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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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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Disaster Zone Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Eventually everyone in government or business will likely need to engage a consultant to assist their organization with an element of work that they need help with. This podcast is an interview with Brian Murphy, a Principal with BERK Consulting. We discuss a number of issues related to obtaining a consultant to perform work for you. What should you expect from a consultant?

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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, 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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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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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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Crisis Response Journal

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The Covid-19 crisis is not an unprecedented or unpredictable event. Roger Gomm considers the difficult tasks ahead for crisis managers and asks: What lessons should be learned and what strategies can we use to move forward?

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Disaster Zone Podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic forced businesses and governments to close their physical office spaces and have people begin working from their homes, with little or no planning or preparation for this momentous change in how teams function. Betty Lochner, M.Ed., SPHR, CEO of Corner Stone Coaching and Training is the expert guest. In this podcast she shares 7 Tips for Leading Virtual Teams, a great resource for managers and supervisors who were thrust into this virtual role with no training being furn

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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

💢 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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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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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The post 5 Tips for Improved Productivity This Winter 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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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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Disaster Zone Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Glen Woodbury is the Director, Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School. In this podcast we explore how the programs he manages have adapted to being all distance learning and how going forward, education and training can be shaped by leveraging technology. In the second half of the podcast we explore how emergency management is evolving as a profession and how emergency management can perhaps become a meta-discipline that is used as the go-to place for all disas

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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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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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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This week I share some key learning points on ransomware negotiation. This week I am going to share with you what I learned from speaking to Mike Fowler, VP of Intelligence Services at GroupSense , a specialist cyber response company. One of the services they offer is ransomware negotiation and I thought in this bulletin I would share what a ransomware negotiation is and some key learning points from the many responses he has been involved in.

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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.

Alert Media

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The post Clean Sweep: AlertMedia Wins Four 2020 ASTORS Awards for Emergency Communication Solution appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Behavior Group

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It’s simple – you can’t secure what you can’t see or don’t know about./strong> challenges, cloud, security In this interview, Badri Raghunathan, Director of Product Management for Container and Serverless Security at Qualys, talks about cloud security, and their approach for enabling global CISOs to focus on what’s most important. What are the main challenges… Continue reading.

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The Morning Breach

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case TransUnion LLC vs Sergio L Ramirez , which looks to answer whether Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an injury anything like what the class representative suffered. This case has a large potential impact for data-breach litigation moving forward.

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Business Continuity Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year has been challenging for leaders. Before COVID-19 many people, leading teams were not tested by a Crisis. Over the last 8 months, the following 4 critical behaviors have become evident in the successful leader. The Business Continuity Show Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] Sister Shows EM Student Web - [link] Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] EM Weekly Website - [link] Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn -

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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

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Disasters and Faith-Based Organizations

DECEMBER 22, 2020

From the NYC Disaster Interfaiths Services: PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS TOOLKIT FOR NYC FAITH COMMUNITIES. Note this document is 111 pages. Update: Additional Pandemic Preparedness Toolkit materials.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This is my last bulletin of the year so I thought I would share some ideas with you about a subject I have been thinking about a lot. In line with last week’s bulletin, ‘Is the response to COVID-19 a business continuity issue’ I have stopped thinking about our response to the existing pandemic and have moved my thoughts to the impact of COVID-19 on the future of business continuity.

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Alert Media

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The post Employee Safety for All: Introducing Our New Website appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Behavior Group

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Cyber-criminals are just getting started with their malicious targeting and abuse of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new report from Europol and the UN. Growing AI Cyber-Threat, Cyber-criminals, Europol Compiled with help from Trend Micro, the Malicious Uses and Abuses of Artificial Intelligence report predicts AI will in the future be used as both… Continue reading.

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The Morning Breach

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Israeli Cyber Experts with Guardicore Labs , uncover a massive attack on 85,000 MySQL servers by an anonymous group of hackers. The attack, called PLEASE_READ_ME has resulted in at least 250,000 stolen databases being compromised and the contents being posted for sale on the dark web. If you’re utilizing MySQL servers you may want to ensure its security and backups are current.

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