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EXECUTIVE
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Mike Croy, Forsythe
Jeff Dato, MBCP, KPMG
John Jackson, IBM
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Brian Turley, Strohl Systems
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INTERNATIONAL
CONTACTS
England: Thom Hetherington
Business Continuity
Phone: 0161-237-1007
thomh@tempus.demon.co.uk
Japan: Shinji Hosotsubo
Crisis Management and Preparedness Organization
Phone: 03-3519-6270
fax: 03-3519-6255
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Brazil: José Carlos Ferreira
Disaster Recovery Mercosul
Phone and fax: 011-3666-9506
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 Rumors
of Communicable Disease
Is your company prepared to deal with the avian flu?
Do you know how your employees would respond to such an announcement,
particularly if the report is not true? Does your company’s disaster
plan take bioterrorist attacks into account?
By R.GREGORY EVANS, PhD, MPH
Wave
of Terror: Tsunami Causes World’s Deadliest Disaster
Reconstruction in countries affected by the Dec. 26 Indian
Ocean tsunami is expected to take years as areas recover from one of
the deadliest and most damaging disasters ever. The tsunami, which affected
11 countries along the Indian Ocean, killed as many as 178,000 people.
Combined with estimates of 26,000 to 142,000 missing in the region,
more than 250,000 people may have perished in the disaster.
By JANETTE BALLMAN
High-Resolution
Satellites Offer Unprecedented Views
After the tsunami, high resolution satellite imagery
became a remarkable tool for helping the world understand the devastation
that occurred. At 60-centimeter resolution, these images depict enough
detail to count individual trees and buildings.
By CHUCK HERRING
 Stay
Profitable By Telling The World
As the owners and authors of the BC plans,
we know them inside and out, and we are well-suited to describe the
plan to prospective customers, insurance carriers, investors and auditors.
We also have the most to gain when we highlight the value BC brings.
By CHRIS SCHEFFLER
DR
vs. BC: Dueling Recovery Plans
Many companies have created an environment of hostility
between disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning.
Companies are creating two independently operating groups tasked with
planning for a disasterous event. How did the two grow apart?
By GREG HOLDBURG, MRP
Securing
DR Objectives With Effective Communications
The four tenants of comprehensive emergency management
– mitigation, preparedness, response, and recover – will
fall short of their “comprehensive” goal unless they are
interconnected and unified. The most critical tool for this is communication.
By CINTA PUTRA
Thinking
Outside The Box
It has long been my contention that a business continuity
plan is a two-edged sword. Properly created and implemented, it can
help an organization survive a disasterous event after all others have
perished. Ignored, it means the possibility of the organization’s
failure or, more likely, substantial financial loss.
By JOHN GLENN, MBCI
 The
Incident Preparedness Pyramid
The planners were more than willing to present their
recipe for a successful reunion to contingency-minded collegues wherever
they could be found. They presented their success story at conferences
and symposia far and wide, and were always prepared for inevitable comment
that their story strongly resembled ... a fairy tale.
By DOUG SIEVERS, CBCP
Best
Practices for Prevention and Recovery
A multi-pronged approach will create a defensive barrier
comprised of antivirus, firewall, content filtering, vulnerability management,
and intrusion detection in order to prevent an attack, while employing
a backup and disaster recovery plan that will help them recover in the
event of a successful attack.
By L.D. WELLER
 Spring
World 2005 Another Great Success
More than 1,100 attendees joined expert speakers and
exhibitors for a total of 1,500 people at Walt Disney World’s
Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla., for the Disaster Recovery
Journal Spring World 2005 conference March 6-9.
By JON SEALS
Improving
Storage Utilization
Every IT manager is aware of a fundamental truth about
data: it never stops growing. Most of the customers and analysts I talk
to tell me that storage grows at 60 to 70 percent a year. The challenge,
then, is to better manage where and how this information is stored.
By ROBERT SODERBERY
Small
Business Planning Confidence On The Rise
It is hard to imagine any business operating in today’s
environment without some form of business continuity plan. Yet, in the
small business environment of Central California, those with a plan
are unique.
By LAURIE TAYLOR-HAMM
Preparing
Like Europeans
Businesses should give equal focus on preventative as
well as recovery strategies. European businesses are already embracing
this concept, but in the U.S. the focus is still on provisioning of
recovery capabilities.
By ANDREW B. McCRACKAN
Spoken
Word Trumps All
Because most of us have been speaking by age 4, there
is an assumption that we actually communicate when we talk. Yet under
the duress and uncertainty of a disaster, the bar is raised considerably
on any responder’s communications skills.
By STEPHANIE NORA & RAY THOMPSON
Getting
Started
The majority of business continuity/disaster recovery
articles written for trade journals are directed toward the technical
audience. There is abundance of information available on the steps necessary
to implement a business impact analysis or build the disaster recovery
plans necessary to restore critical systems. But there is very little
information available as to what steps are necessary to start a business
continuity project.
By JEFF BLACKMON, CBCP
2005
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