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Emergency Planning = Redundancy Planning ?

November 7, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

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by Ben Carnevale With so much content already on the web addressing the topic of emergency planning, and with so many of us (including myself) procrastinating about doing something about setting and achieving our own personal preparedness goals and objectives, I was pleased to come across a recent posting entitled “Thoughts on Preparedness” written by Lynda King. What attracted me most to this posting was her ability to make me believe that we all can actually do something to help us effectively cope when disaster strikes. Also, when thousands of people in your area all need … [Read more...]

American Red Cross Mobile App Preparedness Tips

October 28, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance 2 Comments

by: Ben J. Carnevale, Contributing Writer For those readers who reside in the path of Hurricane Sandy over the next few days, our staff offers a reminder of the many disaster preparedness mobile apps available from the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross has worked hard in transforming itself for the future – and just a small part of that great effort includes this series of disaster related mobile device applications available to everyone. Please check out the following disaster preparedness and disaster recovery mobile device applications: Hurricane App – this … [Read more...]

Risk Assessment Practitioners Offered COSO Perspective

October 27, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

by Ben J. Carnevale, Contributing Writer Just recently, the Committee of the Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”) produced a new “thought paper” on risk management, offering ideas on how companies can better address and implement risk mitigation efforts. The Treadway Commission (… also known as the National commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting) is a special committee formed in 1985 in the United States to investigate the underlying causes of fraudulent financial reporting. The commission was named after its chairman, former SEC commissioner … [Read more...]

Hurricane Sandy Postpones Continuity Insights New York Event

October 26, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

The Continuity Insights New York event planning team determined that its location was deemed to be too close to the projected path of Hurricane Sandy. Staying in continuous communication with the New York City Office of Emergency Management, the team at Continuity Insights made a timely and informed decision to postpone one of its major events of the year. The new dates of the conference are November 12-13, 2012 and the event will still be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania. As pointed out by Luke Simpson, chief editor, “…First and foremost is the safety of our attendees, faculty and … [Read more...]

Business Continuity Plan Table Top Exercises

October 24, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

In response to a request by readers asking for access to examples of table top exercises testing business continuity plans, our staff recommends the following: A recent article written by David Geer offers three (3) table top scenarios addressing; "Chemical Explosion", "Primary Supplier Cannot Deliver" and "Angry IT Guy" An older article written by Sarah D. Scalet offers three (3) table top scenarios addressing: "Disgruntled Employee Starts a Data Center Fire", "An Explosion Releases Deadly Toxins" and " Pandemic Flu Hits" The American Bar Association (ABA) Committee on Disaster … [Read more...]

Seismologists Convicted and Jailed for Incorrect Prediction

October 24, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

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For those readers following the recent Italian regional court decision where six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly earthquake in L'Aquila, it would be no surprise that the head of Italy's disaster body, Luciano Maiani, has resigned today in protest of such a decision. “This is the end of scientists giving consultations to the state,” warned Prof Maiani, a world-renowned physicist who was director general of the Cern nuclear research center in Switzerland from 1999-2003. Given the many obvious and … [Read more...]

Disaster Preparedness Resource List

October 24, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Recently our staff has received requests for more updates and information regarding who is doing what in disaster preparedness work, why we should care and what is new and worth a closer look. To address this request our staff would like to reference a recent article written by Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D., who teaches at Bryn Mawr’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in Pennsylvania, and consults for nonprofits. She was also the director of the Hurricane Fund for the Elderly, which was an initiative of “Grantmakers in Aging”. This initiative raised money to help … [Read more...]

DHS Recognizes American Bar Association as PS-Prep Certified.

October 23, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Upon being recognized by the Department of Homeland Security as the first non-for-profit organization in the U.S. to be PS-Prep certified for disaster preparedness and response under the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Program, ABA President Laurel Bellows stated, “…our nearly 400,000 members and the public can rest assured that the ABA can recover from a severe business interruption and continue to serve their needs. The organizational resilience that disaster preparedness provides is critical in an increasingly unpredictable environment of global terrorism and frequent natural … [Read more...]

BYOD – Attend Webinar to Build a Business Case of Support

October 23, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

The risks associated with employees now bringing their own smartphones, tablets and mobile storage devices to the job remain a topic on the minds of every information security professional in nearly all organizations. While much has been and will continue to be written on this topic, risk management strategies by many CISO’s are still too often trying to develop defenses that reject this trend rather than trying to find ways to embrace this trend as a means to cut costs and improve productivity. In an exclusive case study now being offered in a webinar format, Intel CISO Malcolm … [Read more...]

Global Supply Chains and Logistics Clusters

October 22, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Many of our regular readers recognize Jan Husdal’s website as one often recommended by our staff. Husdal’s focus on the growing risk and risk management opportunities in global supply chains, often presents to our readers new ideas, market direction and strategic planning processes expressed as helpful input(s) to the risk mitigation process of their own organization(s). Given the many growing risks affecting longer supply chains in both time and distance, Husdal’s recent posting on the topic of logistic clusters may be one of those ideas you might want to pass along to the … [Read more...]

Emergency Planning = Redundancy Planning ?

American Red Cross Mobile App Preparedness Tips

Risk Assessment Practitioners Offered COSO Perspective

Hurricane Sandy Postpones Continuity Insights New York Event

Business Continuity Plan Table Top Exercises

Seismologists Convicted and Jailed for Incorrect Prediction

Disaster Preparedness Resource List

DHS Recognizes American Bar Association as PS-Prep Certified.

BYOD – Attend Webinar to Build a Business Case of Support

Global Supply Chains and Logistics Clusters

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