How to Improve Your Disaster Recovery Plan and Avoid a Disastrous Recovery
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
11:00 am - 1:00 pm EST
Creating a Disaster Recovery plan can be awfully frustrating. Between the wild assumptions (global pandemics) and educated guesses (local weather phenomena) rests an incredibly unpredictable landscape of disasters. How do you plan for it all? Should you plan for it all? This webinar will help your organization develop a plan for success in the face of any disaster.
Covered Topics:
Risk factors you might be taking for granted or ignoring in your current plan
Which elements of your plan are the most likely to fail during your disaster
We all know what happens when we assume
A few IT questions you should be asking
Employee knowledge matters now more than ever
Decisions during DR are made in a vacuum...a risk filled vacuum
The disaster plan is probably going to cost you a lot of money
Are you cheating on your "tests?"
Lessons learned from other disasters
Presenter - Asaad Faquir
Asaad A. Faquir is currently a Compliance Officer in New England. His career in banking began in 2004 at a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded bank in South Florida where he was a VP Internal Consultant and trusted adviser to senior and executive management specializing in risk management, business efficiency and strategic alignment. In 2004 and 2005 he was a part of the management team analyzing and improving the results of the bank's disaster recovery operations during and after Hurricanes Frances, Jeanne and Wilma.
Asaad has a BS in Finance from Florida State University, an MBA in Finance from Temple University and a Masters Degree in HR Management from the University of Limerick in Limerick, Ireland. He is a former Rotary International Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar and Adjunct Professor of HR Management.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar will be useful for, Risk Managers, Disaster Recovery Supervisors, Team Leads, and DR Planners, Bank Operations Managers, Operations and Facilities Managers, HR Managers and Senior Bank Managers and anyone who has Disaster Recovery responsibilities or oversight.
Asaad A. Faquir is currently a Compliance Officer in New England. His career in banking began in 2004 at a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded bank in South Florida where he was a VP Internal Consultant and trusted adviser to senior and executive management specializing in risk management, business efficiency and strategic alignment. In 2004 and 2005 he was a part of the management team analyzing and improving the results of the bank's disaster recovery operations during and after Hurricanes Frances, Jeanne and Wilma.