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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Tabula Rosa Systems Definition Of The Day - Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

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key performance indicator (KPI)
A key performance indicator (KPI) is a business metric for evaluating factors that are crucial to the success of an organization. The purpose of using KPIs is to focus attention on the tasks and processes that management has determined are most important for making progress towards declared goals and targets. KPIs differ per organization. For example, a KPI for a public company may be its stock price while a KPI in government might be a low unemployment rate. KPIs will also differ for roles people play in the same organization. For example, a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) might consider profitability as the most important KPI, while a sales team manager in the same company might consider successful service level agreement (SLA) delivery numbers as the most important KPI. Because KPIs often gauge abstract targets such as user experience or job ticket turnaround effectiveness, identifying useful KPIs can be challenging. The selection of appropriate KPIs depends, in part, on the organization's ability to actually measure the indicators. Typically a management team will gather requirements and analyze correlations between metrics, but in the end, they must put the KPIs in practice and observe what behaviors the KPIs encourage. Once KPIs have been determined, management must continually refine the indicators to ensure they reinforce each other and do not cause conflicting priorities. In addition to being quantifiable, all KPIs should be well-defined and communicated clearly. Each KPI should support the level above it so that all levels of the organization are working together towards the same strategic goals. Although monitoring KPIs can help management identify deficiencies within an organization, it is up to management to decide how to correct them. Having too many KPIs can be problematic. It not only dilutes employee attention, it also makes it difficult for managers to prioritize indicators and make sure the key indicators get the attention they deserve. To that end, many successful companies limit KPI scope to small sets of indicators that evaluate the success of individuals in the organization. A common approach is to: Identify which three to five key performance indicators (KPIs) that should be tracked for each employee role or line of business (LOB). Implement automated tools to collect data and present KPIs to company management in a balanced scorecard, performance scorecard or executive dashboard. Evaluate how well the employee or LOB is making progress towards the organization's strategic business goals. Re-evaluate how well the KPIs are supporting current business goals. Make adjustments as needed.

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Good Netiquette And A Green Internet To All!
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Tabula Rosa Systems - Tabula Rosa Systems (TRS) is dedicated to providing Best of Breed Technology and Best of Class Professional Services to our Clients. We have a portfolio of products which we have selected for their capabilities, viability and value. TRS provides product, design, implementation and support services on all products that we represent. Additionally, TRS provides expertise in Network Analysis, eBusiness Application Profiling, ePolicy and eBusiness Troubleshooting. We can be contacted at:

sales@tabularosa.net or 609 818 1802.

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In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has just been published and will be followed by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

Anyone who would like to review the book and have it posted on my blog or website, please contact me paul@netiquetteiq.com.

In addition to this blog, I maintain a radio show on BlogtalkRadio and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo. I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ and PSG of Mercer County, NJ.

Additionally, I am the president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a “best of breed” reseller of products for communications, email, network management software, security products and professional services. Also, I am the president of Netiquette IQ. We are currently developing an email IQ rating system, Netiquette IQ, which promotes the fundamentals outlined in my book.

Over the past twenty-five years, I have enjoyed a dynamic and successful career and have attained an extensive background in IT and electronic communications by selling and marketing within the information technology marketplace.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Tabula Rosa Systems Security Bulletin 1/3/17 SB17-002: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 26, 2016

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National Cyber Awareness System:

SB17-002: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 26, 2016

01/02/2017 06:10 PM EST

Original release date: January 02, 2017

The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For modified or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.

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Good Netiquette And A Green Internet To All!
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Tabula Rosa Systems - Tabula Rosa Systems (TRS) is dedicated to providing Best of Breed Technology and Best of Class Professional Services to our Clients. We have a portfolio of products which we have selected for their capabilities, viability and value. TRS provides product, design, implementation and support services on all products that we represent. Additionally, TRS provides expertise in Network Analysis, eBusiness Application Profiling, ePolicy and eBusiness Troubleshooting. We can be contacted at:

sales@tabularosa.net or 609 818 1802.

Monday, January 2, 2017

Tabula Rosa Systems Blog Of 1/2/17 - New variant of KillDisk wiper threatens industrial control networks with ransomware

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December 29, 2016 www.scmagazine - Bradley Barth

New variant of KillDisk wiper threatens industrial control networks with ransomware

The TeleBots gang, which recently attacked Ukrainian banks with KillDisk malware that used Mr. Robot imagery (pictured), may now be targeting industrial control systems with a ransomware variant.

The KillDisk disk-wiper program that was used in conjunction with BlackEnergy malware to attack Ukrainian energy utilities has evolved into ransomware that may be targeting industrial-control networks.

According to researchers at CyberX, the new variant was developed by the TeleBots cybergang, which recently emerged from the Sandworm threat group that is believed to have disrupted the Ukrainian power grid offline in December 2015 and January 2016, and allegedly compromised U.S. industrial-control systems and SCADA systems in 2014. Earlier this year, ESET researchers reported that TeleBots was a using different version of KillDisk to conduct cybersabotage attacks against the Ukrainian financial sector.

In a blog post on Tuesday, CyberX reported that the ransomware variant is distributed via malicious Office attachments and displays a pop-up message demanding 222 Bitcoins, which is currently the equivalent of approximately $206,000. The variant's exorbitant ransom and its link to Sandworm suggests that the group could be actively launching ransomware attacks against industrial-control networks.

KillDisk uses a mix of RSA 1028 public key and AES shared key algorithms to encrypt local hard-drives and network-mapped folders that are shared across organizations, CyberX further reported.

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Sunday, January 1, 2017

Netiquette Ten Cardinal Principals Principals - A Great And Beneficial New Year Resolution!

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Most of us make New Year resolutions and there are usually mixed results. Some people try to lose weight, others resolve to quit bad habits, increase fitness activity or give up certain things.

One really overlooked resolution is to commit to a better on-line presence and behavior. By doing this, one can enjoy some sort and long term benefits which I describe in my books, noted below. I have taken one appendix from both books which lists the ten core principals of on-line Netiquette and electronic communication.

Try to adapt these into your processes of email in particular. You should find that these are a simple, painless set of steps which are simple to keep, both now and long into the future!
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The Ten Cardinal Principals Of Netiquette

Never criticize others.
Honor commitments made in writing.
Be consistent in tone, content, and process.
Always maintain civility and politeness.
Apologize for and forgive harmless mistakes quickly without prejudice.
Always know and practice that Netiquette is more than manners. It also rests on a foundation of veracity, character, and ethics.
Do not take immediate exception to full factual knowledge.
Do not assume situations.
Never use bad language.

10. Be consistent with all positive practices of Netiquette.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Tabula Rosa Systems Definition Of The Day - Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Tabula Rosa Systems Security Bulletin 1/3/17 SB17-002: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 26, 2016

Monday, January 2, 2017

Tabula Rosa Systems Blog Of 1/2/17 - New variant of KillDisk wiper threatens industrial control networks with ransomware

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Netiquette Ten Cardinal Principals Principals - A Great And Beneficial New Year Resolution!