Brian Martin will be test-driving his IEEE presentation on his experiences in a true, "abandon the building" disaster recovery effort. He'll place particular emphasis on where technically sound, well-tested disaster plans often fail in a real disaster, and how these problems can be overcome.

The best data center disaster recovery plans are developed carefully and tested regularly. If you're at that stage, you may think you are well prepared. In this entertaining presentation, Brian Martin describes the unexpected problems that arose when a well thought out and tested plan met a real disaster, and draws lessons that are applicable to any disaster recovery situation.

Brian Martin has spent 30 years in the IT field, fairly evenly divided between being a mainframe system programmer and a server system administrator. He has operated Martin Consulting Services in the Portland Oregon area since moving to Portland from the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996. He has a wife, two cats, a dog, and nine in-service computers at home.

The true test of an IT organization is its ability to sustain operations through any business disruption — whether from a major disaster or leaky plumbing — or to recover operations quickly and effectively.

Join EasyStreet, Arista, Coherence Advisors, CommVault, IVOXY and V1 Data for an informative and insightful seminar that examines BC/DR from many perspectives. Topics include:

• 6 basic steps on the path to effective BC/DR planning
• The anatomy of a disaster and the underlying root causes
• The importance of effective IT governance in BC/DR planning
Focusing on IT services (not just on IT technology)
• Assessing organizational capability and maturity
• Effective risk mitigation (brand, operational, financial, technological, contractual)

We will have a drawing to give away 3 iPad minis!

Trends in Cybersecurity

The presentation will be a summary of security topics and risks based on notes from 2 cybersecurity presentations from the FBI in Oct. and Nov. 2016. Topics will include:

Tips for selling security
Tips for security audits
Some best practices
Live demonstrations
Cyber attack trends
Mitigating disaster if it occurs

Agenda:

6:00--6:20 Networking
6:20--7:00 No-host dinner
7:00--7:30 Introductions and announcements
7:30--8:30 Main Presentation (followed by Q&A):

Presented by:
David Bowman
Northbridge Secure
Business Development Manager
http://netconnect.co/

David has been working in the technology industry since he was performing child labor maintaining the Dial-Up BBS for his Dad during storms. Having grown up around technology the crowning achievement of his teenage years was finally talking his parents into the Palm Pilot IIIc. He was known to use his "school laptop to write websites during class and nearly didn t graduate high school because his final Project was plagiarized from himself. (yes he sold his Project to a company and got school credit for it at the same time)

David has spent the last 10 years working for companies such as Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, and CenturyLink. With a strong background in switching, internet connectivity, and rooms without windows full of technology he comes to us today from Northbridge Secure a company which enables "Work to be an activity not a place."

We will be holding a Spectrum Protect user group meeting April 26th. Please RSVP via the Registration link if you plan on attending.

Agenda:

10:00 am - Introductions 10:10 am - Spectrum Protect (TSM) Product updates 10:40 am - Spectrum Protect Plus Overview & Demo 11:00 am - Connecting Spectrum Protect to enterprise monitoring via RESTful API’s 11:45 am - Lunch 12:15 pm - Rocket Product Updates 01:00 pm - Open forum 02:00 pm – Close

Please RSVP using the link below or the survey on the IMWUC group page. https://www.imwuc.org/p/su/rd/survey=8c1a2651-314e-11e8-a995-bc764e103d0b

Oregon Computer Consultants Association Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 Topics that will be addressed:

• recoverable vs. non-recoverable scenarios
• encrypted devices
• recovery from Flash, smart devices, etc
• best practices
• cost and why data recovery costs what it does
• natural disaster recovery cases
• Long term storage and data preservation

Questions are welcome

Speaker(s): Mike Cobb, DriveSavers Director of Engineering from 2010 to present. His duties include:

• Direct our cleanroom engineers to constantly stay on the cutting edge of recovery techniques and find ways to access data storage devices for any failure scenario.

• Provide direction and expertise to our enterprise class logical recovery engineers helping them to reverse engineer dozens of unique file systems in order to gain access to recover data.

• Investigate and implement new processes and techniques for recovery of solid-state devices and train recovery engineers to perform unique customer solutions for data recovery.

• Develop relationships and advanced data recovery techniques with manufacturers for all types of recovery devices including HDD, SSD, various Flash devices, Smart Devices, RAID arrays, SAN environments and more.

• Provide best practices and assistance with business continuity and disaster recovery to our customers.

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Drivesavers is a very large and highly rated professional data recovery company. They have been recovering client data from all over the world since 1985. All leading manufacturers authorize DriveSavers to open sealed drives without voiding the original warranty. You can still receive an in warranty drive replacement.

Agenda: 6:30--7:00 Introductions, Announcements, Gadget Minute, Stump the Geek 7:00--8:00 Main Presentation (followed by Q&A)

Location: This meeting will be held online.