Identifying Key Suppliers

The BCI and its partners have been conducting research into supply chain resilience for more than four years. This presentation will consider the leading causes of disruption, their financial cost, the trend for disruption, the impact of disruption along with some examples, and steps that companies can take to build resilience in the supply chain.

The freedom of mobile technologies has changed the way people work. But the reality of the evolving workplace is that employees are more dispersed than ever. Employees today rely on mobile devices for business communication. In this webinar we'll discuss why a mobile strategy needs to be included in business continuity planning, crisis management and incident management. We'll cover best practices for critical communications in the enterprise and the benefits of accessing and initiating plans from mobile devices.

Exercising and testing is a key part of the business continuity management lifecycle. A well-planned, well-run scenario-based exercise can help us to validate assumptions, identify gaps in our plans, exercise key players and develop our business continuity capability. In this webinar Andy Osborne, who has prepared and facilitated dozens of scenario-based exercises for his clients, shares his experience and provides some practical hints and tips for making your scenario-based exercises successful.

Overwhelmed by the muddle of conflicting technology terms, jargon, buzzwords and misinformation. CIOs and IT Managers are finding it increasingly difficult to objectively compare the different ICT Protection and Recovery Methods available to them and pick an approach that both matches their existing requirement and empowers their long term strategy. In this webinar we clarify the difference between High Availability, Replication, Backup and Archiving and give a recommended approach to entrench resilience into your ICT systems and your business.

More than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries trust SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) every day to exchange millions of standardized financial messages. Commensurate with its role in the global financial system, SWIFT has implemented a resilience that addresses the expectations of its customers. Involving customer community in disaster recovery exercise is essential to demonstrate that business continuity and recovery plans from all the parties are working effectively. With this webinar, we want to share our experience in preparing and running such exercises.

Are standards a good thing? Who are they for? These and other questions will be debated in a lively panel discussion where the audience will be invited to join the debate.

The presentation looks at the challenges and trends that companies and IBM have seen in recent years in relation to Information security. The material looks at what the industry saw in 2012 and what companies need to consider in 2013.
Brendan Byrne is the IBM Security Services Consulting and Systems Integration Leader for the UK and Ireland.

Brendan has been an information security professional for more than 18 years. He started working for MasterCard in Belgium, specialising in the security of payment systems and cryptography. He was headhunted into IBM in 2001 to address a security beach for a large financial sector client redesigning their payment system infrastructure.

He has worked in all sectors of industry and at times balances multiple roles trouble shooting client issues cross sector. He has spent the past 3 years focusing mainly on government and public sector clients.

It also introduces the concept of secure by design and the fact that Security is a business enabler and the tangible benefits of investment in information security are becoming clearer for organisations.

Like many people, I wear glasses to improve my vision. It helps me avoid furniture and doors in the house and other cars when I drive.

When our risk vision is defective we often do little about it, too often we cry "Black Swan" - nobody could have seen that coming! There are risks we can see, and some we could see if we only looked, or had better vision.

This webinar will explore three techniques/exercises that you can use to improve and sharpen your "risk vision".

Ken has 30+ years experience as a manager and leader in public and private sector organisations. He has led internal Risk, DR and BCM teams, recovery operations following a major incident and is professionally qualified as MBCI, and a Certified Organisational Resilience Professional by ICOR.

Ken also has an MBA and has held Executive roles as a CIO and CTO.
This experience as both practitioner and Executive provides unique insights into BCM and ways to improve your practice for greater relevance to management.

Recent papers published in DRJ (Fall 2012) and BC & Resilience Journal (Q3 2012) - both address different aspects of Executive expectation and engagement.

Contingency planning is practised everyday but is it the right approach for the risks you see and the ones you can't? Are Business Continuity experts involved? Drawing on case studies and a new paper, this webinar will discuss how contingency planning fits within the broader 3Cs of Business Continuity and help provide a robust 'risk response' to both white swans and the black ones.

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IT system failures are often cited as a major cause of business interruption. With business-critical systems, any downtime can result in revenue loss and reputation damage for an organisation. In this webinar, we address how software healthchecks should be an essential part of Business Continuity planning. This webinar explores how to conduct healthchecks, how to assess the findings and incorporate these into your planning to minimise IT risks.

ISO 22301, the long awaited international standard for business continuity management systems brings with it new requirements to help bolster an organization’s supply chain resilience. Lorna Anderson, Technical Expert and Global Business Continuity Product Technical Manager provides you with an overview of ISO 22301 and ISO 22313 to help organizations explore the vulnerabilities in both their supply chain and business continuity management systems.

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Analysing the factors which promote migration to cloud based solutions and environments which are best suited for cloud.
The webinar will talk around the migration plan for corporates into cloud services, what are the factors to consider and planning that should be looked into when considering a cloud based solutions. What are the various steps along the way and potential pitfalls which are present.

May 2012 saw the publication of a new global standard for business continuity management systems, ISO 22301. Lorna Anderson, Technical Expert and Global Business Continuity Product Technical Manager introduces the internationally recognized standard and identifies how it differs to its predecessor BS25999-2:2007. With many organizations looking to transition from the BS to the ISO, Lorna outlines some practical steps to help achieve ISO certification.

CERT Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM) is the most modern and comprehensive framework for managing operational resilience in a variety of organizations; small or large, simple or complex, public or private. It enables a structured, repeatable, and integrated method for organizations to plan, assess, manage, and sustain not only preparedness planning efforts (e.g., disaster recovery, business continuity, crisis management) but also other key operational risk management activities such as information security and IT operations. In this presentation, we share practical and successful applications of CERT-RMM from a wide range of organizations (ranging from Department of Homeland Security, to Department of Energy, to US Postal Service, to industry giants such as Lockheed Martin).

Is the cyber threat over-hyped? What influence is social media having on Business Continuity? How do different sectors and countries perceive threats? These and other questions will be debated in this webinar whcih draws on the findings of the BCI's Horizon Scan 2013 survey of 730 organisations from 62 countries (downloadable from the BCI website, www.thebci.org)

Be the first to learn about the latest thinking in Business Continuity (BC) good practice and put questions to the editors.
Drawing on the collective deep expertise of the BCI's membership, GPG 2013 provides the BC professional with a comprehensive picture of the methods, techniques and processes required to get Business Continuity into your organisation. The changes to GPG 2013 from GPG 2010 include an update to reflect ISO 22301 terminology, and the GPG now also provides the syllabus for academic accreditation.
The webcast will be led by Editor-in-Chief Lyndon Bird FBCI, Technical Director and Board Member at the Business Continuity Institute and Assistant Editor Deborah Higgins MBCI, Technical & Learning Manager at the Business Continuity Institute.

The effect of IT risks on corporate and brand reputation is real. The question is what you can do to effectively prevent and mitigate these risks. Join Paul Pocock, IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Consultant, and the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Jason Sumner on Monday 18th March at 12pm as they discuss the management of reputation and risk as part of overall IT strategy. This webinar, part of Business Continuity Awareness Week 2013, features information from IBM’s new point-of-view paper "Six keys to effective reputational and IT risk management" and provides attendees with the opportunity to gain insights from the IBM Global Reputational Risk and IT Study, ask questions of subject matter experts and uncover new implications and opportunities for their organisations.