Congratulations - You’re Prepared!

You have complete, documented and tested business continuity and/or disaster recovery plans. You’re all set, right?

But wait – are you certain you’ve addressed all the issues? Doesn’t it make sense for another pair of eyes to take a second look - especially if your cost was minimal?

For a limited time and exclusively for Business Survival(tm) subscribers, Rothstein Associates has made special arrangements with Paul F. Kirvan, FBCI, CBCP, CISSP NCE, to audit a plan you select against industry standards BS 25999 or NFPA 1600.

All this - for the special price of only U.S./Canada $295.00 (€240 or £195)!

Paul will promptly send you a detailed report with the results and his recommendations based on his experience with hundreds of business continuity plans.

It’s not often that you can take advantage of one of the most experienced business continuity practitioners so inexpensively - don’t waste this opportunity! This is not a ‘canned’ report - Paul will deliver customized recommendations based on your actual plan documentation.

Paul Kirvan, FBCI, CBCP, CISSP, NCE offers over 20 years hands-on experience in all aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery. He is a board member of the Business Continuity Institute and has been a partner of Rothstein Associates for almost two decades.

Contact Paul Kirvan directly at pkirvan@msn.com for your BC audit!

For a limited time, we are offering Business Survival(tm) subscribers $30.00 off the $95.00 price of the valuable book Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity by David Kaye and Julia Graham (until June 30, 2009) - that’s only $65.00!

Endorsed by the Business Continuity Institute, Institute for Risk Management, and Disaster Recovery Institute International. “This book is a must read for those senior managers, risk managers and continuity managers who have the vision to see both the new opportunities and the new responsibilities of business continuity management.” - George J. Mitchell, Chairman, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary; Former Senate Majority Leader and U.S. Senator for Maine.

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Few businesses can afford to shut down for an extended period of time, regardless of the cause. If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that disaster can strike in any shape, at any time. Be prepared with the time-tested strategies in this BRAND NEW BOOK: Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan by Michael Blyth - and protect your employees while ensuring your company survives the unimaginable!

Written by Michael Blyth - a consultant in the field of business contingency management - this book provides cost-conscious executives with a structured, sustainable, and time-tested blueprint toward developing an individualized strategic business continuity program. This timely book urges security managers, HR directors, program managers, and CEOs to manage nonfinancial crises to protect your company and its employees. Discussions include:

• Incident management versus crisis response
• Crisis management structures
• Crisis flows and organizational responses
• Leveraging internal and external resources
• Effective crisis communications
• Clear decision-making authorities
• Trigger plans and alert states
• Training and resources
• Designing and structuring policies and plans
• Monitoring crisis management programs
• Stages of disasters
• Emergency preparedness
• Emergency situation management
• Crisis Leadership
• Over 40 different crisis scenarios

Developing and utilizing a business continuity plan protects your company, its personnel, facilities, materials, and activities from the broad spectrum of risks that face businesses and government agencies on a daily basis, whether at home or internationally. Business Continuity Management presents concepts that can be applied in part, or full, to your business, regardless of its size or number of employees. The comprehensive spectrum of useful concepts, approaches and systems, as well as specific management guidelines and report templates for over forty risk types, will enable you to develop and sustain a continuity management plan essential to compete, win, and safely operate within the complex and fluid global market.

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Praise for Business Continuity Management:  Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

“In Business Continuity Management, Blyth has once again produced a comprehensive guide to the subject. Whether a multinational organization looking to counter the threat of global terrorism or a local business planning against loss of sensitive data, this book provides a well structured and useful guide to construction and implementation of Incident Management Plans. Blyth provides not only the theory and background to his subject but also invaluable template guidelines for many of the incidents which we all should prepare for.” -  Joe Pugh, Head of European Project Management, Panasonic

“Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Management Plan very effectively details how and what a company should include in composing and executing a crisis management plan. This book is a must read for both laymen and experts alike because it itemizes the most relevant facts within silos that are comprehensive enough for the expert to find value in, yet written in a manner that a layman can derive tangible value. The incident response guidelines, broken down by the event type, provide an extremely useful tool that bring immediate value to the reader.” -  Robert G. Molina Jr., Global Security Manager,  Lyondell Basell

“For a business of any consequence to not have a business continuity plan is like a Boy Scout not having a first aid kit. Advanced preparation and planning enable a business to deal with a crisis and sooner or later every business will face a crisis of some nature. Author Michael Blyth hits the nail on the head with his well organized book that weaves together business continuity planning, incident management, and dealing with risks.” -  John P. Chamberlain, Executive Director, ESC

“Mike Blyth has produced another book, which is thought-provoking and a clear example of the multilayered guidelines that companies should be encouraged to incorporate into their BCP. A worthy read for anyone in business, irrespective of managerial level. The business model and structure achieved will help determine the time and shape of any crisis. The individual knowledge and understanding so achieved, interlinked with a robust BCP, will determine the optimum time and cost to recover from crisis.” - Stephen Ackroyd, BMI Security Manager, Middle East/Africa/Asia

“In the global economy, the guidelines presented by Michael Blyth are an essential component for doing business worldwide. He has thought of every angle. In ultra-sensitive environments like Afghanistan, his recommendations will be widely applied.” -  Dr. Thomas Stauffer, President/CEO, American University of Afghanistan

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Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness

New book by Jeffrey R. Ryan

• Analyze the threat of pandemics in general, and influenza specifically
• Identify principles associated with the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
• Assess factors leading to an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, including its potential effect on the economy
• Evaluate the use of pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical measures
• Determine response actions of various emergency services disciplines as they relate to communications, travel, and quarantine
• Examine the components of service continuation essential for the private sector to remain intact during a severe pandemic

“… an amazing resource … Dr. Ryan has assembled some of the best experts in the field to guide you in understanding the threat of pandemic influenza and how it can affect you and the people you are responsible for. …” - From the foreword by Lynn A. Slepski, Captain, United States Public Health Service

No one is immune to the potential devastation of a mass pandemic influenza outbreak. Yet despite recent small-scale outbreaks and dire warnings from the World Health Organization that such an event is imminent and overdue, our preparedness continues to lag. Part of the problem is that while a national plan is important, all the real action must occur at the local level. Triage, care, and containment, along with maintenance of the infrastructure, are functions that must be carried out by local planners and responders.

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness introduces readers to the critical global and domestic issues regarding a potential pandemic. Featuring the contributions of leading experts, this volume arms planners and responders with an understanding of outbreak containment and response planning and provides an analysis of our present capabilities and potential weaknesses.

The first section reviews the history of pandemics and discusses the deadly 1918 Spanish flu. The middle chapters examine the biology of the virus and the clinical aspects of influenza, with special attention given to Avian Influenza. The final chapters examine international and federal programs and discuss response at the local level, including service continuation planning and fatality management.

Public health and emergency preparedness professionals, as well as policy makers at all levels will find a wealth of information to help them create a plan and allocate the proper resources to mitigate the devastation of a pandemic influenza.

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Be prepared! Purchase Pandemic Influenza, along with the Pandemic Preparation and Response Plan Template for Business on CD-ROM for $119.90.

New book by Jeffrey R. Ryan:

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness

• Analyze the threat of pandemics in general, and influenza specifically
• Identify principles associated with the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
• Assess factors leading to an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, including its potential effect on the economy
• Evaluate the use of pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical measures
• Determine response actions of various emergency services disciplines as they relate to communications, travel, and quarantine
• Examine the components of service continuation essential for the private sector to remain intact during a severe pandemic

“… an amazing resource … Dr. Ryan has assembled some of the best experts in the field to guide you in understanding the threat of pandemic influenza and how it can affect you and the people you are responsible for. …” - From the foreword by Lynn A. Slepski, Captain, United States Public Health Service

No one is immune to the potential devastation of a mass pandemic influenza outbreak. Yet despite recent small-scale outbreaks and dire warnings from the World Health Organization that such an event is imminent and overdue, our preparedness continues to lag. Part of the problem is that while a national plan is important, all the real action must occur at the local level. Triage, care, and containment, along with maintenance of the infrastructure, are functions that must be carried out by local planners and responders.

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness introduces readers to the critical global and domestic issues regarding a potential pandemic. Featuring the contributions of leading experts, this volume arms planners and responders with an understanding of outbreak containment and response planning and provides an analysis of our present capabilities and potential weaknesses.

The first section reviews the history of pandemics and discusses the deadly 1918 Spanish flu. The middle chapters examine the biology of the virus and the clinical aspects of influenza, with special attention given to Avian Influenza. The final chapters examine international and federal programs and discuss response at the local level, including service continuation planning and fatality management.

Public health and emergency preparedness professionals, as well as policy makers at all levels will find a wealth of information to help them create a plan and allocate the proper resources to mitigate the devastation of a pandemic influenza.

Special Offer!

Be prepared! Purchase Pandemic Influenza, along with the Pandemic Preparation and Response Plan Template for Business on CD-ROM for $119.90.

Pre-publication special offer: Order by May 15, 2009 for $89.00 — $10.00 off the retail price of $99.00!

Addressing the vulnerabilities in today’s critical infrastructure to natural disasters and terrorism, this practical book describes what professionals should be doing to protect their infrastructure before the unthinkable happens.

Readers learn how to maintain command and control in any disaster, and how to predict the probability of those disasters. Written by two highly regarded experts in the field, this one-of-a-kind book shows how to simplify risk assessments and emergency response procedures to disasters affecting our critical national and local infrastructure.

This practical resource helps professionals…

• Understand the latest technologies that help assure word gets out quickly after an act of terrorism, a severe weather occurrence, or other destructive event occurs;
• Set up procedures for “4Ci” (Command, Control, Communications, Computers and intelligence);
• Assure that critical public services such as 911 centers will survive a catastrophic event;
• Learn the basics of what a good emergency response plan should contain for critical infrastructure providers;
• Create step-by-step plans and templates for assessing vulnerability in hospitals, government agencies, police and fire departments, EMT centers, water supplies, power grids, telecommunication networks, large business enterprises, and more;
• Develop safeguards and standards for critical infrastructure systems and write “first alert” procedures;
• Discover ways to have seismic, weather and other alerts delivered to a telephone, wireless phone, blackberry or email, taking advantage of online access to the Pacific Disaster Center repository.

Special Online Access with Book Purchase!

Practitioners can actually log in online to the vast Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) repository of weather, seismic, infrastructure, and demographic data to compute real probabilities of exposure to earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados, lightning strikes, and more! Plus, professionals gain access to some of the most useful PDC analytical tools. Log in with the guest password provided in this book and see these tools for yourself.

Leo A. Wrobel is the CEO of Dallas-based b4Ci, Inc. An active author, lecturer and technical expert in the communications industry, he has written/co-written 12 books and over 500 trade articles. Mr. Wrobel holds degrees in telecommunications systems technology, electronic systems technology, and business and public policy. Leo is also president of the Networking and Systems Professional Association (NaSPA) non profit organization serving the special needs of IT professionals since 1986. See: http://www.naspa.com.

Sharon M. (Ford) Wrobel is Vice President of Business Development for b4Ci Inc. Sharon attended the University of Maryland and El Centro College where she trained as a nurse before joining Leo in his businesses in 1997. Since that time Sharon has co-authored two disaster recovery books and has published dozens of articles.

Hardcover. 330 pp. Available May, 2009.

Pre-publication special offer: Order by May 15, 2009 for $89.00 — $10.00 off the retail price of $99.00! (Orders received after May 15, 2009 will be processed at the $99.00 price).

Information Security Policies Made Easy is your definitive resource for a comprehensive information security policies for your enterprise.

Until April 30, 2009, Rothstein Associates is offering a $100 discount on this valuable tool - including both print AND CD-ROM - regularly $795, now only $695.00 PLUS FREE STANDARD SHIPPING! (prepaid orders only).

Information Security Policies Made Easy is the “gold standard” information security policy resource based on the 25 year consulting experience of Charles Cresson Wood, CISSP, CISA. The most complete security policy library available, ISPME contains over 1360 pre-written information security policies covering over 200 security topics and organized in ISO 17799 format. Take the work out of creating, writing, and implementing security policies!

Information Security Policies Made Easy has everything you need to save time and money building or updating written security policies, including:

1. A complete information security policy library with over 1360 individual pre-written security policies including:

• Coverage of the latest technical, legal and regulatory issues
• ISO 17799 outline format, allowing for easy gap-analysis against existing standards and security frameworks
• Expert commentary discussing the risks mitigated by each policy
• Target audience (management, technical, or user) and security environment (low, medium, high) for each policy
• Policy coverage maps for Sarbanes-Oxley (COBIT) and HIPAA security

2. Eighteen complete pre-written security policy documents that every company should have, updated and ready to use “as is” or with easy customization, including:

• User-targeted policies such as: Electronic Mail Policy, Internet Security Policy for End Users and Web Privacy Policy
• Organization-wide policies such as: High-Level Security Policy, Privacy policy, Information Ownership Policy
• Technology-based policies such as: Firewall Policy, Data Classification Policy and Network Security Policy
• Sample risk acceptance memo for the approval of out of compliance situations, a sample non-disclosure agreement, and a user policy acceptance agreement.

3. Expert advice on the security policy development and review process, including:

• A step-by-step checklist of security policy development tasks to quickly start a policy development project
• Helpful tips and tricks for getting management buy-in for information security policies and education
• Tips and techniques for raising security policy awareness
• Real-world examples of problems caused by missing or poor information security policies
• Policy development resources such as Information Security Periodicals, professional associations and related security organizations

4. All content included on an easy-to-use CD-ROM with an indexed and searchable HTML interface for easy location, featuring:

• Policies available in HTML, PDF, MS-Word format
• Easy cut-and-paste into existing corporate documents
• Extensive cross-references between policies that help the user quickly understand alternative solutions and complimentary controls

Information Security Policies Made Easy covers virtually every aspect of corporate information security including:

• Privacy issues
• Identity Theft
• Web pages
• Firewalls
• Employee surveillance
• Electronic commerce
• Digital signatures
• Computer viruses
• Encryption
• Contingency planning
• Logging controls
• Internet
• Intranets
• Corporate Governance
• Outsourcing security functions
• Computer emergency response teams
• Microcomputers
• Local area networks
• Voice Over IP
• Password selection
• Electronic mail
• SPAM Prevention
• Data Classification
• Telecommuting
• Telephone systems
• Portable computers
• User security training
• Information Security Related Terrorism

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To receive your $100 discount and free standard ground shipping (or equivalent discount), either click below, OR go to the full product description of Information Security Policies Made Easy and enter Coupon Code “ispme09” at checkout. Discount applies to prepaid orders only. Shipping charge will be adjusted at time of shipment.

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Take advantage of this limited offer on Information Security Policies Made Easy!

Information Security Policies Made Easy is your definitive resource for a comprehensive information security policies for your enterprise.

Until April 30, 2009, Rothstein Associates is offering a $100 discount on this valuable tool - including both print AND CD-ROM - regularly $795, now only $695.00 PLUS FREE STANDARD SHIPPING! (prepaid orders only).

Information Security Policies Made Easy is the “gold standard” information security policy resource based on the 25 year consulting experience of Charles Cresson Wood, CISSP, CISA. The most complete security policy library available, ISPME contains over 1360 pre-written information security policies covering over 200 security topics and organized in ISO 17799 format. Take the work out of creating, writing, and implementing security policies!

Information Security Policies Made Easy has everything you need to save time and money building or updating written security policies, including:

1. A complete information security policy library with over 1360 individual pre-written security policies including:

• Coverage of the latest technical, legal and regulatory issues
• ISO 17799 outline format, allowing for easy gap-analysis against existing standards and security frameworks
• Expert commentary discussing the risks mitigated by each policy
• Target audience (management, technical, or user) and security environment (low, medium, high) for each policy
• Policy coverage maps for Sarbanes-Oxley (COBIT) and HIPAA security

2. Eighteen complete pre-written security policy documents that every company should have, updated and ready to use “as is” or with easy customization, including:

• User-targeted policies such as: Electronic Mail Policy, Internet Security Policy for End Users and Web Privacy Policy
• Organization-wide policies such as: High-Level Security Policy, Privacy policy, Information Ownership Policy
• Technology-based policies such as: Firewall Policy, Data Classification Policy and Network Security Policy
• Sample risk acceptance memo for the approval of out of compliance situations, a sample non-disclosure agreement, and a user policy acceptance agreement.

3. Expert advice on the security policy development and review process, including:

• A step-by-step checklist of security policy development tasks to quickly start a policy development project
• Helpful tips and tricks for getting management buy-in for information security policies and education
• Tips and techniques for raising security policy awareness
• Real-world examples of problems caused by missing or poor information security policies
• Policy development resources such as Information Security Periodicals, professional associations and related security organizations

4. All content included on an easy-to-use CD-ROM with an indexed and searchable HTML interface for easy location, featuring:

• Policies available in HTML, PDF, MS-Word format
• Easy cut-and-paste into existing corporate documents
• Extensive cross-references between policies that help the user quickly understand alternative solutions and complimentary controls

Information Security Policies Made Easy covers virtually every aspect of corporate information security including:

• Privacy issues
• Identity Theft
• Web pages
• Firewalls
• Employee surveillance
• Electronic commerce
• Digital signatures
• Computer viruses
• Encryption
• Contingency planning
• Logging controls
• Internet
• Intranets
• Corporate Governance
• Outsourcing security functions
• Computer emergency response teams
• Microcomputers
• Local area networks
• Voice Over IP
• Password selection
• Electronic mail
• SPAM Prevention
• Data Classification
• Telecommuting
• Telephone systems
• Portable computers
• User security training
• Information Security Related Terrorism

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To receive your $100 discount and free standard ground shipping (or equivalent discount), either click below, OR go to the full product description of Information Security Policies Made Easy and enter Coupon Code “ispme09” at checkout. Discount applies to prepaid orders only. Shipping charge will be adjusted at time of shipment.

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Four excellent training videos on terrorism response now available at 30% off!

Terrorism Chemical Weapons DVD

Terrorism Radiological Weapons DVD

Terrorism Explosive & Incendiary Weapons DVD

Terrorism Biological Weapons DVD

Regularly $450.00 each, yours for only $320.00 each

OR get  ALL FOUR DVDs for$1,200 - save an additional $80.00 - plus FREE STANDARD SHIPPING on the set! Save a total of over $600.00 on the set!

This offer is valid only through April 30, 2009.

Click through the link above to see Flash previews of all four videos!

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Here’s details of the four videos:

Terrorism Chemical Weapons

This safety video is designed to provide training and response guidelines to emergency personnel who would be called upon to respond to a terrorist incident involving chemical agents.

• Profiles four chemical agent classes: lethal agents (nerve agents and blood agents); choking agents; blister agents and incapacitating agents
• Toxicology and symptoms of exposure of specific agents within each class
• Possible targets
• Likely terrorist dissemination devices for chemical agents
• Warning signs and indicators of a chemical attack
• Site control
• Protective clothing
• Incident management
• Specialized equipment and supplies.
• How terrorists may weaponize chemical agents
• Using hazmat response protocols
• Assessing risks to responders as well as to the community
• Decontamination of victims, equipment and responders
• Managing casualties
• Air monitoring and instruments. 26 minutes.
• Also included with the package is a Resource CD-Rom, with Powerpoint presentation, post-seminar test and other instructional aids.

Terrorism Radiological Weapons

A credible scenario is the use of a dirty bomb, consisting of explosives and radioactive materials. This important program uses footage of emergency responders performing actual training exercises to respond to scenarios involving radiological weapons - potentially the most fearsome weapons in the terrorism arsenal!



Topics covered:

• The nature of radioactivity
• Immediate and long-term health hazards of exposure
• Response and protective actions
• Search and rescue procedures
• Using time, distance and shielding for protection
• Exposure limits for emergency response and survival
• Use of radiation alert devices
• Size-up issues
• Use of protective clothing and equipment. .
• Leader’s Guide included. 30 minutes

Terrorism Explosive & Incendiary Weapons

Recent events underscore the need for emergency personnel to be up to date on all types of terrorist weapons! This important program examines pre- and post-detonation response to the following weapons:

Recent events underscore the need for emergency personnel to be iup to date on all types of terrorist weapons! This important program examines pre- and post-detonation response to the following weapons:

• Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)
• Fusing mechanisms
• Secondary devices
• Rockets
• Suicide missions
• Dirty bombs
• Vehicle bombs

Topics covered include:

• Determining evacuation distances
• Setting strategic goals
• Search and rescue
• Firefighting in a terrorist environment
• Dealing with mass casualties
• Investigation activities
• Recovery.
• Leader’s Guide Included. 30 minutes.

Terrorism Biological Weapons

Provides training and response guidelines to emergency personnel who would be called upon to respond to a terrorist incident involving biological agents.

Topics covered include:

• Possible targets
• Likely terrorist devices
• Hazmat response protocols
• Site management and control
• Role of National Guard Civil Support Teams and Medical Strike Teams
• Specialized equipment and supplies
• Chem-bio certified protective suits and air purifying respirators
• Incident management
• Addresses three different scenarios:  (1)Intelligence agencies uncover the probability of a known threat and responders are called out to support the operations of the agencies; (2)a device is actually discovered, either prior to or following a release; and (3) an attack goes unrecognized until a number of victims develop symptoms.
• How biological agents are be delivered
• Incubation periods
• Determining the dispersal site. 29 minutes.
• Also included with the package is a Resource CD-Rom, with Powerpoint presentation, post-seminar test and other instructional aids.

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