United States reports its first Ebola case
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that the first domestic case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has been diagnosed.
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•Date: 30th September 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
Top business continuity risks for retailers
ContinuitySA has identified seven generic risks which can have an impact on retail businesses.
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•Date: 30th September 2014 • Africa/World •Type: Article • Topic: Retail BC
All you need to know about the Bash vulnerability
Craig Young overviews the Bash / Shellshock vulnerability which was recently identified and looks at whether it really is worse than Heartbleed, as has been widely claimed.
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•Date: 30th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Large scale EU crisis management exercise starts
2nd Multi-Layer Crisis Management Exercise runs from 30th September to 23rd October 2014.
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•Date: 30th September 2014 • Europe •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning
Shortlist published for Australasian business continuity awards
The BCI’s Australasian Awards will be presented in Melbourne on October 17th 2014.
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•Date: 30th September 2014 • Australasia •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
New ISACA guide to IT-related risk scenarios
A guide and tool kit from ISACA provides 60 examples of IT-related risk scenarios covering 20 categories of risk that organizations can customize for their own use.
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•Date: 30th September 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Bash vulnerability views
‘Bash’ or ‘Shellshock’, a major new security vulnerability that could have greater impacts than Heartbleed, has been uncovered. In this article Continuity Central summarises the views of a number of information security professionals concerning this vulnerability.
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•Date: 26th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
BCI World 2014 updates
The BCI World Conference and Exhibition is the Business Continuity Institute's annual global event. This year it takes place on the 5th and 6th November at Olympia, London. This page will provide updates about the event, enabling you to plan your visit in advance and making sure you don't miss out if you can't attend this year.
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•Date: 26th September 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Events
Interim survey results: Is business continuity management morphing into organizational resilience?
Respondents are divided on the issue.
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•Date: 26th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics
Trends that will reshape organizational security
A new SANS Institute paper looks at four key technology trends that will have the most impact on cybersecurity programs.
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•Date: 25th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Putting resilience at the heart of processors
The National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corporation have given research awards to 10 universities to develop secure, trustworthy, assured and resilient semiconductors and systems.
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•Date: 25th September 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
CDC develops a modeling tool for predicting the success of various Ebola response measures
The model indicates that if the international community takes the actions that are planned Ebola can be brought under control.
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•Date: 25th September 2014 • Africa •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
This issue includes:
• Researchers make advances in solar flare forecasting
• $AUD 7 million to improve natural disaster resilience in South Australian
• StorageCraft to unveils its Recover-Ability solution at IP Expo
• Continuity SA introduces Business Continuity Management System foundation course
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Workplace flexibility is key to disaster response
Although it is good practice for organizations to have a business continuity plan, workplace flexibility is what really counts in a disaster: Victoria University of Wellington research.
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•Date: 24th September 2014 • New Zealand / World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Cloud Usage: Risks and Opportunities
A survey report by the Cloud Security Alliance finds that many organizations do now know how many cloud apps exist in their business environment.
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•Date: 24th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
The winners of the Global Disaster Resilience App Challenge announced
Software developers from around the world have been recognized at the UN Climate Summit for their ingenuity in devising life-saving apps for use in reducing the impact of extreme weather events on cities and coastal communities.
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•Date: 24th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
UK small businesses are failing when it comes to business continuity
Databarracks research finds that only 30 percent of small organizations had a business continuity plan in place, compared with 54 percent of medium and 73 percent of large businesses.
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•Date: 23rd September 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics
IBM takes cloud-based business continuity services to a new level
IBM has announced the opening of its new Cloud Resiliency Center in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina.
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•Date: 23rd September 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Ebola emergency response: United Nations takes unprecedented step
The United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council have approved resolutions creating the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) to contain the ongoing outbreak in West Africa.
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•Date: 23rd September 2014 • Africa •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
This issue includes:
• Strong growth seen in the worldwide purpose-built backup appliance market
• NCCoE seeks comments on mobile device security building block
• Caringo awarded patent for erasure coding, replication in storage clusters
• Penta completes ultra-high availability business continuity infrastructure
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Civil unrest: important lessons for protecting lives and businesses
Actions that property owning organizations can take to better protect facilities, tenants and employees from civil unrest.
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•Date: 19th September 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC: facilities & buildings
Before you store your data: think about how to get it back
Christian Toon makes the case for a blended approach to backup and storage plans.
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•Date: 19th September 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
The Business Continuity Institute to focus on resilience
After many years with the aim of ‘promoting the art and science of business continuity’ around the world, the BCI has now stated that its purpose is ‘to promote a more resilient world.’
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•Date: 18th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Which emerging technologies do business continuity managers need to be monitoring?
KPMG identifies a trio of disruptive technologies that will have a huge impact by 2017.
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•Date: 18th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
US HUD launches $1 billion disaster resilience competition
The competition promotes risk assessment and planning and will fund the implementation of innovative resilience projects to better prepare communities for future storms and other extreme events.
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•Date: 18th September 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
Salaries for women in resilience roles defy UK national averages
Salaries for women in resilience and governance roles buck the trend of women being paid less.
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•Date: 17th September 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
ENISA report looks into causes of large outages of electronic communications services
System failures are the main cause of downtime.
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•Date: 17th September 2014 • Europe/UK •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
New report provides guidance on protecting data centers from fires
High air flows dilute smoke, making fire detection in data centers challenging.
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•Date: 17th September 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Data centers / centres
First meeting of Technical Mapping Advisory Council scheduled
The TMAC is tasked with developing recommendations for FEMA’s flood mapping program.
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•Date: 17th September 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning
Awareness of information security threats growing; but organizations struggle to manage the risks
According to Protiviti's 2014 IT Security and Privacy Survey.
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•Date: 16th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Ebola crisis
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on 18th September to discuss the West Africa Ebola outbreak.
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•Date: 16th September 2014 • Africa •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
Cloud Industry Forum research shows that cloud fears are over stated
User experiences show that the cloud is more secure than it is often perceived to be.
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•Date: 16th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Australian terrorism alert level raised from Medium to High
Owners and operators of critical infrastructure and places of mass gathering are encouraged to review their security plans.
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•Date: 16th September 2014 • Australia •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism
This issue includes:
• RMIA conference looks at organizational resilience
• Context hacks into Canon IoT Printer to run Doom
• A billion devices face BYOD security threat by 2017
• Gartner assesses Internet of Things security growth
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Improving organizational resilience: the real justification for business continuity
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: 11th September 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Quick survey: is business continuity management morphing into organizational resilience?
Take part in our 60 second survey...
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•Date: 11th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Internet of Things security must be fixed for the long term: Beecham report
The potential damage to businesses and national critical infrastructure from a successful attack on cyber-physical systems through the rapidly emerging Internet of Things (IoT), cannot be underestimated, according to a new study by Beecham Research.
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•Date: 11th September 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
Increasing complexity of cyber attacks leaves many organizations exposed
Lieberman Software survey reveals that advanced cyber attacks are so sophisticated that conventional security tools are unable to cope.
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•Date: 11th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
This issue includes:
• 2nd Arab Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
• What you should know about BC software
• CloudSigma and CloudLeap partner to provide live cloud migrations and improved disaster recovery
• DRJ Spring World 2015
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Five ways to boost the impact of your business continuity presentations
Need to update your executive committee about BCM? Are you comfortable that you know what to do and how to effectively articulate the value of BCM to the organization? Chris MacArthur offers some helpful advice.
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•Date: 10th September 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
SANS updates information security policy templates library
The SANS Institute has released 27 completely refreshed information security policy templates that corporations and government agencies can use to ensure their security policies are practical, up-to-date and reflect real-world experience.
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•Date: 10th September 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Institute of Internal Auditors publishes guide to business continuity management
New practice guide shows how internal audit can provide significant assistance in business continuity management.
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•Date: 9th September 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
August's natural disasters roundup
Earthquakes were the cause of the month’s most costly disasters.
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•Date: 9th September 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
This issue includes:
• COBIT online launched
• MKBRF presents ‘Exercise Winchester’
• Instant pay-as-you-go data backup service launched
• BANG London September Event
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BATS Global Markets runs another successful business continuity test
Company headquarters taken completely offline for test.
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•Date: 8th September 2014 • US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC testing & exercising
Small Island Developing States agree disaster risk support measures
Agreements around disaster risk prevention, management and support are included in the outcomes of the recent United Nations’ four-day International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Samoa.
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•Date: 8th September 2014 • World •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
Plan-Do-Check-Act: what’s it all about?
Hilary Estall looks at the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model found in management system standards, such as ISO 22301. What does the PDCA model add for those involved in implementing a business continuity management system?
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•Date: 4th September 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Business continuity standards
Expanding into Africa? Consider these operational risks…
Expanding into new markets is intrinsically a risky business and so has to form part of the business continuity management cycle.
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•Date: 4th September 2014 • Africa//World •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
DHS announces expansion of the Securing the Cities program
The Securing the Cities program seeks to lessen the threat posed by dangerous radiological or nuclear materials against major metropolitan areas in the United States.
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•Date: 4th September 2014 • US •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism
Airmic to work with Reputation Institute to ‘tackle the complex subject of reputational risk’
The two organizations aim to develop a framework setting out an agreed definition of reputational risk and an understanding of its drivers and what can be done to mitigate and insure against it.
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•Date: 4th September 2014 • UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
This issue includes:
• Advanced 365 partners with Plan B to offer SMEs ‘super-fast disaster recovery service’
• 2014 RIMS Canada Conference
• Government of Canada releases 2014 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada
• The International Disaster Conference & Expo
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Researchers look into improving the availability of complex systems by better understanding inter-dependencies
A new study relies on a complex systems modelling approach to analyse inter-dependent networks and improve their reliability in the event of failure.
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•Date: 2nd September 2014 • Europe/World •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
Deadline extended for Australasian business continuity awards
The deadline for entries for the 2014 BCI Australasian Awards is now 8th September 2014.
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•Date: 2nd September 2014 • Australasia •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
US and Australian governments respond to change in UK terrorism threat level
Following the decision last week by the UK government to increase the threat level from international terrorism from substantial to severe, the US and Australian governments have responded with statements.
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•Date: 2nd September 2014 • US/Australia •Type: Article • Topic: Terrorism
WHO identifies six countries at high risk for spread of Ebola
Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Senegal identified as being at risk for the spread of the Ebola virus disease.
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•Date: 2nd September 2014 • Africa •Type: Article • Topic: Pandemic planning
Reputational risk and crisis management for business leaders
A new series of breakfast briefing being run by Phoenix aim to provide assistance for business leaders on the issues of reputational risk and crisis management.
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•Date: 2nd September 2014 • UK •Type: Article • Topic: Events
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