Entries Tagged as 'banking'
by Roberta J. Witty | September 28, 2011 | 5 Comments
On Tuesday September 20, 2011, I attended my local CT ACP chapter’s annual tabletop exercise. Hosted at Northeast Utilities, the ACP management team in conjunction with NU’s BCM team, conducted a great two hour exercise that was filled with lots of changing conditions, misinformation, and even an Elvis impersonator! Also in attendance were an EMNS [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Anniversaries of major events – personal and public – trigger much reflection on what has changed since the event, and 9/11 is no different. I went back to my experience in the months following 9/11 to find nuggets of information about which to write regarding how 9/11 changed the ability of organizations to respond and [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | September 9, 2011 | Comments Off
Nice explanations provided for “Specific” and “credible” in the body: http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/us-again-under-threat U.S again under threat Published 9 September 2011 New York City and the District of Columbia respond to “specific, credible but unconfirmed” intelligence of an impending attack; information obtained indicates a vehicle-borne bomb; NYPD deploys boats, armored vehicles and a 1,000-member counter-terror force As [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Ensuring your staff is prepared and safe before, during and after a disaster goes a long way in ensuring workforce resilience – in other words, that your workforce will be ready and able to come to the aid of the organization during a crisis event. To that end, a new web resource – Get Tech [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, planning, records management, Resiliency, Roberta Witty, social media, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
As most of us are now on the other side of Hurricane Irene, we want to ask everyone what recovery controls worked, which didn’t and which were new for your organization or your town. For example, the local fire departments around my area (Northwest CT) are offering charging stations for citizens to use for devices [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, records management, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Jim Carolan | April 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Richard DeLotto and Roberty Witty have provided some guidance for the banking industry and what IT organizations in the financial institutions can do right now to prepare for a possible pandemic: Review Your Pandemic Plan and Wash Your Hands Richard also has some research on the topic available: New U.S. Guidance on IT in Pandemics
Category: Uncategorized Tags: banking, planning, swine flu
