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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

The goal is to exploit both the trust of … users and bugs in their web browsers to install a virus allowing the hacker access to the organisation’s network” ( Welch, 2016 ). All organisations should run on secure operating systems, at least Windows 10. Common Methods of Cyber-Attack. Zero-day exploits. Install software updates.

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Is More Effective Training the Answer?

LSA Global

More Effective Training Creates More Effective Performance. Recent undercover tests of the system found TSA failed to detect weapons 70% of the time…and that was an improvement over a test two years before when the resulting failures occurred 95% of the time. Three Requirements for More Effective Training.

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Don’t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training — Make It Better

Harvard Business

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire. Clearly, not all trainings are equally good — and none are a silver bullet.

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Will Cognitive Computing Disrupt the High-Skill Labor Market?

Tom Spencer

In January 2016, IBM announced a collaboration with SBRH, which gave Pepper a cognitive computing system named Watson which allowed her to understand sophisticated semantic context through natural language processing and process a humongous volume of data including “dark”, or unstructured, data from social media, video, images and text.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Organizations, like all other natural systems, over time, head toward a state of randomness. link] Culture Change Strategy #4: Deliberate role modeling and training How leaders act and behave outside of training is more significant than what is said or demonstrated within training events. Professional Safety, 60 (9), 24.

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Business Book Review: Beyond the E-Myth

Management Consulted

Beyond the E-Myth releases December 7, 2016, so make sure to grab your copy! The Mission is the core operating system you must invent for your company to succeed at what it’s setting out to do. You need to create systems for growth, not dig ditches by yourself. WHY READ IT? This is not Michael Gerber’s first rodeo.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan The Wall Street Journal reports RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan From the country where hotels are operated by robots and androids serve as clerks at department stores comes the latest unmanned project: the robot cab. which started testing its system in Texas in July.