January, 2021

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Make Data Privacy a Priority, Every Day

Scott R. Davis

( Read on IoTSSA | Read on CHANNELe2e | Read on Liongard.com ). Securing data has become a critical requirement for organizations around the globe. Governments and industries are modernizing existing consumer protection and breach notification laws while establishing new standards of security. . The last twelve months has seen records shatter in not only the volume of successful data breaches but the average cost of a breach as well.

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Disasters and People with Disabilities

Disaster Zone Podcast

As people and organizations in the public and private sector work to prepared disaster plans, trainings and exercises they need to remember to include a focus on people with disabilities in all facets of their emergency management and business continuity program. The guest for this podcast is Linda Mastandrea, Director of the Office of Disability Integration and Coordination at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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6 Winter Storm Preparations Every Business Should Make

Alert Media

The post 6 Winter Storm Preparations Every Business Should Make appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Humanity and risk perception 

Crisis Response Journal

Pandemic deaths have numbed our humanity and perception of risk, says Tony Jaques.

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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The Major Things I am Doing Now To Up My Preparedness

Disaster Preparedness

Food Storage for Preparedness. In the last month, I have stepped up my preparedness efforts in a major way. I have always been well prepared. I keep a nice stock of many things. From Food, Water, Medicine, and other items. Below are the major things I am doing now to up my preparedness for my family. Here is what I did to increase my efforts: I purchased several more food grade storage containers (doubling what I already had – plus one).

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A brief guide to cyber security risk assessments

IT Governance BC

Cyber security risk assessments are essential for organisations to protect themselves from malicious attacks and data breaches. After all, it’s only once you’re aware of the ways you’re vulnerable that you can put appropriate defences in place. But what exactly does a risk assessment do? Essentially, it helps you answer these three questions: Under what scenarios is your organisation under threat?

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Emerging Technologies in Emergencies and Disasters

Disaster Zone Podcast

Technologies are available now that can help with many facets of emergency management and business continuity programs. This is an interview with Matt Bradley, Vice President, with OnSolve a company that specializes in providing a variety technological solutions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the newest tool being added to help organizations obtain situational awareness very early in an event.

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Donyati Empowers Finance Transformation with Machine Learning

Donyati

2020 pushed many organizations to accelerate digitization imperatives, notably by shifting business into the cloud. Now, more and more companies are in a position to seriously pursue a strategic approach to full-enterprise technological transformation. The road forward begins with finance: not only for the enablement of transformative initiatives, but as a core area to be transformed itself.

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Counter-drone strategies

Crisis Response Journal

A new book on drone technologies, co-authored by CRJ’s Advisory Panel member Andrew Staniforth and Garik Markarian, has been published.

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How to Put Your Business Continuity Plans into Action

During a crisis, successful organizations are led by strong leaders who communicate continuously with all stakeholders and have plans that are flexible enough to allow changes to be made on the fly. What You'll Learn: Understanding the characteristics of actionable business continuity plans. Step-by-step guidance on building robust and adaptable BCPs.

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AlertMedia Again Named One of Austin’s Best Places to Work

Alert Media

The post AlertMedia Again Named One of Austin’s Best Places to Work appeared first on AlertMedia.

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3 R’s to Build Business Resilience in 2021

Talkingpoint

Learn 3 key areas on which to focus to build business resilience in 2021; read the recap from our recent webinar. The post 3 R’s to Build Business Resilience in 2021 appeared first on TierPoint.

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Using Route 53 Private Hosted Zones for Cross-account Multi-region Architectures

AWS Disaster Recovery

This post was co-written by Anandprasanna Gaitonde, AWS Solutions Architect and John Bickle, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS Enterprise Support. Introduction. Many AWS customers have internal business applications spread over multiple AWS accounts and on-premises to support different business units. In such environments, you may find a consistent view of DNS records and domain names between on-premises and different AWS accounts useful.

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Warning the Public in New York City

Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast Deanne Criswell, New York City’s Emergency Management Commissioner discusses how the city uses a variety of legacy warning systems along with new technologies to warn the public. New York City has a significant challenge with the level of diversity in spoken languages in the city and those issues are also addressed in the podcast. This episode is sponsored by The Blue Cell , a by design crisis and consequence management consulting firm with a primary focus on education and traini

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Successful Technology Transformations Must Consider the Human Side of Change

Donyati

The dawn of a new decade has sparked an era of technological transformation, as companies in all industries race to implement reinvent and transform their business. Yet, 70-to- 87% of digital transformation efforts fail to materialize benefits over recent years. The technology itself is not solely to blame: the core challenges that threaten ambitious initiatives are often people related.

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Global Risks Report 2021

Crisis Response Journal

In 2020, the risk of a pandemic became reality and governments, businesses, and societies are now seeking to respond and plan the recovery from Covid-19 By Roger Gomm

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Business Resilience vs. Business Continuity: Overlooked Differences You Need To Know

Diligent

Much has been said about resilience throughout COVID-19 – including the resilience of supply chains, our health or our organizational cultures. Yet, admittedly, there is still confusion over the meaning. And further confusion over business resilience vs. business continuity. So, what’s the difference and do you need both? Let’s start with business continuity.

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How Backup and Disaster Recovery (and DRaaS) Work Better Together

Talkingpoint

Here’s a look at where backups fit into disaster recovery planning and how DRaaS can help ensure your plan is optimized to the needs of your business and your budget. The post How Backup and Disaster Recovery (and DRaaS) Work Better Together appeared first on TierPoint.

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Next-Level Fraud Prevention: Strategies for Today’s Threat Landscape

Speaker: Sierre Lindgren

Fraud is a battle that every organization must face – it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.” Every organization is a potential target for fraud, and the finance department is often the bullseye. From cleverly disguised emails to fraudulent payment requests, the tactics of cybercriminals are advancing rapidly. Drawing insights from real-world cases and industry expertise, we’ll explore the vulnerabilities in your processes and how to fortify them effectively.

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Modern space exploration will transform the world of work

IBM Business Resiliency

In the 80s and early 90s, few people could imagine the impact the World Wide Web would one day have. The idea that it would be an integral, ubiquitous part of our business and personal lives seemed laughable. From the 50s onward, people have viewed space exploration similarly. People find it fascinating, but most still perceive it as an arena for aerospace engineers and scientists and not the average person.

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How to Write Email that Engages and Persuades

Disaster Zone Podcast

As the Covid pandemic continues raging and businesses are being cut back, many people are working from home. Besides working online with Zoom, people are doing more and more writing. But most people are not professional writers and many find writing challenging. This episode is an interview with Michael Buschmohle, an author, book editor, and international writing instructor.

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Webinar: How 2020 Changed My View on “Traditional” Business Continuity

Virtual Corporation

Is your BIA effective? Or are you using it ineffectively? How 2020 Changed My View on "Traditional" Business Continuity.

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Communication Challenges Series: Employees Without Email Addresses

Alert Media

The post Communication Challenges Series: Employees Without Email Addresses appeared first on AlertMedia.

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity

The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity is a step-by-step resource for developing an effective Business Continuity Management (BCM) program and navigating challenges. Whether building from scratch or enhancing a plan, this guide offers practical tools, expert advice, and strategies to ensure resilience. What You’ll Learn: Key elements of BCM and resiliency Steps to build and test your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Conducting risk assessments and BIAs Integrating cybersecurity into p

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Improving Critical Event Outcomes through Collaboration

Ready for Anything

Managing a critical event often requires a coordinated effort between multiple agencies and partner organizations. Yet all too often these entities aren’t able to connect, communicate and collaborate effectively – and the result has an impact on the people they’re working to assist. What are leading organizations doing about it? And what is the outcome for the people who need their support?

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60% of companies’ IT modernization programs not ready for the future

Behavior Group

Many corporate IT leaders say their organizations are not prepared for the future IT needs of the business and nearly all are moving to advance their transition to cloud infrastructure, according to an IBM survey of leaders at mid-sized and large companies in the United States and United Kingdom. IT modernization, future IT modernization program… Continue reading.

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Why the Business Continuity Plan Must Be a Living Document

Diligent

The business continuity plan – sometimes known as a disaster recovery plan – is an essential document for all organizations, designed to ensure their operations can continue with minimal interruption in the event of an unexpected disruption. Many organizations already have such a plan. The danger is that it’s all too easy to make the development of a business continuity plan (BCP) a one-off event, a tick-box exercise that sees the resulting plan filed away in a drawer (literally or virtually) an

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The skiing bug

Oz's Business Continuity Blog

Seasoned readers of my blog will know that the Osbornes are keen skiers (see ‘A white Christmas‘, ‘Ski boots and celery‘, ‘Piste again‘ and ‘Snow bother‘). Sadly, current events have prevented us from going this year, so I thought I’d […].

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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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The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

Update 29th January 2021 The Yin and Yang of a SEPA’s Cyber Incident Response On Christmas Eve, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency was hacked and many of their systems were taken offline, including their emails, and they are yet to recover them. They have also said that they lost 1.2 GB of data “this is equivalent to a small fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive”, parts of which have been made publicly available by the cyber-criminal group behind Conti ransomware

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Winter Driving Safety Tips for Employees (+ Policy Examples)

Alert Media

The post Winter Driving Safety Tips for Employees (+ Policy Examples) appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Documentation - Data Classification Policy

The Morning Breach

We also continue our series today on improving your organizations cyber security documentation. We have looked at Vendor Security Questionnaires and the Acceptable Use Policy, today we are going to start the process of data classification. A Data Classification Policy is in place to detail why data classification should be done, and to establish a framework for classifying data based on its sensitivity, value, and criticality to the organization.