Interesting Web Site Links

LINKS TO RELATED WEB SITES

Our list of interesting links that relate to the class subjects. Each link points to an external site that is not controlled by CertTest. We invite your suggestions. Please send your suggestions and report any broken links to our webmaster. All information listed is provided as a courtesy and does not represent any form of endorsement. Happy surfing!

Last updated on June 21, 2007

Business Continuity

• Disaster Recovery Institute International - certifying body for CBCP, ABCP, MBCP
• Business Continuity Institute - United Kingdom
• Disaster Recovery Journal Magazine - the original DR magazine
• Contingency Planning & Management Magazine - six annual issues, careerlink
• American Red Cross - checkout the family emergency preparedness kit
• Federal Emergency Management Administration - US Government FEMA website
• International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) - part of the FEMA National Citizens Council to engage groups across the nation in homeland security and family safety.
• Emergency Management Network - educational information. Includes people and pet locator with excellent section on locating family, protecting pets and advance planning for an emergency.
• Commonwealth Films - Excellent source of short 18 minute staff awareness training films. Highly recommended as part of your company awareness program. Buy or rental. Very effective motivator.
• Insurance Services Office Inc. - introduced free web educational seminars on their insurance products, including new terrorism policy underwriting.
• Succession Planning article - I have not reviewed this one yet. Claimed to have more than 70 metrics and 18 charts with diagrams from several example companies.
• Solar recharging flashlight - This is where we purchased ours, not as bright as alkaline but does recharge itself daily in the sun without intervention. Worth having for emergencies and camping.
• Solar AA,C,D battery recharger - works like 110v charger, just put in batteries and set in sunlight. After 12 years in this I've still found battery forecasting to be a recurring problem in extended outages.
• Ontrack Data Recovery - Leader in cleanroom data salvage. Saved many a rump over the years.
• Caterpiller Emergency Power - trailer mounted generators or call 800-RENT-CAT. We use this one.
• Cummins Power Rentals - trailer mounted generators or call 877-POWR-NOW
• Generator Joe - Excellent resource, All kinds of standby generators, related equipment and conversions.
• Generator Mart - New and Used diesel generators for sale. It's worth a visit to this website.
• Book: Survival Communications - link to Amazon results. Excellent ideas often forgotten in planning.

Information Security

• Random Password Generator - your's to use free. Great utility to generate strong passwords.
• ISC2 - certifying body for CISSP and SSCP professionals
• ISSA - Information Systems Security Association, definately worth joining for networking at luncheons
• IS Audit and Control Association - Information Systems Auditor association.
• Password Generator - a neat utility you can use to generate stronger passwords
• NSA - US National Security Administration, Cryptography, System configuration guides. NSA IAM security courses are available almost for free through the FBI Infragaurd program.
• NIST - National institute of standards, including firewalls, corporate security, Common Criteria
• Baseline Software - Charles Woods famous Information Security Policies Made Easy, also see his new Job Descriptions Made Easy. Highly recommended. Also visit Mr. Woods Consulting website.
• Commonwealth Films - Excellent source of short 18-20 minute staff awareness training films. Highly recommended as part of your company awareness program. Buy or rental. Very effective motivator.
• US Department of Energy CIAC - Computer Incident Advisory Service, excellent source of threat info
• CIAC virus & hoaxes Latest US DOE information on current hoaxes & viruses. Highly recommend.
• CERT - Carnegie Mellon's computer emergency response team
• ISS X-force database - online database of known threats, searchable by platform and O.S.
• Computer Security Institute - excellent source of security specific publications, Information Security buyers guide, Managers pocket guide to security, IPAK self assessement kits
• Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI advisories, report computer crimes, Infraguard program.
• Steganography - more information about how it works and how to use it.
• Dave & Brady's list of cool tools from class is not published here. Students can call for the email or fax list.

Career Workshops & Help with Job Placement

• Job Filer - Free online Job Search organizer. Offers first rate job search tools and resources to help you manage your job hunt. Highly Recommended. (FYI- If you run it like a project your can use it for PMP experience)
• CareerTransition Workshop - Free program located in North Dallas TX near Dallas Tollway at Loop 12
• Career Workshop - Free program in Euless TX (DFW Mid Cities) near Hwy 183 & 157 industrial.