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Enterprise Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity - Designing the Resilient Framework

Strategies to help design, implement and manage disaster  recovery and business continuity framework to protect your organization's core IT assets, people, and processes

March 10, 2009

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

   

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center  Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

Economic survival and sustainability is a shared concern among many top executives. This leads to increased emphasis on recovery/continuity of operations and data. What should you be doing differently in this economic climate to adhere to enterprise wide goals?

In this one day conference attendees will learn how they may need to tweak their approach given current company challenges.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • How to implement a comprehensive risk management strategy to support the needs of the enterprise
  • How proper BCM can be a key component of an enterprise’s risk management framework
  • How to understand the needs of various internal customers/stakeholders
  • How to improve overall business resiliency
  • How to minimize impact to your organization’s
  • How to test and implement the plan
  • How to measure effectiveness through SLAs
  • How to minimize gaps between recovery capabilities and enterprise requirements
  • How to handle crisis management
  • How to justify investments to achieve 100% availability
  • How to gain commitment for your plan from management

Conference Program

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

Alesi

9:00am-10:00am

Economics Dictate Changes: How to Design/Refine Your DR/BC Plan During Challenging Times

Norman A. Alesi, Partner and Executive VP, Vieo Consulting Group (A Laurus Company)

In tough economic times, everyone is looking to see where they can cut costs and do more with less.  But where is it safe to reduce expenditures and where could it be disastrous? 

 

In this thought-provoking session, attendees will learn:
  • Tweaks that they should make to their DR plan
  • Where they should invest versus where they should scale back
  • How to be proactive to protect against potential threats that are posed to the organization
  • How to bolster the argument that investment is a necessity
  • How to look to other departments for support
  • The pros and cons of going green

10:00am -10:30am - Refreshment Break

Hradnansky

10:30am-11:30am

Mitigating Risk: How an Effective Enterprise Risk Management Framework can Improve the Outcome of Your DR/BC Planning

Paulette Hradnansky, Senior IT Director, Home and Networks Mobility, Motorola

Catastrophes over the last several years have caused most organizations to reassess their investments in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning.  Some organizations may have overspent while others may have invested too little.  By taking a risk-management approach to business continuity planning, IT professionals can determine what minimum countermeasures and response procedures are vital to meet your organization's business needs.

 

This session will help attendees insure that their investment in countermeasures and response procedures is correctly aligned with the potential impact of catastrophic disasters or disruption.

Topics that will be covered include: 
  • How to design an effective risk management framework in the context of business continuity planning
  • How to apply a business impact analysis (BIA)
  • How to use the results of the BIA to understand where your dollars should be spent
  • How to determine the ROI to management to justify the right amount of investment for your DR/BC plan

Roseman

11:30am-12:30pm

IT Continuity of Operations: How to Minimize the Gaps Between Your Recovery Capabilities and Functional Requirements of the Enterprise

Jeff Roseman, Director, IS Infrastructure, Patterson Medical

Understanding the business needs of your organization is essential so that your DR/BC Plan can be mapped to the functional requirements of the organization.  But what happens when you find there are gaps between your recovery capabilities and the needs of your enterprise? 

 

In this session attendees will learn:
  • How to understand and prioritize the requirements of the enterprise
  • How to map these requirements into your plan
  • How to lessen the gaps between capabilities and requirements
  • How to modify the plan in the future to prevent gaps from happening

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

Peglar

1:30pm-2:30pm

How to Avoid Data Center Disasters

Rob Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corporation

In the best of times a data center glitch can be a huge problem.  But in a challenging economic environment the problem will be exacerbated.  IT’s response within the first fifteen minutes after an event can have a huge impact to operations continuity of the organization.  How should you plan and respond in this environment?

 

In this session, attendees will learn:
  • How to be even more vigilant
  • How to implement metrics for efficiency
  • How to cross train staff to understand the plan
  • How to mitigate unforced errors

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

Cerra

3:00pm-4:00pm

Ensuring Business Continuity: Recommendations for Recovering Quickly from PC Disasters

Jamie Cerra, Senior Systems Engineer, Persystent Technologies

IT organizations have traditionally focused on improving insight and control over their company's core server and network infrastructure. Today, that focus is broadening to include personal computers (PCs), which are, arguably, an organization's most important employee productivity tool. When computers are down, so is business productivity and continuity. How can IT help end users to recover quickly from PC disasters that occur either in house or offsite?

 

In this session, attendees will learn more about:
  • The cost of supporting and replacing PCs and how to reduce those costs
  • Trends and new scenarios in end user computing
  • A three-pronged approach to ensuring PCs are always available and fully functional

Klauser

Roseman

Berry

Reick

4:00pm-5:00pm

Economic Sense in a Tough Economy: How to Save Money and Increase Resiliency

Moderator:  David Klauser, Director, Transcendent, LLC

Panelists include:

Jeff Roseman, Director, IS Infrastructure, Patterson Medical
 Cynthia Berry, Business Continuity and Security Manager, DeVry Inc.
Jerry Reick, Business Continuity Manager, Robert W. Baird & Co.

 

In this session attendees will learn from a group of seasoned DR/BC IT professionals as to how they can leverage their investments to save the organization money and increase resiliency.


Conference price: $249 per person.


Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations.  During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.

  


   

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