Business Continuity News
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Australian National Audit Office seeks feedback on Business Continuity Management Better Practice Guide
ANAO is asking BCMs to complete a short 15 minutes survey by 3rd October 2008.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04130.html
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: Australia
New NIST publication addresses design of earthquake-resistant structures
First of a special series of ‘techbriefs’ intended to address topics of interest to earthquake professionals in the design and construction industries.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04131.html
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: US/World
North American IT security spending still on the rise
According to Forrester survey.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04133.html
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: US
Protecting wireless sensor networks
Computer scientists at Florida Atlantic University have developed a new antihacking system to protect WSNs.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04132.html
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: US
3Tera expands cloud computing network
Provides high availability, redundancy and disaster recovery for users’ applications.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04134.html
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: World
Merge launches off site disaster recovery services for US healthcare sector
HIPAA compliant disaster recovery services launched.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04135.html
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: US
Business Continuity Awareness Week 2009
The Business Continuity Institute has announced that next year’s UK and Europe Business Continuity Awareness Week will take place between 23rd and 27th March.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04126.html
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: UK/Europe
Singapore involves the public in pandemic planning exercise
Participating institutions will conduct a practical drill at selected branches and customer counters.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04125.html
•Date: 4th September 2008• Region: SE Asia
Patent granted for business continuity solution via disparate networks
Invention allows for dynamic load balancing and automatic failover of packets over multiple parallel private and public networks for high levels of WAN fault tolerance and security.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04127.html
•Date: 4th Sept 2008• Region: US
Watch out for widgets…
Web 2.0 widgets are a growing security risk says IDC.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04129.html
•Date: 4th Sept 2008• Region: W.Europe/World
New blade server is the first to actively reduce security threats
IBM blade performs real-time analysis of network activity so malicious traffic can be diverted.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04128.html
•Date: 4th Sept 2008• Region: World
Presents the results of an ALARM workshop in which forty-five participants from a wide cross section of UK public services and the insurance industry discussed the subject of partnership risks.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04123.html
•Date: 2nd September 2008• Region: UK
Gustav disaster recovery
This update page provides disaster recovery information related to the impact of Hurricane Gustav.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04122.html
•Date: 2nd September 2008• Region: US
New ISO standard provides information security guidelines for the health sector
How best to protect data while assuring its availability for healthcare delivery is the issue addressed by the newly published ISO 27799:2008.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04124.html
•Date: 2nd September 2008• Region: World
IDRC Davos 2008 roundup
UPDATED Learning points from the International Disaster and Risk Conference 2008.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04118.html
•Date: 2nd Sept 2008 • Region: W.Europe/World
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