Climate change ‘is the greatest threat to business for London’s SMEs’
At a recent meeting, the London Assembly’s Economy Committee heard that London’s businesses are failing to adequately invest in suitable climate change risk mitigation strategies.
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•Date: 27th June 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
New EU guidelines aim to help businesses manage the availability of cloud services through SLAs
Cloud Service Level Agreement Standardisation Guidelines have been developed as part of the European Commission’s strategy to increase trust in cloud services.
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•Date: 27th June 2014 • Europe/UK •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
How a West Coast ports strike will impact US supply chains
National Retail System has released the results of a survey into how a West Coast ports strike could impact logistics in the USA.
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•Date: 27th June 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
Adapting to Climate Change using your Business Continuity Management System
BSI and Climate Ready have worked together on a new practical guide to help business continuity professionals understand and manage severe weather risks as part of their existing business continuity management system.
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•Date: 27th June 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Sungard Availability Services launches new emergency notification system offering
Assurance Notification Manager powered by Send Word Now.
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•Date: 27th June 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications
This issue includes:
• Cervalis offers new work area recovery seats in Connecticut
• UN seeks nominations for risk reduction prize
• Continuity Insights New York Conference
• RIMS ERM Conference 2014
• BANG London July
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UK-based business continuity consultants earn more than double the amount their US counterparts receive
According to global survey by BC Management.
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•Date: 20th June 2014 • Various •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics
Study looks at enterprise risks in the luxury goods sector
Luxury goods companies believe that they face greater reputational risk than those in other industries, according to a report published by ACE Group in Europe.
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•Date: 20th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
This issue includes:
• Airmic hosts its first-ever ladies’ networking lunch
• Shortage of cybersecurity professionals poses risk to US national security
• New IAEM Certified Emergency Manager partnership program
• GI Partners completes acquisition of Peak 10
• Phoenix wins Global Award at Asigra Hybrid Partner Awards
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Lessons learned from Heartbleed
As the dust settles after the initial Heartbleed crisis response, what lessons are starting to emerge? By Russ Spitler.
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•Date: 19th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Exploring cyber blackmail attack issues
Should companies pay cyber hijacking ransoms?
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•Date: 19th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
ASIS adds new standard to five part series of resilience standards
New standard entitled the ‘Auditing Management Systems: Risk, Resilience, Security, and Continuity - Guidance for Application.’
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•Date: 18th June 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards
Employee attitudes to wi-fi security put businesses at risk
UK employees are potentially putting their companies at risk of cyber-attack when using mobile devices for work purposes while on holiday or on a short break, new research has found.
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•Date: 18th June 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Internet Solutions acquires ContinuitySA
South Africa-based business continuity company gains new owners.
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•Date: 18th June 2014 • Africa •Type: Article • Topic: BC markets & companies
Cyber risk oversight guidance for corporate directors
A new resource from AIG, NACD, and ISA.
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•Date: 18th June 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
This issue includes:
• New report addresses CBRNE response
• Sungard Availability Services expands Recovery as a Service portfolio
• New cloud-based disaster recovery solution from Attix5
• Institute of Risk Management launches on-demand webinar service
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Boards failing to take ownership of cyber risks
Despite growing levels of awareness and understanding of cyber risk among large and medium-sized corporations across the UK and Ireland, board-level ownership of the issue remains comparatively low with many firms relying on their IT departments for the strategic direction of their cyber risk strategies.
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•Date: 17th June 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Hong Kong Monetary Authority and regional banks conduct a business continuity exercise
Exercise was organized by the HKMA and 55 banks took part.
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•Date: 17th June 2014 • Hong Kong •Type: Article • Topic: BC tests & exercises
NIST to establish a new disaster resilience Center of Excellence
Officials at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced plans to establish a new research Center of Excellence to work with academia and industry on disaster resilience.
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•Date: 17th June 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
Severe weather is a major cause of downtime for US-based companies
Nearly half of businesses have closed temporarily due to weather-related problems in the past six months.
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•Date: 17th June 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
DRI International announces new Executive Director
DRI International has promoted Chloe Demrovsky to Executive Director, with overall responsibility for all operations and planning for the organization.
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•Date: 17th June 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC companies & markets
The realities of recovery time objectives
Is the aim of recovering to a minimum business continuity objective acceptable? Tim Dunger argues that it isn’t…
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•Date: 12th June 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Exploring the business continuity software market
In an interview with Continuity Central, ClearView Continuity’s chief executive, Charles Boffin, gives his take on how the business continuity software market is developing.
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•Date: 12th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC software
New FM Global Resilience Index assesses countries for supply chain risk
Norway, Switzerland and Canada top the list of nations most resilient to supply chain disruption.
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•Date: 12th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
The 2014 Information Maturity Risk Index
Iron Mountain reports on information risk management practices.
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•Date: 12th June 2014 • N.America / UK / Europe •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
The top causes of data disasters…
Kroll Ontrack releases new statistics regarding data loss causes and the impact to businesses.
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•Date: 12th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
This issue includes:
• New invention helps evacuate tall buildings
• Everbridge broadens cooperation with RSA
• Sungard AS UK Thought Leadership Forum
• Conferencia DRJ en Español 2014
• Power Grid Resilience
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Bank of England launches CBEST framework to test and improve financial sector cyber resilience
CBEST differs from other security testing because it uses real threat intelligence and focuses on the more sophisticated and persistent attacks on critical systems and essential services.
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•Date: 11th June 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
National Grid takes steps to protect UK power supplies during 2014 – 2019 supply dip
In its 2013 Electricity Capacity Assessment Report Ofgem identified significant risks to the UK power network during the winters of 2014-2015 through to 2018-2019. To address these risks, caused by a reduction in UK power generation capacity, National Grid has announced that it is to contract for new balancing services.
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•Date: 11th June 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
‘Using Social Media in Disaster Planning and Response’
How a New Jersey town utilized social media as a business continuity and disaster recovery tool.
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•Date: 10th June 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications
May’s major natural disasters roundup
Severe weather was the main cause of economic losses during May 2014.
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•Date: 10th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
Phoenix IT announces new three year strategy
Strategy announcement made alongside annual results report.
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•Date: 10th June 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC markets & companies
Five Lessons for businesses from the latest fraud statistics
Organizations worldwide lose 5 percent of revenues to internal theft; fraud risk needs to be directly managed.
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•Date: 10th June 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
This issue includes:
• UK financial services firms’ confidence in cybersecurity controls slightly better than that of UK retailers
• Continuity Centers receives the 'Managed Service Provider of the Year' from CA
• Webinar: Are you ready to lead your company through a crisis?
• London BANG June
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Pandemic planning and response guidance for the public transport sector
The US-based Transportation Research Board has issued a new report entitled ‘A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response.’
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•Date: 6th June 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic resources
The third annual Service Availability Benchmark Survey
Continuity Software has published the results of its latest Service Availability Benchmark Survey.
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•Date: 6th June 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
How to avoid big data security chaos
Gartner says big data needs a data-centric security focus.
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•Date: 6th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Business Continuity Management 101
Avalution has developed a series of short educational videos to help answer some of the basic questions that people have about business continuity management.
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•Date: 6th June 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Hints and tips for ISO 22301 certification
Charlie Maclean-Bristol provides some practical advice for business continuity managers who are preparing for an ISO 22301 certification audit.
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•Date: 4th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Business continuity standards
Fear of reputational damage driving data protection compliance
According to Ipswitch survey.
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•Date: 4th June 2014 • UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Cyberspace in 2025
How is cyberspace likely to change over the coming decade and what things should business continuity managers be prepared for? Microsoft has released a new report that aims to provide some answers.
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•Date: 4th June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
Managing the fraud risk
Fraud can be a real threat to business continuity, but there are clear measures that can be taken to reduce the risk. These are set out in an updated guidance document released by Alarm.
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•Date: 4th June 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Public sector BC
‘Community resistance’ hampering WHO Ebola response
Ebola cases in Sierra Leone increase; companies in the region consider contingency plans.
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•Date: 3rd June 2014 • Africa •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic resources
Responding to Global Risks: a practical guide for business leaders
The Institute of Directors has authored a guide to outline the practical lessons for organizations from the World Economic Forum Global Risk 2014 report.
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•Date: 3rd June 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
City resilience case studies
100ResilientCities.org has published details of how 32 cities around the world are tackling resilience challenges.
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•Date: 3rd June 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Public sector BC
An introduction to the Mission Risk Diagnostic for Incident Management Capabilities
The Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) CERT Division had published a technical note which describes the Mission Risk Diagnostic for Incident Management Capabilities ((MRD-IMC), a risk-based way to assess an organization's information security incident management function.
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•Date: 3rd June 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
This issue includes:
• Witt O’Brien’s UK operations certified to ISO 22301
• Ribose becomes the world's first collaboration platform to achieve ISO 22301 certification
• The EPS Annual Conference, AGM And Awards Dinner 2014
• NIST seeks comments on major revision to industrial control systems security guide
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The Business Continuity Awards 2014 winners
CIR Magazine's annual Business Continuity Awards took place on 29th May at the Hilton Park Lane in London.
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•Date: 2nd June 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
2014 US State of Cybercrime Survey
Costs associated with cybercrime surge while organizations are still unprepared to battle threats; report finds eight key cybersecurity deficiencies and highlights what organizations can do to combat them.
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•Date: 2nd June 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
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