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Why Choose to Be Certified and the Costs Associated with Certification | View Now
Presented in Part with the BCI | Originally Recorded: January 25, 2012
Part Two of the Community of Practice Webinar Series, this dual presentation will concentrate on why to be certified, as well as the costs associated with organizational certification.
What is the Community of Practice series?
The purpose of this new consortium is to share experiences and best practices regarding organizational certification, with special emphasis on the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program (PS-Prep). Objectives include:
- Sharing practical experiences and information with those possibly interested in organizational certification;
- Educating attendees on the use of management systems and standards in order to increase preparedness; and
- Decreasing misinformation and increasing awareness regarding PS-Prep and organizational certification in an unbiased manner.
Business Continuity Planning for the Real World: Supply Chain | View Now
Presented in Part with MIR3 | Originally Recorded: December 7, 2011
Supply chain risk management consistently ranks high on the list of key organizational processes to implement and improve upon. Unfortunately, most efforts focus exclusively on preparedness inquiries and fail to implement activities designed to improve resiliency, responsiveness and recoverability. This webinar, jointly presented by MIR3 and Avalution, focuses on the core activities necessary to appropriately manage supply chain risk. If you’re looking for ideas on how business continuity can benefit your company in practical, everyday ways, you won’t want to miss this information-packed webinar. Join experts as they share real-life scenarios and first-hand examples of the power of business continuity to recognize and mitigate supply chain risk.
The natural disasters of the past year have cast a spotlight on the vulnerability of the global supply chain, making many of us aware of how reliant we are on critical suppliers. This webinar will help you recognize those suppliers and use that information to increase the stability of your supply chain. This is where business continuity and the supply chain converge. We’ll discuss how scenarios like these might impact your supply chain:
- A natural disaster severely impacts a key supplier
- A vendor delays an order because of financial problems
- A transportation strike leaves you short of raw materials
- A single-source supplier suffers manufacturing delays
Scoping an Organizational Certification Effort | View Now
Presented in Part with the BCI | Originally Recorded: September 21, 2011
As more and more organizations consider leveraging standards to improve preparedness and achieve organizational certification, either through PS-Prep or directly with BS 25999, business continuity professionals are asking where to begin, who to contact and how to establish a certification scope statement. During this webinar, Brian will share some of his first-hand experiences with successfully preparing for the certification process and tips on establishing the certification scope statement in order to manage cost and maximize business value.
GRC for Business Continuity Professionals | View Now
Part of DRJ's Monthly Webinar Series | Originally Recorded: September 7, 2011
Business continuity professionals have raised many questions regarding GRC and how it fits with business continuity and risk management in general:
- What does GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance mean)?
- Is this a replacement for ERM?
- Will business continuity get merged into GRC?
- Is GRC just being used to sell software and consulting?
Join us as we discuss GRC, where it came from, and how it may share a common future with business continuity.
You've Been Breached: Facing the Challenge of Data Breach Notifications | View Now
A Send Word Now Webinar | Originally Recorded: Wednesday, July 27, 2011
As seen in news headlines from around the globe, data breaches are an ever-present (yet commonly overlooked) threat to an organization’s operational well-being. Today, responding to a data breach is far more complicated than simply sending a mass mailing to affected customers notifying them of the occurrence. Given the potentially catastrophic operational, reputational, financial, and legal impacts of a data breach on an organization, data breach notification and communication strategies are a necessary component of an organization’s business continuity, crisis management and information security initiatives. By leveraging existing plans, processes and people, organizations can lessen the impact of a data breach and communicate with customers, business partners and authorities in a timely and effective manner.
Join Send Word Now and our featured speaker, Christopher Burton, a Senior Consultant with Avalution Consulting, to gain insight into the consequences of a data breach and how you can leverage effective response strategies to significantly minimize risk.
Cloud Computing: What Business Continuity Professionals Need to Know | View Now
Part of BCI's Business Continuity Awareness Week 2011 | Originally Recorded: March 22, 2011
Cloud Computing. Everyone's heard of it, but what is it exactly? How are companies using it? And, more importantly, how do we plan for it? This webinar will take a deep dive into these questions - providing you with the facts and action items for addressing the Cloud in your business impact analysis, planning activities, and recovery strategies.
Revealing the Clear Potential of "Cloud Backup & Recovery" | View Now
Co-Presented with Recovery Point as Part of DRJ's Monthly Webinar Series | Originally Recorded: February 16, 2011
"Cloud computing" and "Cloud backup" are hot topics in the market right now, and "Cloud recovery" is emerging as the next logical step. But, what do these terms mean? And, how are they actually being used by organizations today? More importantly, can they improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our disaster recovery efforts, simplifying the process and reducing cost? This webinar cuts through the marketing noise, providing questions to consider around "The Cloud" and addressing how it is helping organizations today to achieve more with less.
Supply Chain Management: A Risk Management Imperative in a Global Economy | View Now
Co-Hosted with MIR3, Inc. | Originally Recorded: November 16, 2010
Supply chain risk management consistently ranks high on the list of key organizational processes to implement and improve upon. Unfortunately, most efforts focus exclusively on preparedness inquiries and fail to implement activities designed to improve resiliency, responsiveness and recoverability. This webinar, jointly presented by MIR3 and Avalution, will focus on the core activities necessary to appropriately manage supply chain risk from a business continuity perspective. The presenters will not only address supply chain risk management analytic and mitigation processes, but also methods to ensure key business partner participation during recovery efforts when your organization is directly affected by a disruptive event. By participating in this webinar, you will come away with actionable ideas and strategy options to consider for implementation in your organization. Specifically, we will discuss:
- The Business Case for Managing Supply Chain Risk
- The Value in Managing Risk
- Common (Effective When Done Right) Processes to Manage Risk
- Proposed Supply Chain Risk Management Model
- Recommended Processes to Pre-Plan Coordination When Unplanned Disaster Strikes
- Discussion/Questions
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Enhanced Performance Through Standards | View Now
ASIS International Professional Development Course | Originally Recorded: May 7, 2010
Two factors are changing the way continuity and security professionals perform and deliver on their organizational obligations: the development of standards by international and national standards development organizations and the increased convergence of security, crisis, continuity and recovery management practices. This webinar will shed light on and dispel myths about both these phenomena. Topics to be discussed include:
- What are standards and how can you impact their development?
- How to get the most bang for your buck when building a standards implementation program?
- Is certification necessary when using standards for continual improvement of performance?
- How to negotiate in a converging universe
- Resilience or continuity: what's best for you?
- Using standards to improve preparedness
- Discussion/Questions
Participants will also get an update on the new ASIS business continuity standard and how it fits with the ANSI/ASIS Organizational Resilience Standard, as well as details on Technical Committee 223, which is charged with the development of the new ISO preparedness standard.
Implement Once, Comply Many (IOCM) | View Now
Improving Efficiency and Performance in Security and Business Continuity
The issue of organizational resilience and compliance with regulatory requirements affects organizations of all sizes and from all sectors with an identical problem – their inherent vulnerability to a wide variety of threats and the high cost of reducing risk by maintaining an appropriate level of preparedness based on customer requirements, and multiple regulations and standards.
Many organizations struggle – and often over spend – because they segment threats by assigning specific sources of risk to different areas within the organization. Not surprisingly, this results in disjointed, often fragmented processes that lack the efficiencies demanded by today’s competitive environment. In addition to unacceptably high costs, uncoordinated risk management disciplines fail to mitigate business resilience-related risk to a level acceptable by the organization’s key stakeholders.
Avalution and eFortresses jointly offer an integrated approach that forms not only the basis for a safe, secure and resilient organization, but provides a unique design that allows organizations to deploy a comprehensive risk governance platform for compliance, assurance and readiness that is traceable, measurable and reproducible.
Brian Zawada – Director of Consulting with Avalution – and John DiMaria – Director of Professional Services with eFortresses – recently had an open dialogue about why Avalution and eFortresses formed this relationship and what value this brings to the industry. Listen in to hear the details behind this ground breaking offering.