September, 2020

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What’s Changed for Our Customers? The Pandemic Power Pivot

PEAK Learning

For so many businesses, one of the potentially brutal but high-octane upsides of this pandemic is that everything is on the table. It’s a time when we strip it all down to the essentials, and get Real. . With fresh focus and rational fear, leaders and their workforces worldwide are asking the most fundamental questions, such as “What’s changed for our customer?

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EP13: Pre-planning is Key with Restoration Services | Ricky Wells

The Failover Plan Podcast

Episode Summary: This week on the show we’re interviewing Ricky Wells, the General Manager at ServiceMaster Advanced Restorations. Ricky has been helping companies restore their facilities after major fires, spills and disruptions. And he’s a big advocate for the act of pre-planning for these events. . We’re also going to hear what his company is doing in the age of COVID- when offices are trying to wrap their heads around what “clean” versus “COVID clean” really means.

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It’s Possible to Reach Your Dreams + Life Update

Norita Omar

First off, I’m sorry that you haven’t heard from me these past few weeks. It has been incredibly crazy over here as we moved our home and office to a new location which I have been manifesting for years! The preparation for the move, packing and unpacking plus getting rid of gears and furniture which we won’t need at the new place has maxed out my time.

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Drone mapping and public safety: Crash investigations 

Crisis Response Journal

CRJ Key Network Partner, Pix4D’s Caroline Bailey and Angad Singh discuss using drones and aerial mapping for crash investigation and other public safety projects with Aerial Metrics co-founders, Iain Lopata and Stan Taylor.

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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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Cyberwarfare predicted to damage the economy in the coming year

Behavior Group

71% of CISOs believe cyberwarfare is a threat to their organization, and yet 22% admit to not having a strategy in place to mitigate this risk. This is especially alarming during a period of unprecedented global disruption, as 50% of infosec professionals agree that the increase of cyberwarfare will be detrimental to the economy in… Continue reading.

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The Pandemic Opportunity—Build Your Dream Team

PEAK Learning

Use the Real Deal, to Hire the real deal. Who says you can’t produce your brightest results—improve productivity, engagement, performance, innovation, and enjoyment— during the darkest times? Sure, the new world of work is rife with challenges and opportunities. Some people Quit, most Camp, and a rare few Climb. There’s one tool that can help you build your Climbing Team, that will help you forge forward and up through adversity—The Real Deal.

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EP12: Can Artificial Intelligence and Business Continuity Mix? | Daniel Breston

The Failover Plan Podcast

Episode Summary: This week, we talk with IT thought-leader Daniel Breston, who believes that AI could also prove to be a "valuable ally" in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of activities related to Business Continuity. Current technological maturity, with the help of enormously powerful hardware systems that are capable of performing computational calculations, have made the previously unthinkable, reachable.

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The Digitally ‘Discerning’ Customer

arunpraka shray

“This issue has be?e?n escalated as a strong feedback to the concerned team, we will make sure this is not repeated. We don’t require you to return the original. You are welcome to keep, donate or dispose of it – whichever option is most appropriate and convenient for you. Hope you consider this to be an isolated issue and give us a chance to serve you in future.

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Covid-19: Reports worth reading 

Crisis Response Journal

Phil Trendall comments on the details of the latest reports into the UK Government’s handling of the response to the Covid-19 outbreak and he stresses that although they might not attain the media attention they deserve, their findings are significant non By Phil Trendall

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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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Marks out of 100 for the NZ Stock Exchange Cyber Incident Response

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at at the recent cyber incident involving New Zealand’s Stock Exchange and marks their response out of 100. I thought this week I would write about an incident which I have been following for the last month, the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the New Zealand stock exchange, which took place at the end of August 2020.

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Outbound Email Errors Cause 93% Increase in Breaches

Behavior Group

IT leaders have suffered significantly higher numbers of data breaches as a result of outbound email in the last 12 months. Outbound Email Errors, data breaches According to research (…), 93% of 538 IT leaders surveyed reported a breach in the past year due to an email error, with 70% of those believing remote working… Continue reading. The post Outbound Email Errors Cause 93% Increase in Breaches appeared first on Behaviour Portugal.

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Data, Enterprise Tech Drives Automotive Leaders into 2021

Donyati

In light of the historic global disruptions that have defined 2020 thus far, the automotive industry maintains an ambitious outlook for the future. Organizations that serve every step of the automotive value chain share a data-fueled vision for a transformative mobility industry, summarized by the predicted rise of CASE: Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electrified vehicles.

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EP11: Is Business Continuity at a Crossroads? | James Green

The Failover Plan Podcast

Episode Summary: This week, Shane talks with James Green, Director of Risk Advisory Services for SAI Global. James recently wrote a featured article in the Disaster Recovery Journal called: "Is Our Profession at a Crossroads?" where he asked and tried to answer the question that many in our profession have been asking- Why was the role of business continuity seen so non-vital, that it was included in layoffs?

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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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Chicken food

Oz's Business Continuity Blog

Caution – this blog contains scenes of gratuitous violence and may be unsuitable for children and vegans. It’s also my longest blog yet, overtaking the previous record-holder, ‘(Bitten to) death in Venice‘ by over 600 words, so if you decide […].

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Covid-19: Hidden heroes and mental health 

Crisis Response Journal

Covid-19 has affected all sectors, cultures, beliefs, ages and professions. Emergency management, first response and crisis response teams are no exception as they work tirelessly to respond in this global crisis, writes Lyzi G Cota.

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Marks out of 100 for the NZ Stock Exchange Cyber Incident Response

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at at the recent cyber incident involving New Zealand’s Stock Exchange and marks their response out of 100. I thought this week I would write about an incident which I have been following for the last month, the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the New Zealand stock exchange, which took place at the end of August 2020.

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Businesses Fear Insider-Enabled Data Breaches

Behavior Group

Businesses fear suffering a data breach and expect it to be caused by an insider or internal error. Insider-Enabled Data Breaches A survey of 500 IT professionals by Exonar found that 94% of respondents have experienced a data breach, and 79% were worried their organization could be next. In an email to Infosecurity, Niamh Muldoon,… Continue reading.

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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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What Happens When the Crisis Becomes a Marathon?

FEI

As one of many emergency response teams providing support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have just passed the six-month marker since we first activated to support our company and our stakeholders. The majority of emergency response teams train to be able to respond at a moment’s notice, quickly assess the situation, and assign responsibilities and resources to put order to the chaos.

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Field Notes: Requirements for Successfully Installing CloudEndure Migration and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

Customers have been using CloudEndure Migration and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to meet business needs for many years. In 2019, CloudEndure was acquired by AWS, and provided the licensing for CloudEndure to all of their users free of charge for migration. During this time, AWS has identified the requirements for replication to complete successfully after initial agent install.

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Enterprise Risk Management: 3 Keys to Success

Swan Island Network

Enterprise Risk Management: 3 Keys to Success. Pete O'Dell. September 8, 2020. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. If you don't have an umbrella, why check the weather? Enterprise Risk Management can be very complicated. If you are a multi-national with global supply chains and a threat matrix that includes physical, cyber, competitive, brand, disruption, and high-impact, low-probability events (like COVID19), then you have a lot to think about.

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Risk Management – Fighting Technological Risk with Enterprise Technology

Donyati

Recent industry research shows that the majority of organizations – up to 66% – do not formally manage risk related to IT, instead relying on IT departments to handle risks internally. But if business has learned anything from 2020’s chaotic course such hands-off, compartmentalized approaches to risk management should not survive into the post-pandemic world.

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My Thoughts On Online Exercises

Plan B Consulting

In today’s bulletin, I share some thoughts on conducting exercises online. This week I conducted an online exercise and it got me thinking about what the benefits and downsides are of running exercises online: It is very easy to conduct one as most incident management teams are virtual at the moment and responding to COVID-19, so carrying out an exercise will be very similar to what they are doing at the moment.

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Security teams stretched to breaking point trying to secure new remote working regimes

Behavior Group

The cybersecurity skills shortage means that many organizations are in urgent need of talented and experienced security professionals. This has been intensified by the pandemic, with security teams stretched to breaking point trying to secure new remote working regimes against the influx of opportunistic cyberattacks. Security teams, remote working There is a human cost to… Continue reading.

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Former CNN Executive Now Leads AlertMedia’s Fast-Growing Threat Monitoring Team

Alert Media

The post Former CNN Executive Now Leads AlertMedia’s Fast-Growing Threat Monitoring Team appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Should You Pivot in A Crisis

Business Continuity Today

“Pivot,” is a word that has joined the lexicon of phrases linked to the COVID crisis. Businesses are being told to pivot their companies to meet the needs of the new economy. Of course that’s often easier said than done, How do you plan for the pivot? The Business Continuity Show Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] Sister Shows EM Weekly Website - [link] Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] EM Student Web - [link] Twitter - [link

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S4, Episode 2 - Business Continuity or Resilience?

The Business Continuity Podcast

There’s been a shift in recent years away from “Business Continuity” to the more holistic “Resilience”. Is it just renaming and rebranding the same job or something more significant? There’s been a shift in recent years away from “Business Continuity” to the more holistic “Resilience”. Is it just renaming and rebranding the same job or something more significant?

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Deploying Latency-sensitive Applications with InfoScale Volume Replication (VVR)

VOX Veritas

Veritas Volume Replication (VVR) is an advanced data replication solution that provides organizations with a foundation for continuous data replication, enabling rapid and reliable recovery of mission-critical applications at remote recovery sites.

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My Thoughts On Online Exercises

Plan B Consulting

In today’s bulletin, I share some thoughts on conducting exercises online. This week I conducted an online exercise and it got me thinking about what the benefits and downsides are of running exercises online: It is very easy to conduct one as most incident management teams are virtual at the moment and responding to COVID-19, so carrying out an exercise will be very similar to what they are doing at the moment.

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Cybersecurity Community Concerned About Misinformation

Behavior Group

Cybersecurity professionals want stricter measures to tackle the rising amount of online misinformation and fake domains, according to new research by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC). Cybersecurity Community Concerned, Misinformation A new report by NISC found that almost half (48%) of cybersecurity professionals regard these problems as a threat to their enterprise, while the… Continue reading.

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Minimizing Employee Uncertainty and Anxiety (“Coffee With An Expert” RECAP)

Alert Media

The post Minimizing Employee Uncertainty and Anxiety (“Coffee With An Expert” RECAP) appeared first on AlertMedia.