Ms. Michael C. Redmond, Director and Strategic Consultant and Auditor for EFPR Group’s Information Technology and Governance, Risk and Compliance Consulting and Audit division, will be presenting on Business Continuity Management Sustainment during the COVID-19 crisis and what businesses can do right now to stay complaint.
Date/Time:
April 2, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (EDT)
What we will cover:
• What it means to work remotely
• How you can keep your business productive considering the current environment
• Remote operations strategies for communicating, maintaining customers and even tweaking your normal operations to allow for servicing clients and customers remotely
• Simple solutions to help avoid the pitfalls that can affect continuing operations and maintaining security
Sustainment Phase of Pandemic Planning for Business
Some of those strategies are more creative in times where non-essential personal are at home and customers are unable to come to non-essential businesses. Non the less, the strategies are implementable staring today.
Information and Cyber Security
Many are being asked to practice social distancing and work from home. The reality of remote operations can create greater security risks as teleworking creates a variety of new vulnerabilities if you have not pre-planned. Knowing about them, will help you safely work remotely.
Documentation
It is also critical to document your COVID-19 Response. While this is the first time your business may be experiencing a situation like this, it is not the first Pandemic that other organizations have experienced.
Attendees:
This webinar applies to all organizations.
Presenter:
Ms. Michael Redmond, PhD, MBA, PMP, MBCP, FBCI, ISO
Michael C. Redmond is a Director and Strategic Consultant and Auditor for EFPR Group's Information Technology and Governance, Risk, and Compliance division. She is also a recognized International IT Consultant, Auditor, Speaker, Author, and Trainer.
Michael has helped many organizations document their response during pandemic and other events to use in both updating their Business Continuity Plan and in creating response plans for future use. These included SARS, H1NI Pandemics as well as many other events such as 911 and the flood in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina and many more. Companies that did not document their response properly failed to respond quickly when the next event affected them.
Her consulting and auditing experiences includes Cyber/Information Security, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk Management and ISO for clients in the Healthcare, Insurance, Financial and Manufacturing sectors. She has held executive management positions at Deloitte, KPMG, Chubb Services and Redmond Worldwide.
Other Updates:
Like all organizations, we have been working to stay on top of rapidly changing events as a result of the Coronavirus situation. Please follow our dedicated page with links to updates and resources. We will be updating frequently based on developments: https://efprgroup.com/covid-19-updates-and-response/
