Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

​It’s that time of year again. Organizations are putting a bookmark to 2019 and preparing for 2020. Closing the books. Last-minute Compliance items and Audit remediations. Trying to get everything done in the wake of the team parties, business area parties, enterprise parties… and employee personal lives. ​Your Business Continuity, Risk Management and related programs can get side-tracked during the holiday rush.

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Disaster Preparedness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Melted Fiber-optic Cable. It is Mid-November. After a week of above-average temperatures and some heavy rain. A massive cold front has moved into your area causing an ice-storm and covering everything in layers of ice. The Mayor has declared a local State-of-Emergency and has asked everyone to stay home and off the roads for safety and clean-up. A fire has broken out downtown at an underground sub-station causing both a power outage and melting of fiber-optic cables impacting the internet and 91

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Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 9, 2019

A man walks into the room. He is extremely handsome and quite tall (at least for his time, about 520 years ago). He is neither fat nor thin. In fact he likes his food and drink, he is fond of convivial dinners with good food and wine. His circle of friends is small but select, much more so than his large circle of enemies and opponents. One of his friends is his neighbour, Lisa Gherardini.

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IT Governance BC

JANUARY 7, 2019

This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. Originally published 6 August 2018. The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires organisations to respond to serious data breaches within 72 hours of detection. This places a significant burden on organisations: taking the appropriate measures to comply with the law while simultaneously dealing with the collateral impact of a breach is not a picnic!

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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

On Solve

APRIL 30, 2019

Business Continuity Awareness Week 2019 is May 13 ? 17. This global event is a time to consider business continuity and the value an effective continuity management program can have for your organization. An emergency notification system is a crucial tool in any business continuity plan. Every day, events like the following happen with no warning: Hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters Active shooter Urban wildfire Power outages Cybercrime Disease outbreaks Workplace violence.

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SRM

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Complacency is one of the biggest threats to a business. Whether it’s being happy to coast along and do the bare minimum to turn a profit, neglecting to provide genuine customer service or failing to take steps to mitigate the effects of an unforeseen threat, apathy is an organisation’s worst enemy. To have a realistic chance of withstanding any business threat, business leaders need to build a challenge-based culture into their business continuity planning (BCP).

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Behavior Group

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us that the total entropy can only increase over time for an isolated system. In other words, contrary to what we may believe or may simply hope, things fall apart. It’s not an accident. It’s a law of physics, and its awful simplicity is clear and frightening. Resilient Answer… Continue reading. The post A Resilient Answer to Disasters appeared first on Behaviour Portugal.

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Stratogrid Advisory

DECEMBER 14, 2019

BCM Trends for 2020! Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic. Reading Time: 4 minutes. Readers Note: This article was originally published in December of 2019 and before unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. The Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) recently released its 4th Annual BCM Trends and Predictions Report , which provides predictions for resilience trends in 2019/2020.

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Oz's Business Continuity Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The last few weeks have been quite busy – and, at times, a teeny bit stressful. I’ve prepared and facilitated four crisis management and business recovery exercises (two of which included actors and journalists and mock TV and radio news […].

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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.

Evaluation

Cloudian

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The need for a lasting storage infrastructure By Neil Stobart, Cloudian Vice President of Global Sales Engineering This post was originally written for HPE TECHnative. The ongoing data deluge is affecting virtually all industries, but perhaps nowhere is this issue having more impact than in healthcare. Due to a combination of factors, the use of. Read More.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Charlie proposes an inventory of information which your organisation should consider to conduct a cyber data risk assessment. This week, I was conducting an exercise for a government organisation. As we have worked with the company for a number of years we decided to go for a slightly different set-up, so this time we used loss-of-data as the scenario.

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Disaster Preparedness

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Meeting Points. It's hard to believe I wrote a brief post about this over ten years ago - Have a Designated Meeting Place For Your Family. Today, I'd like to expand on this a bit more. Odds are when a disaster or other unexpected event occurs you are likely to be at work. Your spouse or significant other will also be at work and your kids, they'll probably be at school.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Seven years later, the submission rate is equivalent to about 1,500 manuscripts per year (although the rejection rate is over 80 per cent). Two years ago, the journal published its first issue to contain 100 papers.

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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.

IT Governance BC

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The recent fire at Ocado has been a devastating blow to the company and the local community. Hundreds of firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze; the smoke billowed for more than 48 hours, darkening the Hampshire sky; surrounding homes and businesses were evacuated due to the risk of explosion, and those further afield advised to keep windows and doors shut; and some firefighters needed treatment for smoke inhalation.

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Prism International

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Early Monday morning an email from the Compliance Officer (CO) of a large client organization has been received by the Operations Manager (OM). Not the ideal way to start the week. Planning to visit the record and data center on Wednesday, he requests the OM suggest a convenient time. There is no “rule” that a Covered Entity (CE) must forewarn the service provider of a site visit, only professional courtesy.

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Organizations with an active Disaster Recovery program conduct DR Tests to validate the Disaster Preparedness component of their IT Service Continuity strategies. Those exercises should validate – among other milestones – the overall recovery time (actual vs. planned RTO), completeness of DR plan documentation, level of preparedness among recovery team and the overall effectiveness of the DR response.

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SRM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

When it comes to Business Continuity Plan testing, we should all consider Finagle’s Law. Similar to Murphy’s Law, Finagle’s agrees that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. But it adds a twist: that it will happen at the worst possible time. In the world of information security, it’s an axiom for us to live by. Because, although it may sound homespun and out of kilter with today’s techno jargon, it reminds us of what is important (and often overlooked) when it comes to Business Continuity p

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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

Entertainment

Behavior Group

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Threat actors continue to up their game, even as consumers get less forgiving about breaches. Small businesses need a plan of action. Small Business Needs a Cybersecurity Strategy Even as cybercriminals continue to get better at what they do, people are becoming less forgiving toward businesses that fail to protect their data. About 30 percent… Continue reading.

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Stratogrid Advisory

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Introduction to Business Continuity Planning. Last Updated on June 1, 2021 by Alex Jankovic. Reading Time: 6 minutes. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) should be one of the top priorities for organization leaders. BCP is one of the components of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program which should be implemented in organizations of all sizes.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

AUGUST 8, 2019

America is reckoning with two new mass shootings, one in Dayton, Ohio and the other in El Paso, Texas – believed to be the eighth deadliest in modern U.S. history. While processing the constant stream of disturbing media, parents must also anticipate the needs of their children by helping them process the upsetting news. As a pediatrician and director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, I am offering some guidelines on how adults can speak to, comfort, and console

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Cloudian

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Today at the Pure Storage user conference, Cloudian® announced the integration of its HyperStore® object storage platform with Pure Storage CloudSnap. This lets Pure users automatically move snapshot data between FlashArray and Cloudian, providing multiple cool benefits: Offloads Pure FlashArray Disk-based data repository for fast access On-prem for security, low-latency Exabyte scalable storage pool Policy-based, Read More.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Charlie proposes an inventory of information which your organisation should consider to conduct a cyber data risk assessment. This week, I was conducting an exercise for a government organisation. As we have worked with the company for a number of years we decided to go for a slightly different set-up, so this time we used loss-of-data as the scenario.

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Marketpoint Recall

AUGUST 5, 2019

It's the moment brands dread: one of your company's products has been recalled for health concerns, inaccurate marketing, defective operation or any of a number of reasons, that are, at the surface, wholly negative. One has to look no further than the Samsung Galaxy 7 Note recall , which has been described as "the biggest debacle to happen the smartphone market in the last decade.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 5, 2019

In 1973, when I was a young undergraduate, I was taught the rudiments of the philosophy, theory and methodology of science. In the library of the London School of Economics there was an entire shelf that contained 29 well-thumbed copies of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn 1970). This was standard reading on many courses in the social sciences.

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IT Governance BC

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When organisations are seeking ISO 27001 compliance, they rely on auditors to give them good advice. Most of the time they’ll do just that – it’s what they’re paid to do. But as with any profession, some auditors are better than others. How can you tell if your auditor isn’t to be trusted? Keep an eye out for these seven mistakes: 1. They impose their opinions without facts.

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Prism International

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Planning, training, and mock disaster exercises – Three key components of an effective disaster plan. Regardless of the size of a RIM provider or company service level, the ability to respond internally to the threat of disaster or a potential disaster is critical. One that is well documented, understood by all team members, and available for spontaneous implementation when needed.

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Insights into creating a successful Disaster Recovery Test. Part 2 – DR Test Preparations. DR Tests are the only way to measure the effectiveness of a Disaster Recovery Program. Once the objectives of a DR Test are set, the preparation activities can begin. Test preparations include reviewing DR Plans for correctness, collaborating with the various stakeholders, identifying test metrics, and managing logistics.

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SRM

JUNE 21, 2019

Ever since Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution in 1859 we have been aware of the continual process of change in the natural world. Things are no different in the world of crime. When money was held in bank vaults, criminals used ingenuity and cunning to steal cash and valuables. These were the days of safe crackers and criminal masterminds, of explosives and getaway cars, of cops and robbers.

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Behavior Group

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning to holiday shoppers who are planning to swap some of their hard-earned cash for a smart TV. Cybersecurity Warning In a statement released by the Oregon branch of the FBI, members of the public were warned that an unsecured TV that is connected to the internet… Continue reading. The post FBI Issues Smart TV Cybersecurity Warning appeared first on Behaviour Portugal.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 31, 2019

Is Business Continuity Planning Dead? Not really! Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 3 minutes The death of the business continuity planning and profession has been predicted quite a few times over the last decade. Some reports have even gone as far as to declare that it is already dead. When asked about the status of their business continuity planning efforts, many organizations respond that either it provides limited value or it is cumbersome to implement and maintain.

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