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news headlines: 7th May 2008

US business continuity salary and compensation report
BC Management, Inc., has released its latest report into compensations for full-time, permanent, business continuity employees in the US.
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Date: 7th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK entering a ‘flood-rich’ period
Britain must prepare for more floods; but recurring long-term weather patterns rather than climate change may be the cause.
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Date: 7th May 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Disaster recovery
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Banking Banana Skins 2008
The turmoil in the financial markets has completely transformed the risk landscape, according to the latest ‘Banking Banana Skins’ survey conducted by the CSFI in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Date: 7th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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BCM Institute sets out strategic goals
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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Date: 7th May 2008• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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SunGard Availability Services agrees strategic partnership with VMware
SunGard will leverage VMware virtualization solutions to help create a suite of simple, fully-managed AdvancedRecovery services.
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Date: 7th May 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Huge rise in UK product recalls
Many companies unprepared for the related business risks.
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Date: 7th May 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Retail BC
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Today's issue includes:
• Cyclone Nargis devastates Myanmar
• Major disaster declared for Oklahoma
• Flood risk fear over key UK sites
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts

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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

How to deploy BS 25999 : second edition

The Conference Board looks into use of business continuity, disaster recovery and related standards by US organizations

Scottish universities team up for business continuity

Strohl adds emergency notification feature to PLANet

Process safety in the major hazards industries

Financial innovations can open the US insurance market to wider disaster coverage

US National Level Exercise 2-08

Corporate manslaughter: new challenges for boardroom and advisers

Survey looks at business continuity in medium sized UK companies

UK organisations rely on team spirit rather than business continuity plans to see them through a crisis: according to employees

Joint Forum publishes risk concentrations paper

2008 Multinational Risk Survey

Change your attitude to data security...

Six best practices companies should consider before they virtualize their servers

Dell completes MessageOne acquisition

Exercise Phoenix

18th World Conference on Disaster Management

A six step guide for preparing for a fuel shortage

Varolii introduces complete suite of workforce continuity applications

SBA honors outstanding disaster recovery efforts

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announces steps to strengthen the resilience of the banking system

Russia’s National Depository Center tests business continuity plan

Climate change is having a greater and faster impact than expected: WWF report

Why did the risk manager cross the road?

The 2008 Global Information Security Workforce Study

Federal Communications Commission summit on the current state and future of the US emergency alert system

Organisations in Scotland and N.England warned over ‘month of fuel shortages’

Data storage, security and backup practices of US medium-sized businesses explored

2008 Information Security Breaches Survey published

IAEM and NACo raise post-disaster funding issue

Queensland Government upgrading disaster monitoring

Norman warns CEOs over targeted email attacks

US businesses see supply chain risks rising

UK needs to take flood hazards more seriously: Pitt

‘Global Movement Management: Strengthening Commerce, Security and Resiliency in Today's Networked World’

NIST seeks comments on draft earthquake hazards plan

Malware threat evolving

BCI Workshop to share user experiences of BS 25999

Organizations at risk from unsecured USB flash drives: survey

Irish government launches information and awareness campaign on emergency planning

FEMA releases Strategic Plan for FY 2008-2013

ICM develops ‘Emergency Office’

NIST seeks comments on information risk management publication

US Commercial Mobile Alert System takes a step forward

Australian Privacy Commissioner seeks views on data breach notification guide

Data Centres Europe Awards presented

Fujitsu becomes first company in Japan to attain BS 25999 certification

Global corporations increase self-insurance

Human resilience strategies: the recovery phase

Business continuity budgets holding up

Risk managing the future

Initial observations from TOPOFF 4 exercise released

Outsourcing code development – is it a risk worth taking?

Many organizations putting all their eggs in one basket when it comes to email servers

Business continuity salary survey: your input requested

Australia-New Zealand Business Continuity Awareness Week 2008

Six industry sectors should be on high alert over climate change risks: KPMG

PCI compliance and web application security: what you need to know for the upcoming policy changes

Unified storage – more than just SAN/NAS

‘Self-service’ storage: has its moment arrived?

DHS provides cyber-protection update

BCI revises certification standards for professional practitioners

Business Continuity Awards shortlist published

Marsh survey examines European attitudes to business continuity

European Commission takes Italy to court for contingency planning failures

New Zealand government publishes revised national strategy for emergency management

Virtualization cuts application downtime

A business continuity management primer

UK disaster recovery planning activities examined

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reviews FEMA disaster readiness

RMS calls for UK Government to improve inadequate flood defence information

Virtualization will be the highest-impact trend in IT infrastructure and operations over the next few years: Gartner

BSI to run BS 25999 Part 2 events throughout Europe

Crisis management lessons from Terminal 5

Is business continuity certification right for your organization?

Hardware failure remains highest cause of UK business continuity invocations

Risk 2018: Planning for an unpredictable decade

Data center automation to become increasingly significant over next two years: survey

Software tackles production line machine ‘cyclic jitters’

The impact of the consumerization of IT on IT security management

New ISO standard project will facilitate recall of unsafe products

Marsh launches business insurance product to address windstorm exposures

Information security policies ineffective without employee buy-in

Climate change seen as top emerging risk

US National Response Framework comes into effect

FFIEC publishes updated business continuity planning guidance

UK government publishes National Security Strategy

The design, management and evaluation of exercises and tests

Strohl presents third annual business continuity awards

Ernst & Young highlights top ten risks facing the insurance sector

EU and Ukraine discuss mutual disaster response support

TeleContinuity receives telecommunications carrier license from Japanese government

A case study in supply chain vulnerabilities

CERT Resiliency Engineering Framework available for download

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3n and SDI join forces to deliver complete crisis and incident management solution

GAIL sets up recovery centre at Jaipur

Companies worry about the growing data security risk from remote workers and network ‘outsiders’

Human factors in business continuity, part three

Scientists simulate pandemic influenza outbreak in Chicago

Gartner highlights the risks in virtual environment deployments

ENISA issues six recommendations for information security certifications in Europe

Rontal launches rugged portable incident management system

Business continuity benchmark survey launched by Deloitte

Overcoming preparedness fatigue

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Cyber Storm II exercise underway

Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual business continuity survey

Worldwide information security spending expected to increase in 2008

A third of UK businesses leave their back-up tapes in the office overnight

New ISO standard for IT disaster recovery published




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