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November 2021 - Contents:
Identifying Email Phishing
Telecom Service During a Disaster
Needed: Flashlights
9 Future Work Trends Post-COVID-19
This is the November 2021 issue - Volume 8 Issue 5.
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Identifying Email Phishing
Pretty well everything you don’t want to happen can happen through phishing attacks — a user is tricked into clicking on a link, opening an attachment, or disclosing information. Everyone knows that we shouldn’t fall for a phishing attack, but what exactly does that mean? We can’t delete every email that might possibly be dangerous. Here are some simple ways to check out a questionable email message.
Identifying Email Phishing
Pretty well everything you don’t want to happen can happen through phishing attacks. Here are some simple ways to check out a questionable email message.
Telecom Service During a Disaster
Old school analogue telephone service was powered from the telco office and was almost bulletproof. When all else failed, you could go to the designated power fail phone and dial the world. These days, telephony is part of data networking so often will not work during power outages. Worse, unknown damage some distance away from you can affect your service thanks to the way providers have designed their networks.
Telecom Service During a Disaster
Old school telephone service was almost bulletproof. These days, telephony often will not work during power outages. Here’s why and what you should do.
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Needed: Flashlights
What happens in a business office at the beginning of a power outage? Overhead lights snap off. Dim emergency lights turn on in the hallways as you sit in the near dark, trying to decide if the lights will come back on quickly. Flashlights (real ones) are very useful.
Needed: Flashlights
When the power goes out, you sit in the near dark, trying to decide if the lights will come back on quickly. Flashlights are very useful.
9 Future Work Trends Post–COVID–19
A recent Gartner survey has identified some lasting changes resulting from the COVID–19 pandemic disruption, “large–scale shifts that are changing how people work and how business gets done”. These trends will form the scorecard on how you are judged against your peers and will likely mean that you need to revisit both your Strategic Plan and your Business Continuity Plan.
9 Future Work Trends Post–COVID–19
Gartner has identified some lasting changes in how people work and how business gets done, resulting from the COVID–19 pandemic disruption.