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09/01/2010 - Business Continuity Testing and Exercising The best way to measure your business continuity and disaster preparedness plan is to put it in motion and test it. This is a great way to show management, employees, clients and prospects that you have done all you can to ensure business as usual, no matter what. Most important, testing will let you know if your plan will work, and, for some companies today, testing is a compliance issue. Over time, you will have to test all the elements of your plan, but you don’t necessarily have to do them all at once. Discover what a good test should accomplish and how to go about finding out if you can count on your plan in a disruption. Read Full Issue 08/25/2010 - National Preparedness Month September is National Preparedness Month (NPM). The goal of NPM is to increase public awareness about the importance of preparing for emergencies, including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks, at home, work and school. It is "designed to encourage Americans to take simple steps to prepare for emergencies in their homes, businesses, and communities." Read Full Issue 08/18/2010 - Business Continuity Planning Business continuity and disaster recovery planning has become a priority in many businesses, but there are many in which it has not. How does it rate in your organization? Do you have a plan? Do you test it, update it, and educate your employees about it? Whatever the status of your plan, you will find helpful guidance and insight in this issue. Read Full Issue 08/11/2010 - Getting Buy-in Buy-in. Without it, sometimes you just can’t get plans approved or implemented. You need management approval to get started, but you need everyone’s buy-in to make plans successful. Learn how to get buy-in from everyone in order to bring your plans to reality and to actually put them into use. Read Full Issue 08/04/2010 - Workplace Violence Between 1992 and 2006 (the latest year for which figures are available) workplace homicides averaged 800 per year. Studies show that 1 million or more violent situations occur in the workplace every year! Workplace violence is very real and can explode anytime and anywhere. Threats, bullying, physical violence and even gossip can be classified as workplace violence, and any of these situations could lead to litigation, which could cost you plenty and even damage your reputation. See how you can help prevent incidents of workplace violence. Read Full Issue 07/28/2010 - Building Security and Survivability In addition to your employees and tenants, servers and software, your procedures and processes, you have to be concerned with the security and survival of your facility as much as possible, because your facility encases everything that’s important to the continuity of your operations. Get tips on how to improve your building security and survivability. Read Full Issue 07/21/2010 - Testing and Exercising your BCP Training and testing are the keys to the success of any continuity or disaster recovery plan. A plan simply can’t be relied on to work properly unless it has been tested before it is actually implemented during an emergency. Practicing emergency response helps ensure that the plan will work as expected in an actual emergency. In addition, exercising the plan can reveal problems or weaknesses in the plan and identify need changes. Read Full Issue 07/14/2010 - Social Media and Business Continuity Social media offers opportunities -- and threats – with regard to business continuity. Many companies are integrating social media into their business continuity plans, but others are reluctant to jump on the bandwagon. Clearly, social media is becoming an important part of our society, so it’s important to take a look at it, learn about it, and determine if it can work for you. Read Full Issue 07/07/2010 - Crisis Communications There is one critical thing to remember about a crisis: It CAN happen here! And, if it happens, you need to have steps in place to respond to it and keep your organization going. There are three major steps in responding to a crisis: 1) gather all the information you can about the crisis and double check it; 2) communicate what is happening to all stakeholders (don’t forget employees); and 3) monitor media and online stories to make sure information is correct; if it isn’t, do what you can to correct it. Learn about preparing a crisis response plan and what role social media can have in that plan. Read Full Issue 06/30/2010 - Phishing and Identity Theft More than 10 million Americans are victims of identity theft a year. A recent survey estimates that the dollar value of the crime was $52.6 billion in 2004. Individuals and businesses alike are at risk. Make your family and your business more secure against phishing and identity theft. Read Full Issue
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