February 2010 NYC SPIN Meeting Announcement

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February 2010 NYC SPIN Meeting Announcement

**********************************************************************Date: February 9, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Topic: CERT® Resiliency Management Model — achieving and sustaining operational
resiliency
Presenter: David White
Location: Microsoft
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Light refreshments. Door Prizes.

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Abstract:
The CERT Resiliency Management Model (RMM) is a process improvement model for managing operational resiliency. It promotes the convergence of security, business continuity, and IT operations activities as a means to activity direct, control, and manage operational resiliency and risk. The model establishes an organization’s resiliency engineering process: a collection of essential activities that an organization performs to ensure that its important assets—people, information, technology, and facilities—stay productive in supporting the ongoing operation of the business. Through improvement and institutionalization of the resiliency process, the organization is better able to sustain the activities on which its continued operation depends, particularly in times of stress. RMM provides a foundation from which an organization can measure its current process capability, set improvement targets, and establish plans to close identified gaps.

RMM builds on the Software Engineering Institute’s successful history of developing and deploying process improvement models such as the CMMI combined with CERT’s vast expertise in the field of security. The predecessor of RMM was the CERT® Resiliency Engineering Framework (REF). For more information, please visit the RMM website at www.cert.org/resiliency.

This presentation will provide an introduction to RMM, including information about how and why the model was developed, details about the structure and content of the model, and suggestions for how organizations can effectively use the model. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion.Click here to RSVP for the February Meeting


Biography

David White is the product manager and a core member of the development team for the RMM. In this role, David performs technical development on the model and associated products and leads numerous projects to assist organizations with their adoption and use of the model. David is an instructor for the Introduction to the CERT Resiliency Management Model course and lead appraiser for the RMM appraisal.

David has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently works from his home in New York City.
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DIRECTIONS

Microsoft
1290 Avenue of the Americas
(between 51st and 52nd Streets)

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B,D,E to (at 53rd St)

5th Avenue (at 53rd St)

N,R,W to

49th St

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7th Avenue

(at 8th Ave)

1,A,C,E to

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