In The Conference on Emergency Response Planning for Your Business, you'll learn...
- How to identify hidden threats to your assets and business functions
- How to develop, test and revise a comprehensive emergency management plan
- How to secure your vital records and contact networks
- How to safeguard your building and train employees in their vital response roles
- And much more!
Thinking that emergency situations “can’t happen here” is a mistake you don’t want to make. In fact, 3 out of 4 businesses don’t survive emergency situations when they occur. Computer viruses, fires and power failures wreak havoc on businesses like yours every day—and having business insurance alone just isn’t enough. How you plan for and respond to emergencies could make the difference between keeping a successful business going and sustaining unrecoverable losses. Attend today to make sure your business is completely and thoroughly covered in the event of a disaster.
Design your day to meet your unique needs. We’ve packed a lot of information into just one day … so feel free to move in and out of these two tracks and 10 dynamic sessions in our convenient conference format.
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Securing your financial, insurance, record-keeping and contact networks+
- The importance of creating and maintaining financial record backups
- How to prepare a thorough, comprehensive and secure list of key banking contacts, important support personnel, tax and regulatory filing requirements, addresses and time lines
- Maintaining adequate cash reserves or lines of credit—here’s how
- How to determine whether you have adequate insurance coverage in place to meet your company’s risk profile
- What you need to know to guarantee post-event access to cash and disbursement capabilities
Analysis of exposure and risk+
- How to identify and prioritize your business assets and functions
- What the term “tolerance” means as it relates to a business process and how it can be expressed as a dollar value
- The 3 important factors that will allow you to get usable data from end users when attempting to prioritize business processes, instead of users simply rating their own processes as the most critical
- How business processes can be categorized into 1 of 4 different tolerance spectrums
- Step-by-step procedures for identifying threats to assets and functions—analyzing your exposure
Preventing disaster before it happens—protecting your facility+
- The different types of fire detection and suppression systems and alternatives to standard fire sprinkler systems that can be used to protect computer and other electronic equipment
- A fire prevention checklist that you can use to reduce the likelihood of a fire occurring in your facility
- How particle contamination causes more IT downtime than fires, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and vandalism combined and what you can do to prevent this from happening to your company
- The steps you can take to protect your facility from the inevitable problem of power failures
Development and presentation of an emergency management plan+
- The characteristics of a good emergency management plan coordinator
- Why simply having business insurance doesn’t preclude the necessity of an emergency management plan
- Why each component of the plan must be cost-justified in order for it to be acceptable to senior management
- The best methods to use when presenting your emergency management plan to senior management for approval
Testing and revising your emergency management plan+
- Why it’s important to regularly test and upgrade your emergency management plan
- How to easily manage the changes within your business that directly affect your plan
- 4 important benefits of testing your plan and the hidden psychological benefit testing creates
- Step-by-step “how-to’s” for designing your test and how to manage the results
- Why it’s important to do revisions in steps rather than an “all at once” complete overhaul
Security measures to prevent data loss+
- How to implement virus protection on all your systems without going from computer to computer spending hours installing software and running scans
- What a firewall is and where to find high-performance, low-cost firewall solutions that’ll give you the confidence of knowing your systems are secure
- How vulnerable a default operating system installation can be—especially when your systems aren’t physically secure
- How to build an effective intruder detection system so you can feel confident that no one’s slipping into your systems without being noticed
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket—effective off-site data storage plans+
- What “time to data” means and why it’s so important when it comes to disaster recovery planning
- The costs of off-site data storage techniques and which have the best return for the money
- Why data prioritization is so important when it comes to efficient data restoration
- 9 different data backup strategies and the advantages and disadvantages of each
Bringing your computers back to life—computer system recovery planning+
- The 3 main requirements for computer system recovery in both centralized and distributed computing models
- 4 computer system recovery strategies for PC-based systems and their strengths and weaknesses
- 5 computer system recovery strategies for mainframe-based systems and their strengths and weaknesses
- What you must know when it comes to selecting a hot site for computer system recovery, including important contract considerations
Getting reconnected—recovery planning for network and communication systems+
- The 3 distinct layers of networks that are associated with disaster avoidance and recovery
- How to build disaster scenarios that will help you develop your network and communication recovery plan—and even help you prevent disaster by identifying and eliminating single points of failure
- How to formulate a strategy for internal network recovery, including internal voice communication systems and LANs (Local Area Networks)
- Backup strategies for WANs (Wide Area Networks), including cost-effective redundancy techniques
Getting your end users back to work+
- The advantages and disadvantages of the 3 main end user recovery options
- How telecommuting might be a viable alternative for end user recovery in the event of a disaster
- How to plan an employee notification procedure to ensure employees are notified in the event of a disaster
- Transportation, telecommunication and accommodation considerations that can’t be overlooked in your emergency management plan
