This document provides contact information for Continuity and Resilience (CORE), an ISO 22301 BCM consulting firm. It lists addresses and phone/fax numbers for CORE offices in the United Arab Emirates and India. The document then outlines an upcoming presentation by Mayur Sankhe on balancing resiliency with availability, continuity and recoverability. It presents statistics from Gartner on challenges IT service providers will face through digital transformation. Finally, it provides CORE's contact details.
This document contains information about a presentation given at the 5th India Business & IT Resilience Summit on June 1, 2017 in Mumbai, India. The presentation discusses Wipro's response to two natural disasters in Chennai, the 2015 floods and the 2016 Cyclone Vardah. It describes the preparations and execution of Wipro's business continuity plans during these crises. The presentation addresses common issues around being prepared for unanticipated city-level risks and collaborating with other organizations to strengthen business continuity management.
The document summarizes the key findings of the BCI Cyber Resilience Report 2017 on Indian organizations:
1) Almost three-quarters of Indian organizations reported at least one cyber incident in the last 12 months, with phishing and social engineering being the top drivers of disruption.
2) Indian organizations outperformed the global average in deploying business continuity arrangements for cyber resilience issues (91% vs 87%) and in top management commitment to cyber resilience (75% vs 60%).
3) The report highlights that business continuity professionals should collaborate more with cybersecurity colleagues, as reputation management is a key driver for cyber resilience and supplier cyber resilience is increasingly important.
This document appears to be from a Business & IT Resilience Summit hosted by CORE Consulting and Emreach. It discusses cyber threats and critical communication systems. There are presentations on topics like the costs of cyber attacks, the WannaCry ransomware attack, communication strategies during incidents, and effective critical notification systems. Contact information is provided for CORE Consulting in India and the UAE. The document seems to be advertising Emreach's critical two-way enterprise notification system.
Demonstrating Value Of Business Continuity Program Using Quantitative Scoring...Continuity and Resilience
This document summarizes information from a business continuity and resilience summit, including contact details for the hosting organization and an overview of limitations of business continuity exercises. It also provides examples of analyzing incident response through quantitative metrics and identifying gaps to improve continuity plans and response.
This document provides an overview of ISO 27017 and discusses its key aspects:
- ISO 27017 provides additional guidance for implementing cloud security controls from ISO 27002.
- It defines 7 new controls for cloud security around areas like roles and responsibilities, asset removal, virtualization security, and network segmentation.
- The standard establishes guidelines for both cloud service customers and providers around implementing controls for areas such as access control, operations security, and supplier relationships.
SecureTech 2014: Risk, Business Continuity and Cybersecurity - A Resiliency ...poore120
The document discusses critical infrastructure resilience and risk from the perspective of business continuity and cybersecurity. It addresses three main topics: 1) lessons learned about resilience and risk from taking a traditional business continuity approach to the next level, 2) the ongoing problem of cybersecurity and what risk and continuity professionals need to know, and 3) actions organizations can take to improve collaboration in managing risks from disruptions, including involving business continuity in cybersecurity incidents.
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.
Continuity and Resilience (CORE) is an ISO 22301 BCM consulting firm that will be presenting at the 6th Middle East Business & IT Resilience Summit on March 30, 2017 at The Address – Dubai Mall. CORE has offices in Abu Dhabi, UAE and New Delhi, India and provides consulting services on business continuity management and the UAE Occupational Health and Safety Management System National Standard AE/SCNS/NCEMA 6000:2016.
This document contains information about a presentation given at the 5th India Business & IT Resilience Summit on June 1, 2017 in Mumbai, India. The presentation discusses Wipro's response to two natural disasters in Chennai, the 2015 floods and the 2016 Cyclone Vardah. It describes the preparations and execution of Wipro's business continuity plans during these crises. The presentation addresses common issues around being prepared for unanticipated city-level risks and collaborating with other organizations to strengthen business continuity management.
The document summarizes the key findings of the BCI Cyber Resilience Report 2017 on Indian organizations:
1) Almost three-quarters of Indian organizations reported at least one cyber incident in the last 12 months, with phishing and social engineering being the top drivers of disruption.
2) Indian organizations outperformed the global average in deploying business continuity arrangements for cyber resilience issues (91% vs 87%) and in top management commitment to cyber resilience (75% vs 60%).
3) The report highlights that business continuity professionals should collaborate more with cybersecurity colleagues, as reputation management is a key driver for cyber resilience and supplier cyber resilience is increasingly important.
This document appears to be from a Business & IT Resilience Summit hosted by CORE Consulting and Emreach. It discusses cyber threats and critical communication systems. There are presentations on topics like the costs of cyber attacks, the WannaCry ransomware attack, communication strategies during incidents, and effective critical notification systems. Contact information is provided for CORE Consulting in India and the UAE. The document seems to be advertising Emreach's critical two-way enterprise notification system.
Demonstrating Value Of Business Continuity Program Using Quantitative Scoring...Continuity and Resilience
This document summarizes information from a business continuity and resilience summit, including contact details for the hosting organization and an overview of limitations of business continuity exercises. It also provides examples of analyzing incident response through quantitative metrics and identifying gaps to improve continuity plans and response.
This document provides an overview of ISO 27017 and discusses its key aspects:
- ISO 27017 provides additional guidance for implementing cloud security controls from ISO 27002.
- It defines 7 new controls for cloud security around areas like roles and responsibilities, asset removal, virtualization security, and network segmentation.
- The standard establishes guidelines for both cloud service customers and providers around implementing controls for areas such as access control, operations security, and supplier relationships.
SecureTech 2014: Risk, Business Continuity and Cybersecurity - A Resiliency ...poore120
The document discusses critical infrastructure resilience and risk from the perspective of business continuity and cybersecurity. It addresses three main topics: 1) lessons learned about resilience and risk from taking a traditional business continuity approach to the next level, 2) the ongoing problem of cybersecurity and what risk and continuity professionals need to know, and 3) actions organizations can take to improve collaboration in managing risks from disruptions, including involving business continuity in cybersecurity incidents.
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.
Continuity and Resilience (CORE) is an ISO 22301 BCM consulting firm that will be presenting at the 6th Middle East Business & IT Resilience Summit on March 30, 2017 at The Address – Dubai Mall. CORE has offices in Abu Dhabi, UAE and New Delhi, India and provides consulting services on business continuity management and the UAE Occupational Health and Safety Management System National Standard AE/SCNS/NCEMA 6000:2016.
James Dean is an experienced network infrastructure professional with expertise in implementing and supporting reliable network infrastructures. He manages network, server, desktop, and help desk teams, focusing on areas like systems builds, upgrades, monitoring, and security. His goal is to implement reliable network infrastructures through best practices and mentor his teams to support the network and users. He has a track record of success stories like saving $1.5 million and building network infrastructures to support over 1000 users.
Compliance refers to conforming with or obeying rules and regulations determined by law or a governing body. Non-compliance can be problematic for organizations as it can result in expensive legal violations, loss of business opportunities, and huge penalties. To avoid these issues, companies should establish a compliance program that creates procedures to ensure rules are followed consistently and on time. A digital compliance application can help companies track compliance events, generate alerts, and communicate requirements, turning the program into an asset that raises employee productivity while avoiding unnecessary costs.
5 Perspectives of ISO/IEC 27001 Certification from a Relying PartyPECB
This document discusses the importance of establishing a baseline between a relying party and their suppliers when the relying party is seeking security assurances from the suppliers. It provides examples of how a community of relying parties and suppliers can work to establish a common understanding of risks and threats. Specifically, it describes how a card protection industry established a common threat assessment that suppliers would use in their ISO27001 risk assessments to help ensure consistent risk identification and analysis across the community. The document advocates that open engagement between relying parties and suppliers is important to understand how each views and assesses risks.
Managed IT services provided by a Managed Service Provider (MSP) can take over all IT operations for a business to reduce costs and increase productivity. An MSP will manage, monitor, and resolve all IT issues so businesses can focus on core operations. Services include infrastructure and desktop support for 24/7 monitoring and maintenance, managed security, cloud services, and business continuity through backups and disaster recovery. MSPs also provide IT consulting to enhance security, develop efficiencies, and establish best practices through strategic guidance. Outsourcing to an MSP allows businesses to focus on growth while ensuring infrastructure is secure and costs are controlled.
SMBs outsource their IT needs to managed service providers (MSPs) for several key reasons: (1) MSPs can securely manage the growing number of devices and networks that SMBs rely on; (2) MSPs take on the technical responsibilities of ensuring security, freeing up SMBs to focus on their business; (3) Unlike a single in-house IT employee, an MSP provides a full team to address all of an SMB's technical needs.
This document contains contact information for Progressive Intelligence (UK) Ltd. and its subsidiaries in various countries. It then provides a summary of the company, which offers advisory and implementation services to mid to large companies across industries. It focuses on areas like business recovery, operational consolidation, and ICT strategy. The document lists some of its major client engagements, which involved roles like interim COO, advisor, and managing large projects for organizations in industries like mobile security, media, consulting, and more.
Technology Challenges Facing Small Staff AssociationsOSIbeyond
This document discusses the technology challenges facing small non-profit organizations with limited staff. It notes that remote access to data is important as telecommuting has risen 87% since 2005. The CEO of Association of YMCA Professionals discusses how moving to the cloud eliminated server crashes, upgrades, hardware maintenance and capacity issues. Most small non-profits do not have in-house expertise to properly assess their technology needs. Hidden costs of maintaining on-premise systems include power, cooling, internet connectivity and physical security. One non-profit was able to significantly reduce energy bills and technology costs and increase productivity by moving to the cloud.
Thanks to globalization and the emergence and wide spread of new technologies, the world has become a very interconnected place during the past decades. This change has happened and is happening at an ever increasing speed.As a consequence, management and leadership have become increasingly challenging to deal with the resulting complexity. To succeed, traditional approaches to management and leadership are not enough. We need to continuously grow and adapt our leadership capabilities.In this Session you will learn how to cope with this challenge. I will share stories, insights and tools that will help you to increase your leadership bandwidth, making you better prepared for leading in a complex world.One key element is a decent understanding of Systems Thinking, Human System Dynamics and Complex Adaptive Systems theory. All these are very inspiring, yet as a leader I had difficulties to translate these into something actionable and useful in my daily life. And talking to many others (not only leaders) I found that many people share that challenge. So, in this talk you will learn about tools that enable you to deal with complexity from a leadership perspective. I will share stories about how these tools have helped me and my team. You will also learn how to embrace the mindset shift related to Agile and you will learn how to take better decisions using modern leadership approaches. This talk is based on my own experiences as a leader in an agile transformation (2000+ people) and the great inspirations I got from working and discussing with my group colleagues from the Supporting Agile Adoption program (one of the programs sponsored by the Agile Alliance).
These slides are from my workshop at the OOP 2017 conference in Munich.
Abstract:
Leaders are often talking about change. But often we do not get the change we wanted. Somehow we feel our culture is hitting back. A root cause is, that Complexity and Systems Thinking are hard to grasp and even harder to apply practically. In this workshop I will – based on my own experience being a senior transformational leader in a several 1000 people organization - introduce you to a Systems Thinking tool that can help you make your organizational evolution successful. Together we will try out the tool.
With over 16 years of experience in the IT services business, Gant Systems is a managed IT solutions provider with a focus on small and medium-sized businesses. We provide proactive day-to-day maintenance with remote monitoring and on-site visits for emergencies.
Benefits of an MSP: Increased ProfitabilityThe TNS Group
One of the quickest ways to increase profitability and productivity is to work with an IT Managed Service Provider (MSP).
Outsourcing your IT to a Managed Service Provider costs less than hiring a full-time staff member. With an MSP you also have access to an engineering team with a wide range of IT resources and proficiency in multiple technical disciplines.
2 ppt final dan shoemaker dd1 stockholm presentationGlobalForum
The document discusses supply chain risk management (SCRM) and outlines its goals of ensuring sourced hardware and software products are functional and secure. SCRM encompasses five categories of risk related to malicious or counterfeit components, production disruptions, unqualified suppliers, and vulnerabilities. The key outcome of SCRM is guaranteeing products only do their intended functions. SCRM is implemented through security controls and a formal process to analyze and prioritize risks through defense in depth. The aim of SCRM is to fully understand risks when making sourcing decisions.
ITIL for those who Don't have the TimeManageEngine
This document provides an overview of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and discusses some of its key modules and concepts. It addresses common concerns around ITIL such as perceived complexity, cost and whether it is suitable for small- and medium-sized businesses. The document recommends starting with the ITIL v3 core modules and considering affordable software options that include pre-built ITIL frameworks to help implement key processes without requiring expensive consultants.
The Role of Technology in the Legal Industry 1E-MIT Solutions
This document summarizes a breakfast briefing event discussing the role of technology in the legal industry. The event featured several speakers from technology and legal firms. They discussed current trends like cloud computing, mobility, and collaboration tools. They also covered important issues for legal firms regarding technology, including cash flow, risk management, case management, and disaster recovery. The speakers from E-MIT Solutions focused on the challenges of mobile security and the importance of having a disaster recovery and business continuity plan in place. The event aimed to promote interaction between legal and IT professionals on these topics.
Reengineered virtual infrastructure for a leading private equity enterprise.Mindtree Ltd.
Mindtree helped an award-winning global asset management enterprise close critical gaps in its IT infrastructure to ensure higher performance and customer satisfaction at lower cost.
Basic security awareness training for small and midsize businesses focusing on social engineering tactics and concepts. Customizable for individual organizations
1. Cloudsourcing involves outsourcing IT operations and infrastructure management to cloud service providers in order to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and focus on core business operations.
2. The key benefits of cloudsourcing include cost reduction, scalability, access to expertise, improved security, and the ability to keep pace with new technologies without large capital investments.
3. Choosing a cloudsourcing partner allows organizations to benefit from round-the-clock support, expertise, scalability, and security while reducing labor costs, hardware costs, and the burden of compliance requirements.
General Technologies India Pvt Ltd is a technology company that has been helping enterprises with their technology needs for over 3 decades. It offers various managed IT services including managed IT services, managed networking services, managed IT security, and managed cloud services. It also provides solutions related to IT infrastructure, networking, security, cloud, disaster recovery, and more. Additionally, it discusses its goals, services, solutions, business-as-a-service model, e-waste management, brand partners, and clients.
Managed IT Services is a vague term that can cover a range of business functions, applications, systems, payroll. In this blog, we will explore Managed IT Services.
DSS is established to innovate and strive for betterment in business solutions. We are aiming three innovation pillars in software, digital and renewable energy solution.
Why rely on SunGard? You can trust us to get it right. We take extreme pride in our 100% success rate supporting customer recoveries—over more than 30 years in business—and our continued ability to answer your needs in an ever-changing industry. Our culture is centered around meeting our obligations, and we have a passion to provide outstanding customer service.
Penntech is a leading provider of IT managed services in London. We offer a wide range of IT services, from strategic project management to remote support.
What sets us apart is that we never tie clients into long contracts. We are confident of our ability to go above and beyond, so we don’t need to.
We’re proud to have 100% client retention since the business began.
James Dean is an experienced network infrastructure professional with expertise in implementing and supporting reliable network infrastructures. He manages network, server, desktop, and help desk teams, focusing on areas like systems builds, upgrades, monitoring, and security. His goal is to implement reliable network infrastructures through best practices and mentor his teams to support the network and users. He has a track record of success stories like saving $1.5 million and building network infrastructures to support over 1000 users.
Compliance refers to conforming with or obeying rules and regulations determined by law or a governing body. Non-compliance can be problematic for organizations as it can result in expensive legal violations, loss of business opportunities, and huge penalties. To avoid these issues, companies should establish a compliance program that creates procedures to ensure rules are followed consistently and on time. A digital compliance application can help companies track compliance events, generate alerts, and communicate requirements, turning the program into an asset that raises employee productivity while avoiding unnecessary costs.
5 Perspectives of ISO/IEC 27001 Certification from a Relying PartyPECB
This document discusses the importance of establishing a baseline between a relying party and their suppliers when the relying party is seeking security assurances from the suppliers. It provides examples of how a community of relying parties and suppliers can work to establish a common understanding of risks and threats. Specifically, it describes how a card protection industry established a common threat assessment that suppliers would use in their ISO27001 risk assessments to help ensure consistent risk identification and analysis across the community. The document advocates that open engagement between relying parties and suppliers is important to understand how each views and assesses risks.
Managed IT services provided by a Managed Service Provider (MSP) can take over all IT operations for a business to reduce costs and increase productivity. An MSP will manage, monitor, and resolve all IT issues so businesses can focus on core operations. Services include infrastructure and desktop support for 24/7 monitoring and maintenance, managed security, cloud services, and business continuity through backups and disaster recovery. MSPs also provide IT consulting to enhance security, develop efficiencies, and establish best practices through strategic guidance. Outsourcing to an MSP allows businesses to focus on growth while ensuring infrastructure is secure and costs are controlled.
SMBs outsource their IT needs to managed service providers (MSPs) for several key reasons: (1) MSPs can securely manage the growing number of devices and networks that SMBs rely on; (2) MSPs take on the technical responsibilities of ensuring security, freeing up SMBs to focus on their business; (3) Unlike a single in-house IT employee, an MSP provides a full team to address all of an SMB's technical needs.
This document contains contact information for Progressive Intelligence (UK) Ltd. and its subsidiaries in various countries. It then provides a summary of the company, which offers advisory and implementation services to mid to large companies across industries. It focuses on areas like business recovery, operational consolidation, and ICT strategy. The document lists some of its major client engagements, which involved roles like interim COO, advisor, and managing large projects for organizations in industries like mobile security, media, consulting, and more.
Technology Challenges Facing Small Staff AssociationsOSIbeyond
This document discusses the technology challenges facing small non-profit organizations with limited staff. It notes that remote access to data is important as telecommuting has risen 87% since 2005. The CEO of Association of YMCA Professionals discusses how moving to the cloud eliminated server crashes, upgrades, hardware maintenance and capacity issues. Most small non-profits do not have in-house expertise to properly assess their technology needs. Hidden costs of maintaining on-premise systems include power, cooling, internet connectivity and physical security. One non-profit was able to significantly reduce energy bills and technology costs and increase productivity by moving to the cloud.
Thanks to globalization and the emergence and wide spread of new technologies, the world has become a very interconnected place during the past decades. This change has happened and is happening at an ever increasing speed.As a consequence, management and leadership have become increasingly challenging to deal with the resulting complexity. To succeed, traditional approaches to management and leadership are not enough. We need to continuously grow and adapt our leadership capabilities.In this Session you will learn how to cope with this challenge. I will share stories, insights and tools that will help you to increase your leadership bandwidth, making you better prepared for leading in a complex world.One key element is a decent understanding of Systems Thinking, Human System Dynamics and Complex Adaptive Systems theory. All these are very inspiring, yet as a leader I had difficulties to translate these into something actionable and useful in my daily life. And talking to many others (not only leaders) I found that many people share that challenge. So, in this talk you will learn about tools that enable you to deal with complexity from a leadership perspective. I will share stories about how these tools have helped me and my team. You will also learn how to embrace the mindset shift related to Agile and you will learn how to take better decisions using modern leadership approaches. This talk is based on my own experiences as a leader in an agile transformation (2000+ people) and the great inspirations I got from working and discussing with my group colleagues from the Supporting Agile Adoption program (one of the programs sponsored by the Agile Alliance).
These slides are from my workshop at the OOP 2017 conference in Munich.
Abstract:
Leaders are often talking about change. But often we do not get the change we wanted. Somehow we feel our culture is hitting back. A root cause is, that Complexity and Systems Thinking are hard to grasp and even harder to apply practically. In this workshop I will – based on my own experience being a senior transformational leader in a several 1000 people organization - introduce you to a Systems Thinking tool that can help you make your organizational evolution successful. Together we will try out the tool.
With over 16 years of experience in the IT services business, Gant Systems is a managed IT solutions provider with a focus on small and medium-sized businesses. We provide proactive day-to-day maintenance with remote monitoring and on-site visits for emergencies.
Benefits of an MSP: Increased ProfitabilityThe TNS Group
One of the quickest ways to increase profitability and productivity is to work with an IT Managed Service Provider (MSP).
Outsourcing your IT to a Managed Service Provider costs less than hiring a full-time staff member. With an MSP you also have access to an engineering team with a wide range of IT resources and proficiency in multiple technical disciplines.
2 ppt final dan shoemaker dd1 stockholm presentationGlobalForum
The document discusses supply chain risk management (SCRM) and outlines its goals of ensuring sourced hardware and software products are functional and secure. SCRM encompasses five categories of risk related to malicious or counterfeit components, production disruptions, unqualified suppliers, and vulnerabilities. The key outcome of SCRM is guaranteeing products only do their intended functions. SCRM is implemented through security controls and a formal process to analyze and prioritize risks through defense in depth. The aim of SCRM is to fully understand risks when making sourcing decisions.
ITIL for those who Don't have the TimeManageEngine
This document provides an overview of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and discusses some of its key modules and concepts. It addresses common concerns around ITIL such as perceived complexity, cost and whether it is suitable for small- and medium-sized businesses. The document recommends starting with the ITIL v3 core modules and considering affordable software options that include pre-built ITIL frameworks to help implement key processes without requiring expensive consultants.
The Role of Technology in the Legal Industry 1E-MIT Solutions
This document summarizes a breakfast briefing event discussing the role of technology in the legal industry. The event featured several speakers from technology and legal firms. They discussed current trends like cloud computing, mobility, and collaboration tools. They also covered important issues for legal firms regarding technology, including cash flow, risk management, case management, and disaster recovery. The speakers from E-MIT Solutions focused on the challenges of mobile security and the importance of having a disaster recovery and business continuity plan in place. The event aimed to promote interaction between legal and IT professionals on these topics.
Reengineered virtual infrastructure for a leading private equity enterprise.Mindtree Ltd.
Mindtree helped an award-winning global asset management enterprise close critical gaps in its IT infrastructure to ensure higher performance and customer satisfaction at lower cost.
Basic security awareness training for small and midsize businesses focusing on social engineering tactics and concepts. Customizable for individual organizations
1. Cloudsourcing involves outsourcing IT operations and infrastructure management to cloud service providers in order to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and focus on core business operations.
2. The key benefits of cloudsourcing include cost reduction, scalability, access to expertise, improved security, and the ability to keep pace with new technologies without large capital investments.
3. Choosing a cloudsourcing partner allows organizations to benefit from round-the-clock support, expertise, scalability, and security while reducing labor costs, hardware costs, and the burden of compliance requirements.
General Technologies India Pvt Ltd is a technology company that has been helping enterprises with their technology needs for over 3 decades. It offers various managed IT services including managed IT services, managed networking services, managed IT security, and managed cloud services. It also provides solutions related to IT infrastructure, networking, security, cloud, disaster recovery, and more. Additionally, it discusses its goals, services, solutions, business-as-a-service model, e-waste management, brand partners, and clients.
Managed IT Services is a vague term that can cover a range of business functions, applications, systems, payroll. In this blog, we will explore Managed IT Services.
DSS is established to innovate and strive for betterment in business solutions. We are aiming three innovation pillars in software, digital and renewable energy solution.
Why rely on SunGard? You can trust us to get it right. We take extreme pride in our 100% success rate supporting customer recoveries—over more than 30 years in business—and our continued ability to answer your needs in an ever-changing industry. Our culture is centered around meeting our obligations, and we have a passion to provide outstanding customer service.
Penntech is a leading provider of IT managed services in London. We offer a wide range of IT services, from strategic project management to remote support.
What sets us apart is that we never tie clients into long contracts. We are confident of our ability to go above and beyond, so we don’t need to.
We’re proud to have 100% client retention since the business began.
Newstead Technologies is an IT solutions company incorporated in 1999 that has expanded to over 50 retail outlets in Singapore. It offers a full range of IT products and services including enterprise solutions, mechanical and engineering services, software development, and system integration. The company has over 300 million in annual revenue and serves clients across various industries such as education, food and beverage, banking, government, and more. It provides comprehensive IT consulting, infrastructure support, and audiovisual integration services to help businesses harness the benefits of technology.
A small tip for those still relying on an in-house IT team. It just isn’t as efficient, as most companies do not have the resources or system capabilities to handle a developing digital business.
Thus far you may have just set aside the notion of outsourcing support because your IT infrastructure is “fine.” Or even because of the cost. Now is the time to rethink that idea.
GLOBAL SERVICES provides IT solutions and services to businesses. It is a 5-year old proprietorship owned by Sachin Khopkar, who has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. The company aims to be a trusted, one-stop provider of high quality and cost-effective IT services. It offers services including software/hardware installation, troubleshooting, networking, data storage/backup solutions, and CCTV sales and services.
SunGard Availability Services delivers secure, resilient IT infrastructure and organisational availability services through a unique combination of scalable, managed IT production environments and Workplace Recovery centres, with the added benefit of remote access solutions for your workforce: Connected via our private network across our multiple locations and all supported by experience gained from five decades of keeping businesses resilient.
It has become clear that managed IT services are essential to gaining and preserving this competitiveness. Maintaining competitiveness in today's dynamic business growth environment necessitates strategically using technology.
NetGain Technologies is a regional IT services provider that has expanded nationally through acquisitions. They offer a range of managed IT services including managed IT, security, cloud computing, Microsoft solutions, storage/virtualization, disaster recovery, and unified communications. Their services are tailored to each client and aim to allow clients to focus on their business while NetGain handles supporting IT systems. They emphasize developing trusting relationships with clients and having certified staff to provide direct support.
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Cloud platforms drive marketing campaigns that offer to simplify the hardest challenges of information technology. From resilience to scalability, disaster recovery to management, the cloud platforms offer to take the challenge off of the table forever! It can be easy to ?buy in? to the platform. Too often, we find out later that our responsibility as architects cannot ?end at the door? to the provider, that there are provisos and implementation considerations we discover ? often after the provider falls down.
The document discusses next generation managed IT services. It notes that more companies are outsourcing their IT departments to managed service providers (MSPs) to reduce costs and gain access to a variety of services and skills. MSPs help with security, uptime, access to new technologies, and cost savings over in-house IT. Next generation managed services involve managing more elements beyond hardware like security, cloud services, mobile devices, printing, and communications. These services can provision software, platforms, and infrastructure instantly on Microsoft Azure and Office 365 to reduce costs. The document emphasizes that proper management partners are needed for compliance, operations, and cost control when moving to cloud services.
7 Benefits of 24_7 Managed IT Support.pdfMetaorange
Complex IT Environment: Organizations with complex roles might need an equally complex IT environment. Such environments are best run by professionals.
Need for Proactive Maintenance: Proactive maintenance costs much less than maintenance performed after an incident. Using internal professionals for such activities often disturbs their original work.
This document outlines 10 reasons for businesses to consider outsourcing their IT infrastructure to a managed service provider like C24. It argues that outsourcing can reduce costs by paying only for resources used, eliminate operational overheads of maintaining an on-site IT system, and provide access to expert resources and the latest technologies. Outsourcing also offers business agility, continuity during disasters, improved security, and reduces risks from system failures and data loss. The document claims a managed service can free up in-house IT staff to focus on strategic work rather than system maintenance.
This presentation was delivered by OneNeck IT Services' Anicetus Fernando in a webinar to explore how cloud hosting and managed services can provide the agility that businesses need while helping lower the overall costs associated with maintaining a Microsoft Dynamics AX environment.
The OneNeck Dynamics AX cloud hosting solution provides a flexible framework for an AX environment that has the ability to rapidly deploy new implementations, enhance operations, increase the ability to scale, and reduce overall costs.
Specific topics covered in this webinar included:
• Key considerations your organization should make before moving to the cloud
• An overview of the most common AX migration/deployment methods for:
o New implementations
o Upgrades to AX 2012
o Technology Refreshes
• Advantages of cloud-enabled AX hosting and management
• Additional Microsoft products that can be supported in cloud, including CRM, SharePoint, Exchange, etc.
Email scott.fitzgerald@oneneck.com if you would like a link to the presentation including audio.
Presenter: Anilkumar Khadke
Offering Leader -BCRS, India and South Asia, 19 May 2014
1. Changing business realities
2. Evolving the business continuity approach
3. Business Continuity Key components
4. Life-cycles of business Resilience
5. Incident Management
6. Tools to explore
7. RAR Initiative
Similar to Balancing Resiliency … with Availability, Continuity, Recoverability (20)
The Business Continuity Conference, 25th October 2023 in Riyadh - Mr. Atiq BajwaContinuity and Resilience
Business Continuity Strategies
What is a Business Continuity Strategy?
Keeping the ISO-22301 definition of Business Continuity in mind, the aim of a Business Continuity Strategy should be:
“To continue the delivery of products and services at predefined capacity during a disruption”
So a Business Continuity strategy should:
Meet the Minimum Business Continuity Objectives (MBCO)
Legal and regulatory requirements
Contractual commitments
Quantity, Quality, time commitments with the customers
Practical
Cost Effective
An effective business continuity strategy should be specific to the needs of an organization
It should be:
Able to meet the MBCO
Practical
Cost effective
Business Continuity Strategies should be regularly reviewed and updated to remain relevant and effective.
A strategy considered effective today may not be effective in 6 months.
The Business Continuity Conference, 25th October 2023 in Riyadh - Nuha EltinayContinuity and Resilience
Building Urban Resilience in Critical Infrastructure
Assets, systems, and networks that are essential by governments for the functioning of a society and economy and deserving of special protection for national security.
The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management (UNDRR).
The FIVE ICLEI PATHWAYS reflect ICLEI’s approach to achieving a sustainable city as well as local contributions to implementing the goals laid out in international frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals. Any of our individual projects or initiatives can be oriented along one or more specific pathways. We also look at how the pathways connect to bring about change in an INTEGRATED way. For example, we consider how nature-based development contributes to resilience, or how to bring equity into low emission development.
Cities need to look at resilience from a systemic governance perspective
Integrated management starts with wide-scale mobilization of support from stakeholders and robust facts and data.
Challenges often lie in the acceleration and upscaling of activities. Individual best practice is easier to achieve, follow-up funding and investment is challenging
The Business Continuity Conference, 25th October 2023 in Riyadh - Paul GantContinuity and Resilience
The five essential elements of optimising your BC programme through technology -
1. Securing Accurate Data
2. Delivering Programme Compliance
3. Turning Data into Intelligence
4. Enabling Continuous Improvement
5. Positioning in a Risk World
The Business Continuity Conference, 25th October 2023 in Riyadh - David Boll...Continuity and Resilience
IT Disaster Recovery – Challenges and Solutions.
What is IT DR?
1. The ability to respond and recover from disruptions to IT infrastructure, networking, systems, equipment and data to support business continuity.
2. Originated from the legacy environment of mainframes where IT was centralised and had a major impact.
3. Further improved to IT DR sites to manage failover:
Cold
Warm
Hot
4. Traditionally strategies related to data backup by tape only.
5. Introduction of cloud and SAAS solutions has improved resilience through decentralisation.
Next step cloud-to-cloud DR solutions?
Why IT DR?
IT DR is critical and always important, which is often not given enough focus in BCM programs
Critical component of resilience
IT DR and IT resilience is a critical element of a thorough BCM system and resilience program
High % of real disruptions
It failures continue to be a leading cause of business continuity disruption.
Examples?
More important that ever
With increasing reliance on IT and digitisation, complexity and new risks, the requirement for IT DR continues to become even more important
Make or break your recovery
A well defined, implemented and exercised IT DR program is essential to the recovery of business delivery of products and services
The Business Continuity Conference, 25th October 2023 in Riyadh - Abdulrahma...Continuity and Resilience
Lessons from a Chief Continuity Officer-
A Chief Continuity Officer (CCO) is responsible for ensuring that an organization's critical operations continue despite any disruptions or crises.
1. Build a robust business continuity plan.
2. Foster a culture of preparedness.
3. Establish clear roles and responsibilities.
4. Develop strong partnerships.
5. Implement robust technology systems.
6. Continuously assess and mitigate risks.
7. Communicate effectively.
8. Learn from incidents.
Remember, flexibility and adaptability are key in the ever-changing landscape of continuity management. As a CCO, it's essential to stay proactive, be prepared for unexpected events, and continuously improve the organization's ability to recover and thrive in the face of disruptions.
Business Resilience and its components often gather varied points of view and impressions from practitioners, champions, consultants, and other related stakeholders.
Over time there are few misconceptions that seem to have held on and often turn out to be counterproductive to the vision and goal of such programs.
CREATING should eventually lead to putting in place a comprehensive Program covering all phases of the full BCM Lifecycle – Plan, Do, Check and Act
MAINTAINING involves performing the activities to keep the BCM Program appropriate and relevant for the upcoming future – including Improvement. This covers:
Almost all BCM standards and guidelines make it mandatory to build a BCM culture. This is best done by ensuring ongoing and regular emphasis on the concept of Business Continuity, and its importance to the organization.
Business Continuity Compliance
Cycle
Regulatory
Internal
Third party
Industry Compliance
SecOps
Review and maintain
Regulatory Compliance
Meet the Specific Compliance requirements by SAMA, NCA, CITC etc..
Industry Specific Compliance
For BFSI – SAMA, NCA
For Telco – CITC, NCA
For hospitality - STA, NCA
Third Party
ISO , 27001, 27021 ,
COSO , NIST, NESA
HIPAA , 27005 RISK
internal
Compliance to internal Polices , procedures Standards
InfoSec, Financial , HR, IT
SecOps
Adherence to specific Cyber Security –First line of defense polices
Vulnerability Assessment.
Identification of BCM related risks and comply to the remediation
BCM Maintenance Plan
This phase maintain the BCP in a constant ready-state. The maintenance process of a BCMS is constant and dynamic.
Crisis is an inherent abnormal, unstable, and complex situation that represents a threat to the strategic objectives, reputation or existence of an organization.
(ISO 22361 Crisis Management Guidelines)
Crisis Management is a coordinated activities to lead, direct and control an organization with regard to a crisis.
(ISO 22329: Crisis Management Guidelines)
Cyber security and IT resilience is a journey, not a destination, and we need to consider how business continuity, integrated with them.
This is becoming more and more prevalent at Board level and is having significant impacts, particularly on sectors.
Enterprise resilience goes beyond organizational and operational resilience.
It indicates an organization's ability to:
Dynamically plan, prepare, and understand risks and critical functions;
Anticipate disruptions and potential downstream impacts;
Respond progressively in a coordinated, organized, and controlled manner; and
Recover, adapt, and evolve to improve future responses.
Enterprise resilience encompasses cyber and physical threats across all geographies.
Enterprise resilience goes beyond organizational and operational resilience.
It indicates an organization's ability to:
Dynamically plan, prepare, and understand risks and critical functions;
Anticipate disruptions and potential downstream impacts;
Respond in a coordinated, organized, and controlled manner; and
Recover, adapt, and evolve to improve future responses.
Enterprise resilience encompasses cyber and physical threats across all geographies.
“The best way to get management excited about a resiliency plan is to have a fire in one of your production data centers.”
Presented by Daman Dev Sood, Continuity & Resilience (CORE)
Introduction:
Over 33 years in the industry
Over 15 years in BCM a related domains
National and Global Winner of the BCI Awards
AFBCI
Mix of experience as Practitioner, Trainer, and Consultant
BCI Approved Instructor
Presented by Dhiraj Lal
About Continuity & Resilience (CORE)
Consulting Services (ISO 22301 Certified)
Cyber Security
Business Continuity Management
Crisis Management
IT Disaster Recovery
Information Security
Risk Management
Training Services
NCEMA developed Training (we are trainers for the NCEMA courses at GCAS, NCEMA licensed training entity)
CORE is an approved Global Training partner for the UK based Business Continuity Institute licensed to conduct BCI trainings anywhere in the Globe
Notification and Automation Tools
CORE acts as a enabler between the partner & client by providing support for:
Gather requirements
Shortlist Vendors
Subject matter expertise for tool selection
Perform Vendor Demos
Tool installation & implementation
support for BC, ITDR & Notification
Assistance during tool testing
The document summarizes a presentation by Regus on the value of workplace services in the Middle East. Regus is the largest provider of coworking spaces and offers business continuity and disaster recovery solutions including temporary workspace. It discusses Regus' dynamic recovery program which provides flexible options to recover operations near the primary office, employee homes, or elsewhere. The presentation highlights issues with traditional static recovery models and emphasizes the need for scalable, geographically diverse solutions to ensure business resilience in the face of disruptions.
Presented by-Kashish Jhamb Cityinnovates
What’s a Social Media Crisis?CRISIS? Really?
If there’s a high volume of incoming social media messages on one particular topic or negative comments, chances are you have a social media crisis on your hands.
A communications crisis can strike at any time. It could be a faulty product, a lousy campaign, or a slip of the tongue from someone higher up.
It doesn’t matter the industry you’re in, or how popular you’ve been to this point. Sometimes, it just happens.
Waiting for a social media crisis to blow over is never an option. If you ignore it, it will likely get worse. Social media can be an asset in a crisis when used correctly, not an extra problem.
How to identify a Crisis on Social Media
When the public knows more (than your company) about the issue and they voice it on social media that’s your first sign of a social media crisis
If you start receiving a negative review in series on a particular product or a service then it is a sign of social media crisis
If you get more than 10 negative mentions per hour, for more than three consecutive hours then it is a sign of social media crisis
Presented by Ramesh Ramani (LRQA)
AGENDA
Introduction-BCMS and ISMS
International Standards, UAE Regulations (NCEMA, ADSIC, NESA, ISR, GDPR). Dubai Data Law
PDCA Cycle
Common Factors-BCMS and ISMS
Organisational Considerations
Joint Project Management
Where this will work?
Where this will not work
Q&A
This document summarizes presentations from the 8th Middle East Business & IT Resilience Summit in Dubai on crisis communication and business continuity management in the aviation sector. It discusses the importance of having crisis communication plans that outline procedures for sharing information with stakeholders during emergencies. It also emphasizes establishing documented media response procedures and multiple communication systems with alternative channels to ensure notification, verification, stabilization and recovery across phases of a disruptive incident. Speakers stressed establishing early warning detection sensors, infrastructure with redundant communication mediums, and exercises to simulate communication during crises.
m249-saw PMI To familiarize the soldier with the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon ...LinghuaKong2
M249 Saw marksman PMIThe Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), or 5.56mm M249 is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change barrel feature. The M249 engages point targets out to 800 meters, firing the improved NATO standard 5.56mm cartridge.The SAW forms the basis of firepower for the fire team. The gunner has the option of using 30-round M16 magazines or linked ammunition from pre-loaded 200-round plastic magazines. The gunner's basic load is 600 rounds of linked ammunition.The SAW was developed through an initially Army-led research and development effort and eventually a Joint NDO program in the late 1970s/early 1980s to restore sustained and accurate automatic weapons fire to the fire team and squad. When actually fielded in the mid-1980s, the SAW was issued as a one-for-one replacement for the designated "automatic rifle" (M16A1) in the Fire Team. In this regard, the SAW filled the void created by the retirement of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) during the 1950s because interim automatic weapons (e.g. M-14E2/M16A1) had failed as viable "base of fire" weapons.
Early in the SAW's fielding, the Army identified the need for a Product Improvement Program (PIP) to enhance the weapon. This effort resulted in a "PIP kit" which modifies the barrel, handguard, stock, pistol grip, buffer, and sights.
The M249 machine gun is an ideal complementary weapon system for the infantry squad platoon. It is light enough to be carried and operated by one man, and can be fired from the hip in an assault, even when loaded with a 200-round ammunition box. The barrel change facility ensures that it can continue to fire for long periods. The US Army has conducted strenuous trials on the M249 MG, showing that this weapon has a reliability factor that is well above that of most other small arms weapon systems. Today, the US Army and Marine Corps utilize the license-produced M249 SAW.
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growth & transformation.
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In this write up we will talk about why corporates need to innovate, why most of them of failing and need to startups and corporate start collaborating with each other for survival
At the end of the conversation the CIO asked us 3 questions which sparked us to write this blog.
1 Do my organisation need innovation ?
2 Even if I need Innovation why are so many other corporates of our size fail in innovation ?
3 How can I test it in most cost effective way ?
First let's address the Elephant in the room, is Innovation optional ?
Relevance for customers
Building Business Reslience
competitive advantage
Corporate innovation is essential for businesses striving to remain relevant and competitive in today's rapidly evolving market. By continuously developing new products, services, and processes, companies can better meet the changing needs and preferences of their customers. For instance, Apple's regular release of new iPhone models keeps them at the forefront of consumer technology, while Amazon's introduction of Prime services has revolutionized online shopping convenience. Statistics show that innovative companies are 2.5 times more likely to have high-performance outcomes compared to their peers.
This proactive approach not only helps in retaining existing customers but also attracts new ones, ensuring sustained growth and market presence.
Furthermore, innovation fosters a culture of creativity and adaptability within organizations, enabling them to quickly respond to emerging trends and disruptions. In essence, corporate innovation is the driving force that keeps companies aligned with customer expectations, ultimately leading to long-term success and relevance.
Business Resilience
Building business resilience is paramount for companies looking to thrive amidst uncertainties and disruptions. Corporate innovation plays a crucial role in fostering this resilience by enabling businesses to adapt, evolve, and maintain continuity during challenging times. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies that swiftly innovated their business models, such as shifting to remote work or expanding e-commerce capabilities, managed to survive and even thrive. According to a McKinsey report, organizations that prioritize innovation are 30% more likely to be high-growth companies. Innovation not only helps in developing new revenue streams but also in creating more efficient processes and resilient supply chains. This agility allows companies to quickly pivot in response to market changes, ensuring they can weather economic downturns, technological disruptions, and other unforeseen challenges. Therefore, corporate innovation is not just a strategy for growth but a vital component of building a robust and resilient business capable of sustaining long-term success.
Many companies have perceived CRM that accompanied by numerous
uncoordinated initiatives as a technological solution for problems in
individual areas. However, CRM should be considered as a strategy when
a company decides to implement it due to its humanitarian, technological
and process-related effects (Mendoza et al., 2007, p. 913). CRM is
evolving today as it should be seen as a strategy for maintaining a longterm relationship with customers.
A CRM business strategy includes the internet with the marketing,
sales, operations, customer services, human resources, R&D, finance, and
information technology departments to achieve the company’s purpose and
maximize the profitability of customer interactions (Chen and Popovich,
2003, p. 673).
After Corona Virus Disease-2019/Covid-19 (Coronavirus) first
appeared in Wuhan, China towards the end of 2019, its effects began to
be felt clearly all over the world. If the Coronavirus crisis is not managed
properly in business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer
(B2C) sectors, it can have serious negative consequences. In this crisis,
companies can typically face significant losses in their sales performance,
existing customers and customer satisfaction, interruptions in operations
and accordingly bankruptcy
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