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Integrating Business Continuity into the Corporate Culture
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Matt Moyer CBCP, PMP, Business Continuity Planner | CommentsChase Home Finance and Chase Cardmember Services will present a case study of their programs that embraces and supports a culture to provide the best-in-class principles and strategies recommended for business resiliency....
Applying Incident Management in a Business Context
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Rex Pattison Director, Business Continuity Management | CommentsCorporate incident management with issues such as the interface between the corporation as a tenant and building management; coordinating BC activation across the business units with differing reporting relationships; providing clear messages to...
Keys to Implementing a Successful Internal Recovery Strategy
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Rick Falvo Associate Director Disaster Recovery | CommentsLearn how the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) determined that an internal recovery strategy, utilizing a remote data center, best suited their recovery strategy needs. Discover CME’s keys to implementing a successful internal recovery strategy...
Plan B – A Back to Basics Approach for Developing a Failsafe Plan
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Larry Wisniewski Marketing Manager | CommentsAs companies implement new technologies designed to preserve business continuity (BC), they may still be unknowingly exposed to significant business risks. This presentation will motivate BC managers to re-examine their recovery plans, looking f...
Conducting A Self Assessment Using the Public Domain Business Continuity Maturity Model
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Scott Ream President | CommentsMaturity models have been developed for a variety of business disciplines. Their use and value is well established for both evaluation and certification of corporate program implementations. The essence of a maturity model is to define the cha...
Continuity with Collaboration:
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Matt Van Kirk Vice President and Principal | CommentsAmericans continue to be frightened about terrorism and their general well being at home. Why? In short, lack of collaboration. Public corporations and public officials should demand that their plans, approach, methods, technology and all parts ...
Defining the Business Continuity Maturity Continuum
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | CommentsManagement continues to struggle with the concept of “how much continuity is right for our organization.” This presentation will focus on defining an industry-independent business continuity (BC) maturity continuum and key milestones and organiz...
Making Sense of Threat Assessments, Security Surveys, Crisis Management and BCP for Effective Security Planning
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Andrew G. Podolak Senior Vice President | CommentsPlanning for a crisis is one of the major concerns of security directors, facility managers and business continuity (BC) specialists. This presentation will clearly set out what is a threat assessment, security survey, mitigation procedures, cri...
Making the Case for Establishing a Virtual EOC for Your Corporation
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Matt Walton President and CEO | CommentsMost large corporations have a physical emergency operations center and while this is an important part of a company’s infrastructure for emergency preparedness, a key element is missing. By implementing a virtual command center, a corporation l...
Assessing New Regulatory Directions in Business Continuity Management - A Post-9/11 Perspective from the Americas
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Roseann McSorley Director | CommentsThis session will examine key drivers of business continuity management, most notably events such as 9/11 and the Northeast Power Outages, and its subsequent impact on “old” regulatory perspectives and how it will help shape “new” regulatory dir...
Small Business Administration (SBA): Case Study for Electronic Vaulting
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Anke Conzelmann Product Manager of Electronic Vaulting Services | CommentsReview how the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) studied options for revitalizing its data backup and recovery operations and determined that they didn’t have adequate in-house resources to protect their data in one centralized location. ...
G4 - Crisis Communications
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | CommentsThe META Group reports that 80 percent of corporate end-users believe e-mail is far more valuable than the telephone for business communication. When companies can’t communicate, they can’t recover. ...
Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives – A Management Perspective
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Bill Rider | CommentsThis session will help clarify the distinctions between the IT and business recovery objectives and discuss a technique for negotiating mutually agreed-upon RTOs and RPOs, and in some cases, match technical solutions to business needs. ...
The Role of Wireless Communications for Business Continuity
April 27, 2004 8:00 pm | by Stephen Forte Chairman, CEO, and Cofounder | CommentsBy integrating your Voice over IP (VoIP) devices (e.g. WiFi-enabled cell phones, PDAs, and notebook computers) into your existing corporate voice networks, you can ensure continuous business communications during disasters or emergencies, as wel...
Eight Realistic Characteristics of a World-Class, But Pragmatic Business Continuity Program
April 26, 2004 8:00 pm | by Perry Deprew CRP, Director, Business Resiliency | CommentsThis presentation takes a real-world look at business continuity (BC) programs and what the best companies are doing on the subject. It is especially relevant for those professionals that are still trying to get executive buy-in....
