March 4th DR Workshop covers IT Disasters and how to avoid them

As a member of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce's Business Continuity Planning Council, we participate in the Chamber's workshop series on Business Continuity. The topic of the March 4th workshop covers the why and how to prepare your IT environment for all types of disasters. We have a panel of expert speakers covering the topics of Social Media policies, data loss and back-ups, anti-virus and security, and hardware recovery and testing. This event is a must attend for anyone interested in securing and protecting their data and systems from all types of threats unique to the IT environment. IT systems and the Disaster Recovery Plan to protect them plays a critical part in a company's overall business continuity strategy. Please join us March 4th for this valuable workshop to learn how to create or improve your existing DR plan to protect your IT systems from downtime.

Cloudy with a Chance of Data Loss
A Disaster Recovery Planning Workshop

Date:

Friday, March 4

Time:

7:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Location:

Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce

4500 Leeds Avenue, Suite 100

North Charleston

Cost:

$35 non-members, $25 Chamber members

Register:

http://www.charlestonchamber.net/ (click on 3/4/2011 BCP Workshop)

Information technology covers a wide range of topics, but it all breaks down to

how you are handling and retrieving information automatically. For most of us,

that means using a computer to store the programs and data that make our

businesses work. What happens when that technology is corrupted or fails?

One in four businesses will experience such a crisis: 43 percent will NEVER

re-open and only 29 percent will still be in business two years later.* A part of

any continuity plan addresses how your company will survive when faced with

an IT crisis and it can make a difference between you going out of or staying in

business.

This workshop will provide businesses with the information they need to

prepare for an IT crisis and create a plan for dealing with this emergency.

AGENDA:

7:30 – 8:00a.m. Registration/Networking

(light breakfast available)

8:00 – 8:15a.m. Welcome and Sponsor Acknowledgments

Joe Stringer, Anderson Insurance Associates, LLC

Chairman, Business Continuity Planning Council

8:15 – 8:45a.m. Social Media Policies – Security & Use

Edward Fenno, Fenno Law Firm LLC

8:45 – 9:15a.m. Backing Up Your Data

Scott LeRoy, EDDSA LLC

9:15 – 9:45a.m. Antivirus and Securing Your Data

Jay Orr, eGroup, Inc.

9:45 – 10:15a.m. Protecting Hardware – Recovery & Testing

Scott Cave, Atlantic Business Continuity Services

10:15 – 10:30a.m. Q & A, Adjournment

Peter Lucash, Digital CPE, LLC

For more information, contact Mary Dickerson at mdickerson@charlestonchamber.org or 805-3089.