SUCCESSFULLY CON DUCT A RISK ASSESSMENT
& HOW TO COMBINE THE RESULTS WITH THE BIA
The Risk Assessment is the foundation of a solid BCP. In this webinar, learn to assess threats to your organization; know your level of mitigation, and when/where to spend limited monies for protection. We’ll show you the pitfalls and help you gain insight to the Risk Assessment process – and describe how to combine the results with your BIA to present SOLID risk assessment findings to senior management.
You’ll gain:
- Clear advice on how to identify relevant threats – man-made, natural, and technological
- The best approaches to predict the probability of threats – and how to prepare for senior management questions
- Tips for interviewing – with suggestions for getting organized and saving time by asking the right questions of the right person at the right time
- Best practice for site analysis – you’ll exit knowing how to conduct site analysis and why to prepare for future updates
- Knowledge of the levels of mitigation – you’ll discover the best ways to identify and evaluate mitigating controls
- FASTpractice™ for presenting the risk assessment findings – “how-tos” on implementing an action plan
- Management Reports – how should the report look? How to prepare and substantiate threat priorities and mitigating controls, and the steps to present your findings
This comprehensive session provides tested and proven principles and practices for identifying and managing risks – don’t be caught without the necessary skills to protect your organization.
In conclusion, if you need to update or begin the Risk Assessment process, then this webinar is for you. You will be taught how to perform the process, easy ways to determine if/how the Risk Assessment should be combined with the BIA results, and we’ll also cover the process of developing an Action Plan and Roadmap to sharpen your focus on results!
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This class is facilitated by Michael Herrera, CBCP, President/CEO
of MHA Consulting Inc., and Barry Pruitt, President of Pinnacle
Training Solutions. Together, Barry and Michael founded the
FASTpractice Training Institute. An organization dedicated to
raising the maturity level of BSP/DR professionals FAST!

Barry Pruitt
PruSpeak Incorporated
Barry Pruitt is president of PruSpeak
Inc. PruSpeak, a global training and consulting organization.
He is an adjunct professor for the USC School of Business.
He teaches “Project
Management” and “Best Practices and the BIA” and
offers classes in US, Australia, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, UK,
Germany, and France.
Pruitt is a professional speaker, trainer, and consultant
with more than 22 years experience in managing and directing
others. He has more than 12 years full time speaking experience
in the US, UK, Australia, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, and Europe.
He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows in
North America.
Michael A. Herrera, CBCP
MHA Consulting Inc.
Michael Herrera is the President and
CEO of MHA Consulting, a business continuity and technology
consulting company. He
brings a wealth of business continuity planning experience
that includes:
- Seventeen (17) years experience
successfully developing, implementing and maintaining
enterprise business continuity planning (BCP) programs
for Fortune
1000 companies.
- Twenty (20) years information technology
and business continuity experience encompassing the financial,
biotech, governmental, public utility, mining, manufacturing,
e-Learning, medical, insurance, high-tech, consumer,
and retail industries.
- Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) since 1989,
one of the first planners to acquire this certification.
- First hand disaster recovery experience, successfully
recovering from four (4) man-made and natural disasters.
- Current instructor at the Spring and Fall World Disaster
Recovery Journal (DRJ) conferences.
- Past member of the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) Editorial
Advisory Board and International Association of Contingency
Planners (ACP) Board of Directors.
- Founded the Phoenix Arizona Chapter of the Association
of Contingency Planners (ACP), one of the nations top contingency
planning groups.
- Sought after speaker at local and
national conferences addressing business continuity planning.
- Member of the Arizona Contingency Planners Chapter and
International Association of Contingency Planners.
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