In this issue of Ethically Outsourced - Cyber Defenses, WP Challenges & Climate Crisis 2024

Strengthening Defenses?with SBA's IT Team.

Our IT team assisted a sole practitioner this week with hardening their cyber security environment. With Cyber threats continually evolving, getting the cyber security environment hardened provides incremental defences against cyber threats. Often, it is the forgotten browser update or the old software not being updated that causes the back door entry for hackers.

Our IT Team helps to reduce some of those risks through regular checks of software that needs updating in client systems. This measure is not bulletproof against cyber threats but can provide another layer of security. If your practice does not have a dedicated IT team or does not have an external IT vendor who looks after cyber security, then the SBA IT team can provide this service to strengthen your cyber security environment.

Tackling Massive Audio Transcription Challenges with Ease.

We are in constant awe of our Melbourne and Sydney-based Word Processing team; this week, the team got a 400-minute audio with 4 speakers that the team had to turn around.

Assignments like these often come by the way of our word processing team – the other week team had landed on them 2,000 minutes of audio that needed turning around in 3 weeks.

So what is the biggest audio you have ever dictated to be transcribed, or a recording from a hearing or a meeting that needed transcription?

This month on B1G1: Bricks for building a classroom.

This month we're supporting World Youth International based in Nepal. Our donation will be used to help build a classroom at the World Youth International School in Kathmandu. The World Youth International School was opened on September 14, 1999, with the purpose to train local teachers and provide a rich, dynamic education for its students. Situated in the Gokarna region, the school provides children with a quality education through shared cultural teachings and experiences. ?

It costs approximately $20,000 to construct and fit out a brand new classroom (depending on location). B1G1 funds combined with funds raised by WYI was used to construct a new classroom at the WYI School in 2020.

#MeetTheTeam

Anindita is SBA’s creative genius and excels in creating Flowcharts, Diagrams, Charts, Organisation Charts, Flyers, Reports, etc.

Anindita assists our clients with assignments in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Indesign, Publisher, Visio, Canva and Photoshop projects.

Anindita is also a busy mama bear! Outside work, she devotes most of her time to her daughter’s schooling, studies and other day-to-day activities. She also works with a local charity ‘Sight Sevak Organisation’.

During weekends, she loves getting out and about and is a bit of a shutterbug!

It’s not game over – it’s game on:?why 2024 is an inflection point for the climate crisis.

In 2024, global climate trends are cause for both deep alarm and cautious optimism. Last year was the hottest on record by a huge margin and this year will likely be hotter still. The annual global average temperature may, for the first time, exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – a threshold crucial for stabilising the Earth’s climate.?

However, In 2024, there are also many reasons for hope.

Revenge of the Right Brain

Scientists have long known that a neurological Mason-Dixon line cleaves our brains into two regions—the left and right hemispheres. But in the last 10 years, thanks in part to advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers have begun to identify more precisely how the two sides divide responsibilities.?

The left hemisphere handles sequence, literalness, and analysis. The right hemisphere, meanwhile, takes care of context, emotional expression, and synthesis. Of course, the human brain, with its 100 billion cells forging 1 quadrillion connections, is breathtakingly complex. The two hemispheres work in concert, and we enlist both sides for nearly everything we do. But the structure of our brains can help explain the contours of our times.

Strategic Business Alliance acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands where we meet and work.We recognise their continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to the Elders past, present and emerging.