Preparing for the Unexpected

This is hour 5 (final hour) of the live broadcast from September 24/18.

For Business Continuity / Disaster Planning programs to be truly effective and meet the needs of organizations, they need to work with other organization programs. This week we will focus on Information Security and Privacy with recognized InfoSec expert, Jason Maynard. We will learn the various ways in which organizations can be compromised through various threats and attacks from physical/site threats to Malware to Social Engineering. Jason will provide some valuable insights on how to recognize these malicious threats and how complex and sophisticated criminals have become. We'll also learn what we need to do to ensure our organizations don't get compromised, as well as what we can do at home. Jason will even tell us about his own experiences with a Microsoft call that turned out to be a scam.

For any organization, validating their Business Continuity, Crisis Management, IT Disaster Recovery Plan and Emergency Response Plans - among others - it paramount. The problem often encountered due to resource availability, time and costs, is that many organizations rely on the Tabletop exercise to validate their protocols. Thought valuable, an organization must see beyond the Tabletop. We speak with Master Exercise Planner (MEP) and recent DRJ Fall 2018 conference speaker, Joe Bechtold, who will talk about different kinds of exercises and the value they provide organizations. Joe will also talk to use about how to design an exercise from determing the goals and objectives to how we evaluate activities during the exercise to documenting exercise findings. Joe will provide us with ideas and insight, as to how we can improve our validation capabilities and ensure our exercises provide the best value to our organization.

Host Alex Fullick of Preparing for the Unexpected as he broadcasts live from DJR 2019. listen in for all Innovations in Managing Risk and Resiliency live from JW MArriot Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona.

One of the most common problems organizations have today, is the coordination and management of their supply chains. All too often, organizations neglect to pay close attention to the dependencies that exist with their upstream and downstream partners, which can create many challenges should they experience a disruption. We speak with Supply Chain Management expert and the President of the Disaster Recovery Institute Exchange - Southwestern Ontario (DRIE-SWO) chapter, Tom Shebrek. Tom will provide us insights on how we can strengthen our own supply chain resilience through collaborative and collaboration practices and ensure we establish the necessary relationships to deal with supplier interruptions.

This is hour 4 from the live broadcast event on September 24/18.

Social Media can help us in many ways but it can also cause us harm if we don't pay close attention to what information is being presented by the various social media platforms. This week, we talk with Lt. Glen Mills who is a specialist in monitoring social media for situational awareness and is a Lieutenant with the Burlington, Massachusetts police department. Drawing upon extensive experience and using some real-life examples, Lt. Mills gives us tips and insights into how we can better prepare ourselves for the deluge of information conveyed through various social media sites and identifying what information is real and what may not. These tips will help all organizations, communities and individuals better prepare for - and respond to - potential situations that can cause us harm and prevent us from being taken in by those who would do us harm.

One of the most important aspects of building a Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery Program is ensuring the quality of planning and execution of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The BIA is the foundation upon which a strong program is build.

Leveraging information contained within his book Business Impact Analysis: Building the Foundation for a Strong Business Continuity Program, Alex Fullick will take us through some of the trips and slips that many BCM/DR practitioners encounter when performing a BIA and what the impact of these slips have on the program. Alex will share not just the problems encountered but solutions to help strengthen you BIA.

This is hour 3 from the Live broadcast on September 24/18.

Terrorism is a major topic that grabs headlines around the globe almost on a daily basis and for BCM/DR/ERM practitioners, it might be a topic we only learn about from those headlines. This week we'll talk with global terrorism expert and author, Professor Richard English from Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prof. English is the author of numerous books and we'll discuss his book Terrorism: How to Respond to help BCM/DR/ERM professionals in their understanding of what terrorism is. There is allot about terrorism we might not fully understand and Prof. English will help us understand what it is. He will also talk to us about what triggers terrorism, how to recognize terrorism and most importantly, what we can do as BCM/DR/ERM professionals to prepare for and respond to terrorist acts. He has been interviewed by many periodicals and networks, including the Irish Times, Newsweek, CNN and the BBC.