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Results of an annual survey of governors homeland security advisors, released during the National Governors Association (NGA) Winter Meeting this week, showed similar homeland security governance structures across states, evolving priorities as a result of current events like the H1N1 pandemic and concerns about sustaining security capabilities under current funding mechanisms.

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Global critical infrastructure networks are being pummeled with repeated cyberattacks from foreign nation-states and other adversaries, including terrorist organizations and organized crime groups, a report by McAfee concluded.

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Three months ago Symantec published the results of its SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey that shared what nearly 1,700 small and midsize companies worldwide had to say about disaster recovery (DR). While the results of this report were mentioned by a number of publications (Continuity Central, eWeek, IT Business Edge and Techworld just to name a few), there were a couple other nuggets of information included in this survey that these articles either glossed over or simply failed to mention.

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Business intelligence and enterprise efficiency have become rising star priorities, according to the latest results of the inaugural State of the Asian CxO survey.

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A new survey reports that IT decision makers in both the public and private sectors have a false sense of confidence when it comes to their business continuity plans as the traditional flu season approaches.

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Double-Take® Software announced that 57% of IT organisations surveyed see reducing recovery time in the event of IT failure and cutting the cost of backup as the two biggest painpoints for backup and disaster recovery.

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Almost two thirds of staff don’t know their company business continuity strategy, according to data resilience firm Adam Continuity

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The BCI London Forum, the largest chapter within the Business Continuity Institute, has announced the results of its ‘What Makes a Good Business Continuity Manager’ survey. Between October and November, 2009, 80 BCI members completed the London Forum’s online survey of 46 questions, anonymously.

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Research by the Business Continuity Institute and supported by Zurich Insurance reveals that manufacturing is being hardest hit by supply chain failure. Manufacturers have reported a 58% increase in disruption to their supply chains over the last 12 months; this compares to 35% across all industry sectors. The report on the research entitled “Supply Chain Resilience” surveyed 201 organizations across all sectors, industries and locations where they had operations.

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The majority of Canadian small business owners are unprepared to deal with common disruptions that can impact their ability to do business, according to the American Express Small Business Monitor. Almost half of small business owners are unfamiliar with the practice of business continuity planning.

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The Business Continuity Institute is running a survey to capture the value that organizations are getting from BCM.  The results of the survey along with specific case studies will be published in March 2010 to coincide with Business Continuity Awareness Week (22nd-26th March 2010).

The survey is available on the SurveyMonkey platform: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QCNPGC6

All participants will receive a copy of the report.  Survey closes December 18, 2009.