Implementation of a Business Continuity Plan, Ed Tracy
Paramount Pictures Ed Tracy,
Executive Director,
Policies and Controls
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Ed Tracy, Paramount Pictures

Our team leader will present the procedures and recommendations necessary for your business community to develop a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan so as to leverage compliance with the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002.*   Throughout the course of the presentation, our team leader will stress the importance of utilizing the INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM as a managerial tool necessary to successfully recover from a business interruption.

  • Identify the needs requirement for the development of BCP
  • Identify critical business units within the enterprise
  • Creating effective communications and information flows
  • Identify responsibilities of Emergency Management Team, Business Recovery Team and Crisis
    Management Team personnel
  • Develop the actual Business Continuity Plan

We will also review actual case studies and their outcomes, identify lessons learned, and the related enhancements needed to help ensure an effective Business Continuity Plan. In addition, the Bravest Seminar's attendees will participate in business interruption exercises as members of a company's Crisis Management Team.

*Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002

Section 404 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 requires companies to establish an infrastructure designed to protect and preserve records and data from destruction, loss, unauthorized alteration, or other misuse. As part of its Sarbanes - Oxley compliance effort, organizations need to identify and document all electronic and manual financial reporting processes.

The Sarbanes - Oxley compliance coupled with the value of Business Continuity Plans minimizes the risk and accounts for all scenarios that could significantly impact an organization in the event of a disaster. Not only will it help them comply with the letter of the law, it will generate invaluable information that can be leveraged to create new control structures that will improve corporate governance and by extension, the overall operations of the organization.