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 Zone Podcast

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In our age of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and alternative facts, talking with people we disagree with can be challenging. Sometimes these are people we’re trying to reach with vital information about emergency preparedness. This episode is an interview with Michael Buschmohle, an international business communications trainer for government agencies and emergency personnel, who will share 12 specific phrases he’s found for opening conversations and encouraging listening.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Since March 18, stricter measures have been in place in Belgium and elsewhere to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Life has been different ever since. Unfortunately, so too is dying.

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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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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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Alert Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

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

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The Failover Plan Podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Episode Summary: Participation in industry association’s governing boards, oversight committees, mentoring, and consulting groups, can have considerable influence on the development and direction of your profession. . In this episode of the podcast, we’re talking with Michael Crooymans, the Global Resilience Officer for Signify (previously known as Philips Lighting).

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Disaster Zone Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

No matter who you are, you can become active in helping get legislation passed. My personal experience has centered on legislation to advance disaster resilience. The guest for this podcast is Jim Kastama. Jim has many years of experience as a Washington State legislator, first in the House and then in the Senate to include being a Committee Chairman.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Many basic questions have remained unanswered, structural uncertainty and the streetlight effect (a type of observational bias that occurs when people only search for something where it is easiest to look).

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Behavior Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

61% of organizations perform attack surface discovery to offset frequently changing assets in their attack surface and attack surface expansion, yet 40% of companies perform continuous attack surface management, a Bugcrowd survey reveals. Companies, security Only one out of five organizations surveyed qualified as a “leader” in how they execute attack surface and vulnerability management,… Continue reading.

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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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Alert Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

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

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This week I look at the differences between a generic response and contingency plans. This week has been very busy for me, and amongst other tasks, I have been conducting a debrief for a multinational company on their response to date on COVID-19. I have also been helping another organisation rewrite their plans, so I am very focused on plan content at the moment.

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The Failover Plan Podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Episode Summary: In this 2 part series on the podcast, we are going to hear from both the Crisis Manager directly liaising with the government, and also the person who experienced it directly. Both of these individuals were exposed to the same crisis, a kidnapping event, but from two very different perspectives. One having to deal with it from outside, the other one from inside.

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Disaster Zone Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Peter Gaynor is the currently serving Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator. In this podcast we learn about his career path in emergency management and FEMA’s 2020 response to the coronavirus, hurricanes and wildfires. He also comments on the New Building Resilient Infrastructure & Communities (BRIC). This episode is sponsored by The Blue Cell , a by design crisis and consequence management consulting firm with a primary focus on education and training for government at al

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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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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

During this global crisis, which is affecting everyone and every business, it is more essential than ever to communicate effectively and to negotiate like never before, says Stephen Grossman.

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Advancing Analytics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

At the Data + AI Summit, Simon delivered a session on “ Achieving Lakehouse Models with Spark 3.0 “. During the session there were a load of great questions. Here the questions and the answers from Simon. Drop a comment if you were in the session and have any follow up questions! Question 1 “while all the Hadoop providers promoted the DataLake paradigm back then, how the industry and the other data lake providers are shifting to/considering the lake house paradigm?

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Ready for Anything

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

How can organizations ensure that their employees are kept safe and informed during routine events or as they get used to a whole range of new scenarios, like returning to work in the midst of a public health crisis? Especially in times where there’s so much information to take in already – and when that information may be conflicting or confusing? In our second episode, we put these and many more questions to Dr.

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Behavior Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Ransomware gangs are increasingly likely to break their promise not to leak stolen data once a victim has paid them, Coveware has warned. Ransomware Groups, Stolen Data The security vendor claimed in its analysis of Q3 2020 that data exfiltration is now a part of almost half of all ransomware attacks — used to drive… Continue reading. The post Ransomware Groups Posting Stolen Data Even After Payment appeared first on Behaviour Portugal.

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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.

The Failover Plan Podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Episode Summary. So this week on the podcast we’re holding the first of hopefully several round table discussions with some well known voices within business continuity. Today's conversation explores how COVID has changed many BC professional’s worldviews as inspired many to question how the industry will need to address various parts of the profession as we move forward.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

By: Gregory R. Witkowski and Jeffrey Schlegelmilch. This piece was originally published on April 7, 2020 in The Hill. This pandemic, so pervasive it seems dreamed up in Hollywood, can lead to a feeling of helplessness as we sit at home doing our best to practice social distancing. If you are feeling like you want to do something to help, you are not alone.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

“We are all here with the aim of navigating this ship through the storm successfully. We are not the representatives and defenders of each particular niche. If we play personal power games or act individually, we will have already lost.

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Advancing Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We have discussed in the past this idea of the lakehouse , the aspirational target of many analytics platforms these days of combining the huge power and potential of data lakes with the rigour, reliability and concurrency of a data warehouse. It’s an interesting concept but has, in the past, been firmly an aspiration. In the world without lakehouses, we often see the “Modern Data Warehouse”, this two-phased approach to providing a holistic platform – we load our early data into a lake where we

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I don’t get out much these days. Global pandemics tend to curtail one’s business travel, I find. Which is unfortunate for a couple of reasons, aside from the obvious one that pandemics can be bad for your health. Firstly it […].

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Behavior Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The cybersecurity industry no longer has an image problem, but many things are still stopping individuals from considering a career in cybersecurity: a high cost of entry (the need for more education /certification / technical knowledge / training), the inability to code and the perception of the field as too intimidating. job seekers, career in… Continue reading.

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The Failover Plan Podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Episode Summary: We're returning to one more old episode because of the HUGE interest it generated. On this week's show, Shane interviews John Hill, a seasoned consultant with over 20 years of experience in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. John has found a great way to address the consistent appearance of process issues when preparing organizations for regulatory examinations.

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Virtual Corporation

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Conducting Business Continuity (BC) exercises are a well-known means of validating BC plans and engaging an organization in assessing their response to business disruptive events. One of the biggest challenges of planning a meaningful exercise that engages participants and results in a renewed understanding of recovery roles and improvements to the plan, is to construct a fresh, relevant, and plausible exercise scenario.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

There is growing concern among travel risk management practitioners about how efforts aimed at mitigating Covid-19 related risk are exhausting health and safety management plans, budgets and initiatives.

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