2016

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Top 20 #Backup and Recovery Leaders and Influencers You Need to Follow List – @Channelbloom #18.

ChannelBloom

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Lauren Cooke in Backup and Recovery Solutions News. Staying on top of the latest industry news and trends is a big part of the job for any Backup and Recovery pro, and Twitter is a great resource. but with 243 million active users, it can be difficult to parse the good from the bad. Here is a great place to start. Follow these the top 21 influencers and thought leaders in the backup and disaster recovery Twittersphere, presented here in no particular order.

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Knowing your ‘knowns’ and managing the unknown

Crisis Response Journal

Cyber attacks and data breaches are here to stay. As long as confidential commercial data and personal information hold a financial value on the black market, the battle between cyber criminals and corporations will continue.

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Cyber Threats and Mass Communications Systems

Alert Media

The post Cyber Threats and Mass Communications Systems appeared first on AlertMedia.

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The difficult path to cyber resilience

Behavior Group

By Help Net Security on 19 December 2016 cyber resilience Global organizations are more confident than ever that they can predict and resist a sophisticated cyber attack, but are falling short of investments and plans to recover from a breach in today’s expanding threat landscape. Now in its 19th year, a survey of 1,735 organizations… Continue reading.

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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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Sending staff home after an incident – a checklist!

Plan B Consulting

This week I share some information about staffing during an incident and some of the things that should be planned for prior to incidents taking place. Last week I delivered a series of exercises for a Bank in Portugal. One of the exercises was looking at how their IT development staff would manage an incident if they were to be displaced by more time critical staff from another office.

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The Business Continuity Podcast – Preview

The Business Continuity Podcast

Ever wondered how suet pudding could bring one of the UK’s busiest trading floors to a grinding halt? Or why there used to be a caterpillar in the London Risk Register? The business continuity podcast is a straightforward, jargon-free discussion with people who deal with disasters for a living. We delve into the exercises and methodologies that keep organisations like The Economist, Fujitsu and the London Fire Brigade secure and resilient, and explore just how much continuity planning goes into

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UnitrendsGO!! Partner Conference Oct 5th-6th – Hard Rock Hotel – Downtown Chicago

ChannelBloom

Rocking with Unitrends! Mark your calendars for the first ever Unitrends partner conference. The global cloud storage market is poised to grow from $18.87 Billion in 2015 to $65.41 Billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 28.2%*. This invitation-only event will deliver the knowledge you need to increase your business and capture your share of this explosive market.

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SUPERSIZE Your Disaster Recovery for State Local Government/Education (SLED)

ChannelBloom

SUPERSIZE Your Unitrends. Recovery Series Appliance. Unitrends offers comprehensive protection and true recovery assurance. Our Recovery-Series physical appliances provide local data backup and recovery for physical and virtual environments, with the option to integrate with our cloud (or yours) for long term data retention and offsite disaster recovery. ?

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MicroAge Steakout – Minneapolis, MN – June 22nd

ChannelBloom

Want to effectively and seamlessly protect your company’s data? Join us over a delicious steak lunch to learn more about Unitrends’ backup and disaster recovery solutions. Unitrends solutions are built to be flexible as you adapt your environment – whether physical or virtual – so it’s easy to protect and recover data in case of a disruptive event.

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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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Defend, deter and develop: UK's national cyber security strategy 

Crisis Response Journal

The UK Government has published the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to 2021, which sets out the government's plan to make Britain secure and resilient in cyberspace.

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Airport security + crisis management summit, Brussels 

Crisis Response Journal

The special Security and Crisis Management Summit was jointly organized by ACI EUROPE and ACI ASIA PACIFIC and took place in Brussels (Belgium) on November 22 – 23, 2016, writes Lina Kolesnikova.

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SAR Blog: Look for the robots, they're coming to the rescue 

Crisis Response Journal

“Look for the robots, because robots are coming to the rescue,” said Dr Robin Murphy, Director for the Texas based Centre for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) in her enlightening TED Talk.

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Crisis Response Journal edition 12:2 - Out now! 

Crisis Response Journal

The current issue of CRJ is now available to subscribers in hard copy and online.

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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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Cold weather planning 

Crisis Response Journal

Public Health England has recently published a Cold Weather Plan, giving advice to help prevent the major avoidable effects on health during periods of cold weather in England, writes Roger Gomm.

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Asia – Europa meeting (ASEM) on disaster risk reduction 

Crisis Response Journal

On September 14-15, a high level meeting on disaster risk reduction and management, with a specific focus on innovation and technology, was held in Danang, Vietnam, writes Ørjan Karlsson.

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Introducing the CRJ Search + Rescue blog 

Crisis Response Journal

This new Search and Rescue blog series will take a critical look at some of the innovative developments and new technology in the SAR sphere, explore trends and case studies, review events, and report on burning issues, says the blog’s Editor, Martin Boyl By Martin Boyle

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Photo essay: Training Nepalese monks and nuns in community emergency response 

Crisis Response Journal

Dr Behrouz Moghadasi, who has been training volunteers in disaster management across Nepal, presents some images of the Khoryug Nepal Project, which involved training 40 individuals from eight monasteries in Nepal in CERT.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

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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Communicating to staff and customers during a major incident 

Crisis Response Journal

Chris Phillips says that although the business community can do little about the threat of terrorism, it has a duty of care to look after its staff and customers should a major event occur.

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Oil spill response exercise: Co-operation between authorities and volunteers 

Crisis Response Journal

Reita Waara describes how the inclusion of large numbers of volunteers in a large oil spill exercise in the Finnish city of Kemi is so important to future emergency responses of this type.

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Rising fears of terrorist diaspora 

Crisis Response Journal

On Monday, September 26, the EU Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator Gilles de Kerchove told the members of the EU Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee that: "The terrorist threat has never been so high in the last 20 years.

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How your voice is transforming virtual medicine 

Crisis Response Journal

The human voice is an undervalued data source, but not for long: New technologies can identify moods and medical conditions from your voice through virtual communication.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

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.

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Who could be the next Secretary of the DHS? 

Crisis Response Journal

Writing for Security Debrief – a blog dedicated to homeland security, terrorism and counter-terrorism, intelligence and law enforcement that provides context to the debates, policies and politics that are playing out in Washington, DC, USA – Rich Cooper e By Rich Cooper

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Defining 'extremism' within the context of human rights 

Crisis Response Journal

The Joint Committee on Human Rights appointed by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to consider matters relating to human rights in the United Kingdom has reported that there is no workable definition of ‘extremism’ and that for this reason the g

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Tsunami warning systems to be strengthened in Europe 

Crisis Response Journal

Nations on the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea have decided to bolster their tsunami warning systems by giving France, Greece, Italy and Turkey a region-wide alert role, reports Jonathan Fowler for the UNISDR.

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Humans can make rockfalls from earthquakes more dangerous 

Crisis Response Journal

Mark Quigley of the University of Melbourne and Josh Borella, University of Canterbury, describe new research in an article first published in The Conversation.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

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