Registration open for DR/BC workshop

[Susan Harris]

Greetings everyone - registration is now open for "Principles of Business 
Continuity Planning," the hands-on workshop that meets in Ann Arbor 
Thursday-Friday, December 8-9.  The session 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 workshop will be held at the MITC building in Ann Arbor (the site of 
Merit's new offices.)  Our facilitator will be Gretchen Grey, who 
established one of U-M's principal DR/BC programs and was a core 
participant in the May Disaster Recovery Summit.

You'll find more information about the workshop here:

	http://www.merit.edu/mn/resources/bc/workshop0512.html

Registration starts here:

	 http://www.merit.edu/depot/order.epl?PLAN_ID=401

Hope you can join us!

Susan Harris, Ph.D.
Merit Network/Univ. of Mich.