September, 2017

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Migration, refugees and criminal exploitation 

Crisis Response Journal

Lina Kolensikova and Emily Hough say that criminal elements exploiting migration routes are hardening public attitudes towards the very people who need human assistance and compassion the most.

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End-of Year Compliance Testing Pro Tips

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

For those who have regulatory or audit requirements for testing, this is a great resource on moving your exercises from the merely-mandatory to Truly Valuable (and Lower Costs)! Feel free to share with your peers. Also feel free to share with your counter-parties and supply chain providers - are they resilient and do they test?

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Is this the end of Ryanair?

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie discusses the ongoing incident with Ryanair and whether the damage to the airline’s reputation will result in the failure of the company. Earlier this week, my wife Kim suggested that the recent Ryanair flight cancellations will lead to the breakdown of the company. There are precedents for major incidents leading to the failure of airlines.

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TOP 5 advantages of achieving a professional certification

Behavior Group

professional certification Advantage # 1: It’s an accelerator to maximise your career potential and to reach your professional objectives. An internationally professional certification is an accelerator, helping you maximise your career potential and to reach you professional objectives, for e.g. for an professional certified as an Auditor or an Assessor, it may provide the need… Continue reading.

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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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Disaster recovery: Businesses should have solid plan in place

Titan Data Services

By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton For the Tulsa Business & Legal News. Sep 8, 2017. [link]. Canfield & Joseph was among the 150 businesses damaged or destroyed by an EF-2 tornado that hit midtown Tulsa in early August. COURTESY. Canfield & Joseph suffered damage from the EF-2 tornado that raked across midtown Tulsa in early August. An off-site data backup helped the company resume operations quickly after the tornado.

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The importance of crisis communication – Lessons from Ryanair 

Crisis Response Journal

David Stewart, one of the Crisis Response Journal's Directors, looks at crisis communication planning in the light of the recent Ryanair cancellations.

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QoS, performance and protection for OpenStack

VOX Veritas

OpenStack summit is going well and I am enjoying meeting with attendees and briefing analysts on the new Veritas software-defined storage OpenStack solution – HyperScale for OpenStack. The response is generally positive and the benefits of our dual-plane architecture certainly seem to resonate. Yesterday afternoon Carlos Carrero (product lead) and Abhijit Dey (engineering lead) co-presented a session with Ruud Harmsen (CEO of Fairbanks, the OpenStack ambassador in The Netherlands).

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Is this the end of Ryanair?

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie discusses the ongoing incident with Ryanair and whether the damage to the airline’s reputation will result in the failure of the company. Earlier this week, my wife Kim suggested that the recent Ryanair flight cancellations will lead to the breakdown of the company. There are precedents for major incidents leading to the failure of airlines.

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Understanding Cyber Insurance

Behavior Group

Cyber Insurance Data breaches have led enterprises to invest more in cybersecurity programs. But what about consumers, who often feel the effects of a security breach? Keith Moore, CEO (…), believes that consumers increasingly will take cybersecurity into their own hands and purchase cyber insurance policies. Many homeowners’ insurance policies include identity-theft coverage, which can… Continue reading.

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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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Interoperability Needed: 911 Overflow

Swan Island Network

Interoperability Needed: 911 Overflow. Pete O'Dell. September 5, 2017. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. Here we are again, another disaster an another overloaded 911 system in Houston. The people doing this work are true heroes, but the technology is letting them down. Corporations know how to distribute traffic among multiple call centers based on traffic and demand, but the sprawling bureaucracy of locally commissioned and managed 911 centers (over 6700 o

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Ultimate Guide: How to Build Your CMS Compliant Emergency Plan

Alert Media

The post Ultimate Guide: How to Build Your CMS Compliant Emergency Plan appeared first on AlertMedia.

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The Dark Side of Incident Recovery

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at the dark side of major incidents, advising BC professionals to take steps to ensure individuals and organisations are not profiting from disasters, as they have done in the past. In recent disasters, such as Hurricane Harvey and Irma and the Grenfell Tower fire, we have seen the best of human spirit, with neighbours helping each other out and a huge desire from the public to come to the aid of those affected.

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The Dark Side of Incident Recovery

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at the dark side of major incidents, advising BC professionals to take steps to ensure individuals and organisations are not profiting from disasters, as they have done in the past. In recent disasters, such as Hurricane Harvey and Irma and the Grenfell Tower fire, we have seen the best of human spirit, with neighbours helping each other out and a huge desire from the public to come to the aid of those affected.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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6 Tips for CISOs Selling to the Board

Behavior Group

CISOs, information security There’s a shift taking place in the boardroom: With the recent high-profile cyberattacks like WannaCry and NotPetya, cybersecurity has been placed in the spotlight, making it a much more prominent topic than it was five years ago. Boardrooms are abuzz with questions about these breaches including “how did they happen?” or “what… Continue reading.

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Monitoring logons the most effective way to detect a data breach

Behavior Group

Monitoring logons, detect a data breach, Cyberattack, cybersecurity Monitoring corporate logins is the most effective way to detect a data breach within an organisation, according to a new report on the ‘key indicators of compromise’ by IS Decisions. Mismatched port and application traffic, increases in data reads or outbound traffic, geographical irregularities regarding the perimeter… Continue reading.

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Cyber Security Regulation. The Move Towards Board Involvement

Behavior Group

Cyber Security Regulation, cybersecurity Regulation Regulators are the catalyst for stronger measures in cyber security, and new regulation from the EU is going to have a serious impact on organizations that process EU citizen data. After four years of diligence and debate, The EU Parliament approved the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on April 14,… Continue reading.

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Salary Survey: Deep Focus on CISSP

Behavior Group

cissp, cissp training, cissp certification, Certified Information Systems Security Professional training, Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification Information is the currency of world domination, and stealing, manipulating, erasing, or otherwise disrupting computerized caches and networks that handle information is the real aim of actual supervillains.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Cyber Incident Management Training – 10 Lessons Learned

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at the lessons learned during our first Managing and Preparing for Cyber Incidents course. Yesterday, I ran Managing and Preparing for Cyber Incidents for the first time and I thought I would share ten lessons that were learned during the training. 1. When you have decisions to make that involve 2-3 different potential outcomes, it might be a good idea to develop a playbook for managing the incident.

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Cyber Incident Management Training – 10 Lessons Learned

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at the lessons learned during our first Managing and Preparing for Cyber Incidents course. Yesterday, I ran Managing and Preparing for Cyber Incidents for the first time and I thought I would share ten lessons that were learned during the training. 1. When you have decisions to make that involve 2-3 different potential outcomes, it might be a good idea to develop a playbook for managing the incident.

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book. The BCI quite rightly describes it as an art and a science.

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book. The BCI quite rightly describes it as an art and a science.

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4 Things You Shouldn’t Notify Your Employees About

Alert Media

The post 4 Things You Shouldn’t Notify Your Employees About appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Enable Cost-Effective Retention of Archived Data

VOX Veritas

Veritas Access works as a primary archive store for Enterprise Vault offering a software-defined alternative storage solution for archiving infrastructure.

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Beating Natural Disasters with Cloud-based DR

VOX Veritas

With recent devastating destruction caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, a cloud-based DR approach in can help organizations ensure maximum up-time.

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Harvey and Irma – What can we learn?

Plan B Consulting

In the midst of hurricane season, Charlie advises business continuity professionals what they can learn from past hurricanes, in preparation for any future incidents. Oscar Wilde once said, “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” In the same way, to have one hurricane is bad, but to have one after the other is something else.

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Harvey and Irma – What can we learn?

Plan B Consulting

In the midst of hurricane season, Charlie advises business continuity professionals what they can learn from past hurricanes, in preparation for any future incidents. Oscar Wilde once said, “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” In the same way, to have one hurricane is bad, but to have one after the other is something else.

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