Speaking about industry standard, educational and organizational certifications and understand if it is actually loosing its charm. “Organization’s are gearing up to be certified on various standards; individuals are busy certifying themselves against product and general certifications to enhance their opportunities in getting better pay packs (or could also be to enhance their skill sets).”
Looking at the later, that individuals are busy completing their certifications in looking for better opportunities or enhancing their skill sets. The main trigger for this is organization and/or recruiters do their first level of screening by looking at certifications an individual has completed. Organizations realize the facts when the candidate appears for his/her personnel interview.
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Tags: Certifications, Standards, Training
I have been going through couple of articles and noticing that most of them have defined BC and DR in a different way. My understanding of BC and DR is slightly different and I would like to post this here to get your views of the same.
What I have seen in several blogs is that Business Continuity will look at how to recover the business and Disaster Recovery is about recovering IT Infrastructure. This is mentioned not only in some of the blogs but also some of the institutes preach the same. This is not to comment that they are wrong, but to spread the word and understand what others think of the same.
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Tags: BS 25999, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
We all have been in this situation before, been eager and inquisitive to know how far have we reached on our implementation…are we ready to be audited by the auditors…??? Are we comfortable to ask the auditors to take a stroll through our organization…???
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Tags: Information Security Management System, ISO 27001