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Bank Information Security Webinars

Commonground

Commonground

Senior Moderator
Business Continuity Risk Assessment & Resource Allocation

Quick Overview

Every financial institution is required to have a Business Continuity Plan. Yet, planners often overlook issues related to resource allocation -- the "people, places and things" necessary for business continuity. Register for this webinar for case studies and insight on how to:
Identify and describe the institution's components that are most likely to be affected during a disaster;
Conduct an institution-wide risk assessment that emphasizes effective resource allocation strategies;
Assess the impact of this risk assessment upon the institution and its resources;
Design or recommend appropriate changes to the institution's existing resource allocation process.

Background

Having an institution-wide Business Continuity (Disaster Recovery) Plan is a regulatory requirement for every form of financial institution. Your institution's BCP creates the foundation for your prevention and recovery efforts for both "traditional" and "non-traditional" disasters, including a pandemic. What institutions often overlook are the issues relating to resource allocation -- the necessary "people, places and things" that are identified during the risk assessment process. The institution must maintain realistic and practical solutions to resolving the critical resource allocation issues that are likely to impact the institution, including:

People: Employees, insiders, institution-affiliated parties (and their families), customers, vendors and third-party service providers
Places: Facilities that the institution owns, manages, maintains, leases or controls
Things: Assets, equipment, supplies, records and documents
Register for this session to learn disaster prevention and business recovery strategies, planning techniques and action tactics that you can use to create or modify your institution-wide Business Continuity Plan.

You will also learn how to identify the real sources of loss exposure within your institution during a disaster; the obvious and not-so-obvious methods for using your institution's resources effectively -- before and during any type of disaster; and the most successful methods for reinstalling all of your institution's components in the shortest amount of time.

Among the topics to be discussed:
How Does A Disaster Plan Differ From A Pandemic Plan?
What Resource Allocation Issues Should The Business Continuity Plan Address?
Your Institution's Business Continuity Scenario Test
Business Continuity Planning & Implementation Guidelines
Hypothetical Disasters: Could These Happen To You?

Dates & Times here: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/webinarsDetails.php?webinarID=96&tab=5
 
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Pandemic Planning & Response Techniques

Quick Overview

Think the pandemic threat isn't real, or that you needn't prepare a thorough plan to account for it? Your institution's regulators disagree. Pandemic planning is a significant regulatory requirement for every financial institution and a key component in your next examination.

Register for this webinar to receive expert advice on:
What Examiners Expect From Your Institution's Pandemic Plan;
How Your Institution Can Prevent Or Mitigate A Pandemic's Effects;
Resource Allocation Issues Your Pandemic Plan Should Address;
How to Calculate Risks To Each Business Function;
How to Test Your Pandemic Plan;
Documentation to Prepare.

Background

A traditional Business Continuity Plan is developed to serve as the foundation for recovering and managing business operations that may be affected by traditional, short-lived disasters caused by natural, human-caused or technological disasters. Institutions plan for these types of disasters to affect them for an average of 14-21 days.
Addressing the likely effects of a pandemic, however, becomes a complex subset of the institution's Business Continuity Plan. A pandemic is often defined as an epidemic or outbreak in humans of infectious diseases that has the ability to proliferate rapidly throughout a widespread geographical area. Unlike natural, human-caused or technological disasters, which have limited life spans, pandemics are predicted to affect a significant geographical area in cycles for up to eighteen (18) months -- and affect the health of more than 40% of the area's population. A smart institution uses its existing Business Continuity Plan as the foundation for incorporating more complex measures that responding to a pandemic will likely require.

What institutions often overlook most frequently are the non-traditional issues relating to resource allocation during a pandemic -- the necessary "people, places and things" that are identified during the risk assessment process. Unlike traditional disasters, which generally contain a predictable timetable of events and their responses, a pandemic often contains numerous variables that continue to change multiple times during the pandemic's cycle. The institution must maintain realistic and practical solutions to resolving the critical resource allocation issues that are likely to impact the institution, including:

People: Employees, insiders, institution-affiliated parties (and their families), customers, vendors and third-party service providers;
Places: Facilities that the institution owns, manages, maintains, leases or controls; and
Things: Assets, equipment, supplies, records and documents. This presentation focuses upon the core components of the FFIEC's Interagency Statement on Pandemic Planning and the lessons learned by more than 2700 financial institutions during the FBIIC/FSSCC's Pandemic Flu Exercise of 2007.

Those core components include:

Developing a program of prevention;
Documenting a strategy for responding to various stages of pandemic outbreak;
Constructing a comprehensive framework of facilities, systems and procedures to insure the continuing operation of critical functions;
Creating a testing program; and
Managing an oversight program to ensure that ongoing reviews and updates are in place.

You will learn pandemic prevention and business recovery strategies, planning techniques and action tactics that you can use yourself -- and that you can then teach to others within your institution. You will also learn how to identify the real sources of pandemic-related loss exposure within your institution; the obvious and not-so-obvious methods for using your institution's resources effectively -- before and during any type of disaster; and the most successful methods for managing the maintenance and recovery effort until you can reinstall all of your institution's components.

Presentation Dates here: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/webinarsDetails.php?webinarID=77&tab=1
 
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