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•Date: 5th April 2011 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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•Date: 29th March 2011 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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•Date: 23rd March 2011 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: Testing
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•Date: 22nd Feb 2011 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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•Date: 25th Jan 2011 • Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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•Date: 19th Jan 2011 • Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector
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•Date: 14th Dec 2010 • Region: UK/Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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•Date: 14th Dec 2010 • Region: W.Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: Op risk
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•Date: 3rd Dec 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector
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•Date: 5th Nov 2010 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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•Date: 29th Oct 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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•Date: 27th Oct 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Environmental Liability Directive to bare its teeth in Hungarian disaster, says Aon.•Date: 7th October 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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•Date: 1st October 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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•Date: 1st October 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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•Date: 24th Sept 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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Security of Gas Supply Regulation will require Member States and gas companies to develop contingency plans.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2010 • Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Ministers from European and Mediterranean countries to agree priorities and adopt an action plan for 2011-2015.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Report claims that European organizations lose EUR17 billion a year by failing to protect their business-critical systems.
Lyndon Bird comments.
Pan-European research shows that enterprises are beginning to deploy virtualization and cloud business strategies, but security concerns still hold things back.
The 6th Data Centres Europe Awards took place recently in Sophia Antipolis, Nice.
Plummeting confidence in official advice could prove ‘disastrous’ in the case of a severe future pandemic.
Event highlighted new trends and launched the new BICSI data centre standard.
A dispute between Russia and Belarus has escalated with Russian gas supplies to and through the company being reduced as a consequence. Lithuanian authorities confirmed that Russian gas supplies via Belarus decreased by around 50 percent on 23 June. Three European countries can be potentially affected by the gas dispute: Lithuania, Poland and Germany. In the case of Poland and Germany, Russian gas could be delivered via Ukraine. This is not possible for Lithuania which depends 100 percent from Russian gas delivered by Belarus.
•Date: 25th June 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Briefing
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Many companies over-confident about business continuity plans, according to Marsh survey.
New ‘Data Centre Design and Implementation Best Practices Standard’ will be available from late June. •Date: 4th June 2010 • Region: Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Report contains a critical analysis of the handling of the H1N1 pandemic. •Date: 4th June 2010 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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As part of its work on preventing a future financial crisis the European Commission has launched a public consultation on reforming corporate governance in financial institutions. More details.
Barry Elliott provides an overview of research into data centre downtime.•Date: 2nd June 2010 • Region: W.Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Expanded airspace closure guidelines issued and a European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell created.
US organizations are more likely to deploy business-critical applications in the cloud than their European counterparts.•Date: 19th May 2010 • Region: US/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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The balance between water demand and availability has reached a critical level in many areas of Europe: European Commission report.•Date: 19th May 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Willis Research Network identifies the ten most dangerous European volcanoes; Eyjafjallajökull doesn’t make the list.•Date: 14th May 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Key security actors, strategies, and good practices in Europe mapped by ENISA.•Date: 12th May 2010 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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Following the anniversary of the L’Aquila earthquake, the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre looks at what lessons have been learned.•Date: 7th May 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Vodafone Greece has become the first telecommunications operator in Greece to achieve certification to the BS 25999 standard. Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance carried out the necessary audit of its business continuity management system. Vodafone Greece has had a business continuity management department since 1997 and staff members received certification from the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) in 2008.
•Date: 7th May 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing
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A statement by Siim Kallas Vice-President of the European Commission after the Extraordinary Transport Council which took place on 4th May to discuss contingency plans for a future volcanic ash crisis.•Date: 5th May 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Extraordinary Transport Council takes place at a time when new restrictions have been imposed in parts of Europe because of increased density of ash being emitted by the Eyjafjöll volcano.•Date: 4th May 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The EU’s cyber security Agency ENISA has published a new report concluding that the EU should focus its future IT security research on five areas.
Following the volcanic ash cloud crisis the European Commission wants to develop an EU-wide transport contingency plan.•Date: 28th April 2010 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Stephen Cross, CEO of Aon Global Risk Consulting, comments on the business and insurance implications of the European volcanic ash cloud.•Date: 22nd April 2010 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New ad-hoc group will assess the impact of the situation and recommend EU-wide response measures.
This page provides background information about the issue and is being updated with the latest information.
At its recent 5th annual conference on cybercrime, the Council of Europe called for the worldwide implementation of its Convention on Cybercrime. •Date: 26th March 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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What should be considered in a cloud computing risk assessment? Martin Kuppinger provides some pointers.•Date: 25th Mar 2010 • Region: W.Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Particular focus on flood insurance.•Date: 12th March 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Ireland-based company will expand SunGard’s European footprint.•Date: 12th March 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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No H1N1 pandemic waves are anticipated in Europe this year. •Date: 10th March 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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The European Commission and the EU Presidency took part in the first EU-US expert meeting on critical infrastructure protection in Madrid on 4-5 March.•Date: 9th March 2010 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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FEMA leadership meets with NOAA National Weather Service and European partners; geomagnetic events high on the agenda.•Date: 26th Feb 2010 • Region: US/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Organizational Resilience Standard is now a national standard in the Netherlands. •Date: 22nd Feb 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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A new ICT risk governance framework which applies common standards across Europe is required...•Date: 11th Feb 2010 • Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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The European Commission has authorised a measure adopted by Denmark which provides a state guarantee on non-life insurance against damages stemming from nuclear, biological, chemical or radioactive terrorist attacks that exceed a certain threshold. n order to ensure that NBCR coverage is available, Denmark plans to introduce a state guarantee. Under the scheme, insurers that provide NBCR insurance in Denmark will be liable for non-life damages up to a certain pre-determined threshold. The risk retained by the insurance industry is based on their capital base and the availability of NBCR reinsurance on the global market. This threshold will be reviewed every year and currently stands at DKK 5 billion. The Danish state then provides a guarantee for the next DKK 15 billion of losses that exceed this threshold.
•Date: 14th Jan 2010• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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COOP Systems, the global provider of myCOOP business continuity software, has announced the selection of Janus-SI, a well-established integrator of value-added software solutions based in Paris, to help meet the growing demand for COOP Systems technology in continental Europe. Janus-SI joins COOP Systems' partners list as its first continental European partner and French-speaking distributor. www.janus-si.fr
•Date: 16th Dec 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Discusses the gas supply outlook and the emergency preparedness in the EU.
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Stavros Dimas, European Commissioner for the Environment, sets out his vision for a resilient Europe. •Date: 26th Nov 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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The Gas Coordination Group met this week to analyze in detail all elements of the preparedness of the EU for a potential supply disruption during the Winter.•Date: 20th Nov 2009• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Research results revealed at ‘ENSEMBLES – A changing climate in Europe’ symposium at the UK Met Office.
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On November 10th the European Council adopted a directive setting out new solvency rules for insurance companies.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2009• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Op.risk
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On 12th October the EU’s health ministers met in Luxembourg for an extra Council meeting to discuss H1N1.•Date: 13th Oct 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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The fourth Emergency and Crisis Coordination Arrangements Exercise.
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Companies need to wake-up to the compliance risks associated with the EU Environmental Liability Directive.•Date: 1st Oct 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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The European Commission has activated the Community Mechanism for Civil Protection following major forest fires in Greece. The European tactical reserve of fire fighting aircraft (EUFFTR), which was established this summer to assist Member States facing major fires, assisted in gaining control over the wildfires.
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Unanimously adopts statements on school closures and travel advice.
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•Date: 14th August 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic resources
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New ‘Road to Growth’ report considers various factors influencing how companies will be able to make the best possible recovery from the global downturn: business continuity came top of the list of key enabling strategies.
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Discusses contingency measures to prevent a repeat of last winter’s gas supply disruption problems.
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•Date: 3rd July 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity a key area for investment.
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•Date: 25th June 2009• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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AT&T is expanding its pan-European disaster recovery resources with the addition of increased technology, equipment and manpower.
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Capitoline LLP has announced that it has been appointed as data centre audit and business continuity consultants for the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX). AMS-IX is one of the world's largest internet exchanges and interconnects small and large ‘traditional’ Internet Service Providers, international carriers, mobile operators, content providers, VoIP providers, application providers, web hosters and other related businesses. www.capitoline.eu
A gala ceremony was held on 22nd April in the historic Trinity House in London where the winners of this year’s Data Centres Europe 2009 awards were announced.
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•Date:28th April 2009• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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What must insurers focus on to ensure compliance?
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•Date:24th April 2009• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Strategic Risk will be running its fifth annual awards ceremony on Thursday 7th May 2009 at the Hilton Berlin.
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•Date:24th April 2009• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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The EU has made a frequently asked questions listing available to highlight the fundamentals of its critical information infrastructures protection programme. Read the document
•Date: 31stMarch 2009• Region: UK / Europe •Type: Briefing
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‘The European Network and Information Security Agency has developed a comprehensive web-based resource for IT continuity management.
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DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and German Minister of Education and Research Annette Schavan have signed an agreement that will facilitate science and technology research collaboration in homeland/civil security matters between the two nations. The text, negotiated between the DHS Office of Science and Technology and the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF – Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), is similar to arrangements the US already has in place with the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Sweden, Mexico, Israel and France.
EU Agency has mapped the key stakeholders and Network and Information Security situation in each EU Member State.
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Based on a detailed analysis of over 200 meteorological observations and reconnaissance surveys of the areas worst affected by Windstorm Klaus, Risk Management Solutions has estimated that total insured losses in France are likely to fall between EUR1.0 billion and EUR1.8 billion. The estimate does not include losses resulting from damage to infrastructure - for example, to communication networks or power lines. Klaus is likely to be the biggest loss event for France after Windstorm Martin in 1999, which would cause over EUR2.0 billion insured losses if it were to reoccur today.
•Date:10th February 2009• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing
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European Parliament adopts blueprint for the EU's future energy security strategy.
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•Date:5th February 2009• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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The European Commission has addressed a ‘reasoned opinion’ to Sweden for not having communicated the national measures transposing the provisions of the security of supply directive. The Commission considers that the transmission of a draft law is not sufficient for Sweden to fulfil its obligation of implementing the security of electricity supply directive. The reasoned opinion is the second step in the infringement procedure. Sweden has now two months to take the necessary measures to comply with the reasoned opinion. After that, the Commission can then decide to bring the case before the European Court of Justice.
•Date:30th January 2009• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: Power man.
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Reveals better than expected network availability.
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•Date:23rd January 2009• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms cont.
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Drawing on lessons from the recent gas supply crisis, the EU Industry Committee has set out wide-ranging recommendations for the EU's future energy policies.
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•Date:22nd January 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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A special Energy Council will take place on 12th January.
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Has business continuity arrived? Is it the finished product? Are the current standards and best practices the destination of two decades of evolution from disaster recovery? Or is the current stage simply part of a journey to a new and different destination? David Honour comments.
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Award open to candidates from the public and private sectors.
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•Date:17th Dec 2008• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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‘Regions 2020’ provides an analysis of the likely regional impact of four of the biggest challenges facing Europe.
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•Date:10th Dec 2008• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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‘Information security awareness in financial organisations.’
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•Date: 27th Nov 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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The final results of a recent survey by Continuity Central show that the effects of the credit crunch vary markedly from region to region.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2008• Region:Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Aims to avoid the risk of energy disruption in the future.
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•Date: 17th Nov 2008• Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Commission proposes a new information-sharing tool at EU level to better protect critical infrastructure.
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•Date: 28th October 2008• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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According to major FERMA benchmarking survey.
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•Date: 3rd October 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Australia and the European Union will work more closely together on emergency management challenges, following the completion of agreement to provide mutual support.
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•Date: 23rd Sept 2008• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Spain has been hit by a three car bombs in 24 hours in separate towns in the Basque region. Spain has just outlawed two ETA-linked political parties. Source: Euro News
•Date: 24th Sept 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing
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The Business Continuity Institute has announced that next year’s UK and Europe Business Continuity Awareness Week will take place between 23rd and 27th March.
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•Date: 4th Sept 2008• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Web 2.0 widgets are a growing security risk says IDC.
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•Date: 4th Sept 2008• Region: W.Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Learning points from the International Disaster and Risk Conference 2008.
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•Date: 29th August 2008• Region: W.Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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No disturbances expected for electricity supply this summer under usual weather conditions.
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•Date: 18th July 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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System uses liquid methanol as an alternative backup power source.
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•Date: 18th July 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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The largest growth area for virtualization use over the past year, particularly in small and medium businesses, is improving disaster recovery, backup, and enhancing availability.
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•Date: 9th July 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Global Equities, a Paris-based institutional financial services company, has won the prestigious Trophee de L’Innovation for pioneering use of technology.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Report highlights good practice in the management of USB Flash Drives.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region:W.Europe/ UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Government advice is insufficient to ensure that the private sector is equipped to deal with a pandemic.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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A new Directive will require European critical infrastructure owners to compile an Operator Security Plan covering the identification of important assets; a risk analysis; and the identification, selection and prioritisation of counter-measures and procedures.
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•Date: 10th June 2008• Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Frankfurt recovery centre grows from 85 to 250 work area seats.
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•Date: 10th June 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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The Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) will conduct a disaster response field exercise from 1st to 5th June 2008 in the region of the Finnish capital Helsinki.
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•Date: 30th May 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Testing and exercising
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Research and training facility is a response to last year’s major cyber attack on Estonian public and private institutions.
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•Date: 15th May 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Ireland-based Continuum Consultancy has been presented with the ICT Excellence Awards 2008 'Technology Partnership of the Year Award' for its Continuum Plus crisis communications software.
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Aims to become the first choice business continuity and disaster recovery training and certification body in Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa by 2010.
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Includes a handbook, which will be delivered to every household in the country, supported by business continuity planning advice for organisations.
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Study finds that companies are failing to overcome a ‘perception gap’ in their approach to BCM.
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Country fails to plan for major accidents at installations where hazardous substances are present.
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•Date: 8th April 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC manufacturing
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Krakow : 18 April 2008, Amsterdam : 25 April 2008, Madrid : 7 May 2008, Moscow : 12 May 2008, Leuven : 16 May 2008, Nunspeet : 21 May 2008, Warsaw: 11 June 2008.
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According to survey of major UK and European companies.
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The judges’ panel deciding Awards for the forthcoming ceremony at the 4th Data Centres Europe event, taking place at the Intercontinental Park Lane, London (10-11 April) have announced the shortlisted companies. In the Best Disaster Recovery Provider Award category the judges selected eBRC (Luxembourg), Equinix and Mainroad (Portugal) for the shortlist.
Civil protection chiefs meet.
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New report analyses current trends in certification and offers six recommendations to improve network and information security in Europe.
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The European Commission has adopted a communication on reinforcing the European Union's disaster response capacity.
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‘Business and IT Continuity: Overview and Implementation Principles’.
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67 percent of Irish businesses have no disaster recovery plan: survey.
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Continuity Central’s quarterly peer-reviewed advanced level publication.
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Exercises will involve earthquake and flooding simulations, and will be led by organisations from five European countries.
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Requires flood risk management to be negotiated across national borders.
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Publicly Available Specification ISO/PAS 22399:2007.
Disaster recovery initiatives cited as the leading reason for expansions.
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Iron Mountain Incorporated has bought Datastroy, an Irish secure shredding company. The acquisition enables Iron Mountain to offer its customers a complete chain of custody service in Ireland, collecting records in the first instance, through to securely shredding and recycling them at the end of their lifecycle. Iron Mountain will now be able to offer its complete range of records management, data protection and secure shredding services to more than 1,500 customers across the region. www.ironmountain.com
FalconStor Software has announced that its IPStortechnology has been chosen by IntelliStorage and I-Tech, to power Continuity Solutions B.V., their newly formed joint-venture, whose aim is to provide data protection services targeting both enterprise and small and medium-sized businesses in The Netherlands. By incorporating FalconStor technologies into Continuity Center, its SLA delivery platform, Continuity Solutions will automate delivery of its broadband, virtual server and storage infrastructure services, branded under the 'Flexi' and 'Sure' service marks. Read press release.
The Irish Branch of the Emergency Planning Society (EPS) is presenting a conference on emergency planning for the Dublin financial services district on Thursday November 15th.
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Managing risk is a priority, but less than a third of banks take an integrated approach to information management.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Finance BC
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Official launch on Thursday 8 November 2007.
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Austria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden will receive written warnings.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Manufacturing
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Spain is on high alert after a car bomb attack in the country's Basque region which authorities blame on the armed separatist group ETA. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place just days after the arrest of most of the top leaders of the outlawed radical nationalist party Batasuna. Source: Euro News
CA has announced the delivery of a complete recovery management system for Tourism Ireland. The solution was implemented in partnership with Deft, a provider of IT professional services in Ireland. The business continuity and data protection solution enables Tourism Ireland to minimise disruption to global marketing campaigns, increase staff productivity and provide a secure platform for growth into emerging markets. The solution uses CA XOsoft WANSync and replicates all of Tourism Ireland's critical e-mail data. Tourism Ireland estimates that CA's solution can recover over 230 gigabytes of e-mail data in less than one hour; this would have taken up to three days prior to the deployment. More information on the CA recovery management system.
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Would react immediately to emergencies, providing expert disaster and crisis management resources.
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•Date: 6th Sept 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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System aimed at preventing wide-area power outages.
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•Date: 4th Sept 2007• Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power man.
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The European Commission have been informed by the German authorities of an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza on a duck farm in Bavaria, in a region where infected wild birds were detected in July and early August. Upon suspicion of the virus, the German authorities immediately applied the necessary control measures laid down under EU legislation. Diagnostic tests carried out by Germany’s national laboratory confirmed the virus to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain. More information.
•Date: 31st August 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing
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Archive practitioners confirm ‘long term information retention crisis’.
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•Date: 10th August 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Survey finds a worrying discrepancy between IT managers' perception of the protection they have in place and their real state of security.
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•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Kevin Hanson, Head of Business Continuity Management, AIB, describes the relocation of his firm’s main data centres and the lessons learned.
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•Date: 19th July 2007• Region: W.Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Iron Mountain has established its first presence in the Greek market with the acquisition of a minority interest in SafeDoc, an Athens-based records and information management company. The company will operate as a joint venture with Iron Mountain holding options to acquire further shares in the company over the next five years.
•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Such a standard would be ‘undesirable’.
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Although in the past terrorists used explosives or improvised explosive devices, they may in the future resort to non-conventional means such as biological weapons or materials. Some of these materials have the capacity to infect thousands of people, contaminate soil, buildings and transport assets, destroy agriculture and infect animal populations and eventually affect any food and feed at any stage in the food supply chain. The risk of "bioterrorist" attack has been statistically low, but its consequences can be devastating. If a deliberate introduction of deadly pathogens or a naturally occurring disease outbreak were to occur in the European Union or be imported from a third country, it is possible that it could affect several Member States simultaneously or spread across borders and have considerable economic and social impact. A new European Commission green paper has been published to stimulate a debate on this subject and to launch a process of consultation at European level on how to reduce biological risks, and to enhance preparedness and response. More details•Date: 12th July 2007• Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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Strohl Systems has announced a partnership with Getronics to provide European hosting services for Strohl's On Demand business continuity software, LDRPS. Hosted at Getronics secure, redundant facility in the Netherlands LDRPS Essential and LDRPS Professional On Demand versions are now available to be hosted with Strohl in the US or with Getronics in the Netherlands. http://www.strohlsystems.com
•Date: 14th June 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC software
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Employers have a great opportunity to reduce the risk of fraud and create a healthy corporate culture but many are missing the trick.
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The Government of Poland and the World Bank have signed a €140 million loan to co-finance the Government’s Odra River Basin Flood Protection Project. This will finance part of the total project cost estimated at €505 million; the balance will be financed by the European Union Cohesion Fund, the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), and the Government of Poland. The Project, which will be implemented over a six-year period will provide protection against flooding in several major towns and settlements in the voivodships of Slaskie, Opolskie and Dolnoslaskie.
•Date: 17th May 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing•Topic: Emergency planning
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According to Global Switch survey.
Read article•Date: 11th May 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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MiFID will expose existing security flaws as well as introducing new threats that will need to be managed.
Read article•Date: 4th May 2007 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Formal communication explains future expectations in the area of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs).
Read article•Date: 3rd May 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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UK at the bottom of the league when it comes to testing.
Read article•Date: 27th April 2007 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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European Parliament and Council reach agreement on the new Floods Directive.
Read article•Date: 26th April 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Euro News has reported that police in the Basque country are on high alert following the arrest of eight suspected ETA members. Police raids uncovered faked police documents, a pistol stolen from a French arms factory and a reported 30 kilos of explosive. Basque Interior Minister Javier Balza said the police are working on the basis that ETA is planning new attacks.
TelecityRedbus also picks up a couple of awards.
IXEurope, Europe’s specialist datacentre services company, has announced the opening of its second IXDatacentre in the Saint-Denis region of Paris. Named Paris2, this site is the fourteenth IXDatacentre in Europe. IXEurope has been present in France since 2000 with its Paris1 IXDatacentre in the industrial park of Northern Paris II, near Charles-de-Gaulle Airport. With the opening of this new site, IXEurope provides greater capacity to meet the growing regional demand for datacentre services for primary, secondary and business continuity sites. Both IXDatacentres (Roissy and Paris) will be inter-connected by an optical fibre network providing a dual site solution. www.ixeurope.com
•Date: 22nd March 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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According to a Global Switch survey.
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•Date: 22nd March 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power man.
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Company board directors should 'prioritise the physical housing of IT equipment within the overall business continuity planning process'.
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•Date: 13th March 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe•Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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'Business Continuity Planning - Responding to an Influenza Pandemic’ published by the Irish government.
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•Date: 6th March 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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The deadline to submit proposals for grant funded projects under the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection programme has been extended from 29 March 2007 to 16th April 2007. More details
•Date: 6th March 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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IAEM Europa will provide information, networking and professional opportunities, to advance the emergency management profession in the region.
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Ian Clark, FBCI, asks whether there is a growing transatlantic divide when it comes to the general understanding of what business continuity management is.
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The European Commission has adopted a Communication on the protection of critical infrastructure in energy and transport setting out criteria which can be used to identify European infrastructure in this area.
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•Date: 6th Feb 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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90 percent of companies surveyed are not performing weekly test restores as suggested by best practice…
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Urgent action required to prevent future similar incidents.
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Business Continuity Awareness Week in Europe is scheduled for 26th-30th March. Ideas to help you plan for activities within your company during this week can be found at: http://www.thebci.org/bcaw.htm
•Date: 1st February 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: Events
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Storm of the decade caused damage across the UK, through Belgium and the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic.
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Over 8 million kronor (nearly £600,000) has disappeared in three months as a result of tailor-made Trojans launched by Russian criminals.
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•Date: 24th January 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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The European Commission is seeking feedback on how best to safeguard electronic networks against disruption from attack or natural hazards.
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The Oil Supply Group will meet to address oil supply disruptions to the EU and determine potential contingency measures.
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Ten things to consider adding to your to-do list. By David Honour.
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