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- When Bad Things Happen to Good Projects
- It goes against human nature to always expect the worst. But with IT projects, pessimism - otherwise known as contingency planning - is the only way to keep small technology problems from becoming full-blown business disasters. IT project management has become high art while business contingency planning remains in the...
- Tags: Contingency Planning, Information Technology, IT Project Management, International Data Group, Business Security, Project Management, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Contingency Planning: Meeting HIPAA Security Rule Requirements
- Contingency planning, also referred to as Business Continuity Planning BCP, is about a coordinated strategy that involves plans, procedures and technical measures to enable the recovery of systems, operations, and data after a disruption. Yet, most healthcare organizations either do not have plans or if they do the plans are...
- Tags: Contingency Planning, HIPAA, Computer Associates International Inc., Classification, Business Security, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Business Operations, Data Management
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- Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown
- Following last week's shutdown of 3FN/Pricewert's operations by the FTC, wishful thinkers expected a major decline in the overall spam volume, with botnet masters once again caught off guard just like it happened in November, 2008 with McColo's shutdown. However, according to numerous vendors that doesn't seem...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Malware, FTC, Spam Volume, 3FN/Pricewert, Marshal8e6, Rustock, Pricewert, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Business Security, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Business Operations, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- The Benefits of Risk Assessment for Projects, Portfolios, and Businesses
- Assessing risk at the project, portfolio, and business levels helps understand risk, make better decisions, negotiate fair contracts, create risk mitigation scenarios, and improve teamwork. This white paper shows how risk assessments lead to accurate plans that are less likely to lead to budget overruns or delays. Primavera Risk Analysis...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, Contingency, Benefit, Primavera Risk Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2009-06-01
- IBS Interview: Barry Cardoza, Union Bank
- Barry Cardoza, vice president of business continuity, contingency and disaster planning at San Francisco-based Union Bank and a national voice in bank Business Continuity Planning BCP, is worried. Off late, federally regulated banks must comply with BCP guidelines issued in 2008 by the US Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council FFIEC....
- Tags: Bank, Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity, IBS Publishing, Business Security, It Services, Financial Services, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Reviewing your pandemic plans has just become job #1
- Guest post: With the focus on bird flu in recent years, it’s sort of unexpected to hear that the latest pandemic might, in fact, not come from flying descendents of dinosaurs but might be the result of a combination of human, bird and swine influenza viruses that have evolved inside pigs and...
- Tags: Job, Outbreak, Flu, Contingency Plan, VPNs, Remote Access, Network Security, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?
- Updated: Spies have reportedly been probing the U.S. electrical grid for months and planting software that could be activated at a future date, according to a Wall Street Journal. The report highlights the latest vulnerabilities facing U.S. power infrastructure. The Journal notes that the spies are from China,...
- Tags: Security, SCADA, Grid, Master Station, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- International Kaspersky sites susceptible to SQL injection attacks
- According to a security group going under the name of TeamElite, the international sites of Kaspersky Iran (kasperskylabs.ir), Taiwan (web.kaspersky.com.tw) and South Korea (kasperskymall.co.kr) are susceptible to SQL injection attacks, allowing the injection of malicious iFrames and potentially assisting malicious attackers into obtaining sensitive data from the web sites in...
- Tags: Web, SQL, Web Site, SQL Injection, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: What the Smart IT Executive Needs to Know
- This webcast introduces the concept of IT-Centric Business Continuity Planning (IT-BCP) as an appropriate parameter of accountability for IT leadership in today's contingency planning environment.
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Technology Executives Club, Business Security, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts 2009-02-25
- Hosting a Successful Web Seminar
- They might be conducted online, but Web Seminars are no less serious than traditional, on-ground events. With careful thought, planning and teamwork, Web Seminar will be a huge success. After the planning phase, they'll move into marketing, registration, confirmation, speaker management, contingency plans and follow-up. If one breaks the event...
- Tags: Web, ReadyTalk, Channel Management, Team Management, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2009-01-12
- Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista...
- A visit to the Microsoft booth at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo is full of subliminal messages urging technology executives to move up to more modern products. One part of the booth rides shotgun with a research note from Gartner of course making sure you "understand the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today’s newsletter was quoted as telling firms “to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...
- Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- London Stock Exchange (LSE) system failure stops trading
- Technical problems with the London Stock Exchange's Infolect data delivery system interrupted trading yesterday for 40 minutes, just before the market closed. The timing was highly unfortunate, as it coincided with US stock markets having one of their worst days of the year. From the Times Online:...
- Tags: London Stock Exchange Plc., Infolect, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- LAX IT failure: leaps of faith don't work
- Recently, I described an IT failure at the Los Angeles International Airport that caused 20,000 passengers to be stranded while waiting to be processed through U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP. According to the LA Times and InformationWeek, the failure was caused by a simple equipment malfunction, which was...
- Tags: Information Technology, Backup, Sprint Communications, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-18
- "Fact-Free Planning"
- As a guy who studies IT failures, I come across lots of rehashed textbook crap describing project management fundamentals. Every now and then, however, I read something that offers a fresh and informed perspective on the subject. A recent article, called How Project Leaders Can Overcome the Crisis of Silence,...
- Tags: Team, Article, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Getting your new Unix server
- Getting your new Unix serverthere is another flavor of Unix for the desktopone that has the best GUI in the world, that is UNIX 3 certified and that can be deployed even in cell phones it's called Mac OS X (10.5) Leopard...if a company really wanted to run the whole...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Reality Check, Microsoft Windows Server, Unix, server, Microsoft Windows, Unix server, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Yup, those Yahoo Panama expectations were too high
- Yup, those Yahoo Panama expectations were too highNarrative at work.Whatever the actual situation at Yahoo, the obvious narrative is that it's flabby and trailing Google, which does all things well. And Mr. Semel is - reputedly - so much on his way out that he's left the questions requiring...
- Tags: Balance sheets, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- IBM says, you don't need no operating system
- IBM says, you don't need no operating systemThat's not what I understood..That's what IBM is saying with its Open Client Offering. We will let you run Windows applications, Linux applications and very soon Macintosh applications in a single, seamless environment....Granted it is a press release and so real meat is...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, consulting, OS independence, IBM Corp., operating system, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
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