Entries Categorized as 'Advisory'
by Roberta J. Witty | September 1, 2010 | 3 Comments
The goal of U.S. National Preparedness Month (NPM) is “…to stress the importance of strengthening the security and resiliency of our Nation through systematic preparation for the full range of hazards threatening the United States in the 21st century, including natural disasters, cyber attacks, pandemic disease, and acts of terrorism.” Read the full proclamation: Presidential [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | August 24, 2010 | Comments Off
From John Morency/Research VP at Gartner, Inc. “We support high availability. That’s as good as you can get. Why would you ever want disaster recovery in addition to that?” This is an actual question that was asked at a recent Gartner briefing by the CTO of a large data center service provider. It was the [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | June 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Entire Summit Web Site Business Continuity Management Program Web Site Twitter Hashtag: #GartnerSecurity Sunday Night Greet & Tweet Executive Women’s Forum Sunday Evening Meet & Greet
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by Roberta J. Witty | June 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
Managing humanitarian disaster relief is a challenge and can benefit from the use of automation so that emergency resources are managed in a manner that brings support to victims faster and mitigates further damage due to the recovery effort itself. Sahana is a free Web-based humanitarian collaboration system for disaster management. The system uses free [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | June 15, 2010 | Comments Off
Today, DHS made it official which standards will be part of the PS-Prep program: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the British Standards Institution (BSI) and ASIS International. All three had been proposed in October, 2009 so it isn’t a surprise that all three are part of the final line-up. What is needed next is for [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | June 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Getting management attention and investment commitment for BCM can be hard. Linking key performance indicators to key risk indicators for resilience is an effective approach for communicating to business management the value of business continuity and resilience management, so that business management takes ownership of these programs and commits to the needed investments year over [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, COOP, Disaster Recovery, IT Disaster Recovery, Operational Risk Management, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | August 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
I attended a pandemic preparedness planning workshop this week sponsored by my CT InfraGard branch. The attendees have been covering this beat for awhile, so the information exchange was at a fairly detailed level regarding what organizations are planning and struggling with in their efforts. I thought I’d share some of the information with you. [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, H1N1, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, swine flu, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Harvard School of Public Health released the results of a survey they conducted in June/2009 regarding Americans’ views and concerns about the potential for a more severe outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1) in the fall or winter. Gartner always advises businesses to review their pandemic preparedness planning from the perspective of 40% absenteeism – some [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | May 7, 2009 | Comments Off
NEDRIX (NorthEast Disaster Recovery Information X-Change) completed a survey of its membership on May 5, 2009 regarding their organization’s response to the potential pandemic due to the H1N1 virus. 100 members completed the survey and it is interesting to see how these organizations have responded to date. The results published in the survey report are reassuring: most organizations [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Ken McGee | May 6, 2009 | Comments Off
According to the World Health Organization, as of May 6th, 22 countries have reported 1516 “laboratory confirmed” cases of H1N1 infections in people, 31 of whom have died. Meanwhile, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that as of May 6, 2009 health authorities in 41 states have reported 642 cases of [...]
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