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Powder letters in the Netherlands and BelgiumĀ 

Crisis Response Journal

The challenge of white powder letters has resurfaced for emergency responders in Europe, writes Lina Kolesnikova

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How These 3 Companies Use AlertMedia To Communicate With Remote Workers

Alert Media

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Autism Awareness Week 2021 and Advancing Analytics

Advancing Analytics

Autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex, lifelong developmental disability. Because autism is a spectrum disorder, each person will have a distinct set of strengths and challenges. Characteristics may present as: finding it hard to communicate and interact with other people finding it hard to understand how other people think or feel getting anxious or upset about unfamiliar situations and social events taking longer to understand information repetitive thoughts or behaviours Some

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Top 20 project management methodologies

CIO Governance

With the right project management methodology, project management offices (PMOs) can assist their organizations in improving business outcomes ā€” but this requires more than recognizing organizational priorities. For most companies, recent external forces such as COVID-19 and industry disruptions brought about by the pace of digital change have shifted company goals and priorities, making it necessary to re-evaluate whether the project methodologies they have in place can effectively and efficien

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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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Setting up a crisis business during a pandemic

Crisis Response Journal

Amanda Coleman describes her first year in charge of running her own crisis communication consultancy

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International Trans Day of Visibility 2021 and Advancing Analytics

Advancing Analytics

Today is International Trans Day of Visibility! An annual commemoration dedicated to raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide, as well as a celebration of their contributions to society. One of the core tenets of the culture at AA is that everyone should feel able to come as they are, that the environment we foster shouldnā€™t cause anyone to feel discriminated against, or unable to be their whole selves no matter the reason.

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One in four people use work passwords for consumer websites

Behavior Group

Employees working from home on a company-provided computer are demonstrating a clear lack of cybersecurity knowledge through high-risk behavior, according to a report released by Ivanti. passwords, consumer websites Using work passwords for consumer websites The report found that one in four consumers admit to using their work email or passwords to log in to… Continue reading.

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The changing face of journalism and how it should be reflected in our plans

Plan B Consulting

This week I shares my thoughts on the evolution of journalism and how crisis communication plans should be adapted to keep up with the changes. I have been working on some strategic/crisis level plans and have been thinking about what should go into the crisis communication section of the plans. In quite a number of plans I have seen details of how the organisation would run a press conference, especially those whose plans were written ten years or so ago.

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SIA New Member Profile: Riley

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Riley provides a global security risk management system that streamlines security risk management policy implementation, including duty of care compliance. The company is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with an additional office in St. Augustine, Florida. SIA spoke with Jake Allen, president and CEO of Riley, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: youā€™ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect thereā€™s something going on that training canā€™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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Using Decision Making Fast and Accurate, OODA Loop and the POP-DOC Loop

Business Continuity Today

John Boyd created a four-step process for making effective decisions in high-stakes situations called the OODA Loop. It involves collecting relevant information, recognizing potential biases, deciding, and acting, then repeating the process with new information. Eric McNulty and his team at the NPLI took Boydā€™s concept a little farther with the POP-DOC Loop by adding two steps.

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Location Intelligence: What You Need to Know

Alert Media

The post Location Intelligence: What You Need to Know appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Credential Stuffing ā€“ A different type of cyber attack

Plan B Consulting

This week I discuss credential stuffing, a type of cyber attack which you should be looking out for! ā€œThe irony of credential stuffing is that organisations that have not suffered a direct data breach often become indirect victims when their usersā€™ accounts are compromised due to someone elseā€™s data breachā€ Debbie Walkowski, F5 Labs. Look after your passwords I like to try and use my browser to save all my passwords, as I have recently been trying to change all my log in passwords so that I have

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IT Resilience Within AWS Cloud, Part I: Mindset and Culture

AWS Disaster Recovery

As customers migrate to the cloud, many struggle to adapt business continuity and operational plans from their on-premises environments. This affects the resilience of critical business applications and can stall cloud adoption. This two-part blog series will provide guidance on implementing IT resilience strategies. In Part I, weā€™ll review challenges commonly experienced by executive builders.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Weā€™ve all been there. Youā€™ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. Youā€™re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this ā€œboringā€ content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, ā€œBoring in means boring out.

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Using Decision Making Fast and Accurate, OODA Loop and the POP-DOC Loop

Business Continuity Today

John Boyd created a four-step process for making effective decisions in high-stakes situations called the OODA Loop. It involves collecting relevant information, recognizing potential biases, deciding, and acting, then repeating the process with new information. Eric McNulty and his team at the NPLI took Boydā€™s concept a little farther with the POP-DOC Loop by adding two steps.

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The changing face of journalism and how it should be reflected in our plans

Plan B Consulting

This week I shares my thoughts on the evolution of journalism and how crisis communication plans should be adapted to keep up with the changes. I have been working on some strategic/crisis level plans and have been thinking about what should go into the crisis communication section of the plans. In quite a number of plans I have seen details of how the organisation would run a press conference, especially those whose plans were written ten years or so ago.

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Credential Stuffing ā€“ A different type of cyber attack

Plan B Consulting

This week I discuss credential stuffing, a type of cyber attack which you should be looking out for! ā€œThe irony of credential stuffing is that organisations that have not suffered a direct data breach often become indirect victims when their usersā€™ accounts are compromised due to someone elseā€™s data breachā€. Debbie Walkowski, F5 Labs. Look after your passwords.

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Demonstrating business continuityā€™s return on investment

Plan B Consulting

ROI on budget? Worried about your business continuity budget? This week I discuss how to demonstrate BC’s return on investment within your organisation. Every year you get a budget of Ā£20,000 (some of you are already saying ā€œI wishā€) and you have this money to deliver your business continuity programme. Your organisation buys into business continuity as it feels it protects value within the organisation and there is a demand from numerous suppliers to have it in place, so it is assured tha

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos ā€“ 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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Demonstrating business continuityā€™s return on investment

Plan B Consulting

ROI on budget? Worried about your business continuity budget? This week I discuss how to demonstrate BC’s return on investment within your organisation. Every year you get a budget of Ā£20,000 (some of you are already saying ā€œI wishā€) and you have this money to deliver your business continuity programme. Your organisation buys into business continuity as it feels it protects value within the organisation and there is a demand from numerous suppliers to have it in place, so it is assured tha

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Operational Resilience: Is it just business continuity done properly?

Plan B Consulting

What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. This week a couple of things have come together to inspire this bulletin. I have been working on an operational resilience exercise for a client, which is based around taking a ā€˜severe but plausible scenarioā€™ and then checking whether the scenario breaches the organisationā€™s impact tolerances.

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Operational Resilience: Is it just business continuity done properly?

Plan B Consulting

What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. This week a couple of things have come together to inspire this bulletin. I have been working on an operational resilience exercise for a client, which is based around taking a ā€˜severe but plausible scenarioā€™ and then checking whether the scenario breaches the organisationā€™s impact tolerances.