Articles
BCP vs. the Volcano
April 30, 2010 8:00 pm | by Tony Schmitz | CommentsThreats to operational continuity are everywhere. What a volcanic eruption in Europe can teach the world about communications.
Cloud Computing and Information Assurance
April 30, 2010 8:00 pm | by Charles (Chip) Buck | CommentsInformation assurance and business continuity managers realize all too well that technology disasters come in all shapes and sizes. While “in the cloud” solutions exist to help with disaster recovery, business continuity, and an ever-growing number of intruder/malware prevention practices, it’s apparent that in-house IT professionals are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of choices and complexity of integration.
Hurricane Katrina Update
April 16, 2010 8:00 pm | CommentsNearly five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the reminders of a continuing recovery are clearly evident throughout the city. As president Obama noted in a recent visit, “It's clear how far we have to go before we can call this recovery a success.”
Staying Ahead of the Curve: The Latest Stressors, Methodologies, Trends and Directions in Business Resilience
April 16, 2010 8:00 pm | by Richard Cocchiara | CommentsAttend this presentation and walk away with a better understanding of the potential resilience stressors your company may be facing, as well as the available technology, methods, or tools that may help mitigate negative risks and enhance positiv...
Measuring Continuity Planning Program Performance
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Carl Jackson | Comments"You get what you measure." Peter Drucker's management by objectives (MBO) philosophy spread like wildfire a few decades ago and since then enlightened management groups have attempted, sometimes successfully, and sometimes in vain, to establish...
Critical Personal Recovery Strategies for Executives (and ALL Employees)
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Ralph Petti | CommentsThis session will address your most critical component for a recovery event - the ability of your team members to be available to go into action. Consider this, the disaster event is occurring and your recovery plan is in place...but, where is y...
Ensuring Continuity of Communications and Emergency Response via Satellite
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Justen Noakes | CommentsH-E-B, one of the nation’s largest independently owned food retailers, implemented its own satellite emergency response communications plan to ensure access to critical services in the face of unforeseen events. During Hurricanes Dolly and Ike, ...
Data Breach:
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Ken Stoll | CommentsYou hear about them, you read about them and contemplate the effects if your organization were to suffer a data breach. You trust the smart folks over in the IT department who deploy state of the art firewalls and encryption protocols, etc. Ther...
Katrina:
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Carmen Sunda | CommentsThe catastrophic devastation of Katrina taught many lessons to citizens of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana and America. One of the untold stories is the failure of corporate America. Corporations were not prepared to manage the needs of custo...
Crisis Communications:
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Laurie Wonders | CommentsThis interactive workshop will explore coordination of all internal and external avenues of communication while dealing with a disaster or other type of business interruption. The ability to quickly react to the situation and deliver the right m...
The Road to NOAA/NWS StormReady
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Bill Lang | CommentsThis session will explain how one company breezed through the requirements to become certified as StormReady by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS). Understand the application require...
Beyond Compliance:
April 13, 2010 8:00 pm | by Christopher Bauserman | CommentsBusiness executives and government officials are under intense pressure today to successfully pass an ever increasing number of security audits and certify compliance with what feels like a never ending list of regulations. This pressure causes ...
Crisis Management:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Tom Serio | CommentsAttend this session to better understand the fundamentals of crisis management and what it is that you need to manage. Manage the expectations of upper management as well as your team leaders. Review actual crisis management configurations -- a ...
Is Continuity Worth It? ROI Tells the Story
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Phil Lambert | CommentsWe do BC, DR, and CM everyday. We get everything completed on time and within budget. We make it easy for the business units to work with us. We build plans. We test plans. We train people. We empower people. But when do we measure our results? ...
The Perfect Pandemic:
April 12, 2010 8:00 pm | by Stephen Hoffman | CommentsWhen the H1N1 2009 pandemic first emerged, it sickened thousands, but its relative mildness presented the perfect opportunity for organizational management to examine best practices and lessons gleaned from response to the virus’ spread. One yea...
