April, 2021

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7 years after Flint, another water public health crisis is born of neglect

DisasterDoc

We all need water. It is a physiological need for all life on Earth. Lack of proper water sources in a community would easily constitute a public health crisis. Sphere. The post 7 years after Flint, another water public health crisis is born of neglect appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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Reputation Management in Seussville

Bernstein Crisis Management

The following, from author Kristopher Scott, originally appeared in Platform Magazine’s March edition. Thanks to Kris and the crisis experts quoted, including Dorothy Crenshaw, Jason Mudd, and BCM founder Jonathan Bernstein for giving us permission to reprint! Reputation Management: The Next Seussville Classic. One fish, two fish. Black fish, white fish.

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An Online Master’s Degree In Infrastructure Planning and Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

It is now possible to get an online degree as a Master of Infrastructure Planning and Management. This podcast is an interview with Wendy Freitag, Program Director for the University of Washington’s program linked above. In this podcast we talk generally about online degrees in general, to include those in emergency management. How they compare school to school and with resident courses of study.

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Strengthening cybersecurity in the workplace 

Crisis Response Journal

Graeme McGowan from CRJ's Key Network Partner Optimal Risk explains the need for businesses to establish solid defences to counter the growing threat of cyber fraud

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity

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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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

As lead solutions architect for the AWS Well-Architected Reliability pillar , I help customers build resilient workloads on AWS. This helps them prepare for disaster events, which is one of the biggest challenges they can face. Such events include natural disasters like earthquakes or floods, technical failures such as power or network loss, and human actions such as inadvertent or unauthorized modifications.

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What is a PEST analysis? Preparing your business for external impacts

CIO Governance

PEST analysis definition. PEST analysis is used to evaluate external and macro environmental factors that impact your organization, specifically political, economic, social, and technological ones. This four-point analysis method gives your business a framework to identify the most influential factors in your industry, with a focus on entering new business markets and growing within your industry.

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Top Software Tools to Ensure Business Continuity

Virtual Corporation

If COVID-19 has taught the business world anything, it's that business continuity tools are essential to ensuring the operation of everyday processes when the world is turned upside down. Stay-at-home orders paired with an overwhelming number of abroad or overseas employees have meant that the need for constant digital communication, sharing, and incident management ability has drastically increased.

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Planning for Mass Vaccination Sites

Disaster Zone Podcast

Emergency management organizations have now been immersed in COVID-19 response for over a year. This podcast is an interview with Jody Ferguson, Director for Pierce County Department of Emergency Management. In it we explore how her department responded first to the call to help with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) distribution and then more recently with mass vaccination efforts by the county.

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Malicious actors and deepfakes 

Crisis Response Journal

Lina Kolesnikova describes the implications of deepfakes being used by criminals to trigger civil unrest, influence political decisions and for large-scale fraud

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

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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Retail Loss Prevention: Using Threat Intelligence Technology to Safeguard Stores

Alert Media

The post Retail Loss Prevention: Using Threat Intelligence Technology to Safeguard Stores appeared first on AlertMedia.

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The Benefits of Colocation in a Pennsylvania Data Center

Talkingpoint

It’s easy to assume the growth of hyperscale clouds like AWS, Azure, and GCP has impacted the colocation market, but colocation remains a strong choice for businesses today. In this post, we focus on the benefits of colocation by narrowing in on […]. The post The Benefits of Colocation in a Pennsylvania Data Center appeared first on TierPoint.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

In a previous blog post , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. These strategies enable you to prepare for and recover from a disaster. By using the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper to design your DR strategy, your workloads can remain available despite disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions.

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LAN Infotech Makes Prestigious List Of Top Managed IT Service Companies

LAN Infotech

LAN Infotech Makes Prestigious List Of Top Managed IT Service Companies. Each year, Channele2e.com, a leading managed IT services news and information site run by Joe Panettieri (Content Czar) and Amy Katz (president and CEO), publishes an industry ranking top 100 managed IT services providers globally by industry focus. The managed IT service organizations who make this prestigious list of the leading global IT firms specialize in a single unique industry.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

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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A New Approach to Cybersecurity Training for Employees

Disaster Zone Podcast

In the podcast we talk about the cybersecurity threats and different approaches being used to counter those threats. Cybersecurity training is one of those and it has become something employees must accomplish as part of organizational standards. There are many mistakes that companies and governments make in their approaches to this training. Heather Stratford, CEO for Drip7 is the Disaster Zone guest.

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Pet preparedness and mental health 

Crisis Response Journal

Having an animal at our side during a crisis may help to develop resilience and help to reduce the demand for post-disaster services, says Lyzi G Cota

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Leading by Example: Employee Safety Lessons From Industry Leaders

Alert Media

The post Leading by Example: Employee Safety Lessons From Industry Leaders appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Data Privacy Update: Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)

Calligo

And so it continues. Last month, Virginia passed its own privacy law, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), adding fuel to the fire over a US federal privacy law, and introducing new complexities for businesses operating in or addressing the US market. It will take effect on January 1, 2023 (the same day as California’s CPRA which amends the current CCPA) and was passed in record-breaking time: less than two months, and by an overwhelming majority.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

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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Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

AWS Disaster Recovery

September 8, 2021 : Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput , we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution.

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Shermon Cruz speak futures at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education

Engaged Foresight

Center for Engaged Foresight Director and Chief Futurist was one the panelists of the recent Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education Futures Forward Webinar “Developing Futures Capabilities in Public Service. The second episode tackled ways by which public service institutions can develop futures capabilities that allow public service to move beyond traditional policy silos and realize multiple developments can intersect and collaborate in plural and unexpected ways.

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Leveraging Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Funding

Disaster Zone Podcast

Emergency management is primarily known as a profession that responds to disasters. Another very important aspect of the discipline of emergency management is disaster mitigation. This podcast focuses on a relatively new federal program called Building Resilient Infrastructure Communities (BIRC). Derrick Hiebert, Deloitte is the mitigation expert interviewed in this recording.

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Horizon Europe: Calling all crisis response innovators

Crisis Response Journal

CRJ is pleased to be working with the team at Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

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.

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The Business Case for a Modern Threat Intelligence Solution

Alert Media

The post The Business Case for a Modern Threat Intelligence Solution appeared first on AlertMedia.

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4 Tips to Prepare for the Back to Office Transition

On Solve

Rising vaccination rates. Pandemic fatigue. Pent-up consumer demand. Whatever the impetus, the answer is the same: It’s time to ramp up plans to go back to the office. The question is, how? In this new ebook, discover how to prepare for the knowns and unknowns during these uncertain times. You’ll find tips and advice on every page about how to plan, communicate, mitigate risks and protect the health and safety of your employees, staff and other stakeholders.

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IT Resilience Within AWS Cloud, Part II: Architecture and Patterns

AWS Disaster Recovery

In Part I of this two-part blog , we outlined best practices to consider when building resilient applications in hybrid on-premises/cloud environments. We also showed you how to adapt mindsets and organizational culture. In Part II, we’ll provide technical considerations related to architecture and patterns for resilience in AWS Cloud. Considerations on architecture and patterns.

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CEF Chief Futurist at EMKAN Futures Podcast

Engaged Foresight

Dubai-based futurist and founder of Emkan Futures, a strategic foresight consulting firm based in the United Arab Emirates recently interviewed and featured CEF Chief Futurist Shermon Cruz. The podcast explored the futures of foresight in Asia, the emergence of futures thinking in the Philippines, the Association of Professional Futurists among others.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

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