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Disaster Tip of The Week: Prepare to Adapt to Changes In Your Life

Disaster Preparedness

Sometimes, life causes us to make changes. One's we didn't really plan for. In the last few years I have had to change my plans and the way I prep. I went from being a Bug-Out person to one of Bugging-in. Let me share the story. I started “prepping” when I was quite young. Around the age of seven I believe. Back then we would go to the Otsego County fair in upstate NY.

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Reality bites: Data privacy edition

Behavior Group

May 25th is the second anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data around compliance with the regulation shows a significant disconnect between perception and reality. Data privacy Only 28% of firms comply with GDPR; however, before GDPR kicked off, 78% of companies felt they would be ready to fulfill data requirements. While… Continue reading.

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Emergency Preparedness Planning - How Can We Plan for Emergencies More Effectively?

Virtual Corporation

Virtual Corporation is joining Varian Medical Systems in a webinar to discuss perspectives on emergency preparedness. Join Virtual Corporation's Vice President of Professional Services, Shane Mathew, MPH, CBCP to learn about how to help make your organization resilient during an emergency.

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Building a Resilient Workforce Through Crisis Communication

FEI

I recently had a conversation with a close friend who was sharing some frustrations regarding his “essential job” and COVID-19. He expressed how his company was not providing clear guidance on protective measures and how its leadership team was not responsive to employee concerns. As my friend continued, I realized he was not only frustrated with his employer; he was hurt.

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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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Marks out of 100 for Easyjet’s Cyber Incident Response

Plan B Consulting

Charlie scores Easyjet’s response to their recent cyber attack out of 100. “Thankfully, we now live in a world where it is accepted that data breaches happen, and organisations are more comfortable disclosing that they have been victim to an attack. However, with this welcome move away from victim blaming, organisations are now being judged more on how well they manage a breach.

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How Hurricane Categories Can Help Businesses Prepare for Damage

Alert Media

The post How Hurricane Categories Can Help Businesses Prepare for Damage appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Use Cloud with Confidence: Maximize Uptime and Performance for SAP Applications in Microsoft Azure

VOX Veritas

Veritas InfoScale makes it easy to provide high availability and disaster recovery for SAP workloads with customized agents for Azure, NetWeaver, S/4HANA, and SAP HANA databases.

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Marks out of 100 for Easyjet’s Cyber Incident Response

Plan B Consulting

Charlie scores Easyjet’s response to their recent cyber attack out of 100. “Thankfully, we now live in a world where it is accepted that data breaches happen, and organisations are more comfortable disclosing that they have been victim to an attack. However, with this welcome move away from victim blaming, organisations are now being judged more on how well they manage a breach.

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Behind-the-Scenes of the Business Resilience Decoded Rebranding

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 46: "Business Resilience Decoded Rebranding" with Vanessa Mathews of Asfalis Advisors and Jon Seals of Disaster Recovery Journal. Contact Vanessa Mathews at: [link] vmathews@asfalisadvisors.com [link] Contact Jon Seals at: [link] Business Resilience Decoded: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Episode 46: "Business Resilience Decoded Rebranding" with Vanessa Mathews of Asfalis Advisors and Jon Seals of Disaster Recovery Journal.

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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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Ransomware Recap – May

Managecast

Welcome to our May Ransomware Recap! In this monthly series, we discuss a few of the biggest ransomware stories. Let’s jump in. Ransomware Attacks and Demands Increase in 2019. According to new data from Group-IB, ransomware attacks increased by 40% with ransom demands jumping from $6,000 to $84,000 from 2018-2019. Some of the most common methods of infiltrating systems were found to be external remote services and phishing.

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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. UK the “most prepared country”? The UK government has had a lot of criticism in the press about them being unprepared to respond to COVID-19, despite the 2019 Global Health Security Index Report in which we were rated as one of the ‘most prepared countries’.

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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. UK the “most prepared country”? The UK government has had a lot of criticism in the press about them being unprepared to respond to COVID-19, despite the 2019 Global Health Security Index Report in which we were rated as one of the ‘most prepared countries’.

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Behind-the-Scenes of the Business Resilience Decoded Rebranding

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 46: "Business Resilience Decoded Rebranding" with Vanessa Mathews of Asfalis Advisors and Jon Seals of Disaster Recovery Journal. Contact Vanessa Mathews at: [link] vmathews@asfalisadvisors.com [link]. Contact Jon Seals at: [link]. Business Resilience Decoded: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Episode 46: "Business Resilience Decoded Rebranding" with Vanessa Mathews of Asfalis Advisors and Jon Seals of Disaster Recovery Journal.

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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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Business Resilience Decoded

"Business Resilience Decoded Rebranding" with Vanessa Mathews of Asfalis Advisors and Jon Seals of Disaster Recovery Journal. Contact Vanessa Mathews at: [link] vmathews@asfalisadvisors.com [link]. Contact Jon Seals at: [link]. Business Resilience Decoded: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] "Business Resilience Decoded Rebranding" with Vanessa Mathews of Asfalis Advisors and Jon Seals of Disaster Recovery Journal.

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Crisis Communications – Skype to the rescue

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at an article from The Times, ‘Welcome to The Skype Pandemic’, which discusses how journalists and experts tuning in to interviews from their homes is affecting our news consumption. A team of Kim, Gillian and I have been teaching the CBCI course this week and I was thinking of talking about the lessons learned from this experience in today’s bulletin, but an article in the New York Times caught my eye and I thought I would share an idea from it.

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Crisis Communications – Skype to the rescue

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at an article from The Times, ‘Welcome to The Skype Pandemic’, which discusses how journalists and experts tuning in to interviews from their homes is affecting our news consumption. A team of Kim, Gillian and I have been teaching the CBCI course this week and I was thinking of talking about the lessons learned from this experience in today’s bulletin, but an article in the New York Times caught my eye and I thought I would share an idea from it.