The Nine Circles of Planning Hell…
In a tongue in cheek article, Geary Sikich looks at the journey that business continuity planners take through the Nine Circles of Planning Hell and the lessons that can be learned on the way.
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•Date: 30th October 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Have we learnt from our Heartbleed mistakes?
David Sandin looks at whether we have heeded the lessons of Heartbleed bug, the implications of Shellshock and the future security of open-source coding.
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•Date: 30th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Hurricane Sandy remembered
As we pass the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Paul Kirvan FBCI reflects on his experience of the storm.
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•Date: 30th October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery
The top 10 cloud myths
Cloud computing is uniquely susceptible to the perils of myths due to the nature, confusion and hype surrounding it, according to Gartner, Inc.
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•Date: 30th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Culture must be considered in approaches to disaster risk reduction
The 2014 World Disasters Report has been published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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•Date: 30th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Disaster recovery
This issue includes:
• Ebola risk and preparedness webinar
• Everbridge completes Vocal rebranding
• Sungard AS launches new Managed Security Information and Event Management Service
• Databarracks introduces free Disaster Recovery Toolkit
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NFPA announcements relating to NFPA 1600, 2016 Edition
The US National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has made two announcements regarding the current revision process for the 2016 edition of its business continuity standard, NFPA 1600.
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•Date: 28th October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Standards
Don't treat climate change as a ‘Doomsday’ scenario: climate scientist tells risk managers
“The biggest risk in dealing with climate change is to treat it as Doomsday and think there is nothing we can do about it…”
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•Date: 28th October 2014 • Europe •Type: Article • Topic: ERM
Majority of IT security professionals are ‘naïve’ when it comes to perimeter security
Many organizations are completely ill-equipped to deal with today’s advanced attacks, according to a Lieberman Software survey.
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•Date: 28th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
California’s Seismic Safety Commission holds earthquake preparedness hearings
California’s Seismic Safety Commission recently held two hearings to gather input from community leaders regarding earthquake preparedness and response.
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•Date: 28th October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning
This issue includes:
• Majority of UK SMEs have no BI insurance
• Because-stuff-happens.com launches pip: pocket incident plan mobile app
• TierPoint to acquire Xand
• Akamai Q3 2014 State of the Internet Security Report
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COSO announces Enterprise Risk Management-Integrated Framework update project
The Board of The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has announced a project to update the 2004 Enterprise Risk Management–Integrated Framework.
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•Date: 27th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ERM
International SOS survey looks at organizational attitudes to Ebola
Majority of organizations more concerned with ‘flu than Ebola.
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•Date: 27th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
SIFMA conducts financial industry business continuity test
As part of the ongoing financial industry backup site testing initiative that began in 2003, SIFMA has again led an industry-wide business continuity test.
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•Date: 27th October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Financial sector BC
Managing Reputational Risk to Drive Strategic Performance
A new RIMS Report offers a step-by-step approach for successfully managing reputational risks.
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•Date: 27th October 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ERM
The 2014 VM Backup Report
NAKIVO has released its 2014 VM Backup report, providing insight into the state of virtualization data protection globally.
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•Date: 27th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Date set for launch of organizational resilience British Standard
The official launch of BS 65000 will be held on Thursday, 27th November.
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•Date: 23rd October 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards
NIST engages expert team to help develop its new Disaster Resilience Framework for Communities
Recognized leaders in their fields, NIST’s new disaster resilience fellows have been chosen to complement the knowledge and skill sets of agency researchers.
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•Date: 23rd October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards
Shortlist published for the Business Continuity Institute Global Awards
The 2014 BCI Global business continuity Awards will be presented on 5th November at London’s Science Museum as part of BCI World.
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•Date: 23rd October 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Hybrid cloud is the future for most organizations
Survey finds that the majority of organizations are building a hybrid cloud for their data requirements.
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•Date: 23rd October 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
US Army National Guard activates first cyber protection team
The Army National Guard's first cyber protection team received its new shoulder sleeve insignia during a ceremony conducted by US Army Cyber Command/Second Army.
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•Date: 23rd October 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Companies with a higher Risk Maturity Rating and greater board oversight realize superior operational financial performance
According to an Aon/Wharton School report.
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•Date: 23rd October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ERM
This issue includes:
• Audit and Risk Committees: News from EU Legislation and Best Practices
• Capital Continuity expands into the US
• NYC OEM launches new mobile app
• Consolidated Ebola Virus Disease preparedness checklist
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Survey results: Is business continuity management morphing into organizational resilience?
Continuity Central recently conducted a quick survey into whether there is a change in business terminology taking place: from business continuity management to organizational resilience.
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•Date: 21st October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics
Two potentially devastating events for business continuity managers to ponder
The Ebola outbreak shows how esoteric threats shelved in the ‘it will never happen’ folder can erupt to cause major disruption. Two other such threats spring to mind and it may be a good time for a reminder of these...
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•Date: 21st October 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
European organizations need to improve management of top risks: FERMA research
The Federation of European Risk Management Associations has published the key findings from its 2014 Risk Management Benchmarking Survey.
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•Date: 21st October 2014 • Europe/UK •Type: Article • Topic: ERM
The Business Continuity Institute presents its Australasian Awards
The 2014 BCI Australasian Awards took place on Friday 17th October at an event in Melbourne.
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•Date: 21st October 2014 • Australasia •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Dubai Smart Government to develop a shared disaster recovery site for 28 Dubai government entities
Dubai Smart Government has announced a partnership with Etisalat to provide a unified shared disaster recovery site.
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•Date: 21st October 2014 • Middle East •Type: Article • Topic: Recovery facilities
Bank of England launches independent review into RTGS payment system disruption
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has launched a ‘thorough, independent review’ of the causes of the recent disruption to RTGS, the Bank's system for settling high value payments.
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•Date: 21st October 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Financial sector BC
Company reputations at risk as social media revolutionizes breaking news
Following the release of Insignia Communications’s latest report ‘The effect of social media on breaking news’, managing director, Jonathan Hemus, discusses what the findings mean for business continuity managers.
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•Date: 17th October 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications
Pivotal trends for the future of crisis management thinking
Highlights from the Crisis Management Conference 2014.
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•Date: 17th October 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis management
India praised by UNISDR for Cyclone Hudhud disaster management
India has again emerged as a global example of 'early warning, early action' with the timely evacuation of up to 400,000 people ahead of Cyclone Hudhud says UNISDR.
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•Date: 17th October 2014 • Asia •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency management
CIOs, CISOs and CROs identify business continuity and disaster recovery as the top data security and governance priority
Axway and Ovum have published the results of a global study that examined data security, governance and integration challenges facing organizations.
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•Date: 15th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics
Lack of IT policies on devices putting companies at risk
New research from Kroll Ontrack, reveals how companies that don’t regulate employee usage of business devices with effective IT policies are putting data security at risk.
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•Date: 15th October 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
This issue includes:
• 7th Annual BCP & IT DR India 2015
• Hurricane Gonzalo update
• Crisis Guardian launches customisable business continuity posters
• BNET introduces new small business enrolment Tier for its Corporate Emergency Access System
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Workplace WiFi is now business-critical say UK SMEs
75 percent of SMEs suggest a wireless network has become essential to the running of their business, rising to 84 percent of firms with more than 100 employees.
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•Date: 14th October 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Efficient data back-up ‘turns employees into sloppy savers’
A European study by information storage and management company Iron Mountain has discovered an unexpected downside to advanced data back-up and storage capability.
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•Date: 14th October 2014 • UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
September’s major natural disasters roundup
Flooding was the theme of the month.
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•Date: 14th October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
US experts meet to discuss resilience best practices
With the two year anniversary of Sandy nearing, over 350 leading environmentalists, policy makers, scientists, and insurance industry experts gathered in Stamford, CT last week for the Northeast Risk & Resilience Leadership Forum to assess the lessons learned from the second costliest storm in US history and to examine best practices for mitigating and adapting to severe weather in the future.
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•Date: 14th October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
Improving organizational resilience: the real justification for business continuity
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Lyndon Bird says that there is a rapid change in business terminology taking place: from business continuity management to organizational resilience. In this article he explains why this is the case.
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•Date: 10th October 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Five myths about cloud HA and DR
Jerry Melnick debunks what he says are five cloud high availability and disaster recovery myths.
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•Date: 10th October 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
This issue includes:
• UK Space Weather Forecasting Centre opened
• Cyberattack detection and response enhanced by Exabeam
• 4C Strategies supports UNDP
• Lessons in external dependency and supply chain risk management
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New report from the Institute of Risk Management looks at ‘Managing risk in complex 21st century organisations’
IRM urges companies to prioritise behavioural risk over ‘tick box compliance’.
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•Date: 9th October 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
NIST schedules disaster resilience workshop
3rd Disaster Resilience Workshop set for October 27th-28th, in Norman, Okla., US.
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•Date: 9th October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Events
Ebola updates
WHO informal consultation on how science can inform our response to Ebola virus disease outbreak; Ebola virus claims first US victim; CDC director announces new Ebola protocols.
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•Date: 9th October 2014 • World/US •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
Risk and the organizational mindset: why risk managers need to learn to think like a commodities trader
Risk controls need to become more proactive, says Geary Sikich.
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•Date: 8th October 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
Don’t wait to automate…
How security policy orchestration software can help reduce downtime in hybrid environments.
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•Date: 7th October 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Data centres / centers
Risk responsibility lies with the board: Financial Reporting Council
Airmic has welcomed revised guidance from the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) which makes clear that ultimate responsibility for risk management and internal control lies with the board.
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•Date: 7th October 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
This issue includes:
• Webinar - Crisis management: how social media is changing the face of breaking news
• US Department of Homeland Security kicks off National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2014
• Resilient Scotland 2014
• red24Global
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BCI North America business continuity Awards open for entries
Entries are now being accepted for the BCI North America Awards 2015, which will be presented at the DRJ Spring World conference in Orlando.
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•Date: 6th October 2014 • N.America •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Security concerns hold back the cloud recovery market
A new survey-based study conducted by IDG Research Services has looked at the cloud recovery market, amongst other areas.
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•Date: 6th October 2014 • N.America/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Auckland businesses impacted by wide-area power outage
A fire in a cable trench has caused long running power outages in many areas of Auckland, New Zealand.
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•Date: 6th October 2014 • New Zealand •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Why it is sometimes better to separate voice and data systems
Unified communications is an important trend but, when it comes to business continuity planning for critical communications systems, it may not be the best approach.
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•Date: 2nd October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Reducing the risk that your people pose to your organization
People and process are frequently disregarded when it comes to improving security posture, partly because the security risk they pose to an organization is difficult to measure and track.
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•Date: 2nd October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
NFPA to develop a community risk assessment and reduction standard
The US National Fire Protection Association Standards Council has approved a request to establish a standard for community risk assessments and reduction plans.
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•Date: 2nd October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards
Business continuity veteran launches new BCM consultancy
Easy BCM: doing exactly what it says on the tin.
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•Date: 2nd October 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC markets & companies
Research initiative to protect the UK's critical national infrastructure
New research co-funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will focus on the cyber-security of the UK’s vital industrial control systems.
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•Date: 2nd October 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
Designing resilient critical infrastructure
Ten new National Science Foundation projects will investigate how to keep complex, interdependent infrastructure available.
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•Date: 1st October 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
Cybersecurity incidents more frequent and costly: but budgets decline
According to the Global State of Information Security Survey 2015.
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•Date: 1st October 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
This issue includes:
• October is European Cyber Security Month
• ‘Ultimate’ disaster recovery application launched by Silverstring
• Omnilert extends emergency notification system to desktops
• QTS launches DRaaS solution
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