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Finding the Right Balance: Data Breach Prevention vs. Response |
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No organization expects to have a breach; in fact, most organizations have gone to great lengths and spent tremendous amounts of money to prevent them from happening. However, the number of reported data breaches in recent years has skyrocketed, and a strategy is needed to minimize the cost and reputational damage associated with a breach event when proper prevention techniques fail. This white paper discusses the importance of being able to quickly and efficiently respond to a breach, current and proposed federal regulations and state statutes, and how to establish your organization’s data breach response plan and team. |
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NFPA 1600 2010 Edition: What You Need to Know |
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NFPA 1600 is a “Disaster / Emergency Management and Business Continuity” standard published by the National Fire Protection Association that was originally released in 1995. In January 2010, NFPA announced the release of its triennial edition of the NFPA 1600 standard. The 2010 edition has changed significantly – organizationally and in its content.
This white paper summarizes the major improvements in the 2010 edition of NFPA 1600, in order to assist organizations in determining how the changes will help them achieve a more comprehensive, better-performing business continuity program. |
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View Avalution's Upcoming and On-demand Business Continuity Webinars |
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View upcoming and archived webinars that explore business continuity challenges and strategies specific to a variety of industries and positions, as well as emerging trends and risks. |
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Pandemic Preparedness: Ensuring Enterprise Business Continuity |
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This videocast offers an overview of the current threat, a summary of preparedness practices, and how the work done to prepare for H1N1 will offer value in your organization for many years to come. Key points include:
- Pragmatic practices to limit the spread of the disease in the workplace
- Building realistic triggers to implement the appropriate pandemic preparedness strategies
- Strategies to communicate effectively with stakeholders
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How To Deploy BS 25999 (second edition) |
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The second edition of “How to Deploy BS 25999” addresses changes to the BS 25999-2 Specification, finalized in late 2007, after the initial release of the white paper. This edition also takes advantage of lessons learned from recent BCMS development projects designed to meet BS 25999 requirements. |
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Choosing to Become Certified – Making the Decision and Achieving Success (BSI Dallas) |
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This presentation highlights why organizations choose to pursue certification, how to obtain management buy-in, and key success factors in preparing for the certification process. Real-world examples were used to reinforce the points made throughout the presentation. Additionally, the presenter compared BS 25999 to other standards, including NFPA 1600. |
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Is Business Continuity Certification Right for Your Organization? |
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This white paper analyzes the business case for pursuing organizational business continuity certification, including what it takes to complete the certification process and how best to begin preparing. |
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Designing A Business Continuity Training Program To Maximize Value & Minimize Cost |
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This white paper explores the value of business continuity training and awareness programs, offers solutions to control development and delivery costs and introduces solutions to deliver content to key business continuity stakeholders. |
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The Risk Assessment Executives Are Begging For |
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This presentation explores the value of a business continuity-oriented risk assessment and the relationship to enterprise-wide risk management and business impact analysis processes. It also delves into the ways in which this process can add significant business value. Ultimately, this presentation focuses on prioritizing risk mitigation, an activity which will elevate the importance and value of the business continuity-oriented risk assessment. |
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Your Board Will Soon Care About Business Continuity |
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This presentation highlights recent board-level requirements based on five organizations that have recently implemented, expanded, or improved their business continuity programs. Specifically, this presentation addresses the following:
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How do you understand what “type” of board you have and how to read their needs?
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What happens when a board elects to ignore risk management?
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What are the drivers influencing the board’s decision to invest in business continuity?
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What are boards mandating in terms of business continuity?
This session also provided a recommended governance framework and method to keep your board informed. |
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Successfully Building Business Continuity Awareness |
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Who needs to know about the business continuity program? What do they need to know, and how do you create a message they will understand? What’s the most appropriate method to get the message to them in a way that it will be retained? In addition to outlining strategies to answer each of the questions above, this presentation explores trends in business continuity awareness program development and execution, identifies optimal timing and methods to present awareness program content, and discusses how leading organizations are making their people aware of business continuity program roles and responsibilities. |
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Measuring Readiness |
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This presentation presents real-world methods to measure (or estimate) readiness in a way that executive managers, auditors and regulators understand. In addition to measuring and communicating readiness to executive management, many of the techniques discussed can be used to perform self-assessments and therefore mature many aspects of the business continuity lifecycle. |