Breakout
Session Track 1
Monday - March 7, 2005- 1:30
pm - 2:30 pm |
Strategic
Session 1
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Continuity
Planning at a Strategic Level: Across CBK Domain Approach
Dawn Shook
BoozAllen Hamilton
Given
today’s volatile environment, security has become almost
a mantra for management. Recent events have driven home the necessity
of designing and implementing resilient systems and processes.
However, despite the new focus on security, approaches are still
fragmented. Learn how the risk management process crosses multiple
security domains. Discussion will include the risk management
process from a strategic level, including identification of key
assets and critical processes, planning, and selection of mitigation
options. The conclusion will include suggestions for implementing
a cross-domain approach to continuity planning.
Dawn Shook is an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton’s
Risk Management Team. Her experience with Booz Allen includes
critical infrastructure protection planning, disaster recovery
test, plans, and documentation, continuity of operations plan
development, requirements analysis, total cost of ownership studies
and gap analysis.
Managerial
Session 1
Intermediate/Advanced
Let
RTO run your BCP program
David Morgan
Zenith Ins. Co.
This
presentation will zero in on the definition of RTO/RPO and how
you can use these key indicators to drive your business continuity
program. RTO and RPO are elements that can be used to convince
management to fund BCP strategies. They can help IT understand
the connection between what the business needs and what IT delivers
in disaster recovery scenarios. You should leave this session
with a clear definition and some key examples of how you can use
RTO and RPO in your business continuity program.
With Zenith Insurance Company for 15 years, David Morgan has
had responsibility for the corporate business continuity plan
(BCP) for the past 13 years. The company is made up of 38 business
units in 21 locations. He has had responsibility for the maintenance
and testing of the BCP and the development of the new business
unit business impact analysis and integration into the corporate
plan.
Technical
Session 1
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Recovery
Strategy
Damian Walch
IBM BRCS
Businesses
continue to review how they want to recover their data centers
after a significant outage. As their business requirements change,
they need to modify and enhance their current solutions. The IT
organizations need to provide their business clients with alternative
solutions that meet business needs and that can be cost justified.
This session will discuss what factors should be included in the
analysis of whether to continue with a vendor recovery strategy
or whether to implement a self-recovery strategy. It will also
discuss what technical recovery solutions could be implemented
as part of either strategy.
Damian Walch is responsible for managing the national consulting
practice for IBM’s Business Resilience and Continuity Services.
This includes business continuity, information security and high
availability services.
Emergency
Response Session 1
Novice
Emergency
Response 101
Pamela L. Crowe, CBCP
EDS
How
prepared are you? How prepared is your company? Can you survive
the first hour of a disaster in the workplace? This session is
designed to raise your awareness of what you could be missing,
and how that could impact you, personally, and your company during
those first few hours of a disaster. This session will also address
how to be proactive in many areas that could save time, money,
and lives, when disaster strikes. We will also look at what every
company should know: insurance requirements, salvage and restoration,
damage assessments, contact lists and more.
Pamela L. Crowe has been involved in business continuity activities
for more than 14 years. As a business continuity planner, she
was responsible for the BC/DR plans and training of employees
at seven manufacturing sites in the Southeast. She is currently
the IT business continuity manager for a large telecommunications
company in Atlanta. Crowe also volunteers with the Red Cross Disaster
Services as a government liaison officer to the state and local
EMA during disasters and drills, and is a certified Red Cross
Disaster Instructor.
Advanced
Session 1
Advanced
Advanced
Recovery Planning Techniques Associated with Technology Recovery
Plans
Randy Till
Maureen Stauber, CBCP
MasterCard International
This
session will present some of the advancements made at MasterCard
International related to the development and testing of recovery
plans for mission critical systems. Learn some of the key areas
where technology innovations along with creative planning have
led to improved recovery capabilities and readiness. The transition
from the standard DRP philosophy toward BC and operational resiliency
has led to the realization of value-added benefits for MasterCard
International. This session will provide insights learned during
this transitional process.
Randy Till, CBCP, is vice president, global business continuity
management for MasterCard International.
Maureen Stauber, CBCP is MasterCard International’s director
of global business continuity management for technical recovery.
Information
Session 1
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced
Not
Another Hurricane! A Case Study of the 2004 Hurricane Season in
Florida
Tom Serio
Office Depot
This
presentation covers the preparation and recovery of not one hurricane,
but four hurricanes of varying degrees that hit Florida during
August and September 2004. Luckily hurricane warnings allow for
proactive and timely preparation. Still, many lessons were learned
from the events and will be shared with the attendees. Focus will
also be on employee issues, from damaged homes to those that want
to come back to work but the office is closed. Also, how does
a company support employees whose lives were significantly impacted,
either by loss of home, injury, or loss of income? This presentation
will include steps on disaster awareness and how to better educate
employees on proactive measures.
Tom Serio is the business continuity manager for Office Depot
Inc, in Delray Beach, Fla., responsible for the BCP efforts for
the domestic and international business lines. He has been in
the IT/business field for more than 20 years, in operations and
management, with a focus on DR/BCP for more than 10 years.
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