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Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
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Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.
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Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
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Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
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Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
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Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
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Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.
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Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions.
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Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.
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Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
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Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
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Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.
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Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.
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Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
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Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
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Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
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Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
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Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
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Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.
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Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
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Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.