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Have you ever seen a movie or TV show where a good guy or a bad guy enters an office or hotel room, sticks a USB drive into a computer, and very quickly extracts all the information from the computer? Believe it or not, that kind of attack has a name: it is an “evil […]

Since March 2020 the United Kingdom and majority of the world have found themselves forced into reduced human contact and work stoppages due to the Coronavirus lockdown.  This crisis has caused changes in multiple ways, some visible and expected, but others will affect our populations and workplaces for a long time, perhaps permanently. Learning Tree […]

When I first started teaching online participants a decade ago, I discovered something I had not experienced as a participant: some people prefer to communicate via text and some prefer to communicate via voice. In the past when I had taken online courses there was either voice or text chat, but seldom both. Having both […]

Before I get started, the information and ideas in this post apply to virtually all topics. It is intended as a followup to the earlier post on cybersecurity frameworks but can stand completely alone for those who are interested in other areas. Selecting Training In terms of delivery, an online course is significantly different from […]

We’re facing unprecedented changes to social norms during the global coronavirus pandemic, including how and where we work. Mandatory social distancing means we’re working from home, even in organizations that previously didn’t embrace remote working or distributed teams. This new reality will bring permanent changes in attitudes towards remote work, and we need to shift […]