The Failover Plan Podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Episode Summary: This week on the podcast, we’re going to speak with a practitioner who faced the challenge of needing a BIA tool. But when she saw that a BC software wasn’t in the cards, she created her own! We’re speaking with Michelle Marx, who is the Resilience and Business Continuity Manager at Transport for London. . Michelle’s recently unveiled her latest version of her homegrown BIA tool, which is powered by Microsoft’s Power Apps - an off-the-shelf tool many companies use to create home

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Disaster Recovery Journal

OCTOBER 23, 2020

What a ridiculous title â?? â??The Queen of Doom.â?? But that was my unofficial designation when I worked for the largest insurance broker in the world some 20 odd years ago. My peers and direct reports gave it to me. I realize it must have seemed that way to them at the time. Then 9/11 occurred. My former boss died in that disaster. Our company lost 300 employees that day.

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Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

1. What are, and have been, the key challenges in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? The first challenge is to understand the behaviour of an emerging disease caused by a new variant of a virus. This concerns its infectiousness, mode of transmission, lethality, symptoms and effects, mutation, longevity on various kinds of surface, and so on. Information on these characteristics takes a long time to assemble, as at the start the virus is new and unknown, its relationship with the host population

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Scott R. Davis

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Intelligence from the SolarWinds Cyberattack, which is being called Sunburst, continues to come to light as security professionals around the globe are trying to understand what happened and what the risk is to them and their clients. With many of the answers likely to take months or longer to fully understand the scope of the attack here. Reuters talked to the security researcher Vinoth Kumar whom reportedly alerted SolarWinds back in 2019 that anyone could access the company’s update server u

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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.

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Norita Omar

DECEMBER 1, 2020

So you wanna be a soulpreneur? With a heart business to make an impact in this world and get paid for it! Whohoooo! Deciding to go into this journey of entrepreneurship is no easy feat but with these six ways, I hope it can help you build your dream heart-centred business! Set your intention. Reflect on this question: Why do I want to be a heart-centred entrepreneur?

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

AUGUST 10, 2020

… And just like that… every business in the US and internationally is operating in Business Continuity mode! Employees displaced, workplaces inaccessible, supply chains disrupted, customers unavailable, products not moving. Some had plans, some are improvising, and the Governors are dictating most of the responses anyway. ​​ How can you be sure that your counter-parties will be there for you for the next business-interrupting event?

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CIO Governance

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Automation technologies are becoming woven throughout the fabric of virtually every company, raising the question of IT’s role in governing such capabilities. CIOs can and should provide guardrails to make sure automation technologies run properly — if the business will only let them, experts say.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The avoidable death count from COVID-19 continues to rise. Using simple comparative mortality rates we have expanded the prior national comparative study to look at how we can also estimate the number of lives that might have been avoided if these states had the same benefits from national leadership as the neighboring province of Ontario, Canada. Overall, these avoidable deaths will only continue to rise in the absence of leadership and substantive assistance from the Administration.

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Talkingpoint

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If 2020 taught us anything, it was to expect the unexpected. It’s time to ensure your disaster recovery plan can stand up to whatever 2021 throws at it. The post Why You Should Test Your Disaster Recovery Plan appeared first on TierPoint.

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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.

Cloudian

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Data security is complicated. Compliance with security regulations has never been more important than it is today. It takes a lot of work to ensure your organization has a solid security program in place. How can you ensure you’re doing everything you can to protect your organization’s data? Here are the 5 things to keep in mind when picking a bulletproof enterprise data storage solution that not only satisfies the compliance requirements but also allows self-governance.

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The Failover Plan Podcast

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Episode Summary: Industry Groups are an essential part of any profession. They allow practitioners and thought leaders to share knowledge and generate ideas with their colleagues in a collaborative setting. However, a new generation is making up an increasingly large percentage of the workforce — one that brings with it new priorities and ideas that don’t necessarily fit the mold of current formats.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Business Continuity Policy Template. This template helps you define your business continuity program and associated objectives, including roles and responsibilities. Download. Crisis Management Plan Template. This template guides you through the development of a management decision-making framework necessary to coordinate response activities following the onset of a disruptive incident.

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Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Although the virological, medical and epidemiological problems are obviously very complex, medical scientists - and politicians - should not be making risk management and logistical decisions if they do not have the expertise.

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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

Scott R. Davis

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Pennsylvania residents are unprotected against modern data breaches. Over the last fourteen years much has changed with technology. The first Apple iPhone was released in 2007, Ransomware became a common word in 2011, and Microsoft Windows 10 was released in 2015. The one thing that hasn’t changed since 2006, is you guessed it, Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act.

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Norita Omar

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The beginning of the year has been hard for all of us. Plans were thrown out of the window and 2020 planners weren’t used as things get more uncertain each day. You might think that what’s the point of planning for next year when things are still uncertain like this year. However, do not let this demotivate you to not start planning at all, for next year.

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PEAK Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Use the Real Deal, to Hire the real deal. Who says you can’t produce your brightest results—improve productivity, engagement, performance, innovation, and enjoyment— during the darkest times? Sure, the new world of work is rife with challenges and opportunities. Some people Quit, most Camp, and a rare few Climb. There’s one tool that can help you build your Climbing Team, that will help you forge forward and up through adversity—The Real Deal.

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Synology

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Synology introduced an entirely redesigned DiskStation Manager (DSM) in the online event, 2021 AND BEYOND. DSM is the unified operating system powering Synology data management solutions, and version 7.0 brings new technologies for storage, backup, and hybrid cloud. “Unprecedented quantities of data have undergone processing, whether for data analytics, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, telemedicine, […].

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Alert Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The post Maximize the Value of Your Emergency Communication Software appeared first on AlertMedia.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. That’s why many customers replicate their mission-critical workloads in multiple places using a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy suited for their needs. With AWS, a customer can achieve this by deploying multi Availability Zone High-Availability setup or a multi-region setup by replicating critical components of an application to another

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Talkingpoint

DECEMBER 20, 2020

A wrap up of all the disaster recovery, DRaaS, and Business Continuity trends we wrote about in 2020. The post This Year in Disaster Recovery & DRaaS: Looking Back at Trends and Insights appeared first on TierPoint.

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Erwood Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

How Business Continuity Provides Value to A Business. There are many ways in which Business Continuity can provide a business with tremendous value. Not just during an activation of the plan itself, which may keep the business from suffering substantial losses, but even during times of normal business operations. How? You ask! The first and most obvious to many is that business continuity planning helps organizations obtain reduced premiums on insurance.

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The Failover Plan Podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Episode Summary: Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. Today on the podcast, we’re talking with James MacDonnell - Director, Crisis Management and Business Continuity at BDO USA. James is a risk management, business continuity, and crisis management professional with more than 18 years of experience helping Fortune 100 clients and federal agencies prepare for and respond to crises and emerging risks.

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CCEM Strategies

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When disaster strikes, having a plan in place to protect your workforce is an essential part of your business continuity plan. More often than not, planning and executing an emergency drill takes a backseat among other priorities, but with the frequency of natural disasters on the rise, preparing your organization for an emergency is of utmost importance.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 20, 2020

Image: US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases In terms of its scope, Covid-19 is like no other disaster that has occurred in the last 100 years, since, in fact, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 killed more people than both world wars combined, and contributed to the end of the First World War. Despite this, the 2020 pandemic has obvious similarities with previous outbreaks of viral diseases and with many other kinds of disaster.

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IT Governance BC

APRIL 22, 2020

Today is Earth Day , an annual global event that aims to raise awareness of environmental issues. This year’s event – the fiftieth Earth Day – falls in the midst of an unprecedented interruption to life as we know it, and so provides a unique opportunity for us to understand the impact we and our working habits have on the natural world. The environmental benefits of staying at home.

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Norita Omar

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

First off, I’m sorry that you haven’t heard from me these past few weeks. It has been incredibly crazy over here as we moved our home and office to a new location which I have been manifesting for years! The preparation for the move, packing and unpacking plus getting rid of gears and furniture which we won’t need at the new place has maxed out my time.

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PEAK Learning

AUGUST 27, 2020

So, how enthralled, engaged, and energized was everyone on your last video call or webinar? Did you look at those faces? How can you, or anyone, reignite virtually any virtual team? The team mojo sinkhole happened so fast. Isn’t it just insane? What started as the hottest trend (“Zoom Boom!”), has, in a matter of a few months, become one of the most dreaded COVID-induced realities, or should I say virtualities?

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Synology

JUNE 5, 2020

We’ve talked about how we can use SSD cache to reduce latency and accelerate transfer speeds. We’ve also explained the differences between consumer and enterprise SSDs, and why for sustained performance reasons we suggest the latter. Consumer and enterprise SSDs are two broad categories that encompass a wide range of performance profiles. Due to differences […].

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Alert Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The post 6 Essential Winter Safety Tips for Employees appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Behavior Group

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A study of face recognition technology created after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that some software developers have made demonstrable progress at recognizing masked faces. Face recognition, software, masked faces The findings, produced by NIST, measure the performance of face recognition algorithms developed following the arrival of the pandemic.

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The Business Continuity Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Crisis Comms isn’t just for cyber and cyber is much bigger than comms. But in the Venn diagram of Business Continuity topics, there’s a lot of overlap on these two. Crisis Comms isn’t just for cyber and cyber is much bigger than comms. But in the Venn diagram of Business Continuity topics, there’s a lot of overlap on these two.

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