We have teamed up with the Washington Bankers Association (WBA) to offer a series of educational webinars in response to new federal guidelines that recommend tighter restrictions on top executives of financial institutions for overseeing business continuity planning procedures.

This series was prompted by the revisions made to the FFIEC Business Continuity IT Handbook in March 2008. Our CEO, Steve Tabacek, explains that "the changes are extremely important for those organizations where BCP planning is outsourced and effectively done for them by a third party provider. The Handbook also requires there to be an enterprise-wide business continuity testing policy that should establish a cycle that increases in scope and complexity over time."

IT-Lifeline will be holding the webinars Tuesday, September 2nd, and Thursday, September 11th. One of the webinars will focus on the impact to executives and the second will focus on the impact to the IT staff within the institution.

FFIEC Webinar for Executives will be held:
    *9-2-08, 10:30am - 12:00pm PT
    * Click here to register!

FFIEC Webinar for IT will be held:
     *9-11-08, 10:30a - 12:pm PT
     * Click here to register!

Registration information will be available soon. If you have any questions regarding the Webinars, please contact Erin Graser at 509-984-1600.