While no company can anticipate every risk, having risk management policies in place can help mitigate disruptions to business operations. The document outlines 10 questions every business should consider regarding its risk posture and resilience, such as how it would respond to a disaster, whether it has accurate data inventories, and who is responsible for managing threats. It advises that the first steps in improving risk management are to assess the current state, communicate a risk plan to employees, and strengthen internal processes like cybersecurity and data tracking to lower vulnerabilities.
Cyber crisis management refers to the plan that includes steps to recover IT Services from an emergency disruption. It is crucial to have a cyber crisis management plan to minimize the impact of incidents while quickly restoring security, operations, and credibility.
Solution Spotlight IT Consulting ServicesThe TNS Group
IT Services through a Managed Service Provider provides the opportunity to develop your business strategy through technology. There are so many different solutions to chose from that can help take your business to the next level.
In a world increasingly dominated by speed and complexity, strategy, as we know it, is struggling to keep up. So what is the new role of strategist and how strategy bring out a new practical way to solve the problems of today and tomorrow?
Do You Lead or Micromanage? 6 Symptoms of a MicromanagerWeekdone.com
Read the full post at: https://blog.weekdone.com/lead-or-manage-6-symptoms-micromanager/
Although we can't say where the line between management and micromanagement lies, it's quite common that employees are able to spot micromanagement behaviors from miles away. Yet, managers rarely view themselves as such.
According to statistics, 79% of employees have been micromanaged at some point or another. Some choose to put up with it, some fight back and others choose to leave. Nevertheless, 91% of managers are unaware their micromanagement behaviors might cause people to leave. Since they don't get feedback, it's difficult to change something you're not aware of.
Here are 6 common symptoms micromanagers share. It's time to reflect and see when was the last time you practices some of these behaviors. Or perhaps when was the last time your manager was reluctant to delegate or got stuck in the details?
Read the full post to discover cures and get a full description: https://blog.weekdone.com/lead-or-manage-6-symptoms-micromanager/
Cyber crisis management refers to the plan that includes steps to recover IT Services from an emergency disruption. It is crucial to have a cyber crisis management plan to minimize the impact of incidents while quickly restoring security, operations, and credibility.
Solution Spotlight IT Consulting ServicesThe TNS Group
IT Services through a Managed Service Provider provides the opportunity to develop your business strategy through technology. There are so many different solutions to chose from that can help take your business to the next level.
In a world increasingly dominated by speed and complexity, strategy, as we know it, is struggling to keep up. So what is the new role of strategist and how strategy bring out a new practical way to solve the problems of today and tomorrow?
Do You Lead or Micromanage? 6 Symptoms of a MicromanagerWeekdone.com
Read the full post at: https://blog.weekdone.com/lead-or-manage-6-symptoms-micromanager/
Although we can't say where the line between management and micromanagement lies, it's quite common that employees are able to spot micromanagement behaviors from miles away. Yet, managers rarely view themselves as such.
According to statistics, 79% of employees have been micromanaged at some point or another. Some choose to put up with it, some fight back and others choose to leave. Nevertheless, 91% of managers are unaware their micromanagement behaviors might cause people to leave. Since they don't get feedback, it's difficult to change something you're not aware of.
Here are 6 common symptoms micromanagers share. It's time to reflect and see when was the last time you practices some of these behaviors. Or perhaps when was the last time your manager was reluctant to delegate or got stuck in the details?
Read the full post to discover cures and get a full description: https://blog.weekdone.com/lead-or-manage-6-symptoms-micromanager/
Risk management in simple terms with some humorKumar Kolaganti
Risk Management is serious work and the terminology used is very complicated. It takes time to understand the concepts and put them to work as a project management practitioner. Thinking of Risk managements makes me remember two old sayings "'A stitch in time saves nine', and 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure'."
In line with this subtle humor, this presentation is an effort to explain risk management terminology in simple terms with some humor. Some may say that this is a spoof on project risk management.
Laugh, Smile and Enjoy.
Your organization will be breached. It's a matter of when, not if. How you respond may be the difference between recovering and closing your doors.
This talk is designed to help small businesses or businesses with small IT organizations to develop a viable incident response program.
Presented at the 2013 ND IT Symposium on 5/1/2013.
When You Should Use Analytics for DecisionsVessment
You’ve got the data, are you better for it? Discernment is “the ability to see and understand people, things, or situations clearly and intelligently.” Here's a 3 dimensional model that helps good questions get even better with analytics.
No one said it would be easy. Avoiding business mistakes is impossible, and you are not alone in making them.
Take a look at some of the most common business mistakes.
iHT² Health IT Summit Fort Lauderdale 2013 – Kim Sassaman, Chief Information Security Officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian healthcare services is a not-for-profit system of hospitals, a health plan and a growing medical group located in New Mexico. For more than 100 years we have been committed to a single purpose Improving the health of the patients, members and communities we serve 15,000 employees, 3B+ revenue. More @ http://www.phs.org/PHS/about/
Cyber security lecture for University students, following and expanding on previously delivered presentation on Enterprise Security Incident Management. More in-depth, with the Security Incident lifecycle focus
The survey of 307 women, conducted at the NAWBO Women’s Business Conference in Miami this month, found that that the future is looking positive for female small business owners. Used with permission in conjunction with an article for the Women Grow Business column at Web.com.
Strategic Storyline and Rules of Thumb are only two out of many activities that form the Complexity Manager's Compass for navigating in a complex world. For leaders and agilists.
React Faster and Better: New Approaches for Advanced Incident ResponseSilvioPappalardo
It’s impossible to prevent everything (we see examples of this in the press every week), so you must be prepared to respond. The sad fact is that you will be breached. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will happen. So response is more important than any specific control. But it’s horrifying how unsophisticated most organizations are about response.
This is compounded by the reality of an evolving attack space, which means even if you do incident response well today, it won’t be good enough for tomorrow.
Risk management in simple terms with some humorKumar Kolaganti
Risk Management is serious work and the terminology used is very complicated. It takes time to understand the concepts and put them to work as a project management practitioner. Thinking of Risk managements makes me remember two old sayings "'A stitch in time saves nine', and 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure'."
In line with this subtle humor, this presentation is an effort to explain risk management terminology in simple terms with some humor. Some may say that this is a spoof on project risk management.
Laugh, Smile and Enjoy.
Your organization will be breached. It's a matter of when, not if. How you respond may be the difference between recovering and closing your doors.
This talk is designed to help small businesses or businesses with small IT organizations to develop a viable incident response program.
Presented at the 2013 ND IT Symposium on 5/1/2013.
When You Should Use Analytics for DecisionsVessment
You’ve got the data, are you better for it? Discernment is “the ability to see and understand people, things, or situations clearly and intelligently.” Here's a 3 dimensional model that helps good questions get even better with analytics.
No one said it would be easy. Avoiding business mistakes is impossible, and you are not alone in making them.
Take a look at some of the most common business mistakes.
iHT² Health IT Summit Fort Lauderdale 2013 – Kim Sassaman, Chief Information Security Officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian healthcare services is a not-for-profit system of hospitals, a health plan and a growing medical group located in New Mexico. For more than 100 years we have been committed to a single purpose Improving the health of the patients, members and communities we serve 15,000 employees, 3B+ revenue. More @ http://www.phs.org/PHS/about/
Cyber security lecture for University students, following and expanding on previously delivered presentation on Enterprise Security Incident Management. More in-depth, with the Security Incident lifecycle focus
The survey of 307 women, conducted at the NAWBO Women’s Business Conference in Miami this month, found that that the future is looking positive for female small business owners. Used with permission in conjunction with an article for the Women Grow Business column at Web.com.
Strategic Storyline and Rules of Thumb are only two out of many activities that form the Complexity Manager's Compass for navigating in a complex world. For leaders and agilists.
React Faster and Better: New Approaches for Advanced Incident ResponseSilvioPappalardo
It’s impossible to prevent everything (we see examples of this in the press every week), so you must be prepared to respond. The sad fact is that you will be breached. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will happen. So response is more important than any specific control. But it’s horrifying how unsophisticated most organizations are about response.
This is compounded by the reality of an evolving attack space, which means even if you do incident response well today, it won’t be good enough for tomorrow.
Cyber Data Breach Review_ Key Steps to Protect Your Business in the Digital A...LDM Global
In today's interconnected world, businesses face a constant threat from cyber data breaches. With the increasing digitization of sensitive information, protecting your business from cyber threats has never been more critical. In this blog post, we'll explore key steps that businesses can take to safeguard their data and minimize the risk of a cyber data breach.
Information Security - Back to Basics - Own Your VulnerabilitiesJack Nichelson
When a security program isn't as good as it should be it can be tempting to conclude that it needs more resources and solutions. Jack Nichelson decided to take a different approach: simplification. By focusing on fewer problems with bigger returns, he was able to reduce malware by 60 percent and improve the results of his annual pen report. He’ll share a back-to-the-basics case study for removing complexity and running a simple, effective, start-up worthy security program.
This Talk is for - Security Managers looking to better focus on the real vulnerabilities and more effectively communicate your progress
The Goals of this talk – Find the real problems, create a formal plan, build support for the plan, and report the progress
IT Solutions for 3 Common Small Business ProblemsBrooke Bordelon
Many time consuming IT problems can be side-stepped by establishing a solid network from the get-go rather than playing catch up with problems as they arise..find out how with these IT solutions.
A significant breach can happen to any company. Take the opportunity to consider your company’s preparedness and ability to respond quickly to an incident with this checklist.
EC-Council’s CCISO certification validates a candidate’s knowledge and expertise to meet the real-life challenges in the information security domain. It establishes a person’s suitability to work as the highest-level executive responsible for information security in an organization.
https://www.infosectrain.com/courses/cciso-certification-online-training/
Cyber security practices involve preventing malicious attacks on computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data. It is also called information technology security or electronic information security.
https://www.infosectrain.com/courses/ceh-v11-certification-training/
Delivered at Trend Micro's Executive briefing events Sydney and Melbourne 5-6 June 2017 on Australia's new Mandatory Data Breach Notification legislation. YoutubeVideo available at https://youtu.be/j5nmY916H7k
Connecting the Dots Between Your Threat Tntelligence Tradecraft and Business ...SurfWatch Labs
Threat intelligence needs to be in a language the business understands. SurfWatch Labs can help connect cyber threat intelligence to business operations in order to help manage cyber risk.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
2. About me
• Michael Bowers
• Sr Solutions Specialist
• CAM Business Solutions, Los Angeles
• Established in 2002
• IT consultant in the 1990s
• Director of IT for Nadel Architects in 2001
• Specialty
• Security
• Operations
• Backup and Recovery
• Networking
3. What is Business Resilience
• Business resilience is the ability to prepare for, respond to, and
recover from just about disaster it may face.
• It helps an organization protect against the countless threats that can
cripple it’s operations, and limit the severity of any incident, and
ensure its continued survival despite an event.
4. Business Resilience
• Cyber resilience has emerged over the past few years because
traditional cybersecurity measures are no longer enough.
• It is now commonly accepted that it’s no longer a matter of ‘if’ but
‘when’ an organization will suffer data loss or a cyber attack.
• This means that instead of focusing your efforts on keeping criminals
out of your network, it’s better to assume they will eventually break
through your defenses, and start working on a strategy to reduce the
impact.
17. Summary
• While there is no way for a company to truly predict
every disaster it will face - having risk management
policies in place can help soften the blow of business
disruptions and sometimes prevent the problems
altogether.
• Risks are something businesses are exposed to daily.
Whether it is an internal failure or an external event,
there is a seemingly endless list of things that can
threaten business productivity at any given moment.
Some of these risks are even serious enough to
jeopardize an organization’s survival.
18. IMPROVING YOUR RISK MANAGEMENT
APPROACH
The benefits of good risk management combined
with the potential risk of neglecting these
practices makes an enticing case for improving
your approach immediately.
So, what should be your first steps?
19. Action steps
Assess and plan: The first step to good risk management is assessing your
current state. Where are you most susceptible to risk and how much work
needs to be done to prevent it? Deciding what state you are in currently
can help you better formulate the correct plan for your business. From
there, you should start laying out a concrete strategy.
20. Action steps
Communicate your plan: A plan is rendered useless when it's not
efficiently communicated to the necessary parties. Business leaders
should make sure these new processes and risk policies are readily
available to employees new and old. Upon the completion of your risk
management plan, hold a company wide meeting and open the field for
questions and clarifications.
21. Action steps
Improve internal processes: Improving internal management functions is
one of the best ways to tackle potential business risks immediately. From
improving your cyber protection to better tracking your data and assets,
leveraging the resources of your IT partner can help significantly lower
your chances of falling victim to common industry problems.
22. Thank you for your time
Michael Bowers
818-356-7187
Mbowers@CAMBusinessSolutions.com
