Business Continuity Guidance for Swine Flu
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
“Business continuity and disaster recovery are crucial parts of sound corporate governance - for industries like the financial sector and the nation’s critical infrastructure, they are mandates. Organizations that fail to plan and prepare for events like public health emergencies, natural disasters, and man-made disruptions face loss of business, and potential corporate exposure if they fail in these obligations. It is time to get serious about earlier and better handling of risk issues.”
Hathaway Bolsters Internet Security Alliance
By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor
Despite numerous lukewarm reviews of the 2009 RSA Security Conference by attendees and reporters, the Internet Security Alliance’s President Larry Clinton recognized that the keynote address to the collective conference body by Melissa E. Hathaway, Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, offers affirmation of the mission and principles on which the Internet Security Alliance (ISAlliance) was founded.
ISR News: IBM’s Financial New World Order
Excerpts From Finextra.com
The study predicts significant consolidation in segments wrought with over-capacity - such as investment banking, asset management, and wealth management - as firms adapt to a new lower-margin landscape where they will need to specialise around services that clients value rather than continuing to provide a full range of in-house services. Enhanced regulation and transparency will also eliminate opacity, with previously high-margin activities becoming commoditised.
