As a global business executive, I know first hand the demands of travel. I spent more than 120 days out of the year on the road, and have supported the traveling workforces of clients every day. So how do I stay connected? Here are my thoughts on the best apps for Android smart phones – a critical tool for helping me stay in touch and on top of things while traveling.
“Like most people I use my smart phone as both a communications tool and mini computer while traveling or on the road
Tony Ridley
nternational events such as major product launches, corporate meetings, annual or regular sporting events continue to fall outside the standard methodology and practices of risk and people risk management. Many organizations and individuals, also fail to anticipate or include this in travel risk management strategies for leisure or non-corporate travel.
The bigger the event; often the greater lack of oversight. Many organizations and planners have gotten themselves into what they cons
It certainly is cheaper and easier. But is it BETTER?
The main difference between lucky and smart is that smart is more likely to be able to repeat than luck.
But I think that there are two different types of smart, and one is much better than the other.
“Be Prepared” applies as much to a good disaster recovery plan as it has ever applied to the Boy Scouts. One aspect of the preparation involves the generation and verification of an up-to-date set of backup tapes. This article explains the TurboHercules mechanisms for keeping your backup tapes and backup machine up-to-date and ready to go in the event of an outage of your mainframe. Download the PDF
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Most mainframe sites create regular backups of the data and programs on their mainframe
Identity and Access Management (IAM) – Thoughts
It’s high time for big enterprises to realize the importance of identity and access management (I&AM) technology as an integral part of their security footprint. Even though I&AM is in the limelight for quite long time, still I believe it’s a relative new term that means different things to different people.
What is Identity and Access Management (I&AM)?
As Wikipedia says, “Identity management or ID management is a broad administrative area that deals
If you do a Google search on ‘Cloud Computing Security’ you will get about 13,600,000 results and that’s too much of information for anyone to start. So let’s try to summarize the information keeping in mind of CSO’s concerns on cloud computing.
What is Cloud Computing?
In simple words, ‘Cloud Computing' is a collection of Internet or private-network based services, providing users and devices with scalable & economical (pay-as-you-go) information technology capabilities. The services offered by t
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Executive Summary: Sometimes your reputation in the industry is everything for you. Reputation is sacrosanct and hence any risk to the reputation of the company is considered high
I worked at Sony for many years. For a company such as Sony, the brand reputation is sacrosanct. Which means any incident or event which will bring bad name to the company will be considered a “high” risk event. This is much more accentuated because the company is Japanese .
For example a pharma company makes a mistake w
On the surface at least, it’s hard to take away positives in the wake of the financial crisis. Yes, it taught us that we have to manage risk better, improve processes and become more transparent. But it’s the regulators globally that seem to have taken these lessons closely to heart.
With some banks still struggling to conform to Basel II requirements, Basel III is being hotly debated. It will force banks to hold more capital, and many argue that this will bring the end of ‘cheap money’. In the U
What is the objective in any crisis?
It is to maintain company credibility and reputation, and create the perception that as an organization you are doing everything humanely to act in the positive regard to all stakeholders.
If I had the opportunity to address a Board of Directors about the need for adequate crisis response planning and emergency preparation, there are only five points we would discuss, and the discussion would take just a few minutes.
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I read the recent news that Mahindra Satyam (previously known as Satyam Computers) declared its financial results after two years of working at the previous fraudulent statements and restating the same. You might recall, the fraud was alleged to be perpetuated by the previous owner Ramlinga Raju the then Chairman of the organization for an amount of Rs 7000 crore (Rs 70,000 million) or more. The CFO and External Auditor (PWC) are considered accomplices in the fraud. The new owners made a stateme
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