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Paul Kirvan is an independent consultant/IT auditor and technical writer/editor/educator with more than 22 years experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, security, enterprise risk management, telecomm/IT auditing and over 30 years experience in technical writing/editing, technical training and public speaking. Mr. Kirvan has been directly involved with dozens of business continuity, security, IT audit, risk and telecom consulting engagements, ranging from operational audits and strategy definition projects to plan design and implementation, program exercising, execution and maintenance, and RFP preparation and response. Mr. Kirvan was recently a member of the board of The Business Continuity Institute and is currently a member of the board and secretary of the BCI’s USA Chapter. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Fellow of the BCI (FBCI) and Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP).
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Contributions from Paul Kirvan
- Improving business continuity plan exercises
- Evaluating BC/DR program performance
- Defining, reviewing and updating a BC/DR policy
- Improving BC plan exercises
- Estimating energy use before buying a generator for DR
- Diesel vs. natural gas generator for disaster readiness
- Seven often overlooked colocation costs
- Obtaining flood insurance for a data center
- Disaster recovery training and staffing strategies
- What to consider when switching to an email service
- Incident management vs. emergency notification systems
- Disaster recovery checklist for new building owners
- Protect your business infrastructure against lightning
- DR/BC planning for an older building
- Costs associated with mobile recovery services
- How bidirectional replication can be used for DR
- Continuity of operations vs. business continuity
- Comparing enterprise resilience and disaster recovery
- Addressing workplace violence in the DR process
- Account for BYOD in your disaster recovery policy