Scott R. Davis

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How many times a day do you preach best practices procedures to your employees? What is a best practice and what does it actually mean? How are effective best practice developed, how often should they be reviewed, and how should you store them? Most importantly, how do you share and train your staff on your organization’s best practices. Service providers and resellers need to have answers for all these questions.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Martin Boyle says that operations in remote Polar Regions can be extremely challenging and demanding at the best of times, and changing environmental conditions have seen an increase in regional activity as sea ice records have been broken.

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Activation 100

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Charlie looks at the evolution of the BIA and explains his reasons for no longer looking at financial impacts when conducting a BIA. This week I spent some time teaching the GPG course in-house for a bank. We had a long discussion on BIAs and the advantages and disadvantages of including financial impacts in a BIA. So I thought I would share why I don’t look at financial impacts when conducting a BIA.

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Behavior Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

data security questions As data breaches become a constant headline, data security should be a major concern for company boards everywhere. Unless a board member has been hired specifically to provide oversight for cybersecurity programs, many boards may find themselves unprepared to perform the necessary level of due diligence. This lack of understanding and the… Continue reading.

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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!

Mitigation

Swan Island Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When the Ship Goes Down, You Need a Lifeboat. Pete O'Dell. November 8, 2017. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. You’ve undoubtedly read about or experienced the Delta outage this week; you might be sitting in an airport reading this right now! Corporations are not putting the kind of thought, effort and money into backup systems to help when these kind of events transpire.

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VOX Veritas

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

We’d like to thank those who participated in the Veritas #OpenStackSummit Sweepstakes and joined the VOX community – thank you! The sweepstakes prize was awarded to OpenStack Summit attendee, @Natanael_Berca.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Mostafa Mohaghegh, Senior Adviser for Cooperation and Co-ordination, IFRC, and CRJ Editorial Advisory Panel Member, provides an initial short report on, and images of the response to, the earthquake that struck Iran on November 12, 2017.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Charlie looks at the evolution of the BIA and explains his reasons for no longer looking at financial impacts when conducting a BIA. This week I spent some time teaching the GPG course in-house for a bank. We had a long discussion on BIAs and the advantages and disadvantages of including financial impacts in a BIA. So I thought I would share why I don’t look at financial impacts when conducting a BIA.

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Behavior Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

GDPR affects The countdown is on and global businesses now have just six months until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is enforced. A recent study from Trend Micro has found confusion among businesses about the regulations. The survey found wide variation on the definition of ‘State of the Art’ security among the 1,000… Continue reading.

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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.

Evaluation

Swan Island Network

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Cajun Navy: Real-Time Resilience. Pete O'Dell. November 7, 2017. Share This Post. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. The floods in Louisiana have been devastating for the last week, with at least 11 people killed. Great story about volunteers with boats stepping up to save people, pets and property. [link] While this kind of same day miracle is amazing and heartfelt thanks should go to all participants, you have to ask the question why flood prone areas

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Lina Kolesnikova suggests that perhaps the reactions of 'run', 'hide' and 'fight' could be harnessed to protect crowded places in emergencies.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The US NIMS update is based on experience from the unforgiving environment of real world events and uses these lessons to improve future performance.

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Management 100

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week PlanB Consulting are celebrating passing part 2 of our audit and being certified to ISO 9001. It has been 6 months of hard work and lots of late nights for some, but we achieved it. I am a great believer in ISO standards and at PlanB Consulting we have ISO 9001 and ISO 22301. As BC plans aren’t tested often, it is not too difficult to let things slip and push them on to next year.

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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.

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week PlanB Consulting are celebrating passing part 2 of our audit and being certified to ISO 9001. It has been 6 months of hard work and lots of late nights for some, but we achieved it. I am a great believer in ISO standards and at PlanB Consulting we have ISO 9001 and ISO 22301. As BC plans aren’t tested often, it is not too difficult to let things slip and push them on to next year.

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Behavior Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

cybersecurity Talent For years we’ve talked about the dearth of skilled cybersecurity professionals which ISACA reports is now estimated to reach two million by 2019. Encouraging more individuals to pursue technical and engineering degrees can help address the shortage. But we can also expand the talent pool by thinking more broadly about cybersecurity and what it takes… Continue reading.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This week Charlie reflects on the newly released WannaCry report and outlines key lessons organisations can take from the cyber attack. The National Audit Office investigation into the “WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS” was published this week, so I thought I would share 10 lessons from the report which are relevant to all organisations. 1. In the report, it stated that there was no correlation between the rating of the organisation and those impacted by the cyber incident.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This week Charlie reflects on the newly released WannaCry report and outlines key lessons organisations can take from the cyber attack. The National Audit Office investigation into the “WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS” was published this week, so I thought I would share 10 lessons from the report which are relevant to all organisations. 1. In the report, it stated that there was no correlation between the rating of the organisation and those impacted by the cyber incident.

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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

Entertainment

Behavior Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Knowledge hoarding One important truism I have learned in my 20 years of information technology (IT) professional experience is that knowledge hoarding decreases, not increases, job security. I never want to be the only person at my organization who knows how to perform certain key tasks. Let me tell you why, based on my professional… Continue reading.

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VOX Veritas

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

To participate in the Veritas OpenStack Summit Sydney sweepstakes, simply log-in to the VOX community and click the 'Kudos' button at the bottom of this post. Upon doing so, you'll be entered in a drawing to win a Google Home device as seen on-site at this year's OpenStack Summit in Sydney, Australia.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Returning from his recent business trip to the Caribbean, Charlie reflects on the lessons he learned in relation to natural disasters. For the past week, I have been in the Caribbean delivering a series of business continuity workshops and I thought I would share some of the lessons I learned from my two trips to the area. My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Returning from his recent business trip to the Caribbean, Charlie reflects on the lessons he learned in relation to natural disasters. For the past week, I have been in the Caribbean delivering a series of business continuity workshops and I thought I would share some of the lessons I learned from my two trips to the area. My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area.

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