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DISASTER
RECOVERY
JOURNAL
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St. Louis, MO 63151
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PUBLISHER &
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Richard L. Arnold, CBCP
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SENIOR EDITOR
Janette Ballman
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EDITORS
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Corporate
President/CEO
Richard L. Arnold, CBCP
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Vice
President
Robert Arnold
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CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Patti Fitzgerald, CBCP
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CONFERENCE REGISTRAR
Merce Knese
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CIRCULATION
Laura Baugh
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INTERNATIONAL
CONTACTS
England: Thom Hetherington
Business Continuity
Phone: 0161-237-1007
thomh@tempus.demon.co.uk
Australia: Anthony J. Harvey
Journal of Business Continuity
Phone: 0011-613-953-0055-8
fax: 0011-613-953-0528
sector@notability.com.au
Japan: Shinji Hosotsubo
Quake Japan Co., Ltd.
Phone: 03-3215-2880
fax: 03-3215-2881
Brazil:
Jose Carlos Ferreira
Disaster Recovery Mercosul
Phone: 55
11 3666-9506
conc2000@uol.com.br
www.drms.com.br
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Featured Articles
 TERRORIST
ATTACKS
Facilitation, Cooperation Guide New York To
Recovery
In the wake of tragic events of New York City’s
World Trade Center attacks, city officials were faced with the daunting
task of not only responding to the most horrific event in U.S. history,
but also to simultaneously manage response efforts and guide New York
to a quick recovery. By THOMAS D’AURIA
CASE HISTORY
Service Harm Crisis: The Case Of The Express
Samina
This article aims to underline the need for crisis
management planning in companies involved in crisis prone business
activities like coastal shipping. By GEORGE J. SIOMKOS & ZISSIS
J. MADITINOS
SURVEY
What Disaster Recovery Experts Were Thinking
Just After The Attacks
The disastrous events of Sept. 11, 2001 were a tragic
and devastating national calamity. The thinking of disaster recovery
experts is particularly insightful and important for the general level
of preparedness across the nation.
By ROBERT C. CHANDLER, Ph.D. & J.D. WALLACE, Ph.D.
OUTSOURCING
PAYROLL, PAYMENTS
Keeping Paper Trail Intact After Disaster
Strikes
A virus has damaged the network irreversibly. Weather
conditions force an area evacuation. The building has caught fire.
No matter what the crisis, preparing paychecks and handling payables
is one of the last things organizations should worry about in a
disaster situation. By NEAL ANDERSON
VENDOR
MANAGEMENT
Don’t Become The Victim Of Someone Else’s
Disaster
On Aug. 2, 2001, approximately half the banks in Norway
had a digital disaster, losing card services, ATMs, Internet banking
and automatic phone banking for three days. So how could something
so widespread occur in the absence of a natural disaster in an industry
where regulations demand exceptional disaster/continuity planning?
By DENNIS HODGE
CASE HISTORY
Tech Tenants Remain Dry At WiredZone
Technology-dependent companies in Houston such as
Internet service providers, telephone switch operations, and data
and call centers suffered in early June’s disastrous flood
caused by Tropical Storm Allison. By CRAIG McDANIEL, APR
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
Paradigm Shift In Handling Disasters
Every member of a corporation, from
the CEO to the mailroom, is influenced by data loss and system outages.
Regardless of who is directly and/or indirectly affected, the results
of these interruptions are always the same at their most basic level
– loss of time, loss of money, loss of business. By MIKE TALON
DATABASE REPLICATION
Special Challenges Over Extended Distance
Why replicate your database? The simple answer is
– to have a hot standby copy of your organization’s most
critical data in case you need it. This article will focus on special
challenges encountered when contemplating data replication over
extended distances. By TOM FLESHER
HIPAA
An Assessment Of HIPAA Security Requirements
Although not yet published in its final form, the “proposed”
Rule CFR 45 Part 142 Security and Electronic Signature Standards associated
with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
addresses physical safeguards to “guard data integrity, confidentiality,
and availability.”
By VIRGINIA MILLER, CBCP, GCP & KIMBERLEY LEHMAN, CBCP
INDUSTRY
Disaster Recovery: Predicated On Fallacies
Years ago, I was often amazed at the number of businesses
that had no viable recovery plan in place. Even more disturbing
was to encounter those who believed that they had a recovery plan,
when, as a matter of fact, they didn’t. By NORM KOEHLER, CRP,
CBCP
TESTING
Scenarios In BC Plan Validation
This article will discuss the use of scenarios in validating
business continuity plans.
Some of the validation exercises can be as simple as a notification
test to make sure that all the branches of the calling trees are still
attached, or they can be as elaborate as a full scale exercise covering
several days involving the police, fire and FBI. By CHRIS ROHRS
TERRORIST ATTACKS
What A Difference A Day Makes
This article is intended, believe it or not, to be
a positive prediction of the contingency planning direction necessary
to prepare the industry for the mid to long-term contingency planning
future. By DAN PERRY
INDUSTRY
What Is Business Continuity Planning?
There are many articles addressing how to create a
business continuity plan, but few actually describe the purpose of
business continuity planning. This then is my biased attempt to explain
what business continuity is and what it is intended to accomplish;
it is not intended to describe a business continuity plan or how a
to create a business continuity plan. By JOHN GLENN
PERSONAL PLANNING
Creating Your Family Disaster Plan
A disaster can strike quickly and without warning.
It can force you to evacuate your location or trap you at home.
Your family could be scattered and separated, located at schools,
work, home or in cars. How will you find each other? How can you
determine if they are safe? Do you know what to do if basic services
such as gas, water, electricity or telephones were cut off? By KEITH
A. BAKER
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
Does Your Disaster Tolerant IT Solution Measure
Up?
How well is your computer system protected if a disaster
were to occur? This article explores the three ways of configuring
computer systems in order to provide disaster tolerance: remote copy,
remote computing, wide area clustering. By ROBERT LYONS
CHECKLIST
The Challenge Of Getting Back To Business
(PDF - Acrobat Reader Required)
In light of recent events, we know that getting back
to business as usual is a challenge. Leaders are faced with issues
that were once unthinkable. The ramifications are impacting all
aspects of business dealings and operations. At this time, it is
critical to identify, respond to, and manage the unique risks associated
with recovery and business continuity. By Ms. MICHAEL C. REDMOND
& JAMES HAMMILL
SURVEY
2002 Consultant Survey
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