'Social distancing' touted for flu risk

NEW YORK – 'Social distancing' is the key to sustaining financial services in case of a wide-spread avian flu pandemic, according to participants at the 2006 Business continuity and corporate security conference held in New York at the end of March.

Participants to the Tabb Group-sponsored conference stressed the need for financial services to conduct social distancing tests in order ensure robust remote access to their critical infrastructure.

They emphasised the need to move away from recovery centres to encourage social distancing during a serious pandemic. "In our organisation, we ask all employees if they have remote access," said one BCP manager from a securities firm.

Many US financial services companies are stepping up efforts to

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