Government Emergency Response
Effectively Managing Interagency Response
Conference: September 16 and 17, 2008
Optional Workshop: September 18, 2008
Vancouver, British Columbia
Optional Post-Conference Workshops
Thursday, September 18, 2008
9:00 - 12:00
Workshop One
Threat and Risk Assessment: Securing Yourself and Vital Infrastructure
Bertram Cowan, Partner, Competitive Insights Inc.
This workshop will review and introduce key concepts and discuss the steps necessary to conduct proper threat and risk assessments based on the methodologies used to assess federal institutions. Workshop participants will learn the vital steps to analyzing risk and developing security and business continuity procedures to help reduce vulnerabilities in security and continuity, as well as mitigate and manage risk.
- Types of threat and risk assessments
- Methodology for conducting a threat and risk assessment
- Conducting the threat and risk assessment
- Building the report and making balanced recommendations
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