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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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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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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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.

Activation

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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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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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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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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Business Continuity Today

DECEMBER 15, 2020

When you think of Authentic Leadership Teddy Roosevelt is one man that comes to mind. Authentic is not asking people to do more with less. Saying you understand the pain. Or telling people that they have to roll up their sleeves and pull up their bootstraps. Authentic leaders ask one question, How can I help you be better. The Authentic Leader is a servant Leader.

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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!

Mitigation

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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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Is it time for Business Continuity Managers to step away from the COVID-19 response? I share by thoughts on how organisations should move forward in dealing with the virus. I have been thinking about the response to COVID-19 for a while, especially as we have been conducting a number of debriefs on the incident for different organisations. The initial and obvious answer is yes, it is a business continuity issue and probably the largest incident most business continuity professionals will face in

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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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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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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.

Evaluation

Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Is it time for Business Continuity Managers to step away from the COVID-19 response? I share by thoughts on how organisations should move forward in dealing with the virus. I have been thinking about the response to COVID-19 for a while, especially as we have been conducting a number of debriefs on the incident for different organisations. The initial and obvious answer is yes, it is a business continuity issue and probably the largest incident most business continuity professionals will face in

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Business Continuity Today

DECEMBER 15, 2020

When you think of Authentic Leadership Teddy Roosevelt is one man that comes to mind. Authentic is not asking people to do more with less. Saying you understand the pain. Or telling people that they have to roll up their sleeves and pull up their bootstraps. Authentic leaders ask one question, How can I help you be better. The Authentic Leader is a servant Leader.

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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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Alert Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The post Business Resiliency in 2021 [Webinar Recap] appeared first on AlertMedia.

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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.