Tue.Jul 06, 2021

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Who Are Ransomware Attackers and What Are They After?

Pure Storage

Over July 4 weekend, perhaps the largest global ransomware incident occured. Behind the attack: REvil, a ransomware cyberhacking collective operating out of Russia. The attack hit at least 17 countries and impacted thousands of businesses. Their demand? $70 million in Bitcoin to de-encrypt all the companies’ data at once. . REvil is just one example of today’s sophisticated hackers.

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A Chat With Preferred Technologies’ Shaun Castillo

Security Industry Association

Security Industry Association (SIA) member Preferred Technologies, LLC (Pref-Tech) delivers integrated security systems tailored to the needs of each client, serving a wide range of industries, including government, education, critical infrastructure, commercial facilities, healthcare, airports, seaports, oil, gas and energy. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and has an additional office in Austin, Texas.

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Scenario Planning for Philippine Science, Technology and Innovation 2050

Engaged Foresight

The Center for Engaged Foresight Team led by its Chief Futurist Shermon Cruz facilitated the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) a 2-Day Futures Literacy Leadership Training and a 2-Day Scenario Planning Action Learning Workshop to unpack, explore, reveal, reframe and consolidate the insights shaping the futures of Philippine Science, Technology and Innovation Operational Areas for the STI Foresight Project 2050.

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Business Continuity Program Roles & Responsibilities

BryghtPath

Have questions about your business continuity program? You’re not alone. When we talk to businesses about their business continuity program and business continuity plans, we get asked everything from “What is one?”—at the most basic level, many businesses also don’t understand that a business continuity plan, or BCP, is fundamentally different from a disaster recovery … The post Business Continuity Program Roles & Responsibilities appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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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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CEF is co-presenter of St. Luke’s “The Future of Health” Conversation Series

Engaged Foresight

The St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, through its new Planetary and Global Health Program , recently a new webinar series entitled “The Future of Health.” . The conversation series pub mat writes “the COVID-19 pandemic led to significant disruption in society, posed tremendous stress on health systems, and caused immense suffering onto the health of populations.

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CEF Chief Futurist featured at the FutureCast Podcast

Engaged Foresight

Marketing Magazine, a top brand, and marketing management company based in Australia through FutureCast recently interviewed CEF Chief Futurist Shermon Cruz. FutureCast features top professional futurists, academics, and renowned business leaders from around the world that apply foresight in marketing. Click here to access Prof. Cruz’s interview on strategic foresight and urban brand utility.

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The hard truth about IT process success

CIO Governance

The key to running an effective organization, we’ve been told for decades, is delivering work products through well-designed and -managed processes. Process is hailed as the path to organizational nirvana, in the form of repeatable, predictable results.

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Dreams and Disruptions at the Berlin-based Futures Space

Engaged Foresight

The CEF Futures Team played the Dreams and Disruptions game at the Berlin-based Futures Space, a global community of futurists building the digital home for futurists where trust and collaboration empowers. Dreams and Disruptions is a scenario-building card game that uses time horizons, drivers of change, leadership, and movements, as well as disruptors to create a stress-tested, anti-fragile vision of the future.

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6 Steps to Creating an Effective Emergency Response Plan

Alert Media

The post 6 Steps to Creating an Effective Emergency Response Plan appeared first on AlertMedia.

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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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Keeping  Your Remote Workers In Your BCT Plan

Business Continuity Today

Tens of millions of people globally are experiencing a seismic shift in work. Many have been forced into their homes and asked to not only make do, but maintain or increase their productivity. For many, this is their first extended experience with work-from-home. Globally, the narrative has neglected nuance, referencing the phenomenon as a global "remote work experiment.

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Ultimate Guide to Using ProLaw in the Cloud

LAN Infotech

Ultimate Guide to Using ProLaw in the Cloud. Has your law firm put in place the right tools to help lawyers respond to clients as effectively and promptly as possible? Does the technology stack you use in your firm help you survive and thrive in this economy? Now more than ever, your law firm needs to have ProLaw. ProLaw is a Law Practice Management software that has been in use for years.

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Keeping  Your Remote Workers In Your BCT Plan

Business Continuity Today

Tens of millions of people globally are experiencing a seismic shift in work. Many have been forced into their homes and asked to not only make do, but maintain or increase their productivity. For many, this is their first extended experience with work-from-home. Globally, the narrative has neglected nuance, referencing the phenomenon as a global "remote work experiment.