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USPS Faces Another Crisis Communications Crunch

Bernstein Crisis Management

Breaking down a reputational tough spot. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has seen no shortage of crisis communications challenges connected – directly or tangentially – to its strange status as a business enterprise operated by the federal government. Though most will say out loud that they have low expectations from the USPS, it only takes witnessing someone receiving a package from across the country one day late or a bit banged up to hear their displeasure and realize how

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Overcoming Data Protection Challenges in Today’s Data-Driven World

Talkingpoint

The volume of data that organizations must store, manage and protect is exploding. Every day, the world generates more than 2.5 exabytes of data, which must be stored and managed by businesses or cloud providers. The growth of data, the […]. The post Overcoming Data Protection Challenges in Today’s Data-Driven World appeared first on TierPoint.

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Lifesaving Lessons From a Wildfire Study: Q&A With Alexander Maranghides of NIST

Alert Media

The post Lifesaving Lessons From a Wildfire Study: Q&A With Alexander Maranghides of NIST appeared first on AlertMedia.

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How Julia Landauer, NASCAR Champion & ISC West Keynote Speaker, Built Her Career Confidence

Security Industry Association

ISC West 2021 is coming up July 19-21 in Las Vegas, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC West have revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC West program, including 65+ sessions on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments and this year’s engaging Keynote Series presentations. SIA is looking forward to the SIA Women in Security Forum Keynote on Day 3 of ISC West featuring remarks from two-time racing champion Julia Landauer on risk a

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How businesses can protect their brands and bottom lines against damage from illegal robocalls

Behavior Group

March 17, 2021 was a milestone in the war on illegal robocalls. The FCC levied a $225 million fine — the largest in its history — on a telemarketer for making 1 billion illegal robocalls. On the same day, the FCC launched its Robocall Response Team, whose 51 staffers will step up enforcement and develop… Continue reading. The post How businesses can protect their brands and bottom lines against damage from illegal robocalls appeared first on Behaviour Portugal.

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Managing Up, How to Engage Your Executives Before a Crisis

Business Continuity Today

One of the most common complaints that I have heard over the years from emergency and business continuity managers is they cannot get their executives to participate in emergency drills and exercises. We hear lip service all the time from City Managers, CEOs, and Presidents of Higher Education Institutions on how Emergency Management and safety are important to them.Until they do not lead from the top and show up for the training.

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COVID-19, Backup and Disaster Recovery: Insight from Veeam Data Protection Report

OffsiteDataSync

Over the past year, COVID-19 has transformed the way businesses operate, and though workplaces are now reopening as the pandemic winds down, we don’t foresee a wholesale rush to return to the office. Remote work is here to stay. And it has serious implications for data protection. First, though, let’s get a clear picture of the situation. Despite initial worries and startup headaches, remote work has turned out to be a win-win situation for businesses and employees.

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Managing Up, How to Engage Your Executives Before a Crisis

Business Continuity Today

One of the most common complaints that I have heard over the years from emergency and business continuity managers is they cannot get their executives to participate in emergency drills and exercises. We hear lip service all the time from City Managers, CEOs, and Presidents of Higher Education Institutions on how Emergency Management and safety are important to them.Until they do not lead from the top and show up for the training.

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Our Latest eBook – Backup & Disaster Recovery Strategies for the New World of Work

OffsiteDataSync

The year 2020 changed the way businesses operate for good, because even when it does become safe for employees to return to the office, many will continue working remotely at least part of the time. To support this, IT has accelerated the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) and moved critical, routine operations to the cloud. Still, this new work model comes with significant new challenges for protecting and accessing data, including: Securing sensitive data outside the corporate firewall B

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Travel Risk Management for LGBTQ+ Employees

Risk Management Monitor

LGBTQ+ travelers can face unique challenges when traveling abroad—many countries do not?legally recognize same-sex marriage and more than?70 countries consider consensual LGBTQ+ relationships a?crime.?If an employee travels on business to a country where their sexual orientation or expression of gender identity is criminalized, an extra layer of complexity is added to duty of care responsibilities.

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Post-Pandemic Roles/Responsibilities for Backup and Disaster Recovery within SMBs

OffsiteDataSync

If you’re in IT at a small-to-mid-sized business (SMB), you know what it feels like to wear many hats, one of which will be backup and disaster recovery. It’s a rare SMB that has anyone in IT specifically dedicated to this function, much less a full data protection team. And given that the way people work has changed dramatically and, likely, permanently due to the pandemic, data protection will change as well, which could substantially increase the amount of chaos an SMB IT manager’s day alread

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Why Protecting Endpoints is Vital Right Now & What to do about it

OffsiteDataSync

In March, cybersecurity firm PC Matic gathered up findings from a survey of nearly 6,000 employees nationwide, focused on trends related to cybersecurity and people that had been working remotely since the start of the pandemic. It showed nearly 35% are still working from home. And as cybersecurity threats escalated through the year— ransomware attacks alone rising 437% — many were carried out by targeting this massive remote workforce.