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iconThe future role of BCM in contemporary corporate defence
This paper aims to initially look at the changing perception of corporate defence, followed by a review of the developments which have occurred in BCM and other defence related activities. Finally the paper addresses the potential future role of BCM in the corporate defence space.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconCouncil of Europe ministerial conference to discuss Europe-wide co-operation on natural and technological risk prevention and management
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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iconOlympics: “it will not be business as usual” says City of London Corporation
London-based companies are ‘strongly advised’ to make contingency plans.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconUS warned of looming national crisis in water quality and supply
Businesses, farmers, environmental not-for-profits and government agencies have jointly issued a landmark call to action aimed at heading off a national crisis in water quality and supply.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconUK Business Continuity Limited offers 30 new recovery locations
Partnership with I2Office and Evans EasySpace results in roll-out of new recovery options.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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iconMI5 Director General gives an update on the threat to UK security
Northern Ireland, Al Qaida and Olympic Games terror threats highlighted.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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iconAlignment with or full certification to BS 25999? Which should I choose?
BSI has published an article which explores whether an organization should align or certify to BS 25999. Written by Hilary Estall the article looks at the advantages and disadvantages of alignment and certification.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC standards
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iconScientists develop device to enable improved global data transmission
Researchers have developed a new data transmission system that could substantially improve the transmission capacity and energy efficiency of the world's optical communication networks.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IconBusiness continuity briefs
This issue includes:
• Liverpool Business Continuity Management Forum
• Backup Direct is a National Customer Service Awards 2010 finalist
• Frost & Sullivan study looks at business continuity planning in Singapore
• Canadian wealth management company awards SunGard Availability Services system uptime and workforce continuity support contract
• US major disaster declarations

• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP

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iconNIST data release aims to help inform the technical-basis for evacuation planning of high-rise buildings
Data sets track the movement of people on stairs during high-rise building evacuation drills.
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•Date: 16th Sept 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC facilities & buildings
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iconDelhi companies plan for Commonwealth Games disruption
The XIX Commonwealth Games will take place in Delhi, India, from 3rd to 14th October and local businesses are considering the preparations that they need to make to ensure business continuity.
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•Date: 16th Sept 2010 • Region: Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconUK out of step with the rest of the world when it comes to planned spending on information security
And business impacts of IS breaches increasing: according to 2011 PwC Global State of Information Security Survey.
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•Date: 16th Sept 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM news
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iconReal IRA warns mainland banks to expect attacks
English banks and bankers are now potential targets for the Real IRA according to a statement made to the Guardian newspaper.
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•Date: 16th Sept 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terror news
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iconCA Technologies publishes 'Avoidable Cost of Downtime 2010 Report'
Report claims that European organizations lose EUR17 billion a year by failing to protect their business-critical systems.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2010 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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iconUK businesses need clearer data on climate risks: CBI
Climate risk evaluation should cover six key areas – supply chains, assets, operations, markets, regulatory compliance and business reputation.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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iconCross-sector business continuity exercise takes place in Manchester (UK)
Retailers, banks, emergency services and the local council explore potential response to a city centre incident.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing & exercising
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iconMapping new paths for a stressed-out Internet
Project aims to prevent Internet communication from collapsing.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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iconWatching Igor
Igor now a major hurricane and heading for Bermuda.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: 2010 Hurricane Season
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iconThe shifting sands of business continuity management
UPDATED WITH READER COMMENTS The business continuity status quo is being challenged. By David Honour.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconBusiness Continuity Institute on the hunt for non-executive directors
Three non-execs required as part of new BCI governance structure.
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•Date: 10th Sept 2010 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconNew light shed on PTSD
PTSD can affect anyone and business continuity managers need to be aware of the issue from both a personal point of view and because of its potential impacts on crisis team members and employees in the wider organization.
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•Date: 10th Sept 2010 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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iconCOOP Systems announces new features for myCOOP
Several advanced enhancements to be highlighted at DRJ Fall World.
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•Date: 10th Sept 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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iconINTERPOL issues global alert for increased terror threat if Qur'an burning in US goes ahead
If the proposed Qur'an burning by a pastor in the US goes ahead ‘there is a strong likelihood that violent attacks would follow’.
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•Date: 10th Sept 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Warnings
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More news:

More September business continuity news

MTPD: what business continuity professionals think about it and how they calculate it

The buck stops here: why the CEO is responsible for everything

Forrester report looks into business continuity and disaster recovery

FEMA publishes public-private partnership resources

ASIS International moves forward with organizational resilience maturity model

ICM takes Shadow-Planner to the next level

Infrastructure-as-a-Service adoption growing: Yankee Group survey

Error in climate change models may mean that sea level rises will not be as rapid as previously expected

Support website for Canterbury earthquake is operational

BSI provides an update on the new PAS 200 guide to crisis management

Information security starts before software purchase

NIST finalizes initial Smart Grid Cyber Security Guidelines

Most organizations are reluctant to virtualize mission critical applications: survey

August major disasters roundup

AS/NZS 5050 standard ‘not in line with progressive BCM thinking’

World's first full in-browser VNC access allows management of cloud servers during a denial of access scenario

Misconfigured networks are the main cause of breaches

Get ready for Earl

Institute for Southern Studies report says that Katrina disaster response lessons have still not been learned

September Business Continuity Briefs

Avalution Consulting and Recovery Point announce partnership

Last call for initial REACH deadline

EQECAT reports on Canterbury (Darfield) earthquake impacts

‘Assessing the Terrorist Threat’

Readiness-As-A-Service for SMBs

Migrating legacy apps to the Cloud

Resilient Scotland Conference

BBA Annual Business Continuity Management Conference

Continuity Centers launches MobileVault cloud backup services

Virginia computing nightmare continues

Uganda warned to expect more terrorist attacks

Reserve Bank of Fiji opens ‘business resumption site

Key risks for hospitals and healthcare systems


August business continuity news

Managing social media risks

Future IT

Five years later – how New Orleans flood risk has changed since Hurricane Katrina

Calculating acceptable downtime

Quick survey: MTPD

Global security threats have reached record levels

‘Why Disaster Recovery Is Different In Healthcare’

DEF CON survey looks into cloud hacking

Atlantic Hurricane Season steps up a gear

Transformer demand outstripping supply: threatens long-lasting power disruptions

Business continuity trends, triggers and technology

US public health agencies get disaster preparedness funding

Pakistan flooding disaster resources

Top 10 tips from business continuity practitioners for achieving BS 25999 certification

Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure updates guidance on managing insider threats

Five years after Hurricane Katrina and Gulf Coast building codes are still inadequate

One of the main topics at the Ninth ANSI-HSSP Plenary will be crisis management

‘Deadly sins of data disaster recovery planning’

Five imperatives for extreme data protection in virtualized environments

Why don’t more companies purchase online data backup?

GAO report finds that US public-private cybersecurity coordination is still lacking

Regional pandemic exercise taking place in South-East Asia

Backup complexity seen as top challenge in managing enterprise data storage: survey

‘Who Wants To Be A Business Continuity Planner?’

Microsoft targets the business continuity market

Overcoming the unpredictability of crisis response

Social media usage during disasters surveyed

As the WHO declares that the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic has ended, worries grow about a new microbiological threat: NDM-1

Feedback requested on UK National Occupational Standards for Administrators working in BCM

Social media usage during disasters surveyed

AS/NZS 5050:2010 reviewed

Atlantic Hurricane Season: no room for complacency

Most UK businesses are ignoring future climate related risks

ASIS International invites applications to participate in Organizational Resilience Maturity Model development committee

‘Piloting Supply Chain Risk Management for Federal Information Systems’

Ten keys to online data backup

PD 25666:2010 now available from BSI

The top five undiscovered vulnerabilities most commonly found on enterprise networks

July disasters roundup

3PAR introduces unified management console for multi-site storage replication

Pakistan and Afghanistan flooding disaster resources

Re-writing the CEO job description to ensure reputation protection

Cloud Industry Forum completes public consultation on new Code of Practice

“Don’t cut flood defence spending” : ABI tells UK government

August Business Continuity Briefs

Pakistan environment minister says that future floods could be even worse than the current situation

Internet comes close to major breakdown

UN agency helps Mexico City better prepare for disasters

HP launches CloudStart to fast track private clouds

Acronis and iland debut service for cloud-based IT recoveries

Commission approves acquisition of Chloride by Emerson

Vision Solutions names finalists for 2010 Double-Take Availability for Windows Legal Customer of the Year Award

Global Alert Conference 2010

Patrick Dunn is new CPAC vice chairman

New PAETEC Data Center supports critical IT assets

Classic business continuity mistake at Central Michigan University

US major disaster declarations

Joint BCI, BSI and CCS BS 25999 workshop

DSM wins State of Florida IT disaster recovery contract

AOR 2010

Northern Ireland to review planning policy for flood risk

ICM announces large contract

Connect Express launches new business continuity service for UK SMEs

Continuity Software launches RecoverGuard Version 5.2

SNIA names Ashar Baig as chairman of new Cloud Backup & Recovery Special Interest Group

SunGard announces second quarter 2010 results

Omnitech aims to launch four more recovery centres in the next three years

The Planning Portal moves to SharePoint 2010

MAS takes supervisory action against DBS Bank Ltd for breakdown of the bank’s mainframe-storage area network

President declares major disaster for Texas

Humanitarian and Disaster Response Technologies conference and exhibition

Axcient secures $9M in second round of funding

NEDRIX Annual Conference '10

Victoria Bushfires Royal Commission releases Final 2009 Report


July business continuity news

Is pandemic planning now a laughing stock? Full results of the recent Continuity Central survey

National Flood Emergency Framework for England published

DMTF releases new Open Cloud Standards Incubator documents

Post-flood safety and recovery tips

VMworld 2010

Sign up for 2010 National Preparedness Month

COOP Systems announces new hosting capabilities

Music to my ears....

Cloud Security Alliance launches ‘Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge’

Vocal wins Emergency Planning Society’s ‘Most Innovative Product of the Year’

Interim report of the Winter Resilience Review published

Kroll Ontrack releases results of its Global Data Loss Causes Survey

With two years to go, UK businesses are urged to factor the 2012 Olympics into business continuity plans

Double-Take Software stockholders approve Vision Solutions merger agreement

Some thoughts on resilience

Cloud computing attitudes

Software-as-a-service protection strategies : research results

IBM unveils zEnterprise System

UK coalition government commits to keeping arrangements for resilience and civil contingencies within central government

WHO maintains pandemic status for H1N1 influenza

SNIA launches Cloud Backup and Recovery Special Interest Group

NIST publishes draft cloud computing and virtualization security guidance

New software seeks to integrate business continuity and enterprise risk management

Twelve Chicago southland education institutions sign mutual aid agreement

Future US water supply risks examined

DHS’s long range strategic plans criticised

Exercise Citius Torch tests London Olympic security preparedness

Hurricane season 2100

UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure publishes guide to managing online social networking risks

Code of Conduct seeks to address IT maintenance related-downtime

Food for thought...

The challenge of setting up recovery centres in Africa

SAS 70 is not proof of security, continuity or privacy compliance: Gartner

CFTC issues proposed business continuity and disaster recovery regulation for DCMs and DCOs

Winners of US National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge announced

NATO disaster response exercise scheduled for September

SunGard creates new enterprise risk management framework

Communication and funding are the biggest challenges to business continuity

Ipswitch survey looks at World Cup impact on corporate bandwidth

RMS reviews US terrorism trends

Researchers focus on cloud computing availability

Get Ready Week 2010

Practitioners’ ethics

In-crisis decision making: five steps to wow!

Natural disaster risks assessed

Many east Africa businesses lose Internet access due to SEACOM undersea cable fault

Understanding Security in Cloud Storage

June natural disaster roundup

Terrorism trends

New US Federal web portal launched to provide Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and recovery information and resources

Updated computer security NIST guidelines focus on security assessment plans

Compushare enhances Critical Systems Recovery solution

Pandemic planning: a business continuity success story

Q: When is a backup not a backup?

Deduplication: the pros and cons end users are not always told

EMC Atmos decision highlights one of the risks associated with cloud computing

BT strike is off, for now: decision gives business continuity managers more time to assess telecoms dependencies

European businesses and cloud computing

International operational sustainability standard for data center operations published by Uptime Institute

Two reports into UK pandemic response published

Human aspects of business continuity management

INONI launches ‘managed business continuity software’

6th Data Centres Europe Awards presented

2010 Hurricane Season resource page

Critical infrastructure resilience strategy launched by Australian government

Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants reauthorization passes Senate

July Business Continuity Briefs

Iron Mountain reports second quarter 2010 financial results

Parts of Pakistan experience ‘worst flooding in 100 years’

BCI Exercise Planning Master-Class

Olympic Games 2012: Contingency Planning roundtable

US major disaster declarations

WPA2 vulnerability found

Securing industrial control systems

SIOS expanding global enterprise market presence

VMware launches new volume purchasing program

BakBone adds Exchange 2010 Support to NetVault: FASTRecover

BCI London Forum : severe weather seminar

EU-funded technology helps disaster workers save lives

IBHS releases hurricane roof performance research study

SBA webinar provides tips on testing your business recovery plan

Award for Butler County Disaster Recovery Coalition

Family Assistance Foundation signs up with Send Word Now to reach out to volunteers and member organizations after tragic events

IBM and the Texas Department of Information Resources in dispute over backup & recovery, security and disaster recovery, amongst other areas

Plans to manage increased risk of flooding in Wales announced

New CharTec offering allows managed service providers to deploy backup and disaster recovery as a service

Omnitech to set up recovery facilities in NCR, Bangalore

Napolitano announces more than $1.8 billion in fiscal year 2010 preparedness grants

Major disaster declared for Nebraska

NOAA: June, April to June, and Year-to-Date global temperatures are warmest on record

BANG Business Continuity Professionals meeting

GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

PIA urges House to pass 5-year flood insurance extension bill

Emergency Planning for Severe Weather

Major disaster declared for Montana

Changed dates for the autumn Disaster Response Challenge

Print and mail business continuity pays off for Home Retail Group

Advanced Business Continuity Management Seminar

CAPS Shelton CT data center and work recovery facility successfully completes SAS 70 Type II 2010 audit

Contingency Planners of Ohio 2010 Business Survival & Recovery Conference

Airbus becomes the first aerospace company to gain BS 25999

CA ARCserve Backup r15 wins Backup Software Application of the Year at The Storage Awards 2010

‘Impact of New Madrid Seismic Zone Earthquakes on the Central USA’

US major disaster declarations

2010 NEDRIX Conference

US National Flood Insurance Program reinstated through to September 30, 2010

New Maplecroft index rates Pakistan and Egypt among nations facing 'extreme' water security risks

Double-Take Software named 2010 Support Department of the Year by The American Business Awards

Nirvanix launches ‘industry’s first hybrid cloud storage service’

June business continuity news

New business continuity standard published by Standards New Zealand and Standards Australia

Is pandemic planning now a laughing stock?

UK business continuity managers consider potential impacts of BT strike

BCI publishes new guide to business continuity guidance documents around the world

NHS Resilience PAS 2015: Guidance for NHS-funded organizations

Survey looks into UK downtime trends

A business continuity plan for all seasons

I've changed my mind about tape...

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly criticises WHO and governmental pandemic handling

BICSI European Conference report

New blast resistance standards published in US

Prepare web-applications for IE9

Supply chain continuity: navigating through supply chain dead zones

New satellite-based emergency communications service provides US companies with additional telecoms continuity options

AT&T wins Frost & Sullivan 2010 Product Leadership of the Year Award for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services North America

Do-it-yourself private storage clouds

BS25999 Users’ Workshop report

US small businesses ignoring business continuity

How enterprises can secure the cloud

BCI and KPMG launch 2010’s Continuity and Resilience Awards for India

DHS adopts three business continuity standards

The 2010 Business Continuity Benchmark Report

Airmic discusses integrating business continuity and enterprise risk management

Don’t let a disaster turn into a cashflow crisis

Report identifies future mega-earthquake hotspots

State of the Nation: Infrastructure 2010

GCC heatwave may cause power problems for local businesses

‘Security awareness: Turning your people into your first line of defence’

Enterprise risk management lessons from the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe

Secure access during a business continuity plan invocation

A tale of two hacks

Using new UK ICO powers as a force for change

New method aims to better identify emerging risks

ChicagoFIRST conducts telecommuting test

New Cybersecurity Bill introduced in US

The case for specialist business continuity management software

In-crisis decision making: participate or fail

Zero data loss disaster recovery: inhibitors

As the football World Cup starts in South Africa Aon Benfield publishes regional earthquake risk report

Companies with strong physical risk management deliver more stable earnings

Deloitte 2010 security survey: financial institutions making identity and access management tools their top priority

NIST WTC recommendations are basis for new set of building and fire codes

ColoHouse Miami Data Center gets new ‘Business Continuity Wing’

The disaster recovery practices of leading IT organizations

‘Who would have thought that would happen?’: new BCI report

Cloud? There’s a herd of elephants in the room...

New CEO for SunGard Availability Services

PS-PREP: expedite, do it right, and create awareness

The risks of social media explored

BCI London Forum surveys workarea recovery trends

Atlantic Hurricane Season expected to be worse than initially forecasted: Colorado State University

WHO assesses H1N1 pandemic situation

BANG announces the winners of the 2nd Annual Alternative Awards in Business Continuity Management

Twitter and business continuity

Speed things up...

SunGard publishes 2009 business continuity invocations log

BICSI to launch data centre standard

When to use elevators in an emergency evacuation

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to adopt pandemic report

Floods dominate May disasters

Aon publishes Terrorism Threat Map

BCI and KPMG launch 2010’s Continuity and Resilience Awards for India

The Survivability Analysis Framework

2010 Hurricane Season resource page

US National Flood Insurance Program expires

Lack of network scrutiny causes business continuity headaches

Digital copiers and information security

Failure mode analysis in data centres

Toward a global risk map

New UK corporate governance standard aims to enhance risk management

Canadian ministers publish ‘National Strategy and Action Plan for Critical Infrastructure’

June Business Continuity Briefs

Alternative funding sources needed for future flood defences

LabTech releases LT Backup

Government of Canada assists Alberta with damage caused by rainstorm

StorageCraft VirtualBoot enables servers to be restored in minutes

Liverpool Business Continuity Management Forum

New AHRQ guides offer us hospitals advice on emergency evacuation, assessment and recovery

Russian gas supply issues impact some European countries

Major disaster declared for the State Of West Virginia

Zmanda releases third generation Cloud Backup

NorthEast Disaster Recovery Information X-Change turns to Everbridge for business continuity communications

LiveVault 7.0

Al-Qaeda-linked militants are regrouping in the Sahara

BCI Crisis Management Workshop

COSO seeks participation in three surveys about ERM and controls

Business Continuity and Online Collaboration

Disaster recovery TCO analysis

Agilysys delivers powerful data backup and restore solution

International Business Continuity Summer School

‘Flooding and Historic Buildings’

MIR3 Releases Intelligent Notification Platform v2.19 with expanded IT event notification capability

Frequently asked questions about BS 31100 and BS ISO 31000

Fuzz testing tool available

Professional Risk Managers’ inaugural risk certification awards

Vodafone UK retains BS 25999 certification after audit

BC Management seeks members for International Benchmarking Advisory Board

The Activity of Catastrophic Windstorm Events in Europe in the 21st Century

StorageCraft enables automatic server recovery in a matter of minutes

Phoenix IT Group plc: audited preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2010

Asigra announces next-generation cloud backup platform with tiered recovery and extended support for mobile and virtual environments

Continuity Management for Civil Contingencies

New business continuity manager for PD Ports

Philippine Insurance Commission proposes universal coverage for natural disaster property damages

BCIplayer launched

European Commission launches debate on corporate governance in financial institutions

Flood and Coastal Risk Management Conference 2010

Safeguarding Australia 2010

SteelEye grows UK presence, expands business continuity sales efforts with new partners

Business Emergency Planning Professional Excellence Awards recognize four NE Ohio organizations

May business continuity news

When is a black swan not a black swan?

Business continuity software survey : SunGard’s response

‘Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready’

Number of UK droughts likely to increase

Business continuity planning in the United States

Business Continuity Institute starts ‘Discipline Mapping’ project

US SBA presents annual disaster recovery awards

UK print and mail disaster recovery provider expands capacity

The 2010 Business Continuity Awards

Brainstorming for outliers

Business continuity software quick survey: final results

Report describes the CERT ‘Resilience Management Model’

New computer security threat warning

New crisis management measures for future European volcanic ash crises

Probability of mega-quake hitting Pacific Northwest coast of the United States assessed

‘Security for Cloud Computing Users’: survey results

Information risk examined

SunGard Availability Services completes UK PC refresh

Risks of water scarcity and droughts in Europe explored

Demand for supply chain insurance grows as a result of the volcanic ash crisis: Marsh

Business Resilience in the Supply Chain

‘The link between business interruption insurance and BCM’

Eliminating data center hotspots

Risk & Resilience Expo cancelled

Double-Take Software to be acquired by Vision Solutions in $242 million deal

Nearly $790 million in new US critical infrastructure and preparedness grants announced

Europe’s volcano risks studied

Cloud security study

Neverfail launches continuous availability solution for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

UK gets new ‘National Security Council’

How is the new UK government likely to approach business continuity promotion?

New study looks into network resilience of 30 European countries

Backup and disaster recovery still a difficult area for many businesses

Five tips for adopting cloud gateways

When it comes to information security many employees are ‘the enemy within’

In-crisis decision making: practice makes perfect

Lessons from L’Aquila

Recovery Point upgrades private fiber network to optical

IBHS publishes new guidelines aimed at reducing wildfire risks to property

The UK gets a ‘DisasterNet’

New workforce continuity facility opens in Washington

ContinuitySA provides more Cape Town recovery space

Terror trends examined

9th Annual BCM Study

Policies and procedures during disaster recovery

BlackBerry Enterprise Server not being included in business continuity plans

Outcome of the EU Extraordinary Transport Council

SunGard Availability Services showcases new Sacramento Data Center

EU Transport Ministers meet to agree volcanic ash response

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman comments on the attempted Times Square terrorist attack

Volcanic ash disruption update page

May Business Continuity Briefs

Connecting DHS to the private sector

Advanced BCM Masterclass

SteelEye enhances data replication for multiple server configurations with DataKeeper 7.1

XGEN 2010

Ash cloud costs estimated

Date announced for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2011

Iridium reminds businesses to test satellite phones

Majority of UK SMEs still relying on an end of day backup strategy

IBHS provides new business continuity plan development resources for members

Major disaster declared for Oklahoma

Fraud risk assessments are critical requirements

Stonesoft introduces StoneGate IPS-1205 for advanced gigabit network protection

Major disaster declared for Mississippi

KVH to open second Tokyo data center : meets Japan FISC guidelines as a business continuity site

BELFOR opens Latin American headquarters

BS 25999 experiences requested

Three new climate change reports to be released by the US National Research Council

US major disaster declarations

BOWE BELL + HOWELL Business Continuity Production Services achieves SAS 70 certification for all Mail Processing Centers

SteelEye’s Dave Bermingham receives Microsoft MVP Award

Storage replication service from SunGard Availability Services offered through EMC Select program

‘ETERNUS for Business Continuity’

AT&T running Detroit business continuity exercise

E.ON UK achieves BS 25999 certification

US major disaster declarations

Restart refresh

Total cost of US fires up 86 percent from 1980

Steelhenge to showcase museum business continuity planning services at Museum and Heritage Show

APRA consults on prudential reporting requirements for Basel II

SunGard announces first quarter 2010 results

Edinburgh City Council case study

Vodafone Greece achieves BS 25999 certification

PAS 96: 2010 Defending food and drink

Equinix completes $683.4m acquisition of Switch and Data

US major disaster declarations

IBM opens cloud computing laboratory in Singapore


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