Resilience / Recovery

  • Need seen for single U.S. disaster recovery agency

    The Obama administration has launched a series of meetings around the country which bring together government officials and representatives of non-profit, volunteer, and faith-based organizations to identify and share best practices and innovations in the area of disaster recovery; insights gathered at these meetings and at other similar meetings will go into recommendations for improving disaster recover policy to be presented to the Obama administration in April

  • Land down underAussie telco says it is ready for the next Black Saturday

    The bushfires in Victoria, Australia on 7 February took 173 lives, ravaged thousands of hectares of land, and burned down hundreds of houses; providers Telstra and Optus were both hit hard by the fires too, with communications outages across fixed-line and mobile networks, Internet exchanges and power stations; Telstra says its systems are now more robust

  • Bridges of the twenty-first centuryCumbria flood bridges facing safety checks

    Heavy rains in north-west U.K. cause six bridges in Cumbria to collapse; engineers are now examining the safety of the county's 1,800 bridges; forty waste treatment works which have been put out of action, and 1,300 homes were flooded

  • Counter Terror Expo 2010, April 14-15, National Hall, Olympia, United Kingdom

  • If disaster struck, most U.S. employees could not work remotely

    If major business interruptions -- such as severe weather, mass illness, major road closings, or public transit strikes -- occurred, the majority of employees in U.S. organizations could not work remotely

  • Nuclear mattersGAO: FEMA not ready for nuclear, radiological attack

    GAO: "FEMA has not developed a national disaster recovery strategy or related plans to guide involvement of federal agencies in these recovery activities, as directed by federal law and executive guidance"

  • Be preparedPractical guides to disaster recovery planning in SMEs

    Gartner says that "40% of all SMBs will go out of business if they cannot get to their data in the first 24 hours after a crisis"; two papers aim to help SMBs prepare for disaster

  • Border Security Expo & Conference, Phoenix, Arizona – April 23 & 24, 2010

  • SAIC acquires Beck Disaster Recovery

    SAIC, a government contractor with revenues last year of $10.1 billion, wants a bigger presence in disaster recovery operations; it acquires a Florida-based disaster recovery specialist, changing its name to SAIC's Homeland Protection & Preparedness business unit

  • Napolitano orders immediate review of Katrina recovery

    FEMA was stung by Katrina, and new DHS chief wants a review of that event and the response to it

  • TrendIndia to see a large, broad growth in expenditures on domestic security

    A series of terrorist attacks, culminating in the coordinated attack in Mumbai last month, convinced both government and industry in India that more security -- much more security -- is required to cope with mounting threats to domestic peace; business opportunities abound for companies in IT security, biometric, surveillance, detection, situational awareness, and more

  • Effectively Countering Terrorism – Prevention, Preparedness, Response – Sussex A

  • Day of smart grid nears

    Major blackouts may be a thing of the past: the world's first high-voltage Li-ion system can connect to the grid, without a transformer, and immediately turn on if there is a disruption in power

  • Making cloud computing safer

    As the cost and other benefits of cloud computing become apparent, more and more companies move parts of their infrastructure out of their data centers; there is a need, though, to think long and hard about disaster-proofing the cloud

  • Report: Private sector can better prepare for cyber attack risks

    New expert panel report suggests shifting control of corporate cyber infrastructures from IT departments to chief financial officers

  • U.K. businesses lack understanding of threats they face

    U.K. companies invest billions in software for intrusion detection, encryption, and identity management, but are still struggling with basic security processes

  • GAO: U.S. computer emergency readiness team is not ready

    Government Accounting Office criticizes US-CERT for lacking "a comprehensive baseline understanding of the nation's critical information infrastructure operations" and for not exhibiting "aspects of the attributes essential to having a truly national capability," among other things

  • Hurricane GustavGustav brings down cell, Internet service

    Power outages caused by Hurricane Gustav brought down cellular and Internet service in parts of Louisiana, but the storm's impact was much milder than Katrina's

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