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Industry Associations Bulletin
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August 2004
NEWS AND EVENTS
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ORGANIZATION SPOTLIGHT
Southeastern Continuity
Planners Association (SCPA)
SCPA is an informal professional association made up of business
continuity professionals, public sector emergency management
professionals, and vendor professionals catering to the business
continuity field. Our purpose is to provide a forum for training,
networking, and the exchange of ideas and information. We meet on a
quarterly basis, usually the second Thursday of the middle month of
each quarter at one of our member locations, usually in the Atlanta
metropolitan area. We have no dues. We welcome all who are interested
to join us. Contact and meeting information can be found at our web
site, www.scpa.us
NEW ADDITIONS
Security Audit and Control Solutions (SACS) Newsletter
We have released a very short newsletter for the month of August. It is
available, downloadable, in a few different formats: available from www.sacs.co.za, or
available directly on the Internet, linked to www.sacs.co.za/aug04/index.html
and topics include:
- South Africa has 140 Certified CISSPs
- Invitation for comment on ECT Act proposed accreditation
regulations
- IPNetMon Version 2.0 Utility for Auditors and Security
Analysts
- Project Domino... A delivery mechanism for free Information
Security Training
Contact:
Mervin Pearce (CISA, CISSP)
Chief Executive Officer
Security Audit and Control Solutions
mervin@sacs.co.za
Tel: +27-11-913-0041
Fax: +27-11-913-0907
Mobile: +27-83-255-5356
IAEM Region II Training Seminar Conference
Dates: Sept. 20-24 in Paramus, NJ
Mass Fatalities Incident Response Planning is a critical but often
overlooked part of disaster planning. This course addresses the
essential elements of planning for response to a mass fatalities event.
For more details and registration information, click
here.
If you have any questions regarding the seminar please
contact:
Tom Metzler, CEM
Director of Emergency Services
8-01 Fair Lawn Avenue
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
201-794-5390
201-703-4266 FAX
oem@fairlawn.org
www.fairlawn.org
ASIS ACP Homeland Security Seminar Call for Sponsors
The Central Illinois Chapters of ASIS (formerly American Society for
Industrial Security) and ACP (Association of Contingency Planners) will
be conducting their annual seminar later this year. To read more, click
here.
Utah-ACP Annual Symposium
The Utah Chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners is pleased
to announce that its annual Symposium will be held on October 21, 2004.
Our theme this year is, "When Disaster Strikes We're All Connected…
Ready at Every Level." We've lined up an exciting program featuring the
Editor of CPM Global Assurance Magazine, Paul Kirvan; Senior Staff of
Mitretek Systems, Paul Streidl; Executive Director of Risk Management
for Morgan Stanley, Andrew Weisman; along with a number of other
speakers covering a variety of topics. Please visit the ACP website at www.acputah.org for
the latest information. The ACP Symposium will take place at The Salt
Lake Community College Miller Campus located at 9750 South 300 West,
Sandy, Utah. Free parking will be available. For registration see web
site www.acputah.org/symposium.htm
Also we have monthly meetings: Our next meeting will be in
August www.acputah.org/meetings.htm
Three Rivers Contingency Planning Association (TRCPA)
Three Rivers Contingency Planning Association Announces the following
schedule of meetings.
Friday, September 10, 2004 at 1:00 p.m.
Friday, November 12, 2004 at 1:00 p.m.
Friday, January 14, 2005 at 1:00 p.m.
Friday, March 11, 2005 at 1:00 p.m.
Friday, May 13, 2005 at 1:00 p.m.
Meeting locations and agendas will be announced at a later
date. For more information, please visit the TRCPA web site at www.trcpa.org
National Earthquake Forum
Strengthening America: Preparing for Earthquakes and More
September 26-30, 2004
Adam's Mark Hotel - St. Louis, Missouri
This event will provide a national forum for dialogue among earthquake
professionals, government and businesses to reduce social and economic
losses from earthquakes. For more information, go to: www.earthquakeconference.org.
The organizing committee has prepared a survey to better understand the
needs and concerns regarding earthquakes of disaster recovery and
business continuity community in the northeast. To take part in the
survey, go to the their survey site at www.cusec.org/wsspc/bc_survey.htm
Association of Contingency
Planners & PRISM International to Hold Joint Conference in December
2004
The Board of Directors of the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP)
and the Board of Directors of Professional Records and Information
Services Management International (PRISM) have agreed to jointly host a
conference on December 9-11 in New Orleans.
Main features of the conference will
include a joint opening keynote session with Jane Boucher, author of
"How to Love the Job You Hate," joint receptions, a joint trade show
area, and an opportunity for the two associations to network
individually and across organizations.
In addition, the conference will
feature a number of facility tours relating to both planning for
emergency response and business continuity and commercial information
management.
The Association of Contingency
Planners is the largest international professional association for
business continuity planners as well as related professions such as
crisis management, emergency management, all arenas of disaster recover
planning, and any other interested fields. Founded in 1984, ACP has
over 1500 members and 23 chapters.
The ACP corporate website is: www.acp-international.com.
PRISM International is a trade
association serving commercial information management facilities which
include commercial records facilities, secure media vaults, electronic
vaulting and data repositories, imaging services companies and
confidential destruction companies.
Their corporate website is: www.prismintl.org.
Plan now to attend.
State of Missouri News
The State of Missouri has received a Federal Declaration of Disaster
for recent storms. This is FEMA_DR1524-DR Severe Storms, Tornadoes and
Flooding
The Missouri Voluntary Organizations
Active in Disaster (MOVOAD) and Disaster Recovery Partnership have
convened by conference call four times in the past four weeks and once
in a face to face meeting at SEMA.
Assistance to families and individuals
has been coordinated before and during the declaration (the Federal
declaration came two weeks after some of the initial severe weather).
MOVOAD and Partnership agencies are standing by to allow Federal
Individual Assistance programs to run their course before assessing
long-term unmet needs cases. Long-term recovery committees will be
established or activated if necessary.
For more information, call Dante
Gliniecki at (573) 526-9132 or email: dgliniec@mail.state.mo.us.
Former New York City OEM
Director Named to Lead Corporate Emergency Access System (CEAS) for BNet
New York, NY - Peter R. Picarillo, the former director and founder of
the Public-Private Initiatives group for the New York City Office of
Emergency Management (OEM) and a retired New York City Police Sergeant
has been named as the first ever Corporate Emergency Access System
(CEAS) Managing Director for the Business Network of Emergency
Resources, Inc. (BNet). In this capacity, Mr. Picarillo will work to
develop CEAS programs in states and cities around the country in
coordination with emergency management officials and the business
community. To read the press release, click
here.
National Conference on Animals
in Disaster 2004
Philadelphia, PA
The National Conference on Animals in Disaster has concluded its annual
meeting in Philadelphia. For information on the proceedings and future
events, contact the Disaster Services department at the Humane Society
of the United States at 301.258.3063 or e-mail ncad@hsus.org
Association of Sacramento Area
Planners
Meetings of the Association of Sacramento Area Planners are held the
second Wednesday of each month at 9:00 A.M. at Vision Services Plan
(VSP) 3333 Quality Drive, Rancho Cordova, California. VSP provides us
with a comfortable meeting room that is large enough for our group and
the necessary presentation equipment.
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