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Breakout
Session 3
Monday
March 31, 2003, 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
Strategic
Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Business
Continuity Planning in a Web-enabled Enterprise
Abby
De Lotto, CBCP
Strohl Systems
You can transform
BCP from a passive project to an active, participatory process by
exploiting the Web. In this session, you’ll learn how the
Web can help engage planners and top management more easily than
ever before, improve the communication of BCP strategies and solutions
within your company, and help make your planning cycle more integrated
and robust. Using the Web to reach a broader community enables you
to better sense and anticipate change, resulting in more accurate
and effective plans. Maximize your planning power with a web-based
approach to BCP.
Ms. De Lotto, CBCP, LCSE, is senior project director for Strohl
Systems. She has 14 years of experience in developing and implementing
innovative planning methodologies for mission critical business
situations in a wide range of environments.
Managerial
Session 3
Novice/Intermediate
If Your
Plan Could Talk, What Would It Tell You?
Norm
Harris
Harris Disaster Recovery Inc.
Mr. Harris
will discuss tried and tested ways to ensure your plan agrees with
your plan objectives. Management plays a big role, but doesn’t
always specify what a plan should do. Learn the vital signs you
should look for before, during and after the plan development. This
session is designed to guide you through the rough spots and present
ways to recognize the danger signs. If your plan were ever called
upon to meet its planned objectives and if it could talk, it would
say “I am ready when you need me.” We all know that
many plans today could not say that.
Mr. Harris, Certified Recovery Planner, chairman, president and
CEO of Harris Disaster Recovery Inc. is recognized as a leader in
information technology management and disaster recovery. Mr. Harris
co-founded CRISIS Magazine, one of the first disaster recovery publications
in the industry.
Technical
Session 3
Intermediate/Advanced
How
to Get an A From Internal Auditing on Your IT DR Plan
Bill
Fairbanks
Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp.
Diane
Alwood
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
In this session,
learn how to create a standardized information technology DR plan
that is clone-able for use at multiple sites covering multiple technology
platforms. Team creation, use of color-coding and icons, writing
standardized IT-friendly recovery procedures, and tips for working
with IT personnel, especially during exercises, are just some of
the topics covered in this presentation. All of these are currently
in use with good reviews from the IT personnel at Chase Manhattan
Mortgage and contributed to an “A” audit grade on a
major multi-platform exercise.
For the past four and a half years, Mr. Fairbanks has served as
the disaster recovery manager for Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation
centers.
Ms. Alwood is a Global Disaster Recovery Coordinator for JPMorgan
Chase & Co. She has more than 20 years of IT experience.
Emergency
Response Session 3
Novice/Intermediate
Protecting
Your Primary Site via Data Network Redirection Capabilities
Randy
Fisher, CBCP
AT&T
FEMA statistics
indicate that the 1990s were a turbulent period with a very high
incidence of natural and man-made disasters. Unfortunately
the 2000s appear to be following this trend. The ability to protect
and recover a primary data center is an absolute necessity for today’s
businesses. Data has and continues to grow in importance as
a corporate asset. This session will present an overview of some
existing and anticipated capabilities for protecting or recovering
from primary data center isolation or failure.
Mr. Fisher has held numerous managerial positions at AT&T since
1979 with extensive experience in product management, process management,
and forecasting. He currently is product manager of a number of
high speed packet services enhanced data reliability features.
Advanced
Session 3
Advanced
Outsourcing
Risk and Business Continuity
Damon
Arber
Damon Arber & Assc.
Outsourcing
with a service supplier is not necessarily a marriage made in heaven.
There is potential for the same business continuity problems that
the originating corporation faced prior to outsourcing. These problems
must be addressed to avoid failure in service to clients and customers,
embarrassment to the corporation, and to comply with state, provincial,
federal and industry regulators. The presentation addresses the
types of risks the corporation faces and what should be done to
mitigate the effect of the impact of the risks. It also addresses
actions the corporation should take to protect against failure of
the service provider or the delivery chain, and to recover from
such failures.
Mr. Arber, MBA, FICB, MBCI, is principal of his own consulting group,
Damon Arber and Associates, specializing in operations and operational
business continuity planning, and in the non-financial audit of
existing plans. Mr. Arber has completed 35 years with one of Canada’s
leading banks, in a number of areas and based in many locations,
domestically and overseas.
Information
Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Professionalism
in BCP
Thomas
Mawson
DRII
This session
features an overview of the certification and education programs
available from DRI International. DRI has been providing instruction
in business continuity planning (BCP) methodology since 1988. Staff
and leaders will be on hand to describe course objectives, the process
for attaining certification in BCP and other services.
Mr. Mawson is currently executive director of the Disaster Recovery
Institute (DRI) International, based in Falls Church, Virginia.
Mr. Mawson has more than 24 years of experience in non-profit management.
Prior to joining DRI International, he was the director of geographical
services, and later, director of leadership development, for the
American Society of Civil Engineers, in Reston, Va.
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