news headlines: 19th JUNE 2008

NHS Resilience and Business Continuity Management Guidance 2008
UK Department of Health publishes interim BCM guidance for NHS organisations: feedback requested.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector BC
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Midwest floods: disaster recovery resources and news
Activities related to flooding in the US Midwest are starting to move from the emergency response phase into the disaster recovery phase. This update page provides helpful information and links.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Global Equities wins award for business continuity innovation
Global Equities, a Paris-based institutional financial services company, has won the prestigious Trophee de L’Innovation for pioneering use of technology.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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New study demonstrates that lack of pandemic planning will affect the bottom line
‘Making a case for investing in pandemic preparedness.’
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region: NA/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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European Network and Information Security Agency warns about USB flash drive risks
Report highlights good practice in the management of USB Flash Drives.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region:W.Europe/ UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Sustainability ‘becoming a top risk management issue’
Sustainability is much more than just a theoretical challenge and has become a factor that affects any organisation’s risk profile.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Security management in the supply chain
UKAS looking for feedback.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Advanced Business Continuity Management Workshop
• The Business Continuity Summer School
• Softbank Telecom and Bay Microsystems deploy multi-site disaster recovery solution for virtual machines
• BCI ‘Test & Exercise Planning’ Workshop
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Floods in East India
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