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Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) Helping in Disasters

Disaster Zone Podcast

this podcast we learn how EAF has been agile and adaptable by harnessing technology, developing scalable platforms and procedures, and constantly evaluating and improving processes. In the last three years combined, EAF awarded over $205 million in financial assistance to more than 295,000 individuals and families in need around the world.In

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Infinite Blue Cited As A Strong Performer by Independent Research Firm

everbridge

We are very pleased to be recognized as a Strong Performer in the first Forrester Wave™ evaluation of business continuity management software,” said Frank Shultz, Chairman and CEO of Infinite Blue. “We Forrester evaluated them against 31 criteria grouped into three high-level categories: current offering, strategy and market presence.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. Buildings damages after Elazığ, Turkey earthquake on January 24, 2020. Earthquake disaster risk assessment and evaluation for Turkey. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H.

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Software modernization: solutions, strategies, and examples.

BMC

In fact, the 2020 Mainframe Survey , which polled more than 1,000 IT professionals and directors underscores this: 90% of respondents see the mainframe as a long-term platform for growth 67% of extra-large shops have more than 50% of their data on the mainframe (Read about mainframe modernization.) Business agility. Re-engineer.

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Money at Risk: Finance & Data Security in the Digital Age

NexusTek

Chief among these is the unarguable fact that financial services organizations are consistently a top target for cyber threat actors, a reality that exists in tension with the #1 criterion customers use to evaluate financial institutions: security 1. Cyberattacks on financial institutions: Data breaches in 2020. 2021, June 22).

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As Cities Face Violent Crime Surge, Tide Is Changing on Use of Facial Recognition

Security Industry Association

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell expressed support for the measure, which reverses a ban in effect since 2020, and is expected to approve it when it reaches her desk. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST has found that the most accurate technologies (commonly used in U.S.

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Continuity Christmas Cleanup

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Organizations are putting a bookmark to 2019 and preparing for 2020. ​Here are two high-value low-investment end-of-year activities to keep your Business Continuity programs on track and ready to face the unexpected in 2020! An Assessment provides a subjective evaluation or appraisal, and a comparison to what Good looks like.

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