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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:32:50 -0500
From: Mich Kabay 
Subject: Contingency planning for the Y2K transition -- free course materials
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The file described below may be downloaded from the ICSA Library page at
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Contingency Planning for the Y2K Transition
An Introduction to the Basics

By M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP
Director of Education
ICSA, Inc.

The Y2K problem affects everyone in society.  It is clear that not all
critical systems will be functional at the time of the Y2K transition on
31 Dec 1999 - 1 Jan 2000.  Communities need to organize local
contingency plans to deal with possible infrastructure failures such as
power outages, non-functional telephones, and delays in food and fuel
deliveries.

This WinZip archive contains a PowerPoint-97 file that the author is
making freely available to anyone who wants to use it or any portions of
it for non-commercial (not-for-fee) presentations.  =


The PowerPoint presentation contains almost 200 pages of workbook for a
day-long course on the Y2K problem.  The focus is on understanding the
issues, providing documentation to convince the skeptics.  There are a
few pages of guidance on Y2K contingency planning for communities and
families.  The course contains hundreds of URLs for further
documentation from organizations on the World Wide Web and includes some
reprints of published materials from a wide range of sources.

Outline of the Course

Topic   Subtopic
10      Technical problem       =

        11      Historical background   =

        12      Surveys about Y2K preparedness  =

        13      Cost surveys, estimates & predictions   =

        14      Embedded chips  =

20      Examples of date-related failures       =

        21      29 Feb 1996     =

        22      31 Dec 1996     =

        23      GPS rollover    =

        24      9 Sept 1999     =

        25      Y2K transition  =

        26      29 Feb 2000     =

        27      Other date-related failures     =

        28      QA failures caused by Y2K fixes =

30      Possible solutions      =

        31      Government initiatives  =

        32      Decommission useless systems    =

        33      Replace legacy hardware by Y2K-compliant equipment      =

        34      Replace legacy software by COTS =

        35      Logic patches, windowing        =

        36      Expand dates & change code      =

        37      Scanners, filters. firewalls & utilities        =

        38      Resources  books, Web sites, papers, consultants        =

40      Social infrastructure, industry,organizations   =

        41      Electricity, fossil fuels, nuclear power        =

        42      Telecommunications, networks (WAN, LAN, phone)  =

        43      Medical =

        44      Manufacturing, retail industry  =

        45      Transportation  =

        46      Banking, credit, finance        =

        47      Securities, stock exchanges     =

        48      Education       =

        49      Insurance       =

        4A      Legal liability, torts, lawsuits        =

        4B      Government services (police, fire, states, municipalities=
) =

        4C      Global interdependencies & non-US cases =

        4D      Information security    =

        4E      National security, economy, recession   =

        4F      Global security, economy, recession     =

        4G      TEOTWAWKI       =

50      Preparations, contingency planning      =

        51      Emergency preparedness groups, plans    =

        52      Police preparations, civil unrest       =

        53      Military mobilization   =

        54      Family/individual precautions   =

        55      Survivalists, survival supplies =

        56      Millennial cults, political radicals, religious fanatics,=

hate
groups

M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP =

Director of Education
ICSA, Inc. -- Vermont
255 Flood Road
Barre, VT 05641-4060

V: 802-479-7937
F: 802-479-1879
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