http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog Consistently-entertaining, thoughtful commentary on business continuity (BCP), crisis management & emergency response Fri, 02 May 2008 09:10:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Singapore's financial sector industry-wide exercise (IWE) will run from September 1 through 13, 2008. There will be three (3) event developments in a highly-pathogenic influenza (HPI) scenario over the two-week period, plus a "practical exercise" that will apparently require mobilization of people or resources or both. The IWE is sponsored by ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=78 There is no more important long-term challenge in protecting businesses, homes and lives than bridging the knowledge gaps between what I call the “resilience professions”: business continuity, disaster response, disaster recovery, emergency management, crisis management, risk management and security. Asia is about to host the first conference I’ve seen to ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=77 Here in Asia, a lot of BCP practitioners want to earn certifications in business continuity and the related fields of emergency management, I.T. disaster recovery, crisis management and security. I've made a table of certifications in those fields and links to the organizations that offer them. I've included only certifications from ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=76 Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has new BCM guidelines that became effective in January.Banks in Malaysia have until 30 June 2008 to comply with the guidelines. Download the guidelines here (Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file, 42 pages). The document number is BNM/RH/GL 013-3, but I cannot find it on the BNM ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=75 If you made up this scenario for a tabletop exercise, you'd be laughed out of the room: At 08:00 on Wednesday morning January 30, two ships 2,500 kilometers (1,600 miles) apart in the Mediterranean drop their anchors in stormy weather off Alexandria, Egypt and Marseilles, France at the same time. They ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=73 An epidemic of avian influenza in West Bengal, India has the Indian “government in panic mode”, according to the Times of India web site. And with good reason: 15 million of West Bengal’s 80 million people are crammed into its capital city, Kolkata (Calcutta), a petri dish of poverty, pollution, ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=72 The online and in-house securities trading systems of Phillip Securities in Singapore crashed on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The online system used by customers is Phillip's On-line Electronic Mart System (POEMS), the "Web site most-visited by Singapore users in [market research company Hitwise's] Business and Finance Stocks and Shares category", according ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=71 Thousands of innocent bankers could perish in Singapore’s next financial sector disaster exercise in 3Q 2008, when the Standing Committee on Business Continuity Management of the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) plans to simulate the late stages of an infectious disease epidemic on the island. No event in ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=70 The Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) has appointed a new representative in Singapore, operating under the name “DRI Singapore.” The representative, CCS Enterprise (S) Private Limited, also operates Strohl Systems Singapore for the American BCP software company Strohl Systems. Note: Strohl Systems advertises on our web site. ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=69 The Emergency Manager’s Toolbox from All Hands Global Emergency Management Consulting (AHC) contains a treasure trove of presentations, checklists, guidelines and documents for reference. AHC is a U.S.-based consortium of emergency management and business continuity consultants founded by Steve Davis. Forbes Calamity Prevention has been the AHC partner in ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=68