
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Changing times
David Ting discusses how enterprise security is changing and outlines how businesses can use single sign-on solutions to protect themselves. Read article •Date: 25th Sept 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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How well do British SMEs backup?
A new survey provides some answers... Read article •Date: 24th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New SIM-Enabled Wireless Backup Service provides contingency network
Provides businesses anywhere in the UK with a failsafe way of staying connected when networks go down. Read article •Date: 24th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Courting disaster?
Tony Brown highlights some common disaster recovery planning mistakes. Read article •Date: 22nd Sept 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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RISCAuthority launches ROBUST ‘Resilient Business Software Toolkit’
Business continuity planning software offered free of charge by UK insurance industry body. Read article •Date: 22nd Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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Tripartite authorities issue pandemic flu update
A cross-market swine flu group has been formed to provide a forum for representative business continuity practitioners from across the UK financial sector. Read article •Date: 18th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning UK
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Edinburgh to get new business recovery centre
City centre based facility offers 200 work-area recovery seats. Read article •Date: 18th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Joint Ministerial Committee commits to continued joint working on pandemic issues The UK’s Joint Ministerial Committee met in a Plenary session in London this week. The meeting was chaired by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, on behalf of the Prime Minister. The participants were the First Minister of Scotland, the Scottish Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution; the First Minister and Deputy First Minister for Wales; the First Minister and deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland and the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Ministers discussed issues of common interest, amongst which was pandemic flu. The Ministers committed to continue to work together in decision-making regarding pandemic ‘flu contingency planning. •Date: 18th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Pandemic planning UK
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Service level agreements and business continuity
Andrew Hiles overviews the subject. Read article •Date: 17th Sept 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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‘Guide to risk assessment tools, techniques and data’
The UK Department for Communities and Local Government has published a new guide which aims to support the conduct of risk assessments by Local Resilience Forums in the context of civil contingency planning. It also provides a useful guide for business continuity managers when considering major external risks. Read article •Date: 16th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector BC
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Exercise Prometheus The UK Department of Health has developed ‘Exercise Prometheus’ for the social care sector to assess and develop its resilience planning in readiness for a second wave of the pandemic swine flu. Designed as an 'off the shelf' package primarily for use by local authorities in partnership with their local providers of social care, the exercise has been developed from experience gained in previous pandemic influenza exercises. More details. •Date: 16th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Pandemic planning
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'Risk Management is Dead, Long Live Risk Management'
BCI positioning paper discusses how business continuity management can help improve overall enterprise risk oversight and management. Read article •Date: 15th Sept 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New BT service helps contact centre business continuity
BT NGCC Protect launched. Read article •Date: 11th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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The spanner in the works
Configuration errors in network device backups can create huge IT disaster recovery problems. By Rory Nolan. Read article •Date: 9th Sept 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Corporate IT networks poorly protected against loss of connectivity says new survey
56 percent have no secondary connection to provide resiliency. Read article •Date: 9th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Approved e-Gaming Disaster Recovery Provider licence for Manx Telecom Manx Telecom has been licensed as an approved e-Gaming Disaster Recovery Provider by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission. The licence will enable the company to provide e-Gaming clients with disaster recovery facilities under the Island’s legislation covering online gaming. More details. •Date: 9th Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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UK government changes pandemic planning assumptions
Worst case scenario will be not as bad as first thought. Read article •Date: 7th Sept 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Britain facing rolling blackouts by 2017?
A political fall-out has occurred in the UK, with claims that by 2017 rolling power cuts may be necessary to deal with short-falls in power production. Read article •Date: 2nd Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Delivering the Prevent Strategy: An Updated Guide for Local Partners The UK government has published guidance for local partners on delivering the Prevent strategy. This guidance builds on The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners, published in June 2008. The key messages from the June 2008 guidance remain current; this document updates that guidance, taking into account lessons learned and emerging best practice, with the overall purpose of helping achieve more effective local delivery of Prevent in communities. Read the update. •Date: 2nd Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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Industry needs to wake up to Buncefield lessons
UK industry has yet to fully take on board a number of key lessons from the Buncefield disaster. Read article •Date: 28th August 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC: manufacturing
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The personal side of business continuity: Addressing human capital management issues during crises
A white paper by Eric Lesser, Russell Lindburg and Tim Ringo, IBM Institute for Business Value. Read article •Date: 25th August 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Evershed research provides a snapshot of pandemic planning in UK businesses
Research from international law firm Eversheds has highlighted the impact of the flu pandemic on UK businesses and the scale of contingencies in place for an Autumn escalation. Read article •Date: 25th August 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning UK
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UK government announces fast tracked pandemic flu research
The work will be led by research centres in Leicester, Nottingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Manchester and London. Read article •Date: 25th August 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning UK
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‘Logistic Operations for Emergency Supplies: Guidance for Emergency Planners’
New Cabinet Office guidance. Read article •Date: 25th August 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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