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LRQA brunch: Information security: two subjects - two points of view

Event: 26th Nov 2009 –

LRQA are holding a Brunch in Prague to discuss these matters.

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A Global Business Continuity Plan for Recovery and Reform

– 16th Apr 2009 by Raz Chaudary

The communiqué also seeks to establish and promote greater collaboration between nations to “guard against risk” and “discourage excessive risk-taking” by strengthening regulatory systems and supervision.

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Business Continuity Awards: a decade of diligence

– 1st Apr 2009 by Raz Chaudary

“The trend towards globalisation makes business continuity more important,” says Caddick. “Fraud in the US affects UK businesses. Climate change has more of an immediate impact on British companies now they have outsourced many things to China.”

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Business Assurance Thought and Link of of the Day, March 26, 2009: Business Continuity and Six Sigma

– 26th Mar 2009 by Raz Chaudary

“Business continuity, security and emergency management are all process-driven activities. As such, it makes sense to ensure that those processes are constantly being reviewed and improved. Six Sigma is a process that ought to be considered for these disciplines, as it deals with process improvement.”

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Top 10 highest risk countries for absolute natural disaster, economic losses and hydro-meteorological risks

– 18th Mar 2009 by Raz Chaudary

The impact of natural disasters was estimated at US$200 billion. China and USA accounted for 90%, globally positioning them most susceptible to economic losses.

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Using BS 25999 to reduce risk and lower compliance costs

– 27th Feb 2009 by Raz Chaudary

A recent research report, comprising of interviews conducted by IBM, with over 1200 chief financial officers from 79 countries, concluded the following points mentioned in the article.

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exposure to economic risks increasing

– 9th Feb 2009 by Raz Chaudary

One of the main conclusions from the report suggests that the disaster impact could have been reduced through resilient building design and the deployment of an early warning system complemented with good community preparedness.

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Financial Crisis Highlighting Benefits of Managing Risk, Cost Reduction and Effective Stakeholder Management

– 28th Jan 2009 by Raz Chaudary

Business Insurance Europe has conducted a panel interview comprising of insurance and risk management executives on the impact of the credit crunch upon businesses.

Short-term needs for credit to fulfil operational obligations have been identified as being much greater than ever to ensure future sustainability of businesses

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How Prepared Are You? Business Continuity Management Toolkit

– 27th Jan 2009 by Raz Chaudary

In the event of a business disruption, Business Continuity Management (BCM) helps you to identify and prepare for critical business operations. This may be more important for organisations with global complex supply chains or where there is a single-point of dependency from either the supplier or customer side.

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$1bn fraud…shakes business & consumer confidence

– 20th Jan 2009 by Raz Chaudary

There is a business continuity issue here as well. So, that benefit is bound to occur to the other IT companies which customers have high confidence in terms of the integrity of the management. The company had exaggerated its cash reserves by some $1bn (£661m)”.

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