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The 21st Century Data Center
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Ryan Hansen | Articles | CommentsTechnology marches on! Data centers commonly in use today were designed around technologies developed for IT processing systems employed in the 1980s and 1990s, effectively making them 20th Century data center designs. With the advent of solid s...
Craft and Technology for Your BCP (Case Study)
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Don Saracco | Articles | CommentsThis session is designed to share new strategies that can help you leverage existing experience and expertise for designing, planning, and developing your enterprise-wide business continuity program.We will discuss and demonstrate the methods us...
BCP Best Practices from Impact Assessment to Incident Management
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Tom Abruzzo | Articles | CommentsThere are lots of theories about what might work when it comes to BCP. But real lessons learned and best practices are best straight from the source. This session will share best practices and lessons learned gleaned from more than 100 business ...
Building a Business Continuity Organization Workshop
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Tonya T. York | Articles | CommentsWhen most people get assigned the job of business continuity, they immediately jump into the task of writing plans, conducting tests, and implementing mitigation strategies. Seldom do they try to build an infrastructure to support an ongoing and...
Winning Ways to Get and Keep Executives On Board (Case Study)
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Janet L. Mebust | Articles | CommentsAre you a BC practitioner who really knows your stuff but still can’t seem to garner and maintain the support of executive management? Do you want to assure executive commitment for the duration of program development, through maintenance and be...
Raising the Bar for Resiliency and Security at Bridgestone/Firestone (Case Study)
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by David Sarabacha | Articles | CommentsThe concept of business continuity management is foreign to many manufacturing organizations and those in other industries where regulatory drivers for business continuity management do not exist. However, given the ever increasing focus on the ...
Continuity of Business is Business Continuity (Case Study)
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Eugene Bridges | Articles | CommentsExecutives from both the public and private sectors are being forced to educate themselves on the possible risks to which their organizations may be vulnerable. With regulatory and standards requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), COBIT, ...
Risk:
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Ellen Pfeiffer | Articles | CommentsLike disaster recovery before it, business continuity efforts often focus on what is perceived by professional practitioners as necessary. But this necessity must flow from the risks that confront the organization and those that it is willing to...
What’s Happening in the Hot Site Industry?
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Ted Brown | Articles | CommentsWith SunGard’s acquisition of Comdisco’s hot site business, the hot site industry changed. But are there really fewer vendors, or are there actually more? What’s the impact of Hewlett-Packard bolstering its hot site offerings? And what does IBM’...
Lincoln National’s Business Continuity Maturity Assessment (Case Study)
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by James Gelineau | Articles | CommentsThe Lincoln National Life Insurance Company assessed its business continuity program using a maturity model in August, 2004. Attendees at this presentation will learn what happened before, during, and after. We will discuss the fundamental goals...
Everything Happened in 2005:
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by John Copenhaver | Articles | CommentsRight from the start, 2005 found us coping with unfathomable disaster, as January 1 came just on the heels of the one of the worst disaster in history – the Indian Ocean Tsunami. And 2005 has continued to pack quite a punch with the impacts of H...
Unleashing the Value of Compliance Investments
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Patricia McAnally | Articles | CommentsHave compliance issues created more work, more complexity, more distraction, and more expense? Do compliance projects get the resources you really need? Then don’t miss this session. Attendees will learn how to view compliance in a new light, to...
Preparedness Assessments:
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Scot Ferrell | Articles | CommentsDetermining the right mix of preparedness within your enterprise is the single most important decision any business continuity professional faces when developing a program. Too many professionals learn the hard way that they haven’t identified r...
Every Crisis Management Team Needs a Critical Decision Checklist
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Roseanne Rostron President | Articles | CommentsIn many cases, the crisis management team spends its time actively responding to the event. There is little time for reading and reviewing the crisis management plan during the actual response. And, although this team may be well prepared for th...
Business Continuity Management Program Requirements, Benchmarking Results, and Best Practices
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Marty Plevel | Articles | CommentsEnterprises today are facing the challenges of building and sustaining a business continuity management program that supports the needs of their organization and interdependent stakeholders. In this presentation, the NFPA 1600 Standard on Disast...
