by Jon Seals | Sep 26, 2018 | Industry Hot News
By SARAH YOUNG https://www.anexinet.com/blog/is-your-disaster-recovery-plan-still-sufficient-to-handle-unexpected-disasters/ A “disaster” is defined as a sudden, unexpected event that causes great damage and disruption to the functioning of a...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Unless you were on the Appalachian Trail for a few weeks, you know what I’m talking about. I’ll start with this paragraph from our newly published analysis of Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, called Nike...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Industry Hot News
As a young Hollywood movie director, Martin Scorsese remembers the exact moment he decided to devote his time to historic film preservation and conservation. He had just walked out of a double-feature of the films “Niagara” and “The Seven-Year...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Don’t Let Winter Hazards Chill Your Business This Saturday is the first day of fall, but the proactive among us are already thinking ahead to winter and the impacts it will have on our businesses. Winter conjures up images of gently falling snow, cozy indoor...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Do you know the main reasons that most Business Impact Analyses today are “Dead On Arrival”? I’ll tell you about bad BIAs in a moment. Before I do, however, I’d like to share two pieces of background information. WHY IT...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Industry Hot News
With new IT projects coming from so many areas, it’s common to see legal IT teams struggle to implement and test an effective disaster recovery solution. To meet critical recovery requirements without having to take on addtional workload, more and more firms are...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Industry Hot News
In business continuity, risk is at the center of everything we do. Therefore, we thought it might be helpful to make today’s blog a primer on risk. Most of this stuff you probably already learned at one time or another, but there’s no harm in a quick...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Data ops, data engineering, data development — oh my! From new roles and teams to new skills and processes, the hot topic on everyone’s mind is data ops. I started to notice the data ops emergence back in 2015 as companies began to look at Agile...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Industry Hot News
If you are thinking about investing in a modern notification system or have already implemented one as part of your emergency plan, you might be interested to know it can do much more than simply notify employees of impending danger. While many notifications may come...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Press Releases
Celebrating 20 years in business, company pledges to plant thousands of trees FORT WORTH, Texas – In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Interstate Restoration has pledged to add thousands of trees to the environment in the coming months....
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Press Releases
HILLSBORO, Ore. – Opus Interactive, a leading provider of cloud hosting services, announces the selection of the Northern Virginia data center campus of Iron Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE: IRM), the global leader for storage and information...
by Jon Seals | Sep 25, 2018 | Press Releases
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – As demand for high speed mobile broadband and smart data services is rapidly increasing, interworking between new broadband services and traditional mission critical radio systems is essential to ensure equivalent or better...
by Jon Seals | Sep 24, 2018 | Press Releases
CHICAGO – Fusion Risk Management, Inc. (“Fusion”), a leading provider of business continuity and risk management software and services, today announced major product enhancements that expand its already established risk management capabilities....
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Industry Hot News
By STEVE SILVESTRI https://www.anexinet.com/blog/6-best-practices-for-business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery-planning/ These days, organizations must be prepared for everything and anything: from cyber-threats to natural disasters. A BC/DR plan is your...
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Industry Hot News
With the ever-growing amount of social media platforms, it’s inevitable that you find yourself using at least one form of social media throughout the day. As of 2017, 77% of US adults are on social media; odds are, you are using one of them. In the...
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Industry Hot News
In a recent video with DoubleHorn, InterVision’s SVP of Product Development & Strategic Alliances, Jeff Ton, explains common misconceptions that companies have surrounding security in the cloud, and struggles usually experienced when trying to match an...
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Industry Hot News
(TNS) – Rivers continued to rise out of their banks across the Carolinas on Tuesday, frustrating rescue efforts and residents hoping to return home.North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency,...
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Industry Hot News
What You Need to Know In response to widespread data privacy concerns, legislators have just passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Here’s an overview of the new data privacy rights the law provides and what it all means for your business. Much of...
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Press Releases
IPAWS National Test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency...
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Industry Hot News
(TNS) – The sun burst through the storm clouds for the first time in days Monday, but the most terrifying threat from Hurricane Florence was yet to come.The muddy Cape Fear River, thick with debris including entire trees, swelled to incredible heights through...
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Press Releases
KPMG Report Finds 90 Percent of CIOs and CCOs Plan to Increase Spending to Automate Compliance NEW YORK – Workiva, (NYSE:WK), a leader in data collaboration, reporting and compliance solutions, and KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, today...
by Jon Seals | Sep 19, 2018 | Press Releases
Offers mitigation from volumetric and multi-vector DDoS attacks plus improved website and application security and performance GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – US Signal, a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider, today announced that it has partnered with...
by Jon Seals | Sep 18, 2018 | Press Releases
Quobyte offers tips for high-capacity infrastructures capable of handling billions of files and hundreds of petabytes SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Hyperscale data centers need enormous capacities for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, big...
by Jon Seals | Sep 18, 2018 | Press Releases
WARRENDALE, Penn. – Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, an industry leader in design, manufacturing, and servicing reliable, environmentally friendly uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) solutions, announces a nationwide distribution agreement with Crescent...
by Jon Seals | Sep 18, 2018 | Press Releases
RALEIGH, N.C. – Data center and network infrastructure is the critical backbone enabling a connected world. In today’s mixed environment of on-premises and cloud solutions, energy and power management play a significant role in quality, reliability...
by Jon Seals | Sep 18, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Combining business continuity and risk management into a single operational process is the most effective way to prepare for the worst. By ROBERT SIBIK Combining two seemingly unrelated entities to make a better, more useful creation is a keystone of innovation. Think...
by Jon Seals | Sep 17, 2018 | Industry Hot News
(TNS) – As Onslow County communities turn to cleanup and recovery efforts, many areas will still be dealing with impacts of river flooding.“Flooding is a main concern right now. We’re getting a lot of rain and it has nowhere to go,” said...
by Jon Seals | Sep 17, 2018 | Industry Hot News
We talk a lot about flood insurance at I.I.I. for at least two good reasons: It’s the most common and costly natural disaster in the United States, with billions of economic losses every year. According to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), 90 percent...
by Jon Seals | Sep 17, 2018 | Press Releases
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Continuity Professionals of Ohio (CPO) is proud to announce the agenda of the 2018 Fall Summit to be held at State Auto Insurance, Gahanna, OH on October 16, 2018. Speakers include Kathy Nagy (Ingersoll Rand), Apolonio “Apps” Garcia...
by Jon Seals | Sep 14, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Everyone in business continuity knows about risk mitigation controls, but do you know which ones are most important, according to the experts? That’s the topic of today’s blog. TRIAL BY FIRE Before we get started, I’d like to give a pop quiz. Do you...
by Jon Seals | Sep 14, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Over the past several weeks, we have been discussing duty of care at work—what it is and what it means for your organization. We have hinted that there is a legal component to duty of care as well. In fact, duty of care originated as a legal concept, and...
by Jon Seals | Sep 14, 2018 | Industry Hot News
The most important thing you can do for your business when a hurricane is days away from landfall is evacuate. When faced with storm surges, torrential rains, and 100+ mph winds, the best advice is to get yourself, your family, and your employees as far away from the...
by Jon Seals | Sep 14, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Keep Your Mobile Employees Safe Your employees depend on you for more than a paycheck. They put in their blood, sweat and hopefully no tears to earn that paycheck, but also have an inherent faith that the company to whom they devote so many of their hours has their...
by Jon Seals | Sep 14, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Building an Effective TPRM Framework The GDPR imposes new rules on organizations to protect EU individuals’ personal data. Banks are responsible for EU personal data managed by their third parties, but are they ready to manage their third-party risk and comply...
by Jon Seals | Sep 14, 2018 | Press Releases
The CBI, an organization that speaks on behalf of 190,000 UK businesses of all sizes and sectors, has issued an unusually blunt warning, stating that UK companies will be ‘hit with a sledgehammer’ in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The CBI was responding to...
by Jon Seals | Sep 14, 2018 | Press Releases
This is part 3 of a 3-part series on Digital Innovation Management. This blog series is intended to help a digital transformation team take a structured and measured approach to building enterprise scalable Digital Innovation Management capabilities.As the digital...
by Jon Seals | Sep 13, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Sometimes business continuity or BCM standards can go from making your program better to holding it back. This can happen if you use the wrong standard or take the wrong approach to aligning with it. In today’s blog, we’ll talk about how your BCM standard...
by Jon Seals | Sep 13, 2018 | Industry Hot News
When thinking about handling compliance at scale, creating a global framework can allow the organization to grow without limit. How challenging is it to work in compliance these days? World-class compliance experts from TMF Group share their views. This is the...
by Jon Seals | Sep 12, 2018 | Press Releases
SAN FRANCISCO – IObit, the world’s leading system utilities and security software provider, today announces the release of Driver Booster 6. The brand new Driver Booster 6 has been greatly enhanced with a 200% larger driver database, new and...
by Jon Seals | Sep 12, 2018 | Industry Hot News
If you live in the projected path of Hurricane Florence, you should be prepping your home and finalizing your emergency and evacuation plans. Here are some Dos and Don’ts to consider for prepping and riding out the...
by Jon Seals | Sep 12, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Engaging Training for Workplace Safety Given the recent prevalence of gun violence, businesses and organizations should conduct training and practice emergency response procedures for an active shooter with the same frequency as fire drills or other emergencies....
by Jon Seals | Sep 12, 2018 | Industry Hot News
No plan survives contact with the enemy says the old adage, but this is precisely what is often expected from business continuity plans. A new Continuity Central survey looks into business continuity plan success rates and attempts to uncover the best ways...
by Jon Seals | Sep 12, 2018 | Industry Hot News
(TNS) – The National Hurricane Center issued its first set of Hurricane and Storm Surge Watches Tuesday for the East Coast as Hurricane Florence continues its trek toward North Carolina.The “extremely dangerous major hurricane” is predicted to hit...
by Jon Seals | Sep 12, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Nearly three years after the official launch of the post-2015 agenda, which plots the path for a better world by 2030, people are still grappling with how to make the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a reality. But perhaps the ambitious nature of the...
by Jon Seals | Sep 12, 2018 | Press Releases
Extended partnership now enables customers to purchase Veeam’s industry-leading Hyper-Availability solutions directly from Lenovo and its resellers BAAR, Switzerland – Veeam® Software, the leader in Intelligent Data Management for the...
by Jon Seals | Sep 12, 2018 | Industry Hot News
The first official Post-Mortems are starting to come out of Microsoft in regards to the Azure Outage that happened last week. While this first post-mortem addresses the Azure DevOps outage specifically (previously known as Visual Studio Team...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Press Releases
Will provide BaronThreatNet.com’s technology to aid disaster response teams HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Baron, the worldwide provider of critical weather intelligence, announces its new partnership with Team Rubicon, a nonprofit that utilizes the skills and...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Recently, Security Magazine published an article discussing ways to address patient violence in healthcare facilities and hospitals. The article draws on sobering statistics that reveal how violence that stems from patients and patient visitors produces both...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Cybersecurity can be a magnet for myths. Attacks emerge and cripple systems availability or swipe data quickly and unexpectedly. It happens so fast that the myths so many of us hold onto as facts are only apparent in the aftermath of an attack. While many...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Definition: Technology modeling is a point-in-time snapshot of an Enterprise’s IT Services – including its dependencies on infrastructure – and interfaces to other services and Business Processes which depend on them. This...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Could It Have A Bigger Impact Than More Famous Legal Siblings? The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the GDPR went into effect earlier this year, and New York state is following suit; last week marked the compliance deadline for the NY DFS cybersecurity...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Industry Hot News
When the topic of energy efficiency comes up, energy-efficient machine tools don’t immediately spring to mind. Yet machine tools contain motors and auxiliary components whose energy demand varies widely during machining operations. Happily, a new series of ISO...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Have you read or started to use the ISO 22330 business continuity management standard? Andrew Lawton explains what it is and why it is important that organizations take notice of it. ISO 22330, a new business continuity management standard providing ‘Guidelines...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Writing incident management objectives is an art that needs to be taught and practised and should be included as an aspect of business continuity exercises. In this article Charlie Maclean Bristol shares some advice on the subject. During an incident, it is seemingly...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Press Releases
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – US Signal, a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider, today announced the results of its 2018 IT Resiliency Survey. The survey reveals that 70 percent of respondents from U.S. businesses experienced at least one unplanned IT...
by Jon Seals | Sep 11, 2018 | Press Releases
SAN JOSE, Calif. – As the world continues to embrace the reality of 5G and multicloud, service providers are experiencing disruptive growth and change that require new approaches to more efficiently build and cost-effectively manage critical IP networking...
by Jon Seals | Sep 10, 2018 | Industry Hot News
(TNS) – Just beyond the fence at John Vega’s house in the Evergreen Mobile Home Park lie rotting planks of wood, embedded firmly in the ground.The boards were dumped in this neighborhood 50 miles northeast of Denver by torrents of water that surged from...
by Jon Seals | Sep 7, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Yesterday morning I opened my Twitter feed to find that many people were impacted by an Azure outage. When I tried to access the resource page that described the outage and the current resources impacted even that page was unavailable. @AzureSupport was...
by Jon Seals | Sep 7, 2018 | Press Releases
With hurricane season here and man-made crises always looming, AIS integrative communications technologies will be at the forefront of saving lives SUNRISE, Fla. — The City of Fort Lauderdale has looked around the corner to Agile Interoperable Solutions of...
by Jon Seals | Sep 7, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Today’s post is the third in our three-part series on how chaos engineering might one day help us get better at business continuity and disaster recovery. In the first post, “What Is Chaos Engineering and Why Should I Care?,” I gave a general...
by Jon Seals | Sep 7, 2018 | Industry Hot News
As a company with remote and lone workers, it’s up to you to ensure their work environment is safe and their job does not put them in harm’s way. OSHA is clear about employer’s responsibilities: Provide well-maintained tools and equipment,...
by Jon Seals | Sep 7, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Shifting from Traditional to Digital Contract Terms By leveraging digital technology, outsourcing providers … This is a fundamental change in outsourcing that will require fundamentally different contract terms. Brad Peterson discusses the difference between...
by Jon Seals | Sep 7, 2018 | Industry Hot News
The collapse of the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001 claimed the lives of 2,763, including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 police officers and 37 Port Authority officers. But the carnage was long from over when the toxic dust had settled and been cleaned up. Today,...
by Jon Seals | Sep 7, 2018 | Industry Hot News
So what security features should we be asking and planning for to protect data that will become information that can be used for and against everyone, both today and in the future? Download the authoritative guide: Enterprise Data Storage 2018: Optimizing Your...
by Jon Seals | Sep 6, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Do you know the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”? Today’s post is about sweating the big stuff. It lays out the five things that matter most for the success of your organization’s business continuity management (BCM) program. DETAILS,...
by Jon Seals | Sep 6, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Consumer reviews play an increasingly strong role in purchasing decisions, but with a plethora of platforms and opinions, whose view can you trust? A new standard just published aims to put some order into the process to restore back our faith. Both a bane and a boon...
by Jon Seals | Sep 6, 2018 | Press Releases
Company credits its threat intelligence team for its ongoing research for detecting new vulnerabilities and improving cybersecurity protection of critical infrastructure MAHWAH, NJ – Radiflow, a leading provider of industrial cybersecurity solutions for critical...
by Jon Seals | Sep 6, 2018 | Press Releases
BURLINGTON, Wash. – Ultrapac Extreme brings nanotechnology to Prochem’s Ultrapac line of professional carpet cleaning solutions. This ultra-powerful technology releases soils from carpet strands and suspend them for fast and efficient removal....
by Jon Seals | Sep 5, 2018 | Industry Hot News
There’s no way around it: If your organization is based in a hurricane zone, you need an effective emergency communications plan. Consider the fact that fallout from the 2017 hurricane season, with a staggering $282.16 billion in losses, still affects some...
by Jon Seals | Sep 5, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Compliance Considerations when Obtaining Data from a Third Party Companies obtain data from an increasing number of sources. Some of these sources are under contracts titled “data license agreements,” but most are under other types of agreements....
by Jon Seals | Sep 5, 2018 | Industry Hot News
(TNS) – Tropical Storm Gordon should be the baptism for Mobile County’s brand-new, state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center — but a snag being blamed on AT&T will keep it out of commission.”The building itself is completed and...
by Jon Seals | Sep 5, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Are the AI apps organizations have deployed actually delivering benefits? That’s a question Curt Hall has had for some time. The latest results from Cutter Consortium’s ongoing survey examining the adoption and application of AI technology in the...
by Jon Seals | Sep 5, 2018 | Industry Hot News
(TNS) – As part of National Preparedness Month, West Virginians are encouraged to become prepared in case of an emergency.The American Red Cross West Virginia Region urges everyone not to wait until an emergency occurs and it’s too late.“We strongly...
by Jon Seals | Sep 5, 2018 | Press Releases
New Report Reveals Current Trends and Challenges Related to HA Applications including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and SAP/HANA SAN MATEO, Calif. – SIOS Technology Corp., the industry pioneer in providing intelligent application availability for critical...
by Jon Seals | Sep 5, 2018 | Press Releases
Provides monitoring and problem resolution for Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage solution TEMPE, Ariz. — Insight’s Cloud & Data Center Transformation (CDCT) division, Datalink, today announced the addition of Cohesity’s...
by Jon Seals | Sep 4, 2018 | Industry Hot News
New IFRS 16 legislation could make long-term office space lessees look for more flexible solutions, says Alexander Garrett Ships and planes, oil rigs and trains, shops and hotels – they all have one thing in common. Businesses have snapped up these valuable...
by Jon Seals | Sep 4, 2018 | Industry Hot News
Are voice assistants intelligent enough to work in an office environment? Not quite, says Sam Shead. But it won’t be long… “Alexa, email John in HR and ask him if he’s free to discuss my promotion next Tuesday.” “Siri,...
by Jon Seals | Sep 4, 2018 | Industry Hot News
The hiring process would be so much easier if finding IT personnel was like matching on a dating website. Unfortunately, many candidates and employees lack the technical skills needed to make them “Mr. Right.” Thanks to shifts in technology, including...
by Jon Seals | Sep 4, 2018 | Press Releases
BURLINGTON, Mass. – Everbridge and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) celebrate the ongoing success of their alliance that has helped to reunite missing children with their families over the past four years. Since...
by Jon Seals | Sep 4, 2018 | Press Releases
Mission Rock Residential, Interstate team up to minimize storm’s consequences FORT WORTH, Texas – A quick-witted shipment of 600 air-conditioners got the recovery process pointed in the right direction at The Point at Cypress Woods Apartments a...
by Jon Seals | Sep 4, 2018 | Press Releases
Building Resilient Communities One Organization at a Time BCM 2000/3000: Implementing ISO 22301 3 day Instructor Led Course / 8 Module eLearning Series / 8 Module Self-Study Course Book Series Implementing a Business Continuity Management...
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