Overview: Information Technology

Cloud Computing and Information Assurance
5/1/2010 Continuity Insights

With all the buzz about solutions “in the cloud,” what’s the bottom line for cloud computing?

Data Breach:
4/14/2010 Continuity Insights

You 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. There are no guarantees you are immune from a data breach. While a data breach is not the worst thing that can happen to your organization, reacting poorly is. Accidental or malicious, a missing paper file or stolen laptop, learning you have just had a data breach is cause for immediate action. Depending on your next move you could invite fees, fines, lawsuits along with negative press and customer flight. This must see session will feature real life companies who got it right and the ones who were financially devastated. Keep your organization from becoming road kill on the information super highway by attending this session.

Case Studies of Data Backups
4/12/2010 Continuity Insights

Today’s businesses’ ever-increasing need for large amounts of online information brings with it ever-increasing challenges for data backup and recovery. As companies expand, they are under pressure to avoid downtime and safeguard expanding amounts of data, and at the same time comply with the provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). This session consists of three separate case studies of how companies planned for, dealt with, and recovered from actual disasters. These events had direct impact on data backups and restorations, SOX compliance, outsourcing options. The responses to each event led to several valuable lessons learned including a few that may surprise you.

Flat Budgets and Increasing Requirements:
4/12/2010 Continuity Insights

In today’s information-driven, always on, highly interconnected global economy, it is not a surprise that 24x7 availability and disaster recovery is a hot topic in the boardroom. Despite the attention from executives, high availability and disaster recovery is still a challenge to get right. IT organizations have been tasked with meeting increasingly strict service level agreements (SLAs), however making that more complicated is the increasing reality that over the next year, IT budgets will remain essentially flat. Attend this session to get some best practices on how organizations are meeting their recovery time and recovery point objectives without breaking the bank. Learn some of the strengths and weaknesses of deploying server virtualization for availability and cost cutting purposes. Find out how other organizations are optimizing their disaster recovery testing procedures to eliminate risk and downtime.

Closing the Gap:
4/12/2010 Continuity Insights

No matter how much technology has been employed to safeguard confidential information, your organization may still have a breach. When a compromise occurs, proper planning will enable your organization to respond, comply with legal requirements, and to protect your brand and constituents. Forty-five states now require notification in the case of a breach of personally identifiable information (PII). As well, new federal legislation enhances requirements under HIPAA for data security and data breach notification in the event of a compromise of protected health information (PHI). Business decision makers, privacy officers, and contingency planners must understand the impact of this legislation, the timeframe for legal compliance, and the ramifications of non-compliance and lack of readiness. Knowing the requirements is the key to good planning, having the right people in place is the key to good execution, and effectively managing a data breach incident is the key to brand protection and good public relations. Learn from a panel of experts who have developed and executed data breach incident response plans to manage actual events.

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