Continuity Central News

The last in a series of articles looking at human resource aspects of business continuity management.

Business continuity management requirements will have to be adopted and implemented by SGX member firms.

On the evening of 8th May 2008, CIR magazine presented its Business Continuity Awards to this year's winners. The awards went to...

California has more than a 99 percent chance of having a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake within the next 30 years, according to scientists using a new model to determine the probability of big quakes.

The infrastructure to deal with last year's floods was, and still is, in an 'unclear and chaotic state'.

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BC Management, Inc., has released its latest report into compensations for full-time, permanent, business continuity employees in the US.

Britain must prepare for more floods; but recurring long-term weather patterns rather than climate change may be the cause.

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.

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.

SunGard will leverage VMware virtualization solutions to help create a suite of simple, fully-managed AdvancedRecovery services.

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Avalution Consulting and BSI Management Systems America have published an updated version of their co-authored white paper 'How to deploy BS 25999'.

No consensus on which is the most useful standard.

All of Lothian's universities and colleges are coming together under an agreement to provide mutual support and shared resources in the event of a major emergency.

Enables community banks or credit unions to contact employees and vendors in a time of crisis.

Lessons from the 'Leading from the top - avoiding major incidents' conference.

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NLE 2-08 will exercise capabilities to prepare and respond to multiple incidents including both natural disasters and terrorist incidents.

Chris Woodcock highlights the business risks engendered by the new UK Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act.