Webinars From Continuity Insights
Here you will find listings of future webinars and archived webinars that will be posted for a period of time. If you are interested in co-sponsoring one of our webinars, please contact Brett Glatfelter at Brett@continuityinsights.com or call 267-544-4010 ext. 113.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Crisis Communications 2012: Social Media & Notification Systems
Wed, Mar 7, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM US Eastern Time
Before the rise of social media, notification systems were one of the only ways to rapidly disseminate information during a crisis. Today, social media is a vital part of any organization's crisis communication toolkit.
Continuity Insights recently conducted a survey of over 250 organizations to determine how social media and notification systems are incorporated into crisis communication plans, and the perceived effectiveness of each platform. The results are compelling, clearly showing a lack of confidence in social media’s reach during a crisis.
However, the use of social media as a “crowdsourcing” tool -- turning the public into sources of information -- is catching on. This idea goes against the traditional top-down approach to disaster response and crisis communications, but the results show many plan to use social media in exactly this way.
Moderating the webinar will be Luke Simpson, Editor of Continuity Insights, who will kick things off by revealing the key findings from the survey. John Orlando, who regularly speaks and writes on the topic of social media in disaster response, will discuss the growing use of crowdsourcing and the benefits of using social media to both broadcast and gather information. Jane Jordan-Meier, Author of The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management will present an overview of the social media monitoring tools available track a brand or event.
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New Technology Trends that will Affect Business Continuity Professionals
This session will discuss the current technology trends of the Business Continuity industry. Andy Vanderhoff will cover topics including Data Integration and Convergence, Mobile technologies, and Cloud computing and more. In addition we will discuss how professionals can best make use of these changing technologies to successfully support BC planning and implementation.
Tornadoes In Alabama: A Private Company’s Response
The severe tornado outbreaks in Mississippi and Alabama in April 2011 clearly tested the response programs of many businesses, with significant damage to infrastructure, the need for additional recovery resources and widespread destruction. This photo-centric presentation will focus on the hard hit areas like Tuscaloosa and Cullman, Alabama, how community needs were met and employees were tended to, and how public-private and private-private partnerships helped those in need.
Single Points of Failure: What and How?
This highly interactive session will focus on the risk of single points of failure (SPOF) in the operational environment with a special emphasis on personnel. While having a solid recovery strategy is vital, that strategy is flawed if personnel are not available. That said, no organization can afford to have excess capacity to ensure effective recovery when personnel are not available. How do you affect a production environment strategy that ensures that you will not have a personnel SPOF? What are the key assumptions, parameters, etc.? Attendees will participate in a workshop that will demonstrate a foolproof method of identifying SPOFs while providing options for resolution.
Practitioners' Perspective: How 9/11 Shaped Business Continuity
There is no doubt that the events of September 11, 2001 helped shape the business continuity industry. To illustrate the dramatic evolution that has occurred over the past 10 years, Continuity Insights presents a webinar featuring two New York City-based practitioners who have taken the lessons learned from 9/11 and applied them in their current roles as business continuity and resiliency managers.
Focus on the Global Classroom
From Center for Continuity
Global organizations with global clients have huge continuity challenges with maintaining program standards, ensuring a consistent message throughout an organization and to find the time to train people in their roles and responsibilities. You can completely eliminate all of these issues with one solution, by developing a global classroom.
Join us in this webinar and be armed with a well-organized approach to the diversity of training types and delivery models for an effective and efficient global classroom. Learn what a global classroom looks like, how content will drive what type of training works best and learn to make training stick by delivering engaging content with just the right balance of information, instruction and entertainment.
Years of Advice in One Hour or Less
From MIR3
How would you like to receive expert level tips from business continuity and disaster recovery professionals with more than 50 years of collective experience? This panel discussion will bring together experts from various industries to share lessons learned from real disasters, software implementations, recovery exercises, executive presentations, and other aspects of managing a BC and/or DR program. The panel will be comprised of members of the South East Business Recovery Exchange (SEBRE). The panel will discuss lessons learned, facilitate discussion with attendees, and end with a Q&A session. Attendees will take away practical tips to enhance their own programs.
Developing a World Class BC Assessment Program
From PlantCML
Too many times, BCP measurement systems present non-actionable information that management ignores. This session will discuss the core principles involved in developing a meaningful and manageable BCP assessment process in a rigorous fashion. Emphasis will be placed on correctly identifying what elements of the program should be measured and how to accomplish this goal. Attendees will learn about metrics used by other organizations that help position BCP from a nice-to-have program into a must-have strategic initiative. BIAs, Risk Assessments, and post-exercise analysis will also be discussed.
Be a Difference Maker: How to Increase Your Value and Impact
From Strategic BCP
Strategic BCP has been a pioneer in business continuity for over a decade. We’ve worked with fellow BC planners and our software user base of over 36,000 individuals to develop a significant resource pool that’s available to Continuity Insights subscribers.
Over the past few years, BC planners have struggled at times to prove their worth at their organizations. Developing a solid, resilient, and compliant BC plan is half the battle – the other half is showing management that our job is more than developing a heavy paper plan that will hopefully never be used.
Don’t miss this webinar – the first in our “Difference Makers” series – dedicated to helping BC planners ensure that their plans and reporting are vital business functions that are crucial to business. We will outline how you can go beyond a line-item document generator and become a valuable risk manager that decision-makers depend on daily.
This webinar will cover:
• Our Image Problem as BC Professionals
• Specific Ways to Eliminate BC Plan “Fluff”
• 3 Business Practices that Diminish our Value as Professionals
• Eliminating the Dangerous “Drive-By” Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Reporting Tips for Increasing Your Impact & Becoming a Difference Maker
Join the thousands of people who have tapped into our BC resources, collected over years of working with and for BC Professionals like you. We hope you will join this webinar aimed at advancing our industry across-the-board and helping you become a difference maker at your organization.
“All Hazards” approach to Business Continuity Explained
Recent events and disasters such as the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis in Japan, or the more recent tornadoes that ripped through the South, are causing BC planners to take another look at their plans and processes. With the number of threats in today’s business environment, unless you have a crystal ball the chances are the events your organization may be impacted by are events that you haven’t thought of yet. Preparing for these types of events requires an all-hazards approach to business continuity.
During this webinar we will cover what process based business continuity is, the basics of Process Based Continuity, and how you can implement it at your organization. Plus, we will cover the top-ten tips for performing an effective Business Impact Analysis.
Incorporating Business Continuity Management and Vendor Management
Organization use third-party vendors today to help accomplish their goals and objectives cost effectively. Effective vendor oversight requires ongoing due diligence for existing providers to adjust for changing market and organizational risks. Many organizations struggle to maintain their contracts and meet regulatory guidelines for due diligence. It is important to establish standards and processes for monitoring and reviews. It is a best practice to assign responsibility for the service provider performance management. The process of monitoring outsourced service provider relationships should be structured and well defined.
Sponsored by Cassidian Communications
How to Design a Continuity Training Program that Works
From Center for Continuity
Training is the building blocks of preparedness. Successful continuity planning and disaster management boils down to two things, “Simple, Accurate and Viable Plans” and “Knowledgeable and Trained People.”
The degree of our success in responding, controlling and managing a business interruption is directly reflected by the level of effective and relevant training of the people involved. Having accurate continuity plans are not enough to ensure a successful recovery. People must be trained. And trained some more.
Come and find out the answers to these relevant questions:
1. According to almost every industry survey for the last twenty years we, as an industry, lack in the discipline of constant and consistent training programs for our organizations?
2. How can I increase the transfer of knowledge in a shorter amount of time?
3. I know that there are several methods or channels to get the word out, what are some of them and which ones work the best?
4. Just in time training, what is that?
5. Is there a blueprint I can follow to design my next training class/course?
6. What are the three types of training courses?
7. Virtual exercises, are they effective
8. Focusing on what makes exercising easy …and fun
What You Need to Know About DHS and FEMA
Don't miss this important webinar! This presentation was originally scheduled as a plenary session at last month's Continuity Insights Management Conference in Atlanta, but was preempted as a result of the "almost government shutdown/budget crisis." The participants have graciously agreed to present this valuable information in this webinar.
You know the acronyms: DHS and FEMA. But do you know what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) do when it comes to business continuity, crisis management, and disaster recovery? How can the private sector become more involved? What are some of the important initiatives and programs that we should be aware of?
Join our panelists Brian C. Scott, Deputy Director, Partnership and Outreach Division, DHS, and Dan Stoneking, Director, Private Sector, Office of External Affairs, FEMA; and moderated by Michele Guido, Business Assurance Principal, Southern Company.
Building a BCM Brand
From Lootok Ltd. BCI
This webinar will provide participants with a fresh approach for embedding BCM in the culture of their organization (competency 6 of the BCI Good Practice Guidelines). The session will discuss the frustration of implementing a process that does not generate revenue and the pressures and challenges of competing with more well-known initiatives and programs, and will make a case for reframing BCM as a product. At the conclusion of the webinar, participants will be provided with links to access a whitepaper and opportunities to continue the discussion. This 1-hour session is moderated by experienced risk managers and allows for 15 minutes of live Q&A with creative branding experts.
Join us as Sean Murphy, CEO and President of Lootok, Ltd., together with a panel of industry experts in branding, marketing, and business continuity, presents an entirely new way of approaching BCM. You’ll learn:
• The importance of treating BCM as a product
• Tried and true methods for creating an internal BCM brand
• How to raise interest and generate excitement among leadership and employees
• How to build and implement a BCM program that actually works
Presented by Lootok, Ltd. Sponsored by BCI-USA Chapter.
Going Beyond Continuous Planning Process and into a Resilience Management System
From Continuity Logic
Business Continuity Management has moved beyond technology recovery, beyond worst case scenario planning, and beyond continuous plan development practices. In today's business environment, organizations must respond rapidly and accurately to disruptive events including sweeping regulatory changes that are impacting multiple industries. In this webinar, Continuity Logic will help you discover why the continuous planning process alone is no longer enough to drive continuity excellence. Learn how your organization can leverage ANSI/ASIS standards to take the next step by implementing a resiliency management system to become more efficient, faster, and agile to meet your continuity management requirements.
Internally Selling Your Business Continuity Program: How to Gain Executive Buy-In
From Quantivate
Gaining internal buy-in for a business continuity program from executive leadership and peers is a common challenge for BC/DR professionals. However, going it alone without strategic considerations from executive management and other core teams can be disastrous. In this webinar we’ll explore ways to create internal champions for your BC program.
In this Webinar Learn How to:
• Educate Sr. Management & Peers on the importance of a robust BC program
• Build momentum for your program
• Gain allies and create a strategic culture of continuity
Cloud Computing for BCP Software
From Strategic BCP
It's no secret - there's a major buzz around “the cloud.” From managing leads in Salesforce.com to running payroll in QuickBooks, cloud technologies have emerged as popular applications for businesses of all sizes. In the BCP software realm, cloud computing can be quite powerful. For every BC professional, it is important to understand the concept and its specific application to our profession.
Our webinar, “Cloud Computing for BCP Software,” at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 9, will put cloud computing in terms that all BC professionals can understand. No technical degrees are required. We will also go beyond the basics and into the key benefits of cloud BCP software, along with important risks that must be properly managed. We will delve into the specific aspects of cost, manageability, security, and redundancy.
Cloud computing is undoubtedly beneficial for many organizations and understanding its specific application in our industry is critical for every BC professional. We look forward to having you join us in this important webinar.
PS Prep: The Definitive Update
From PlantCML
If you’re like many in the world of BCP, you’ve got questions about PS-Prep. You probably know what it is and how it came to be; so this webinar won’t spend much time covering old ground. We’ll focus on what’s new and what you might not know. For example, one of the big issues on the table right now is how DHS and FEMA are going to handle small businesses. There is a "Call for Comments" out on this issue and about 40 organizations have responded. Additionally, there are DHS concerns about the 18 critical infrastructure industries and how to designate what types of BCP standards each will follow. For discussion on those issue, as well as the following topics, attend this webinar.
- The origins of PS Prep
- Intent of the law
- Implementation challenges
- Quick review of selected standards
- Auditing concepts as they apply to PS Prep
- Current status of the program
- Future direction and speculations
Sponsored by: PlantCML
Speaker: Don Byrne, Boston University
Exercise Evaluation and Measurement
From Center for Continuity
Exercises build continuity muscle by producing knowledgeable and trained people, along with accurate and viable documentation. We know that exercises are important. In fact, a program audit will demand written evidence that each critical plan has at least completed a table top exercise.
As continuity professionals, we conduct numerous exercises of all types. We tell our planning and response teams that unless their plan has been exercised, they don’t really have a plan at all.
The degree of success needed to successfully respond, control and manage any crisis directly corresponds to the level of effective training and exercises. But how do we know if we are hitting the mark? Does an exercise really prove whether a plan will work? How do we measure something that is not a test?
In this webinar, we will discuss the different ways to evaluate and measure continuity exercises. You’ll learn how to develop effective evaluation criteria and design exercises to hit that mark. In addition, we will cover measureable matrices and how to leverage those for continued buy-in from senior leaders.
Food for Thought? GRC!
From Continuity Logic Global AlertLink
GRC – governance, risk, and compliance. Those sure are three important words, but what do they mean to BCP? Attend this webinar to learn all about GRC and what it should mean to you. Our panel of experts will answer your questions in this interactive panel discussion. In fact, they’ve already started providing the answers in the November/December 2010 issue of Continuity Insights magazine.
Should you have any GRC questions for the panelists for discussion during this webinar, please forward them to Buffy@ContinuityInsights.com, Subject: GRC Webinar Quesions.
Sponsored by Global AlertLink and Continuity Logic.
Alternate Sites: Business Recovery That's Here, There & Everywhere
From SunGard Availability Services Rentsys Recovery Services
For this open-ended Q&A webinar, a panel of experts will be on hand to answer all of your questions about alternate sites. How far? Where? How much? You bring the questions, we’ll supply the subject matter experts!
Should you wish to submit questions to the panelists for discussion during this webinar, please send to Buffy@ContinuityInsights.com, Subject Line: Alternate Site Questions.
Sponsored by Rentsys Recovery Services and SunGard Availability Services
Performance Driven Business Continuity
From MLC and Associates
World Class Business Continuity is no longer just an insurance policy or audit compliance! It is now a way to do business and increase your ROI by having your people, process and technology work for you! It is critical to be able to educate executives and leaders on the importance of Business Continuity Planning through Corporate Performance Management to align their business goals and to help them understand the crucial difference between Common, Best, and World Class approaches.
Making decisions consistent with strategic, tactical, and operational goals is one of the major challenges facing executives and managers today. Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is used by organizations to monitor and manage performance at all levels. By maximizing the synergies between BC and CPM, organizations can improve performance while reducing risk. This webinar by MLC & Associates Inc. will focus on CPM as part of a World-Class BC program. It will not only help you understand what CPM can do for you, but it will also help you learn to communicate its benefits to high-level executives for acceptance. You will obtain an understanding of the executive perspective and how a performance driven approach can help executives appreciate the value of a BC program. The webinar will also examine real-world case studies of MLC’s past work, including a Medical Device Manufacturer and a Food Supplement company.
What You Will Learn
The synergies between BC and CPM that can be leveraged towards a larger Return On Investment (ROI)
An understanding of how dashboards and reports can be utilized to track, manage and communicate the value of a BC program
The value of KPIs as well as examples of KPIs that can be integrated into a BC program
A performance driven approach for communicating the value of BC to executives
MLC & Associates is an international business consulting firm and has over 23 years of experience educating executives and organizations on the value of investing in Business Continuity and Corporate Performance Management.
Why isn't a BIA enough?
From Continuity Logic
The Importance of including risk in your business continuity planning process.
Historically, BCP starts with a BIA - an assessment of financial and operational impacts. Unfortunately, most organizations believe a BIA is enough and fail to assess risk. A risk assessment identifies various threats, as well as, the severity of those threats to your business. Without this information, you may be planning for the wrong thing or planning for everything and unable to respond to anything.
Attend this webinar to learn how to provide the following to your executive team:
1) A view of technology services necessary to manage core processes while providing financial financial ramifications if services suffer an outage.
2) An enterprise view of financial risk as it relates to core processes, technology services, and third-party service providers.
3) The financial impacts of core processes or third-party service disruptions.
4) The operational risk impact to your company based on process disruption and that disruption's relationship to third-party service providers.
Attend this webinar and learn how Continuity Logic’s solutions can demonstrate Why isn't a BIA enough? Norbert Nowicki, a senior risk consultant from Continuity Logic and Tejas Katwala, Continuity Logic CEO will provide the appropriate views of that information within your organization. Gain an understanding of why incorporating risk with automation will assist you in managing a resilient business.
Learn How to Breakdown Silos with Enterprise Risk, Compliance and BCP Convergence
From Continuity Logic
In an attempt to remove functional Silos as well as Silos containing information, more and more organizations today are adopting an integrated approach. Their approach toward managing risk, compliance and continuity activities spans the enterprise. When done effectively a unified approach reduces risk, cuts costs, increases operational efficiencies and improves performance. It can also significantly improve an organization’s strategic decision making abilities. Attendees will learn how a Fortune 500 Company advanced its business continuity program and improved overall resiliency by synergizing governance, risk, compliance and continuity. A Question and Answer session will be included to provide an opportunity to maximize knowledge acquisition.
The Next REAL Pandemic
From Twenty First Century
To some, H1N1 pandemic hype had a touch of the boy who cried wolf. To others, it was a cautionary tale and an opportunity to get ready for the big one. If the next real pandemic is coming our way, you need to know what it is, where it is coming from, what to expect, and how to prepare.
Join us for this timely and important discussion. Lisa M. Koonin Senior Advisor with the Office of Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead the discussion.
Presented by Continuity Insights and Sponsored by Twenty First Century Communications (TFCC).
Twenty First Century Communications has been in the business of high speed, high volume, time-sensitive, critical communications since its inception in 1989 and today offers the newest version of its mass notification system, TFCC Alert®. TFCC Alert is used every day by clients to send out pandemic notifications, employee protection alerts, incident response notifications, continuity of operation messages and much more. The system offers advanced alerting capabilities that improve communications, increase the effectiveness of emergency efforts, and ultimately reduce the costs of a traditional communications infrastructure. Using TFCC Alert, clients can send targeted messages to select groups by landline, cell phone, VoIP phone, PDA, pager, text, email, fax and TTY/TDD machines. TFCC Alert comes with the benefit of two decades of notification industry knowledge and expertise and TFCC’s client care commitment. The system is fully hosted and runs on the largest and fastest calling platform in North America.
Notification Systems Q&A with a Panel of Experts
From Send Word Now MIR3 Global AlertLink PlantCML MissionMode Solutions Twenty First Century Cooper Notification
Join Continuity Insights and our Panel of Experts as we address those many questions you have about Notification Systems. This webinar will be a review of notification/crisis communication systems adoption and use, the technology, and applications. This is your opportunity to ask direct questions of our notification experts.
Notification Systems for the purposes of this webinar is the technology that provides for the simultaneous and efficient communication of important information (i.e. phone, mobile, email, PDA, etc) to great numbers of people in order to protect lives, mitigate loss, disseminate critical information, and secure the enterprise.
Our panelists include representatives from:
- Cooper Notification
- Global Alert Link
- MIR3
- MissionMode
- PlantCML
- SendWordNow
- Twenty First Century Communications
Prior to July 20, 2010, please feel free to submit your questions for the panel to Buffy@ContinuityInsights.com.
How to Conduct Powerful Exercises Every Time
Crisis situations that require quick reaction and on-the-spot decision making are often unexpected and unavoidable. The degree of our success in responding, controlling and managing such a crisis is directly reflected by the level of effective and relevant training of the people involved. Having accurate continuity plans are not enough to ensure a successful recovery. People must be trained. Conducting disaster exercises is one of the most important activities that we can do to train people to respond, restore, and recover from a crisis event. These exercises transposes our response and recovery strategies from theory based ideas to sure to work reality.
Exercises build continuity muscle by producing accurate and viable documentation and knowledgeable and trained people when designed, developed and conducted correctly … but what does it take to pull off a powerful and effective exercise? How do you measure the results of an exercise? And how can you leverage the learning environment that the exercise creates for maximum learning experience?
Some of the topics we will cover:
1. What is and why should you conduct disaster exercises
2. The six types of exercises
3. Using the Exercise Planning Template (handout)
4. Designing just the right exercise with the best of ingredients to obtain desired results
5. How to prepare people for their success with maximum outcome
6. Conducting the exercise where theory meets reality
7. How to spot low hanging fruit by recognizing and identifying action items
8. Virtual exercises, are they effective
9. Focusing on what makes exercising easy …and fun
Cloud Computing... and Business Continuity
From PlantCML
Cloud computing – it’s the latest buzzword in BCP, but what does it mean to you? Attend this informative webinar to find out. Our experts will answer your questions about security, reliability, cost, and basic strategy. Are cloud solutions right for your organization? Can cloud solutions better your business continuity program by providing greater flexibility for testing and recovery? If you have questions about cloud computing that you’d like our panel to answer, send them to Buffy Rojas at buffy@continuityinsights.com.
Panelists: Dennis Wenk, EMC and Mark Carroll, Boston University
Measuring the ROI of BCP: Can We? Should We?
From PlantCML
This webinar focuses on the age-old question involving financial measurement of the business continuity program. Without funding, continuity programs stand limited chance of being successful, yet funding often is earmarked to those corporate initiatives with the highest financial return. But can an investment in continuity be quantified, and if so, is ROI the right measurement? This panel will address various views on the issue and debate the relative merits and drawbacks of using ROI in BCP. The session will feature industry practitioners and experts and is co-sponsored by PlantCML and Continuity Insights.
BCM Program Awareness Trends and the Maturity of your BCM Program
From BC Management
BC Management’s eighth annual business continuity management (BCM) study focused on program awareness trends and their correlation to BCM program maturity. With more than 3,000 study participants from some 70 countries, results highlight compelling findings and answer the most frequently asked questions. This webinar will answer the following questions:
- What is the organizational reporting structure preferred to increase program visibility?
- How integrated is the BCM program with other organizational processes?
- Do mature programs use service providers to elevate program response?
- Are organizations taking steps to certify their program?
- How is business continuity is budgeted for and how much is being spent?
The presenter, Cheyene Haase, has been an executive recruiter for thirteen years with eleven of those years specializing in the business continuity. She is president of BC Management, has served on the board for the Association of Contingency Planners of Los Angeles and Orange County, and is a member of the Continuity Insights Editorial Advisory Board.
Personal Preparedness: Get Ready!
From MIR3
Personal Preparedness is an often overlooked but essential element of any business continuity program. If employees are unprepared to deal with the personal implications of disruptions, they will be unable to carry out their responsibilities effectively and business continuity plans will fail. In this webinar Lisa Orloff, founder and executive director of the World Cares Center, will address the steps you can take to encourage your employees to be personally prepared.
In the aftermath of 9/11, Orloff founded World Cares Center and developed its first program, the "September Space" community centers, serving the needs of the volunteers and responders affected by the attacks of 9/11 and later the Gulf Coast hurricanes. World Cares Center's next launched its Disaster Preparation and Trauma Mitigation training, which has trained thousands of responders for enhanced community-led response and recovery efforts.
Data Breach - The Missing Piece in Your Business Continuity Program
From Avalution Consulting
If your organization holds customer or patient data you must protect it. No matter how much technology has been employed to safeguard sensitive data, an organization may still have a breach. If a compromise occurs, your organization must respond to comply with numerous state and federal legal requirements, and to protect your brand and constituents. Having a data breach incident response plan in place and a mechanism to produce legally required notices will be critical to your effective management of the event. Continuity planners and business decision makers need to understand the impact of the breach notification statute, the timeframe for legal compliance, and the ramifications for non-compliance and lack of readiness. The program is designed to help participants understand the preplanning, notification production, and call center capabilities that are the keys to an effective data breach response. Topics include: - What should Business Continuity Practitioners know about this threat? - Who normally “owns” this preparedness effort? - The threat is real, is your organization ready to respond? - How does state statute impact your entity and require you to notify? - Federal data breach notification requirements current and proposed. - What are the penalties for non-compliance? - How to get your plan up to speed. - Lessons learned from actual breach events.
Data Breach - The Missing Piece in Your Business Continuity Program
From Avalution Consulting
If your organization holds customer or patient data, you must protect it. If a compromise occurs, you must respond. Having a response plan in place is critical to effective management of the event. This Webinar will instruct attendees on what BC practitioners need know about data breach threats, what the current and proposed federal notification requirements are, how state statutes impact an incident plan, and most importantly, how to get your plan up to speed.
Business Continuity and Continuity of Operations Solutions for the BlackBerry Smartphone
From Wallace Wireless
Your organization has spent a great deal of time, money and resources developing Business Continuity plans, but are they available when you need them most? Are they stuck in an out-of-date binder or network that may not be available in a crisis situation? Why not mobilize your plans and place command and control of any situation at your finger tips. Presenter Rob Moffat, President of Wallace Wireless About Wallace Wireless Wallace Wireless is the leading provider of premium alerting and business continuity solutions for the BlackBerry® smartphone. We offer a comprehensive suite of ready to use, and easy to deploy wireless applications that solve enterprise mobility issues including; pager replacement and alerting, emergency communication, contact management, and forms-based data capture for the BlackBerry. Our solutions provide enterprise workforces with relevant and critical information anywhere, anytime, resulting in increased productivity and well informed employees; in some cases with life-saving results.
Continuity Insights Readers Weigh in on What’s New in Notification
From AlarmPoint Systems
Notification is a pillar of every good business continuity program. And as budgets tighten, companies are seeking out more cost-effective solutions. CI conducted a study surveying its readers and compared the results with those from a similar 2008 study on the topic. The results may surprise you; so don’t miss out on learning what your colleagues value most and look for in their notification and emergency communication solutions.
Document Management: Complete, Compliant, Cost-effective
From Recall North America
This would be an in-depth look at physical document management; to profile the complete lifecycle from secure pick-up to storage to destruction. Discussion will include how to be compliant… while remaining cost-effective. Speakers: Jerry Barnes, Bachtel Corporation Margaret Anderson CRM, Collin County
Business Continuity during the Economic Storm
From Dell MessageOne
Economic Downturn Amplifies Risk of Business Interruptions
If you can’t communicate, you can’t compete.
We know that executives in your organization are looking at IT as a place to cut costs as they face this tough economy, but if your critical communications tools like email and telephony, aren’t reliable and interrupt your operations, the results can dramatically damage your financial outlook! There is a compelling business need for investing in robust email and voice communications now more than ever. This is not the time to lose focus on the survivability of critical communication gateways. Recession amplifies the cost and consequences of business interruptions - to recover from disaster or an unplanned outage means consuming budget and time that companies can no longer afford.
Join Dell in this informative discussion about SaaS-enabled solutions that protect your enterprise against business interruptions, including:
- Effectively eliminating email downtime
- Ensuring email messages are never lost and system outages are virtually invisible to end users
- Providing Wireless Continuity for BlackBerry that ensures users will always be able to send and receive corporate email from their BlackBerry devices
Presenter: Tom Everard, Sr. Solution Consultant, Dell Services
Emerging Risk: Elevating BC/DR Through Total Risk Awareness
From Burton Asset Management
If you are having problems answering how your BC/DR plan deals with emerging threats, this deep look into Total Risk Awareness will empower you with the take away tools you need to practice an always-on Risk stance. Recent events may make BC/DR seem futile to key stakeholders, however, this fresh approach to risk assessment and preparedness will get your gears going and give you the tools to deliver.
Sustainable BC Plans: Doing More with Fewer Resources
From Virtual Corp.
Increasingly BC departments are being stressed by having to perform their jobs while enduring reductions in personnel. New plans still need to be created and old ones updated. By sharing data between plans and enabling departments to provide updates, BC professionals have time to consult to the business in a more strategic manner. Presented by Scott Ream, President, Virtual Corporation
H1N1 Lessons Learned/Fall Forecast
From PlantCML
With the WHO declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic, preparing for this threat is more important than ever. In order to do so, we must first look back at how the first wave of H1N1 unfolded and was handled and then look forward to ensure our plans are ready for the reality of H1N1.
Presenters: Raelene Wong, Director of Business Continuity, Applied Materials; and Andrew Fernandes, Global Business Continuity and Resiliency Program (BCRP) Program Management Office, Dell Inc.
Seven Top Dieseases
From Burton Asset Management
Most doctor's offices, emergency departments, and good hospitals in North America already are operating at capacity. Many patients are delaying care while others ignore their medical illnesses altogether during this time of financial hardship. Some healthcare officials worry that we are looking at a potential medical tsunami. This presentation is a complete review of the most likely infectious diseases to cause a pandemic or be used as bio-weapons. Attendees will get an in-depth look at how each illness operates, vectors, and may kill. The webinar will include important information about IDC-10 and the raging debate in the medical field today around the true need for information-based patient care. About Burton Asset Management
Geographic Intelligence and Business Continuity
A companion to the March/April issue's special feature on geographic intelligence and business continuity, this webinar features a group of panelists who will be ready to answer your questions. Moderated by Continuity Insights Editor-in-Chief Buffy Rojas, the panel of experts includes representatives from Global AlertLink, PlantCML, and Volo Recovery.
The Experts Debate Business Continuity Standards
From PlantCML
Want to know what's really going on when it comes to business continuity standards? Attend this free panel discussion for a behind-the-scenes, straight-from-the-experts look at business continuity standards development. The session will answer questions about ASIS proposed standard, DRI International's position on standards development, and ANAB's role in the standards process. Come with questions, and leave with answers. This panel discussion will feature Dr. Marc Siegel, ASIS, Don Schmidt, Preparedness LLC, and Al Berman, DRI International.
The Next Generation of Enterprise Business Continuity Management Software
From Evergreen Data Continuity, Inc
View the only completely integrated solution available today by joining Steve Burns, President of EverGreen Data Continuity, as he unveils the next generation of Enterprise Business Continuity Management Software. Steve will demonstrate how EverGreen Data Continuity customers have capitalized on Mitigator's fully integrated solution and how Mitigator 8.0 addresses your other key BC Software challenges.Register today for this free, no obligation webcast, sponsored by EverGreen Data Continuity. There will be an interactive Q&A session following the presentation.
