Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 20, 2024

There is currently intense interest in the possible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the management of disasters. To what extent is this a real prospect or, alternatively, the fascination of the shiny new toy that soon will be discarded? To begin with, there are two major arguments against artificial intelligence in its current form. One should note in passing that it is not a new concept but one that has only recently begun to impinge seriously on popular consciousness.

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DRI Drive

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) International, the leading nonprofit in business continuity and resilience education and certification has published its Tenth Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report. The report provides an independent analysis of current and emerging risks as viewed by those directly involved in resilience management. Supported by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), […] The post DRI International Releases 10th Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report ap

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 27, 2024

From the Congressional Research Service: Issues for Reauthorization and Reform of the National Flood Insurance Program (3 pp)

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BMC

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Change behaviorhow humans accept, embrace, and perform changeis the core of modern change management. ITSM frameworks incorporate various approaches to change management, but one started it all: Kurt Lewins 3 Stage Model of Change. Lewins Model of Change Lewins model was developed by a pioneering psychologist in the field of social and organizational psychology in the face of change.

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity is a step-by-step resource for developing an effective Business Continuity Management (BCM) program and navigating challenges. Whether building from scratch or enhancing a plan, this guide offers practical tools, expert advice, and strategies to ensure resilience. What You’ll Learn: Key elements of BCM and resiliency Steps to build and test your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Conducting risk assessments and BIAs Integrating cybersecurity into p

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Acronis

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Cybersecurity experts from Acronis share their cybersecurity predictions for the biggest threats and trends that MSPs and businesses should prepare for in 2025.

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IT Governance BC

DECEMBER 16, 2024

And how to become resilient with ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 Unfortunately, even the most secure organisation can suffer an incident. The odds are simply stacked against you: While you need to protect all your assets from all types of threat, an attacker needs only one exploitable weakness to get into your systems. Plus, any security measure you implement is only designed to stop, at most, a handful of threats and thats assuming it was both correctly implemented and still doing its job.

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DRI Drive

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Each year, the DRI International Awards of Excellence program honors the leaders and innovators in the fields of continuity management, technology recovery, and crisis and risk management. Were pleased to announce this year’s finalists! Consultant of the Year Javed Abbasi, MBCP – GISBA Quinn Einck, CBCP – BDO Lisa Jones, MBCP – Control Risks Newcomer […] The post Announcing the 2025 DRI Awards of Excellence Finalists!

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 23, 2024

From the Florida Phoenix: Florida should use next six months to prepare for the 2025 hurricane season. Next years storms will likely be just as powerful as this years, but the Legislature says we cant talk about why.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 4, 2024

3 Keys to Success with RAG-enabled GenAI for KYC/AML by Pure Storage Blog Summary In the fight against financial fraud, financial institutions need every advantage they can get. GenAI with RAG can give them a leg up in KYC/AML activities. By focusing on data, models, and efficiency, firms can maximize the potential of GenAI with RAG. In a recent blog post, “ Challenges with KYC/AML?

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Security Industry Association

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Jason Crawforth is the CEO of SWEAR. Weve lived it. Weve experienced it firsthand. Artificial intelligence (AI) has had a big impact on the video surveillance and security sectors over the past year automating tasks such as threat detection, object recognition and predictive analytics with better accuracy than ever. These advancements have been essential tools to help empower security teams.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has officially launched Zerto Disaster Recovery for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in AWS Marketplace! This game-changing solution simplifies disaster recovery with a software-only approach, optimized for native AWS services. Why Choose Zerto for AWS? Zerto’s reputation as an industry leader speaks for itself, offering fast Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) at scale.

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PagerDuty

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Event-driven automation is a powerful approach to managing enterprise IT environments, allowing systems to automatically react to enterprise events (Observability / Monitoring / Security / Social / Machine) and reducing or removing the need for manual intervention. This post discusses 11 common automation tasks that are ideal for enterprise DevOps teams looking to enhance operational efficiency, reduce downtime, and ensure business continuity.

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BMC

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Weve all been there before: its time to add one last function into your program for the next release, but you dont have the time to make it just right organized, well-structured, and aligned with the rest of the code. Instead, you have to add the functionality in a bit of a haphazard way, just to get it done, so you do. Luckily, the release goes well, the function is added smoothly, and its onto the next sprint of work.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The Diva was especially interested in the group of articles titled AI: Welcome to the New Age of Discovery, in the November issue of National Geographic. Most of the articles are of general interest, but there is one titled How AI will Help Predict Natural Disasters. Note: the video version linked above is different from the print version.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Crucial Role of Data Forensics in Post-cyberattack Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Summary After a cyberattack, data forensics plays an important part in not only enabling you to dig deeper into what happened but also helping prevent being attacked again. Imagine coming home to find someone has broken into your house. Your first reaction is to make sure its safe to go inside.

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Security Industry Association

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Top security industry takeaways from House Homeland Security Committee Hearing Safeguarding the Homeland From Unmanned Aerial Systems On Dec. 10, 2024, the House Homeland Security Committee held a joint hearing by the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence and Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security entitled Safeguarding the Homeland from Unmanned Aerial Systems.

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LogisManager

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Webinar: The RMM Roadmap to Clarity & Confidence Duration: 50 Minutes What if you could eliminate uncertainty in your role and confidently connect your work to leadership priorities? In this engaging webinar, join Alyssa Pries, Customer Advocate at LogicManager, and Steven Minsky, Founder & CEO of LogicManager, as they guide you through the Risk Maturity Model (RMM) framework.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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BCP Builder

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The fast-paced business landscape provides a myriad of challenges to small businesses that can threaten their very existence. These challenges can come from any direction — natural disasters, cybersecurity breaches , supply chain disruptions, or even surprises in the economy both large and small that stop operations and hurt revenue. That is actually why it is crucial to possess a Business Continuity Plan (BCP).

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BMC

DECEMBER 5, 2024

IT management abounds with best practice frameworks. These frameworks offer philosophies and tangible paths forward to improve cost and resource management, measure risk, speed up customer service, and innovate analysis through predictive methods. COBIT is one such best practice framework, but its scope is unique from most frameworks in that it focuses narrowly on security, risk management, and governance.

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 21, 2024

From the Wash Post: Why disaster survivors feel the Government has failed them. “The political hurdles exemplify what disaster survivors across the country say is a broken system one that forces them to wait for months or years before significant government help arrives, leaving many to rely on fundraising appeals or community aid until state or federal money starts flowing.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data by Pure Storage Blog Summary Cyber extortion is a type of cybercrime thats surging. While these types of attacks can have dire and expensive consequences, taking preventative measures can help you reduce risk and safeguard your digital assets. Cyber extortion is a malicious practice where attackers threaten individuals or organizations with digital harmsuch as data breaches, denial of service attacks, or exposure of sensitive informationunless

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

Acronis

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the last 12 months, the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud platform has expanded significantly with new solutions, features and capabilities to empower MSPs. In this blog, we take a look at whats new with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud in 2024.

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Reciprocity

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Achieving and maintaining FedRAMP compliance involves managing hundreds of security controls, extensive documentation, and continuous monitoring requirements. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software has become an essential tool for organizations navigating this complex landscape. Let’s explore how the right GRC solution can streamline your FedRAMP compliance journey.

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BryghtPath

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As businesses face an increasingly unpredictable global environment, the importance of robust and adaptive Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) has become more pronounced. The past few years have demonstrated that preparedness is critical to survival and success, from cyberattacks and natural disasters to global pandemics and supply chain disruptions. As the new year approaches, organizations must … The post New Year, New Resilience: Refreshing Your Business Continuity Program for the New Year

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BMC

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Any organization seeking to meet its business objectives continues to face a myriad of challenges owing to the ever-changing complexity of the business environment: Regulation (e.g. SOX , HIPAA , GDPR, PCI-DSS ,) People (diversity, millennials, skills gap , etc.) Technology ( IoT , AI ) Processes Many more aspects For this reason, there is an increasing need for enterprises to put in place mechanics to ensure that the business can successfully ride the wave of these complexities.

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Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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