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ASIS International moves forward with organizational resilience maturity model
Announces committee formation; effort will help organizations tailor implementation of the ANSI/ASIS Organizational Resilience Standard to their specific business needs.
ICM takes Shadow-Planner to the next level
The Shadow-Planner business continuity software suite has been given a complete re-write to make it quicker, more intuitive and easier to use.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service adoption growing: Yankee Group survey
While adoption is still much slower than that of SaaS solutions, the market is gaining traction.
Error in climate change models may mean that sea level rises will not be as rapid as previously expected
The threat remains; but mitigation time may be extended.
Support website for Canterbury earthquake is operational
A website has been set up to help Canterbury (NZ) businesses and residents recover from the recent major earthquake.
Business continuity briefs
Short news pieces.
August major disasters roundup
Aon Benfield has published its monthly summary of major world disasters.
The shifting sands of business continuity management
The business continuity status quo is being challenged. By David Honour.
BSI provides an update on the new PAS 200 guide to crisis management
Will be published by the end of 2010.
Information security starts before software purchase
CPNI has published a list of questions that procurement teams, business risk managers and information security professionals should be asking vendors to help prevent software related downtime.
NIST finalizes initial Smart Grid Cyber Security Guidelines
Includes information for businesses and organizations to use as they craft strategies to protect the modernizing power grid from attacks, malicious code, cascading errors, and other threats.
Most organizations are reluctant to virtualize mission critical applications: survey
Only 14 percent of companies have done so, according to AppDynamics.
Business continuity briefs
Short news pieces.
MTPD: the jury's out...
According to the interim results of our current survey, only half of business continuity managers think that MTPD is a useful concept.
World's first full in-browser VNC access allows management of cloud servers during a denial of access scenario
Breakthrough made by CloudSigma.
Get ready for Earl
UPDATED As Hurricane Earl approaches, FEMA urges east coast businesses to be prepared.
Managing social media risks
Managing the impacts of social media comes down to having the right overall crisis management practices in place.
Future IT
VMware outlines its vision for the next decade of information technology: IT as a service.
Five years later - how New Orleans flood risk has changed since Hurricane Katrina
Significant investments have been made in levees over the last five years; however, flood threat continues to rise as the city sinks and sea levels rise.
Calculating acceptable downtime
Calculating acceptable downtimeJohn Robinson discusses the above subject and using the concept of maximum tolerable period of disruption as a tool.
