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August 2008

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Preparing for email outages is a weak area in business continuity planning
According to a new survey.
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•Date: 29th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Data leakage is top information security issue
How to secure remote, mobile and collaborative working is the second highest concern.
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•Date: 29th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Double-Take Software supports trend for business continuity managed services
Double-Take Software has announced that a growing number of its partners have launched managed business continuity services in the UK during the first six months of 2008. The services remotely manage the deployment of a Double-Take solution at a customer site, replicating changes to corporate data to a remote data centre in real time and, in the event of failure of production servers, automatically failing-over IT services. The introduction of these services is in line with the growing trend for the channel to offer hosted and managed services to their customers.
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•Date: 29th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New ‘Bouncebackability Index’ looks at business continuity planning in UK SMEs
Only a third of small and medium-sized enterprises have a business continuity plan in place.
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•Date: 28th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Ready, willing, but not able
UK and Irish companies have succession planning initiatives in place, but lack effective processes and support.
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•Date: 26th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Draft version of BS 25777 published
Comments requested on BSI’s ‘Code of Practice for Information and Communications Technology Continuity’.
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•Date: 21st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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National Gateway Security Survey 2008 shows interesting changes in threat landscape
But focus is still on external threat, despite the greater danger of inside threat.
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•Date: 21st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Sentrum announces agreement with SunGard Availability Services UK
Sentrum, a specialist in data centre solutions, has announced that SunGard Availability Services will be taking substantial space in Sentrum’s recently acquired data centre facility in Woking. Initially leasing 25,000 sq ft, the agreement also provides SunGard with the option to double its capacity in the future. www.sentrum.com
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•Date: 21st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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BCI Symposium 2008
The Business Continuity Institute Annual Symposium will take place on 9th and 10th October 2008 in Brighton. The two days have been divided into three streams, two examining key stages of the BCM lifecycle with one going back to basics for those relatively new to business continuity and the other targeted at experienced practitioners considering ways of taking BCM to the next level. The third stream, entitled BCM in Action, looks at certification and standards, various case studies and legislation and regulation. http://www.thebci.org/symposium.htm. The BCI is pleased to offer subscribers to Continuity Central the BCI membership rate: please state that you are a Continuity Central reader when booking to gain this benefit.
•Date: 21st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Events
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Northern Ireland Executive ministers meet to discuss floods response
Short and long term disaster recovery arrangements discussed after widespread flooding.
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•Date: 19th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Royal visitor gets emergency preparedness master-class
HRH, The Duke of York, recently spent four hours with Sembcorp at the Wilton International site on Teesside during a brief trip to the northeast of England. The Prince showed a special interest in the Sembcorp Protection Group, which is one of Europe’s leading emergency response providers, responsible for safeguarding £14 billion worth of high-hazard industrial assets. During the visit he observed an exercise that tested one of the company’s credible scenarios under the COMAH regulations, and took the opportunity to talk with members of the Protection Group team who were leading the communication processes, managing the technical firefighting and managing the incident.
•Date: 19th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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Maslow and business continuity
An understanding of Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs is useful for any business continuity strategy.
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•Date: 15th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The case for CDP
Simon Kelson explains why he believes that continual data protection is the optimum IT disaster recovery solution for most businesses.
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•Date: 15th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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NODE4 introduce a new DR solution
Data Centre specialist, Node4, has launched N4DRS, a new disaster recovery solution that uses Platespin Forge technology to protect multiple servers, either physical or virtual, across several sites. The servers are backed up onto the appliance N4DRS regularly so that in the event of a server outage or disaster the business will continue to run as normal on the appliance until the normal environment is restored. N4DRS can be centralised in Node4’s data centre where it is managed and monitored. http://www.node4.co.uk/
•Date: 15th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Business Continuity sponsors international women’s rugby
The Northampton (UK) based firm Business Continuity has agreed to sponsor the international invitation women’s rugby team the Nomads.
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•Date: 15th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT Group plc issues interim management statement
Statement focuses on the trading situation of the group’s ICM Business Continuity Division.
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•Date: 14th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Market-wide Exercise 2008 update
The FSA has published details of November’s UK financial sector business continuity exercise.
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•Date: 13th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing & exercising
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Red Cross Disaster Response Challenge
12th – 14th September 2008, Bramley, Hampshire.
The Disaster Response Challenge is a two-day event exclusive to the British Red Cross. It provides an opportunity for participants to test their crisis management skills in a practical situation.
Booking fee:  £50
Minimum sponsorship:  £500 (All money raised through this event will benefit the work of the British Red Cross)
Contact  Olivia Kilbee on 020 7382 4653 or okilbee@redcross.org.uk
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•Date: 13th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Events
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FloodFighters 2008
November 3 - 4, 2008, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK.
Hosted by Gloucestershire University, which lies at the heart of one of the areas most severely affected by the 2007 floods, FloodFighters 2008 will be building on its effective formula of high level conference and high level practical workshops, with defined learning outcomes. This event incorporates a case study site visit.
http://www.flood-fighters.com/08Index08.html
•Date: 13th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Events
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Multiply the uses of your business continuity infrastructure
Many IT managers don’t realise that their business continuity infrastructure can be much more than a convenient means to get data offsite...
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•Date: 13th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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UK gets a ‘National Risk Register’
Document advises organizations to develop business continuity plans and highlights BS 25999.
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•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Many companies have a false sense of confidence in their backup solutions
According to a new survey.
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•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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‘Exercising for Excellence: Delivering Successful Business Continuity Management Exercises’
New book from BSI.
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•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing and ex
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Monitoring for effective data protection
Barriers are not enough; data protection requires a systematic risk based approach.
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•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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ICM wins contract from Scottish Prison Service
ICM Business Continuity Services has been awarded a contract by the Scottish Prison Service for the provision of an off-site facility to mirror the existing applications and services provided by the Prison Service’s centrally-located server suite at South Gyle. Additionally, ICM will provide 20 workarea seats for Scottish Prison Service
Staff. The seven year contract will cost £135,000 per year. ICM will use its Hamilton facility to service the contract. Sources include
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•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Pilgrims Group to secure SunGard Availability Services Premises across UK
Pilgrims Group has been awarded a contract to provide manned security guarding teams for 16 of SunGard’s 20 UK recovery centre sites. Pilgrims will secure these buildings, providing front-of-house security services, including guarding access control and visitor management. www.pilgrimsgroup.com
•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Why is business continuity testing a weak area?
Allen Johnson responds to Continuity Central’s recent article ‘Improving business continuity testing and exercising’.
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•Date: 7th August 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing and ex
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London Resilience publishes London Recovery Management Protocol Version 2
Document details the arrangements for multi-agency regional recovery coordination in London.
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•Date: 7th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public setor
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FloodSim: new game helps explore UK flood risk
Helps businesses understand flooding risk and the policy decisions needed to make sure the UK is protected against floods.
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•Date: 7th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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‘Mutual Aid - a short guide for local authorities’
New document seeks to state the case for the benefits of mutual aid in a UK disaster situation.
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•Date: 5th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector
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New interim management service for the business continuity sector
Designed to fill temporary staffing gaps related to business continuity.
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•Date: 5th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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YouGov survey looks into telecoms continuity and the cost of downtime
Telecoms downtime incident costs an average of £14,431.
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•Date: 1st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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SunGard launches ‘Total Recovery’ service in the UK
New fully managed ship-to-site recovery service provides pre-configured servers.
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•Date: 1st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Consultation on 2008 Defra's Contingency Plan for Exotic Animal Diseases
Defra is inviting comments on the 2008 version of its Contingency Plan for Exotic Animal Diseases.
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•Date: 1st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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UK government takes first steps towards a National Flood Emergency Framework
Scoping document published in response to the Pitt Review.
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•Date: 31st July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Tripartite Authorities release pandemic exercise materials
Useful resources from the Market-wide Exercise 2006 published.
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•Date: 31st July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Testing and exercising
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British businesses under flood-threat are failing to make IT continuity plans
According to a new survey.
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•Date: 31st July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Cultural conditioning – the training dilemma
James Royds highlights the benefits that exercising brings to the whole business continuity lifecycle.
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•Date: 18th July 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Improving business continuity testing and exercising
Three surveys published recently seem to show that testing and exercising of business continuity and disaster recovery plans and strategies is generally a weak area. Continuity Central asked various business continuity experts why this should be the case and what organizations can do to improve in this area.
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•Date: 18th July 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Testing and exercising
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