Contingency Planning

Additional Training

Pre-Conference Training

Want to become a more valuable employee? Get certified! CPM offers you the ability to choose among multiple organizations for pre- and post-conference training. Increase your professional worth and earn additional continuing education credits with these classes offered at CPM 2008 EAST.

DRI International Presents

BCP-501 Business Continuity Planning Review with Exam

This course is intended for those individuals experienced in business continuity or disaster recovery planning. Major topic areas identify most parts of a contingency or recovery plan, and also address areas included in the DRII examination.

Topics include:

• Business interruption risk analysis
• Risk assessment
• Selection of alternate recovery methods
• Communications recovery planning for voice and data
• Managing and developing recovery plans
• Maintenance and testing of recovery plans

Date: Sunday, November 9 through Tuesday, November 11
Time: Sunday and Monday from 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM and Tuesday from 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Fee: $1,405 for CPM conference attendees. $1,495 for all others. Exam-only cost is $500.
Register: Click here.

The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University Presents

The CERT® Resiliency Engineering Framework:
A process improvement approach for enterprise security and business continuity

This short "deep-dive" course will demonstrate the CERT® Resiliency Engineering Framework. In only three hours, you should learn to dramatically improve the efficiency of your organization's contingency and continuity initiatives. Test your work against a process engineering method that can be defined, managed, measured and improved. Many organizations deploy different approaches to governance in security, business continuity, and IT operations. Learn to harmonize these disparate related efforts. All of these functions are vitally important to organizational success. The REF model gives you a new, practical and well-tested structure from which your organization can create a sturdy road map for continuous improvement of operational resiliency – guaranteed.

Attendees will learn:

• the connection between operational risk, activities like security & business continuity, operational resiliency, and risk management
• how a resiliency maturity model assists organizations in enterprise risk management initiatives and corporate governance
• how an objective appraisal method assists organizations in evaluating customers, suppliers, and potential business partners
• the content and structure of the REF
• a starting strategy for using REF in your organization

Date: Tuesday, November 11
Time: 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Fee: $295
Register: Add this course to your CPM conference registration!
Questions: Lisa Young at lry@cert.org or 813-571-9008

Homeland Defense Journal Presents

How to Effectively Audit Contingency and Business Continuity Plans Workshop

Management, audit and security professionals in government and the private sector should be concerned that current contingency and BC plans often are not adequate to cope with existing threats nor new and evolving threats such as avian flu, global terrorism, cyber terrorism and infrastructure attack threats. Explore the emerging intelligence requirements, learn organizational and operations skills needed to conduct Homeland Security intelligence activities, survey the legal and information requirements demanded by Congress, and implement an effective operational plan across intelligence and law enforcement. Examine the processes of information sharing, intelligence and warning, cross-organization collaboration, and intelligence dissemination. Learn practical approaches and methodologies to audit contingency plans, including guidelines to prepare effective audit programs with emphasis on identifying new or overlooked threats.

Attendees will learn:

• Background, approaches, methodologies and audit guidelines to plan and conduct effective independent audits of contingency and business
• Continuity plans that will help you focus on the important aspects of each plan
• How to effectively audit contingency plans to determine if they respond to the appropriate threats and uncover deficiencies
• How to offer constructive recommendations for improving existing plans and correct their deficiencies

Date: Monday, November 10 and Tuesday, November 11
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Fee: $625 for government employees, $695 for small business (less than 100 employees), $795 for all others (including government contractors)
Register: Download the registration form (PDF)
Questions: customerservice@homelanddefensejournal.com

Human Resources Consortia Presents

The Human Factor:
Human Resources Strategies Every Contingency Professional Must Know

No matter how carefully you sweat the details of your contingency plans, you cannot avoid the many ways people can defeat these plans. Learn to manage the human factor. You will leave this fast-paced workshop with your own, BC-specific human resource action plan. We will work through case studies together, and debate the most challenging HR issues facing continuity professionals.

Attendees will learn:

• How to use your and others' leadership competencies for success
• How to prepare key leaders in your organization for inevitable stresses and teach them to coach and counsel employees in crisis.
• How HR can pre-plan policies and programs and have them ready to go when disaster strikes.

Date: Tuesday, November 11
Time: 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Fee: $295
Register: Add this course to your CPM full conference registration!
Questions: kmckee3730@cox.net

KETCHConsulting Presents

Hot Site Training Program

Find out everything you wanted to know about hot sites but were afraid to ask. Join Ted Brown, CBCP for an afternoon dedicated to all things “hot site!” Earn 4 CEA points from DRI International for attending this training.

This post-conference training includes the following topics:

• Negotiating a hot site contract
• BCP recovery strategies: how to save on alternate site solutions while improving RTOs
• Creating an RFP for hot/alternate site services
• Human concerns of hot site operations

Case studies will be shared throughout this class. Sample RFPs will be available for your review and you will even go home with one!

Date: Tuesday, November 11
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Fee: $395
Register: Add this program to your CPM full conference registration!
Questions: tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com