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Testing in the Cloud & Translating Requirements for Resilience

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Alex Fullick on May 5, 2023

Testing in the Cloud & Translating Requirements for Resilience

Join me Thursday, August 3/23 at 1pm EST on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I talk with respected Sr. Program Manager and Enterprise Disaster Recovery expert, Ray Holloman.

We talk about two (2) important subjects in today’s business world: 1) ‘Disaster Recovery Testing in the Cloud’ and 2) ‘Translating the Words, Rules, and Regulations of Resilience’.

In our first segment we talk about ‘Disaster Recovery Testing in the Cloud’ and touch on such things as:

1. Testing approaches,

2. Reviewing your contracts and SLAs,

3. How to utilize the Cloud Data Centre/site,

4. How to talk with partners about your Cloud Testing (including audit questions),

5. Validating your needs and expectations…and more.

For our second segment we talk about ‘Translating the Words, Rules, and Regulations of Resilience’ and touch on:

1. The Glossary and Terminology,

2. Understanding the differences in terminology,

3. Understanding regulations,

4. Audit / Compliance partnerships,

5. Characteristics of Resilience…and more.

It’s a great chat you don’t want to miss. Enjoy!

The ‘Plan’, the Team, and Resilience (w/ Brendan Monahan)

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Alex Fullick on May 5, 2023

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The ‘Plan’, the Team, and Resilience (w/ Brendan Monahan)

Join me Thursday, August 10/23 at 1pm EST on VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I’m joined by internationally recognized security intelligence and crisis management professional, and the author of ‘Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Buildings an Unconquerable Organization”, Brendan Monahan.

During our discussion, we touch on:

1. The Plan: expectations, decision-making, delivering value, establishing triggers, assumptions, dealing w/ difficult people, testing/exercising

2. The team: membership, roles/responsibilities, support, policy, characteristics of a well-functioning team, keeping the team going, the often forgotten procurement team, cross-training

3. Resilience: Addressing silos, finding common ground, resilience in crisis mgmt., making connections, and what resilience means to your own organization

It’s a great discussion with insights that all organization’s and professionals will learn valuable insights they can take back to their own places of business and help build that strategic – and tactical – direction needed during crises. Enjoy!

A Framework for Writing BCM Testing Objectives

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Alex Fullick on May 5, 2023

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Business

A Framework for Writing BCM Testing Objectives

Join me Thursday, August 17/23 at 1pm EST on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I’m joined by award-winning Business Continuity and Crisis Management expert, Charlie Maclean-Bristol, as we talk about building a framework for writing Business Continuity Management (BCM) test objectives, and testing practices overall.

Charlie touches on:

1. Testing vs exercising

2. How COVID has impacted testing

3. 4 key components to consider when writing test objectives

4, Testing purpose

5. Measuring success and SMART considerations

6. Pre-test planning

7. Building capabilities

8. Post-exercise assessments, observations, and recommendations

What started as a rather short discussion turned into a long chat about testing, and he shares some great insights into how we can improve our own testing capabilities. You don’t want to miss Charlie’s insights. Enjoy!

Exercising & Testing for Corporations: Design, Delivery and Evaluation

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presspass on December 19, 2022

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Exercising & Testing for Corporations: Design, Delivery and Evaluation

Join me Thursday, January 19/23 at 1pm EST on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel!

Exercising (and testing) our disaster, crisis, and business continuity plans, is important if we want our organization’s and our colleagues to respond effectively and efficiently to crisis and disaster situations.

I talk with globally recognized crisis management and business continuity specialist, Robert Burton. Rob will walk us through his proven methodology of how to plan and execute effective tests and exercises.

We touch on:

1. Pre-exercise planning,

2. Exercise and scenario design,

3. Final logistics,

4. Exercise delivery and evaluation,

5. Post exercise activities (AAR and summary video),

6. A few stories (how exercises can go wrong, a good way to end an exercise and war brings home the seriousness of not preparing).

It’s a great chat and a great way to help bring your exercises to a new level. Enjoy!

Improving Supply Chain Resilience with Suppliers (w/ Zera Zheng)

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rstapholz on January 28, 2022

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Business

Improving Supply Chain Resilience with Suppliers (w/ Zera Zheng)

Join me July 21/22 at 1pm EST!

Working with you suppliers is key if you want to create Supply Chain Resilience for your organization. I talk with the Head of Business Resilience Lead Logistics at Maersk, and BCI award winner, Zera Zheng.

Zera is very passionate about supply chain resilience and we have a very interesting talk, touching on such subjects as:

1. The elements of Supply Chain Resilience Management,

2. Supply Chain Mapping,

3. Contingency Options and Contingency Strategies (Acceptance, Reduce dependency, Work with Suppliers, Exit the relationship),

4. We get a real-life viewpoint of how Mearsk managed the Suez ‘ship’ crisis (You know the ship stuck in the canal),

5. 3 key areas of focus when supporting customers (Visibility, Alternative Solutions, Communications),

6. Supply chain resilience through collaboration, and more.

It’s a very interesting talk with some new perspectives on Supply Chain Management and Resilience. Enjoy!

Bus. Continuity Mgmt.: A Guide to Org. Resilience and ISO 22301

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rstapholz on December 16, 2021

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Business

Bus. Continuity Mgmt.: A Guide to Org. Resilience and ISO 22301

Join me May 19, 2022 at 1pm EST!

Sometimes the size and scale of Business Continuity Management (BCM) can be intimidating – to people in our own industry and to those trying to understand the industry. I speak with noted expert and author of ‘Business Continuity Management: A Practical Guide to Organizational Resilience and ISO 22301’, James Crask.

For this episode we talk about:

1. Defining resilience,

2, What can be learned from international standards (the benefits and the pitfalls),

3. Lessons for the BCM and resilience industries from COVID19,

4. Establishing governance in BCM and Resilience,

5. Writing plans and procedures (and what to do with the ‘fluff’), and

6. Exercising our plans – and who should be involved. And much more!

James helps bring clarify to many key BCM topics to enable any professional and organization thrive in their BCM and resilience programs. Enjoy!

Putting the Cyber in Organizational Resilience

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presspass on January 4, 2021

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Variety

Join me March 11/21 at 9am EST!

One of the greatest threats organizations have at the moment is the ever-increasing threat of Cyber attacks. It’s the new ‘new’ battleground. I talk with globally recognized Business Continuity industry expert, James Green, who presented at the BCI Virtual World 2020 Conference in November 2020. James will talk about how Business Continuity professionals and methodologies can work with Information Security / Cyber Security professionals to contribute to the creation of organizational resilience. We’ll also touch on such subjects as who own BCM and Cyber Security, how we can consolidate threat/risk responses, and the factors – both internal and external – that can contribute to creating a sense of resilience. It’s another great chat with James, so don’t miss it!

Business Continuity Management: In Practice w/ Stuart Hotchkiss

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presspass on January 4, 2021

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Variety

Join me Feb 18/21 at 9am EST! Successful business continuity requires the creation of and adherence to a plan, which ensure an organization’s critical functions are maintained or restored in the event of disruption (e.g. fires, natural disasters, etc.). Join me as I talk with recognized industry expert and author Stuart Hotchkiss and his book ‘Business Continuity Management: In Practice”. BCM can be made very over-complicated and Stuart provides a clear and simple approach to understanding what BCM is, and what it isn’t. We’ll touch on such subjects as the BCP, testing, audit, awareness, and the problems associated with the Business Impact Assessment (BIA) and the establishment of recovery time objectives. Some may consider this a controversial episode – I think it’s one not to be missed!