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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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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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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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.

Vulnerability 52

Vulnerability Communications Audit Alert 52

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

Behavior Group

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Data protection, GDPR advantage A new McAfee report shows that 48 percent of organizations will migrate their data to a new location because of regulations like GDPR. A similar amount will migrate their data because of changing geopolitics or the approach to relevant policies in the United States. Seventy percent of respondents believe the implementation… Continue reading.

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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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