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1. 🔊 What industry do you work in and what is your role?
2. 🔊 What are your responses in your role / position?
3. 🔊 Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
4. 🔊 How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
5. 🔊 What are the minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
6. 🔊 How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
7. 🔊 What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?

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🔊 General discussion about your workweek:

1. 🔊 Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
2. 🔊 Anything of interest happening?

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Script

1. 🔊 Have you had enough scary disasters for one year yet? The clock is still ticking in 2020, a year that nobody could have truthfully predicted. We have endured:

• A global pandemic
• An economic shutdown
• Floods
• Cyclones
• Hurricanes
• Civil unrest
• Wildfires
• Massive chemical explosion

2. 🔊 And the list goes on.

The tech industry is filled with shock statements about the unexpected sea of spooky threats just around the corner and how to prepare for them. But disaster recovery, backup, and resiliency are not the glitziest subjects when times are stable. In normal times, IT security is often overlooked, relegated to lower priority items. Not anymore. Not with a recent history of trillions of dollars in losses from data breaches and outages. Not after 2020, because 2020 has been nothing but a normal year.

Is Your IT Ready For 2021?

3. 🔊 Even as we approach the end of 2020, there are many threats on the horizon for these last two months of the year. In addition to the Us Presidential Election, there is an ongoing, multi-faceted trade war with China. The economy is still not out of the woods. The civil unrest continues, and the future of the virus outbreak is anybody’s guess. 

4.🔊 Big disasters like the above are not the only threats to worry about. Small disasters can be just as destructive to business as losing the internet, an entire data center, or access to users. And these small situations turn up all the time. Construction activity could cut critical fiber connections, a lightning strike could take down critical systems, or an administrator could commit a typo and inadvertently wipe out data.

5.🔊 While it can be hard to anticipate which small innocuous incidents can spiral into a disaster, cybersecurity threats of all sizes and variations are looming. Data breaches plague all industries with no exception, with most starting from subtle social engineering or phishing attacks. We can hardly get through a week without a big story about a major cyberattack, and Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that there will be a ransomware attack on businesses every 11 seconds in 2021.

The Cloud to The Rescue

6.🔊 Technology is the lifeblood of modern business, and technology provides the path to survival and resilience in challenging times. Business leaders must stay informed, planning for the next big disaster as well as those little disasters that could happen along the way.