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Bystanders, gawkers and gaffers 

Crisis Response Journal

Lina Kolesnikova investigates the phenomenon of bystanders filming and taking photos of accident victims rather than calling the emergency services for help, or clearing the way for first responders

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Organizational Resilience is About How You Respond, Not React

Donyati

As organizations around the globe begin to negotiate a new array of post-Covid situations – such as when, or if, to return employees to the office – some celebration is certainly in order. But although 2020’s pandemic is finally ending, a new era for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) has just begun, according to Donyati BCP experts Joseph Brewer and Patrick Dunn.

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New York City’s New Biometric Information Law Governs Collection and Use of Consumer Health Data

Risk Management Monitor

For risk professionals, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the importance of ensuring customer and employee safety measures are incorporated into operations, processes and future strategies. As many businesses reopen from pandemic shutdowns or return from remote work arrangements, some enterprises are now exploring both the effectiveness and the risks associated with conducting health screenings that collect biometric information and other personal health data.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part IV: Multi-site Active/Active

AWS Disaster Recovery

In my first blog post of this series , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR). My subsequent posts shared details on the backup and restore , pilot light, and warm standby active/passive strategies. In this post, you’ll learn how to implement an active/active strategy to run your workload and serve requests in two or more distinct sites.

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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 to defuse a bomb on a spaceship 

Crisis Response Journal

The world is a spaceship travelling around the sun, but inside the air is getting stuffy and the crew are growing in number.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

I often lead crisis management drills for one of our customers in the hospitality industry. One of their biggest concerns is how to effectively recover from their loss of staff during COVID-19. It wasn’t just small business that took a major hit during the pandemic. Some big-name franchises did as well. All this leads to the question: How do you continue to respond to crises with a skeleton staff?

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Crisis Hits Home: When Family is Sick in a Foreign Country

BCM METRICS

It’s one thing to talk about crisis management as it affects other people’s organizations. It’s something else when it involves your college-age son and he’s seriously ill in a country 6,000 miles away. Read for more on how this family crisis reenforced my crisis management training and experience. When Crisis Hits Home I provide crisis management advice to organizations for a living. […].

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Taking care of animals in disasters 

Crisis Response Journal

Lyzi G Cota introduces the first in a series of blogs that explore the importance of accounting for livestock and poultry during a crisis

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Four Can’t-Miss Cybersecurity & IT Sessions Coming to ISC West

Security Industry Association

ISC West 2021 is coming up July 19-21 in Las Vegas, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC West recently revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC West program, including keynote presentations from top luminaries and 65+ sessions on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments. Among the robust lineup of conference sessions are several dynamic presentations on the top issues in cybersecurity and IT.

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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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Why Your Business Needs Multi-Factor Authentication

Assurance IT

What is a Multi-Factor Authentication? Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a method of protecting your online identity. It’s used to verify that the user is who they say they are. By doing so, the MFA asks the user to provide two forms of identification or confirmation that they are who they say they are. These pieces of identification fall into three categories: something they are, something they know, and something they have.

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Why cybersecurity products always defy traditional user reviews

Behavior Group

I read with interest the latest batch of evaluation data from MITRE on various endpoint solutions, this time focusing on the detect, response and containment of these various solutions against malware created by FIN7 and CARBANAK threat groups. While academically interesting, it illustrates the difficulty in giving reviews to cybersecurity products in the endpoint protection… Continue reading.

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CISA certification guide: Certified Information Systems Auditor explained

CIO Governance

The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification validates your knowledge for information systems auditing, assurance, control, security, cybersecurity, and governance. Offered by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the credential is designed for IT and IS auditors tasked with evaluating an organization’s information systems to identify issues and potential security threats.

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Security Industry Association Announces Agenda & Speaker Lineup for 2021 AcceleRISE: The Challenge Virtual Conference

Security Industry Association

AcceleRISE – hosted by SIA’s RISE community – is an essential experience for tomorrow’s security leaders taking place virtually Aug. 23-25. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the 2021 agenda and speaker lineup for AcceleRISE: The Challenge , an essential experience hosted by SIA’s RISE community for young professionals in the security industry.

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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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The Top Vulnerabilities in Software Security

Assurance IT

Did you know that in 2020, over 18,000 vulnerabilities were created? When your computer is linked to an insecure network your software security can be compromised. This happens without proper protocols in place. Updates that are forgotten, product flaws, and unresolved developer issues expose your clients to computer security risks. All of this is vulnerabilities in your enterprises’ software security.

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How AlertMedia Customers Utilize Real-Time Intelligence to Protect Their People and Business

Alert Media

The post How AlertMedia Customers Utilize Real-Time Intelligence to Protect Their People and Business appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Managing Business Technology in Distributed Cloud Environments with Veritas InfoScale

VOX Veritas

With InfoScale, you can seamlessly integrate on-premises resources and public cloud services as part of a distributed cloud strategy that enables you to run your IT services on any platform.

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Security Industry Association Releases Privacy Code of Conduct

Security Industry Association

The publication is designed to help security technology companies enhance their management of personal information. . SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has released its new Privacy Code of Conduct , a resource designed to guide security technology companies in implementing privacy programs and protecting personal data. The document was created by SIA’s Data Privacy Advisory Board, a group of SIA members that produces resources and events aimed at promoting a better

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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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Is the Country Open again or Is It a False Start?

Business Continuity Today

Like many people, I've sorely missed going to sporting events last year there were games, however, cardboard cutouts (that were kind of strange) and piped-in crowd noises were the norms in light of the world's COVID-19 pandemic. And also like many —while I understand the need for and support precautions to protect ourselves and others from the virus and mitigate its spread, I've been longing to enjoy the electric feel of a live sporting event.

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Untapped Opportunity & Value-Added Service: Residential Shred Bags

Prism International

Guest Article By: Joshua D. Hundeby-DeVries, CSDS. Editor’s Note: In light of current market dynamics, where many clients now find their employees working from home, it seems appropriate to revisit the topic of Residential Shred Bags. A service provider who was already effectively leveraging them in their business model originally wrote this article in 2018.

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4 Steps To Performing a Business Impact Analysis

Alert Media

The post 4 Steps To Performing a Business Impact Analysis appeared first on AlertMedia.

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SIA Women in Security Forum Scholarship Deadline Extended to June 30

Security Industry Association

Become a donor – Join leading companies who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to progress in the security industry. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced that the deadline to apply for the 2021 SIA Women in Security Forum Scholarship has been extended to Wednesday, June 30. Open to both men and women who work for SIA member companies, the SIA Women in Security Forum Scholarship is designed to further educational opportunities and promote advancement fo

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Is the Country Open again or Is It a False Start?

Business Continuity Today

Like many people, I've sorely missed going to sporting events last year there were games, however, cardboard cutouts (that were kind of strange) and piped-in crowd noises were the norms in light of the world's COVID-19 pandemic. And also like many —while I understand the need for and support precautions to protect ourselves and others from the virus and mitigate its spread, I've been longing to enjoy the electric feel of a live sporting event.

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Increase your Business Continuity Profile

KingsBridge BCP

Business Continuity Profile. It’s one thing to have a business continuity plan, but it’s another to make sure your staff know about it. Those involved in writing the plan and the core members of recovery teams are likely aware of the plan. This is great, but what about everyone else in the organization? When bad things happen, will the staff know the company has a plan in place?

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10 Incredibly Useful Time Series Forecasting Algorithms

Advancing Analytics

To Make An Impact In Your Business By Gavita Regunath and Dan Lantos “The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.” — Paul Saffo This article aims to provide a general overview into time series forecasting, the top time series algorithms that have been widely used to solve problems, followed by how to go about choosing the right forecasting algorithm to solve a specific problem.

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SIA New Member Profile: Swan Island Networks

Security Industry Association

Pete O’Dell, CEO, Swan Island Networks. New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Swan Island Networks is a software-as-a-service company that delivers trusted situational awareness and threat intelligence services. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. SIA spoke with Swan Island Networks CEO Pete O’Dell about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

In this week’s bulletin, I discuss the idea of a hypercomplex world and preparing for different scenarios in it. A few weeks ago, I wrote a bulletin on scenario planning and how under the new requirement of Operational Resilience for FCA and PRA, regulated organisations now have a requirement to determine ‘extreme but plausible scenarios’ to see if they would continue delivering their services if the said scenario occurred.

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Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

In this week’s bulletin, I discuss the idea of a hypercomplex world and preparing for different scenarios in it. A few weeks ago, I wrote a bulletin on scenario planning and how under the new requirement of Operational Resilience for FCA and PRA, regulated organisations now have a requirement to determine ‘extreme but plausible scenarios’ to see if they would continue delivering their services if the said scenario occurred.

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BrewDog Crisis Communications: Case Study Review

Plan B Consulting

This week I take a look at the BrewDog crisis communications, including how well they handled accusations against them and how your company can use the lessons learnt. I am partial to a Punk IPA and some of the company’s rather gooseberry tasting beers. So I thought now that the incident is out of the news, I would write about BrewDog’s crisis communications after an open letter from existing and former employees “Punks With Purpose” alleging a toxic culture for employees within the company was

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BrewDog Crisis Communications: Case Study Review

Plan B Consulting

This week I take a look at BrewDog’s crisis communications, including how well they handled accusations against them and how your company can use the lessons learnt. I am partial to a Punk IPA and some of the company’s rather gooseberry tasting beers. So I thought now that the incident is out of the news, I would write about BrewDog’s crisis communications after an open letter from existing and former employees “Punks With Purpose” alleging a toxic culture for employees within the company