Posts Tagged ‘business continuity’
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
Were you surprised to hear about the worker at the Chicago O’Hare airport last Friday? Certainly I was. Who would have ever thought someone working in the control center would light the hardware on fire, and then try to commit suicide? Unimaginable, right? However, what I was more surprised about was that there was no roll-over contingency operations center in place in the event something catastrophe took out the O’Hare operations center. After all, Chicago is in an area with a wide range of weather events, from blizzards and ice to severe storms and tornadoes, and everything in between. Not to mention that all airports are considered to be a target of a wide number of terrorist groups.
Just two days prior to the incident (more…)
Tags:BCP, business continuity, business resiliency, Chicago O’Hare, compliance documentation, data protection law, disaster recovery, documentation, DR, DR/BCP, facebook, IBM, Information Security, information security risks, infosec, marketing, midmarket, O’Hare fies, privacy, privacy law, privacy professor, privacy risks, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, social media, twitter
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Here’s another awareness raising opportunity…
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Tags:awareness and training, BCP, business continuity, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, Norwich, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, security training
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I’ve been in Vermont this week at the Norwich University MSIA residency week.
It was storming and treacherous with tornadoes when I left my Iowa home on Sunday morning, and it took me two days to get to Vermont because of flight cancellations. Now I’m sitting at the Burlington, VT airport wondering if I will be able to make it home tonight, where Iowa is still experiencing horrific weather, and has sadly seen the tragedy of a tornado, last night, killing four and wounding close to fifty boy scouts at a wilderness camp there.
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Tags:awareness and training, BCP, business continuity, disaster recovery, DR, Information Security, IT compliance, policies and procedures, risk management, security training
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) is March 31st – April 4; at least it is in the UK and throughout Europe.
Business Continuity Awareness Week in Australia is the week from Monday, April 28th – Friday, May 2nd.
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Tags:awareness and training, BCAW, business continuity, Business Continuity Awareness Week, Information Security, IT compliance, policies and procedures, risk management, security awareness, security training
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Here is another example of what a worker, entrusted with access to business files, can do…and also provides a lesson about business continuity…
I just watched a CNN clip, “Cyber Sabotage” that provides a very good example of how costly the insider threat can be.
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Tags:awareness and training, backups, business continuity, CNN, disaster recovery, Information Security, insider threat, IT compliance, Marie Cooley, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy policy, risk management, security awareness, security training, SMBs, Steven E. Hutchins Architects
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Here is another example of what a worker, entrusted with access to business files, can do…and also provides a lesson about business continuity…
I just watched a CNN clip, “Cyber Sabotage” that provides a very good example of how costly the insider threat can be.
(more…)
Tags:awareness and training, backups, business continuity, CNN, disaster recovery, Information Security, insider threat, IT compliance, Marie Cooley, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy policy, risk management, security awareness, security training, SMBs, Steven E. Hutchins Architects
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