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President
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EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL
Mike Croy, Forsythe
Jeff Dato, MBCP, KPMG
John Jackson
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James Hammill, CBCP, JMH Consulting Inc.
Pat McAnally, SunGard Availability Services
Brian Turley, Strohl Systems
Belinda Wilson, Hewlett-Packard
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
hosotsubo@cmpo.org
Brazil: José Carlos Ferreira
Disaster Recovery Mercosul
Phone and fax: 011-3666-9506
jocaff@uol.com.br
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 Regulatory
Compliance
Initially, the focus of corporate governance was to protect shareholders
of the corporation, but with increasing emphasis being placed upon corporate
governance and associated policies, current thinking defines corporate
governance as a corporation’s responsibility to stakeholders (irrespective
of share ownership).
By BELINDA WILSON, CBCP
Business
Continuity Planning in the Real World
Financial service companies, all companies, are in business to make
money, to make a profit. They are not in business to develop a business
continuity plan. ... But a business continuity plan is an indespensible,
although too often, unrealized, unacknowledged, and underappreciated,
valuable asset of the corporation.
By GEORGE W. KIBILDIS
 Acronym
Soup
With all the terms and abbreviations being used today regarding risk
management – BCP, DR, EBR, RPO, RTO, SLA, etc. – a conversation
about data protection and risk mitigation sounds like a bowl of acronym
soup.
By MICHAEL CROY & JAMES E. GEIS
Earthquakes
Rattle Supply Chain
When we think of Nijgata prefecture in Japan, we generally don’t
think of critical business infrastructure. However, when a series of
large earthquakes struck the Chuetsu area last October, the business
impact rippled across Japan. By SHINJI HOSOTSUBO & NATHAN LEE RHODEN
Top-5
Causes of Replication Failure
While replication serves an important function in the enterprise, it
is important for IT executives to understand the most common causes
of replication failure and to evaluate these against their own company’s
efforts. By PAUL DARCY
Emotional
Continuity Management
Emotional continuity management training involves undestanding and planning
for emotions that come from the stress caused by changes inside business,
from small adjustments to catastrophic upheavals. This specialization
of business continuity management requires knowing emotional and humanity-based
needs and functions of people and not just performance data.
By VALI HAWKINS MITCHELL, Ph.D., LMHC
Insurance
Company Looks For Silver Lining
For a Florida-based insurance company, the added challenge of converting
their print and mail operation’s new applications during this
past fall’s hurricane “trifecta” made an already stormy
situation even worse.
By JERRY MONTELLA
 Modeling
Events To Affect a Recovery
How do you begin planning specific recovery strategies for a disaster
event that hasn’t happened yet? Industry best practices and your
own good sense suggest that you use the worst-case secanrio to determine
the necessary recovery strategy to be used.
By GARRY BOND
What
Every CIO Should Know About DR
CIOs are often put in a very difficult, sometimes “Catch 22”
situation regarding DR. It is fundamental to the IT management discipline
to address backup and recovery, and this often has to be done quickly
and prior to addressing business continuity as a whole.
By MICHAEL E. ANZIS, CBCP
Automated
Notification for Business Continuity
In times of crisis, alerting people – that is, simply providing
information on what is ocurring – is not enough. The true value
of automation comes from interactivity.
By TROY WINSKOWICZ
 When
You Least Expect It ...
Having nothing happen during the first 18 months as BC coordinator and
then, suddenly being affected by two incidents within two weeks adds
credibility to the assertion that a disaster can, and does, occur at
any moment.
By MICHAEL BARBARA, CBCP
Addressing
the Data Protection Challenges
Whether it is customer account information, financial records, operations
data, or e-mail, the life blood of any business is corporate data. Data
protection should not be an afterthought.
By JET MARTIN
Reduce
Costly Downtime With Continuous Backup
Increasingly, the rising cost of downtime in lost productivity, missed
opportunity, and dissatisfied customers is forcing many businesses to
recognize the traditional daily backup as only one element of an effective
strategy.
By ERIC JACKSON
BC
Analysis Using Computer Simulation
Simulation modeling and analysis has long been a tool used to analyze
complex systems and processes. Once known to have staple use in analyzing
processes requiring fail-safe operation such as those found in military,
aerospace, telecom, and nuclear applications, computer simulation has
found a new home in analyzing business continuity operations.
By MATTHEW LIOTINE, Ph.D.
Ounce
of Prevention Equals Pound of Cure
While there are an abundance of technologies available at the software
level to help network managers maximize uptime of their servers, there
exists only one true standards-based hardware-level approach to maximizing
high availability of server hardware health – the Intelligent
Platform Management Interface.
By STEVE ROKOV
A
Team Approach To Emergency Management
This article focuses primarily on planning and preparing your organization
for the next disaster that will inevitably affect your community or
organization. The article discusses two areas that require a dedicated
team effort from the entire county government staff: continuity of government
and its associated vital records program, and emergency support functions.
By TOM ARMINIO & TROY TRUAX, AICP
2005
Alternate Site Survey (PDF)
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