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The BP Deepwater Horizon well has been official declared dead and with litigation being discussed in terms of a 20 year time scale, a bloody and bruised BP is picking up the pieces. BP's official Accident Investigation Report has now been released. It details the 8 'safety barriers' that were breached leading to the explosion and subsequent oil-spill. These include a combination of mechanical failures, human judgements, engineering design, operational implementation and team communication. BP's senior management have accepted ALL recommendations from the report pertaining to drilling and well operations, contractor and service provider oversight. |
 Some of the many lessons to learn include:1. Tailor your BC plan to your company. Representative Henry Waxman and other members of the US Congress heavily criticised executives from BP and four other oil giants for using near identical 'cookie cutter' response plans.  3. Get your PR right. Don't have your CEO saying "I'd like my life back" when people have lost theirs and others have had their livelihoods destroyed. 4. Have a holistic approach to risk. Buffering against risk is only part of the solution. The unexpected is inevitable and plans for every part |
of this must be in place: incident prevention, stopping the leak, clean up, public relations, litigation, the wider effect on the oil industry, damage to brand value. 5. Don't rely on real-time problem solving during a serious incident. Instead, make sure there is sound planning detailed procedural steps and outlining specific markers for success and failure. Read more detail about these and other lessons on the links below. Download the report here. BP Internal Investigation CEB: Operation lessons from BP CEB: Learning from BP CBS: Lawmakers Berate Oil Execs over Response Plan Lessons Learned from BP Oil Spill The BP Well is dead. Long Live the Lessons from the Gulf oil spill |
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The rapid take up of these and other similar sites has allowed their |
The benefits are clear. By it's nature, use of Social Media allows rapid alteration and dissemination of information. With a geographical reach equal to, and in many cases better than traditional industrial media, effectively managed Social Media can lead to gains in market share, increased brand awareness and value and a broader audience. Before charging headlong into a new Social Media driven corporate expansion, there's a good case for developing sound Social Marketing policy. The downside risks are many and include exposure to litigation, false advertising claims and the divulging of sensitive corporate information. IT security issues such as loss of data and vulnerability to hackers are also considerations when putting together policies and practices for use of Social Media within the enterprise. |
 Due to the dynamic nature of media these days, policy needs to be as future proof
as possible.Using new Social Media policy to draw attention to existing security policies as well as avoiding building policies around specific platforms such as Facebook or Twitter, but rather focussing on the broader Social Media landscape, may help avoid constant policy redundancies and rewrites. 4 Tips for Writing a Great Social Media Security Policy Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking Implications of Increased Use of Social Media Fear of Data Loss, Social Media Security Risks Rising Hacking a Corporate Network with Facebook |
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Cloud Computing is one of the fastest growing areas in the IT world. Confidentiality Housing data externally has obvious risks and the weakest links may be out of your control. If your supplier's security is compromised, the likelihood is that yours is too. Possible solutions here are encryption of sensitive data or excluding this data from the cloud and keeping it in house. This hybrid approach is also most likely the best way to get your toes wet in the world of cloud-based solutions. Integrity Integrity of cloud based data can become an issue if systems are |
 Availability Again, due diligence is key when choosing a partner. Areas to focus on are availability guarantees, second site with failover and automatic synchronisation facilities as well as the basics such as adequate business continuity and disaster recovery planning. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that by early next year, 90% of their staff will be in entirely cloud |
In a recent white paper Architectural Strategies for IT Optimisation: From Silos to Clouds Oracle cites Cloud computing as one of it's core guiding principles for IT Optimisation, citing cost as a major rationale.Gartner estimates that by 2013, 60% of server workloads will be virtualised and IBM is currently working on a project dubbed Kittyhawk which is a supercomputer capable of hosting the entire internet. While many unknowns remain, Cloudy times ahead appear certain! Weighing the Risks of Cloud Computing Managing the Clouds Security Risks Oracle: Architectural Strategies for IT Optimisation: From Silos to Clouds |
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 All year the Mi5 Terror Threat Level has been listed as "SEVERE".Mi5: Jonathan Evans' Speech Mi5: Treat Level PublicService.co.uk |
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 The latest issue of Disaster Recovery Journal has a very useful article titled "How to Survive a BCM Audit".We found it useful and thought you might too! DRJ: How to Survive a BCM Audit
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Click here to watch our new emergencyCall movie: "Darla Delivers". Are you more like DR-Darla or BC-Bob? Let us know. |
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BS 25999 Users’ Workshop Edinburgh: October 6, 2010 Red Cross Disaster Response Challenge Hampshire: October 8-10, 2010 BCI London Forum Severe Weather Seminar London: October 12, 2010 BCM World Conference London: November 3-4, 2010 Resilient Scotland Conference Edinburgh: November 22, 2010 |
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Coventry: November 24-25, 2010 BAPCO Annual Conference Links: Bapco The Emergency Planning Society Intellect UK SEISO The Business Continuity Institute UK Resilience Continuity Forum Continuity Shop Mi5 Scottish Continuity Group BCIP BSI: BS25999 Talking Business Continuity Business Assurance StrategicRISK |
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Criticall continues to demonstrate walking its own standards talk, achieving ISO9001, BS25999 & HP Software Partner accreditations within 3 months of eachother.