Watch Out For That Bus! - Personal Disaster Recovery Planning

Explore personal disaster recovery planning in this BSidesLV conference talk. Learn about the importance of preparing for unexpected events, including death, data loss, and account lockouts. Discover strategies for creating comprehensive backup plans, managing passwords, and organizing financial information. Examine the concept of "bus count" and how it relates to personal preparedness. Gain insights into developing plans for yourself and others, including details on passwords, backups, finances, taxes, insurance, and contact points. Understand the potential pitfalls of circular dependencies, multifactor authentication failures, and inaction. Receive practical advice on creating and testing your plan, updating it regularly, and storing it securely. Consider the differences between digital and analog approaches to disaster recovery planning.

Intro
Why this even matters
The Bus Count
Mindset
Will You Die
Holding Up Multiple Cards
Youre Dead
BIM vs Emacs
What happens if youre no longer around
Are you prepared
Other bad things
Backups
Losing Data
Can You Recover
Lock Yourself Out
Your Digital Life
The Reality
What Happened
Vault Manager
Dont Do Backups
Circular Dependency
Multifactor
Backup Failure
Existence Failure
Inaction Failure
The Plan For You
The Plan For Someone Else
Whats In A Plan
Passwords
Backup
Financials
Credit bureaus
Credit freezes
Taxes
Insurance
Life Insurance
Information Technology
Contact Points
Points of Contact
Bonus
What to take
Analog Will
Update Your Plan
Test Your Plan
Test Your Plan With Others
Storing Your Plan
Try Something
Summary
Testing
Switching from LastPass
Digital vs Analog