by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
What do you answer when asked by your business partners and clients about your state of readiness? How will you deal with a disruption in your supply chain and the threat that it may create a disruption to your entire business? Are your plans truly comprehensive and...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
Research indicates that many traditional BCP software projects fail. Pay-as-you-go SaS offering takes much of this risk away. There are several advantages of having an institution’s recovery plans and procedures well away from their own network. A general IT trend...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
When this disaster strikes home, business owners – especially small-business owners – can suffer huge losses in financial assets, reputation, banking relationships, vendor relationships, and customer relationships. This simple and usually undetected...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
Overview The intent of the table is to provide the initial guidance necessary for planning the redundancy measures for the system. As such, the table is merely a planning tool and does not need to be inclusive of all details up front. The requirements within the table...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Whitney National Bank quickly recognized the “human factor” is also important to an organization’s disaster recovery plan. A number of Whitney Bank branches in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, including the...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
Fighting terrorism on a global level is not traditionally viewed as a priority for individuals, businesses, and organizations. Rather, it is often considered a task for governments, world organizations, and world leaders. However, we as individuals must also be...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
Natural disasters are sure to grab our attention again this year, but the avian flu H5N1 – or “bird flu” as it is sometimes called – will continue to be a top priority. Avian flu is highly contagious and often fatal among birds. Outbreaks in...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
But Bluetooth isn’t just for mobile phones, PDAs and laptops. According to Bluetooth SIG, commercial vehicles are installing Bluetooth systems for driver communications, hands-free calling and data capture. Hospitals are employing the use of wireless pulse...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
Last year we experienced more tropical storms than any year since the National Weather Bureau has been naming storms. They actually ran out of names for the tropical storms and had to start using the Greek alphabet as names. Let’s start with Hurricane Katrina....
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
This situation forces the question, “How well does your business know its neighbors?” Knowing our neighbors is clearly part of DRI International’s Business Continuity Professional Practice No. 2 – Risk Evaluation and Control. DRII defines this...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
Some wanted to take a look. Some feared for their lives. Some simply went into action. “It was one of the largest industrial accidents I’ve seen, and there were very few injuries and no fatalities,” Gary Christmann, the city’s chief of...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
As many companies saw during the blackouts, hurricanes and terrorist attacks, the hot site was not the disaster recovery life insurance policy that was promised. The methodology works fine for a contained event that does not affect a large geographic area. However,...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
New Castle Hotels owns and operates hotel and resort properties including Marriotts, Hiltons, Sheratons, Holiday Inns, and independent hotels in the United States and Canada. Its customer service depends on keeping track of innumerable details, from the needs and...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
Most corporate security measures today address the potential for outside intrusion, and according to the Computer Security Institute and FBI joint 2004 Computer Security Survey, corporate losses due to breaches from within the perimeter are increasing at a much...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
CERT I recently completed a three week Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training course. While going through the training program, I had the opportunity to consider many potential community disaster scenarios and incident events. This experience made me...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
What is Bioterrorism? Bioterrorism is the intentional use of harmful biological agents to cause widespread illness, fear, panic, or death. The agents of most concern are anthrax, plague, smallpox, tularemia, ebola, and botulism – all hard to detect and...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
It’s not simply a matter of finding alternative space. An office must be provisioned with desks, PCs, printers, copiers, phones, network connectivity, and other infrastructure accoutrements, giving users a place and a means to access the data that you’ve...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
There are many experienced professionals who have no degrees at all, but provide highly qualified service to their organizations. What are the opportunities available through advanced study leading to a college certificate or degree? Many BCP practitioners have...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
These mandatory impositions are particularly onerous for the midsized business – the company with perhaps as few as 300 employees and certainly no more than 1,000. These are usually businesses on the up and up. Rapid growth and success often means that their...
by Mike McClain, Senior Web Designer & Site Manager | Mar 3, 2014 | Winter 2006 - Volume 19, Issue 1
For those who heed the advice to “be prepared,” communications can be the first thing you get back online, even while the local utility companies try to figure where to start the restoration effort. The key to getting your operation back to business as...
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