Scott R. Davis

JANUARY 28, 2021

( 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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Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 26, 2021

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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Disaster Preparedness

JANUARY 5, 2021

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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Crisis Response Journal

JANUARY 26, 2021

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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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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Synology

JANUARY 27, 2021

When it comes to keeping your personal information secure, don’t take anyone at their word — use encryption. Since the first Data Privacy Day back in 2007, online privacy threats have multiplied. On top of more traditional threats like phishing — which has been around since at least the early 1990s — users today face […].

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Donyati

JANUARY 7, 2021

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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Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 19, 2021

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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Alert Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

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

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Crisis Response Journal

JANUARY 31, 2021

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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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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Talkingpoint

JANUARY 26, 2021

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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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 20, 2021

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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Donyati

JANUARY 29, 2021

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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Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 12, 2021

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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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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Alert Media

JANUARY 11, 2021

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

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Crisis Response Journal

JANUARY 26, 2021

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

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Talkingpoint

JANUARY 7, 2021

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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Diligent

JANUARY 29, 2021

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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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.

IBM Business Resiliency

JANUARY 29, 2021

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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Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 5, 2021

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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Ready for Anything

JANUARY 27, 2021

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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Behavior Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

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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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

Oz's Business Continuity Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

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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Diligent

JANUARY 25, 2021

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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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

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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The Morning Breach

JANUARY 14, 2021

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.

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Alert Media

JANUARY 14, 2021

The post How Our Customers Are Using AlertMedia to Improve Operations, Internal Communications, and Overall Efficiency appeared first on AlertMedia.

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