Downloads
Washington Post “Panel of Experts,” on November 2007.
CEO Today “C-Level Executive BCM Needs and Action Steps,” January 2008
“Leveraging Web in Global BCP Programs,” World Conference on Disaster Recovery, Toronto, June 2006
“Emerging Trends in BCP Programs,” Continuity Insights Conference, New Orleans, May 2006.
“Web-Based BCP Software Over the Web - - A Compelling Future, “ CXO Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, April 2006
“Web-Based BCP Software-as-Service,” article by Chris Alvord, Disaster Recovery Journal Winter 2006.
Continuity Insights 2005 presentation on benchmark statistics on continuity planning practices and procedures, cosponsored by the Association of Contingency Planners.
FEMA's Federal Preparedness Circular (FPC) 65 (updated June15th 2004) provides guidance to Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for use in developing viable and executable contingency plans for the continuity of operations (COOP). COOP planning facilitates the performance of department/agency essential functions during any emergency or situation that may disrupt normal operations.
The Best-Laid Plans, Recovery planning outlook from the Journal of Accountancy.
Federal Executive Branch Continuity of Operations (COOP), This draft (dated March 15, 2004) Federal Preparedness Circular (FPC) will provide guidance to Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for use in developing viable and executable contingency plans for continuity of operations (COOP) when it becomes final.
Incident Management Systems, This Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-5) establishes the basic elements of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and provides mechanisms for the further development and refinement of supporting national standards, guidelines, protocols, systems and technologies.
Critical Infrastructure Identification Prioritization, and Protection, This Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-7) establishes a national policy for Federal departments and agencies to identify and prioritize United States critical infrastructure and key resources and to protect them from terrorist attacks.
National Preparedness , This Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-8) establishes policies to strengthen the preparedness of the United States to prevent and respond to threatened or actual domestic terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies by requiring a national domestic all-hazards preparedness goal.
Computer security, The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) published this report on its research, guidance and outreach efforts in computer security, and its collaborative activities with industry, government, and academic organizations.
CPM Conference presentation, Chris Alvord describing the historic reorganization and outlining future plans.
NEDRIX Chris Alvord's presentation describing the structure of Continuity of Operations planning per FPC 65.
Continuity Insights presentation, Chris Alvord addresses how regional planning in
the National Capital Region indicates a direction for the rest of the
country.
Congressional Report concerning COOP issues
ASAE
presentation by Chris Alvord and Tom Mawson, addressing how BCP
principles address the concerns of non-profits.
"Emergency Planning for Multi-State Regions," as published in Continuity Insights Magazine. A clear finding of 9/11 is that disasters more and more have the potential to involve a complex mix of public authorities in a region, including authorities from multiple federal agencies, states, counties and cities.
"Maximizing Internet Use For Continuity Planning," as published in the Winter 2003 edition of the Disaster Recovery Journal. Chris Alvord makes the point that the Internet will become a central, pervasive direction in continuity planning, as it has for many other functional areas of organizations. This article explores how this is happening, as well as some suggestions to make this happen.
U.S. GAO - - United States General Accounting Office Report to the Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, July 2002, "Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Federal Efforts Require a More Coordinated and Comprehensive Approach for Protecting Information Systems."
NIST Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems providing an extremely detailed recommendation regarding development of an IT recovery plan.
RAND Corporation - - Ensuring Military Capability: Continuity of Operations providing a chapter from a larger report.
FEMA's Federal Preparedness Circular (FPC) 66 providing guidance to Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for use in developing viable and executable test, training and exercise programs to support the implementation and validation of COOP plans.
FEMA's Federal Preparedness Circular (FPC) 67 providing guidance to Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for use in acquiring alternate facilities to support their COOP.
IBM -- Business Continuity: New risks, new imperatives and a new approach - - the goal for companies today is to achieve a state of business continuity, where critical systems and networks are always available. To attain and sustain business continuity, companies must engineer availability, security and reliability into every process from the outset.
NEMA - - National Emergency Management Association White Paper on Domestic Preparedness, October 1, 2001
