A View Towards Tomorrow

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A View Towards Tomorrow

• Engineering the Right Vision for Security and
  Business Continuance

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Data The Linchpin of Business Continuation

• Although difficult and expensive, everything but
  data can be replaced
• Loss of critical data can surely be catastrophic
• Malicious code
• Intellectual property theft
• Human error (jump drives)
• Session hijacks
• Phishing

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The Importance of Business Continuity

• Interruptions have a significant impact on
  business operations
• Credibility with customers can be significantly
  impacted if access to financial data and business
  processes are cut off
• Lost revenue defines level of criticality
• Perform a business impact analysis
• Seventy-seven percent of businesses that are
  without network connectivity for ten days file
  bankruptcy
• According to a Faulkner Information Services
  report, in cases where there was a catastrophic
  loss of data
• Forty-three percent of businesses never reopened
• An additional 51 percent shut down within two
  years

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Sometimes, It Takes a Disaster . . .

• 3M lost lines
• 3 states affected
• 1000 wireless towers downed
• 11,000 utility poles downed
• Forty-three 911 centers re-routed
• Major power grid failures
• 100 broadcast stations knocked off the air
• 33 of 578 central offices closed
• 270,000 reported job losses in retail,
  hospitality, and manufacturing

To change some individuals minds To get
action First Katrina and then
Rita and then Wilma
Job Loss Source http//www.epi.org/content.cfm/w
ebfeatures_econindicators_jobspict_20051007
Source www.fcc.gov webcast on Hurricane Katrina
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In Todays World

• Realities of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes,
  major fires, power grid failures, terrorist
  threats
• Additional regulatory pressures from
  Sarbanes-Oxley, GLB, HSA, HIPAA, Californias
  SB1386 law
• Anywhere access to any application from any
  device at any time is expected
• Make business continuity / disaster recovery
  planning top priorities
• Reliability and availability of IT and telecom
  infrastructures are a must

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Business Continuity

• All of the activities required to keep a business
  organization running during a period of
  displacement or interruption of normal operation
• Can result from accident, weather, attack, power
  loss, or human error either maliciously or
  unintentionally
• Involves people, processes, facilities,
  infrastructure, access, network transport,
  applications, data replication
• Requires policy / process, a risk assessment and
  trade-offs to determine best or optimal
  solution
• Derived from the business and not IT

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The rest of the presentation.

• For the full, one-hour Hill Associates
  presentation, please attend the Local FOCUS
  Meeting.