Resilience by Design

Understanding your organizationÕs incident readiness involves understanding how it manages everyday ÒissuesÓ and how it determines thresholds for initiating a more formal response. An organizationÕs incident response capability is also impacted by how well it integrates and coordinates the different parts of the organization responsible for responding to an incident. Attend this webinar and about the core components of crisis or incident readiness.

Managing storage is an essential element to managing the IT infrastructure for an organization. Attend this webinar and gain an understanding of storage requirements, storage virtualization, challenges, and trends. In addition, volume and file system management, deduplication and compression, and data life cycle management will be discussed.

A clearly understood and articulated statement of risk appetite provides the direction needed to identify acceptable risk treatments and manage risk throughout the organization. When risk appetite is properly understood and clearly defined, it becomes a powerful tool for managing risk. However, thinking about risk appetite is often unclear, definitions can be vague, and the gap between theory and practice can be wide. This webinar will help you to understand the purpose and importance of the risk appetite statement(s), provide guidance on how an organization’s risk appetite should be documented, and how to use risk appetite statements to make strategic decisions on managing risk throughout the organization.

Critical environments are now more critical to the health and viability than ever before. Anyone who works in information technology, data centers, call centers, or has any role in ensuring the 24x7x365 availability of technology systems will benefit from this webinar. Attend this webinar and gain an understanding of how the individual components of a critical environment should work together to ensure continuity of operations.

Attend this webinar and learn how practices such as situational awareness, horizon scanning, and issues management contribute to a more Òcrisis-awareÓ organization and one that is agile and proactive versus reactive.

Attend this webinar and learn how to conduct a self-assessment of a Business Continuity Management System and its alignment to ISO 22301 requirements in order to improve BCMS capability, declare conformity to ISO 22301, and to determine readiness for a 3rd party certification audit.

Threats to your supply chain and therefore to your organization abound Ð their likelihood and consequences heightened by long, global supply chains, ever-shrinking product cycles, and volatile and unpredictable market cycles. Supply chains are increasingly at risk of disruption. It is important for organizations to implement a process for supply chain continuity, manage supply chain risk, and ensure supply chain security. Attend this webinar and learn how to build a more resilient supply chain.

This webinar will provide an overview of how ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 can be used to enhance organizational resilience programs, processes, and activities in a standardized, transparent, and sustainable manner. Attend this webinar and learn how implementing ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 can help you demonstrate compliance to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation and the New York State, Department of Financial Services Cyber Security Requirements.

For an organization to be more resilient it must understand the nature of the information it is storing and the value the information has to the organization in order to make the right choices about where and how to store their data. Attend this webinar and learn how to address IT risk, understand the elements of ICT continuity, and manage your overall technology recovery.

Resilience begins with an organizationÕs leadership setting the priorities, allocating the resources and making the commitments to establish organizational resilience throughout the organization. Managing an incident is a difficult task and leaders must change the way they lead in order to be more aware of potential crises. This webinar explores leadership qualities that have been shown to support the development of a more resilient organization and discusses those leadership qualities necessary to manage an organization, lead during changing times, and create an environment that is both adaptive and agile.

It is estimated that by 2020, more than 7 billion people and businesses and close to 35 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. Those who design, build, operate, and manage data centers and other critical environments need to be able to manage risk, incorporate change, and be innovative in order to design strategies fit for a digital world. Attend this webinar and learn practical approaches to managing risks to the critical environment.

During any crisis, communicating effectively to all key stakeholders is key. While there are many ways to communicate to your target audiences during an emergency, both traditional and social media are the most effective ways of pushing out information quickly to as many people as possible during a crisis. This session, delivered by a former journalist and now award-winning crisis communications consultant, will look at the evolution of crisis communications and how social media is changing the game. The session will also review traditional tips and tools required to ensure your organization can communicate effectively during a crisis, while avoiding any reputational damage or fall-out that could arise.