Disaster Recovery Workshop -- May 11 and 12, 2006

[Elwood J. Downing]

There are 4 more seats available for next weeks "Principles of Business 
Continuity Planning" workshop.

Additional information is below and at: 
<http://www.merit.edu/mn/resources/bc/workshop0605.html>

Registration is located at:
<http://www.merit.edu/depot/register.epl?GOTO=order.epl>

Regards,
--Elwood

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Elwood J. Downing                      e-mail: ejd@merit.edu
Merit Network                             Phone: (734) 936-2040
Merit Member & Affiliate                Fax: (734) 647-3185
Services, Mgr.
   "The Buddhists say, when the student is
       ready, the teacher will appear."


Additional information below taken from March 7, 2006 e-mail announcement:

Greetings - Merit is pleased to announce that "Principles of Business 
Continuity Planning," the workshop last offered in December 2005, will be 
offered again Thursday-Friday, May 11-12, 2006. The December class filled up 
quickly, and the additional session will give Members and Affiliates who were 
not able to register another opportunity to attend the workshop.

The Business Continuity workshop takes you step-by-step through the process of 
developing a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery plan. Our instructor will 
again be Gretchen Grey, a dynamic DR/BC industry leader and creator of one of 
U-M's principal DR/BC programs.

December participants were very enthusiastic about the DR/BC workshop. "The 
seminar will jump-start your efforts in planning and deploying a disaster 
recovery plan," says Cathy Hunter, Deputy Director of Information Systems at 
the Michigan House of Representatives. She adds that "the seminar and its 
presenter provide practical, usable ideas and tools to help you manage the 
individual components while communicating the "big picture" to policy-makers 
and business owners. This seminar is perfect for anyone who is overwhelmed by 
the enormity of "DR planning" and confused about how to move forward."

Heather Goldsby, Business Continuity Coordinator of Academic Computing and 
Network Services at MSU, says that "Gretchen's extensive knowledge, her 
entertaining delivery of the material, and the interactions with other BC/DR 
coordinators made the workshop invaluable."

The two-day, hands-on workshop will be held at the MITC Building in Ann Arbor 
and will cover four main subject areas in depth:

Disaster Response and Management
- Raising awareness
- Writing effective escalation and communication protocols for
responding to crises
- Defining disaster levels and writing disaster declaration
procedures

Risk Assessment
- Assessing threats and vulnerabilities
- Reducing the number and probability of risks
- Assessing the impact of outages
- Setting recovery time and recovery point objectives

Recovery Strategy Assessment
- Evaluating options for systems recovery
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Reducing the time needed to recover
- Writing cost benefit analyses

Recovery Planning
- Minimizing errors and the introduction of additional risks during
recovery
- Creating disaster recovery plans and procedures
- Creating recovery testing strategies
- Planning and managing recovery tests

The workshop is specifically tailored for staff responsible for disaster
recovery planning, and is limited to 25 participants. The sessions include
lectures and hands-on practice in preventing, mitigating, and recovering
from catastrophic incidents. The two-day workshop fee is $600.

You'll find more information about the workshop here:

http://www.merit.edu/mn/resources/bc/workshop0605.html

Web registration is located at: 
<http://www.merit.edu/depot/register.epl?GOTO=order.epl>

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