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Reputation Management During Crisis

Bernstein Crisis Management

Reputation Management During Crisis Strong reputation management during crisis situations is critical today. While many of the resources out there will proclaim the need for immediate full transparency and constant communications through all channels, the truth is that this approach can sometimes create more trouble than it resolves. In order to make reputation management during crisis effective, you need to recognize the importance of balancing openness with strategic discretion.

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Letter from the President: 2023 at-a-glance

DRI Drive

In 2023, we celebrated our 35th year serving this exciting profession of service. Because milestones are always a time for reflection, I’d like to dedicate this edition of our annual review to look back at some of the accomplishments of this venerable institution not just from this year but also to provide a review of […] The post Letter from the President: 2023 at-a-glance appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Transforming Wildfire Management with AI

Disaster Zone Podcast

This podcast is about how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to promote disaster resilience in communities threatened by wildfire. Guy Bayes, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) works at Vibrant Planet where he is focused on using data and AI to power natural climate solutions management, in order to mitigate and roll back climate change. Guy is an engineering leader with twenty years of experience in the data space.

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Ransomware Attackers Find Fresh Targets in Cultural Institutions

Pure Storage

Ransomware Attackers Find Fresh Targets in Cultural Institutions by Pure Storage Blog Ransomware attacks are big news when they hit giant corporations, government services, and resources like gas pipelines. And when the focus is on apocalyptic attack scenarios, where sensitive data was ransomed or government services knocked offline, there’s a tendency to think that one’s own organization isn’t a likely target.

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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Keep a Keen Eye on your SaaS Backups!

Zerto

Zerto Backup for SaaS, powered by Keepit, introduces a monitoring dashboard for your SaaS backups. Why Monitoring and Analyzing your SaaS Backup Data is important? Despite basic out-of-the-box protection from SaaS vendors, data residing in SaaS applications is your responsibility, not the vendor’s. This data is exposed to potential risks like outages, accidental deletion, and ransomware attacks that can lead to loss or downtime.

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Rehearsing Plan B: The Importance of Mastering Your Workarounds

MHA Consulting

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. One of the most valuable ways BC practitioners can spend their time is making sure their organizations can truly execute on their manual workarounds. Related on MHA Consulting: The Retro Revolution: Why Manual Workarounds Are a BC Must Rehearsing Your Plan B Due to the complexity of BC methodology, many aspects of the field have the potential to become time sinks.

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Upping the Ante on Western Weapons Could End the Stalemate in Ukraine

The Rand Blog

The Russo-Ukrainian war might be at a strategic tipping point. The ground fight in Ukraine's east is stalemated, but Russian sea and air power in Crimea is diminished. The future flow of Western aid may be less certain. To address these challenges, the West might escalate support for Ukraine's military and signal firmness to Moscow.

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Thinking Forward: Compliance Management for 2024 & Beyond

LogisManager

Thinking Forward: Compliance Management for 2024 & Beyond Last Updated: January 30, 2024 Traditional approaches to compliance management are no longer sufficient and can expose your business to expensive penalties for failure to meet compliance standards. One prevalent issue is the inclination towards an auditor-focused strategy, where mere checkbox compliance may fall short in addressing evolving risks.

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Collaborative Partner Spotlight: February 2024

DRI Drive

As the leading nonprofit that helps organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on a wide network of partner organizations who share that mission and promote greater resiliency. DRI encourages Certified Professionals to actively support these valuable partner organizations. Business Resiliency Planners Association (BRPA) – BRPA’s next virtual event is […] The post Collaborative Partner Spotlight: February 2024 appeared first on DRI Drive.

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How to Put Your Business Continuity Plans into Action

During a crisis, successful organizations are led by strong leaders who communicate continuously with all stakeholders and have plans that are flexible enough to allow changes to be made on the fly. What You'll Learn: Understanding the characteristics of actionable business continuity plans. Step-by-step guidance on building robust and adaptable BCPs.

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Cascading Effects of Disasters

Recovery Diva

Article from Scientific American: Visualizing Climate Disasters’ Surprising Cascading Effects[33360] Many thanks to Chris Jones for the citation.

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Grow Your Own Staff

Disaster Zone

See what Chicago OEM is doing.

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Boost Your Risk Management Strategy with Enhanced Metric Collection, Collaboration, and Accountability

LogisManager

Boost Your Risk Management Strategy with Enhanced Metric Collection, Collaboration, and Accountability Published: February 1, 2024 LogicManager’s latest product release is designed to empower testing programs with improved metric collection and control validation, ensuring accuracy and reliability. Additional enhancements foster seamless collaboration between business process managers and the enterprise risk team to help strengthen oversight of potential risk and associated dependencies.

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Safeguard your PC or Mac with a BaaS solution

Synology

As the threat of data loss, data breach, and ransomware attacks keep IT admins up at night, as a PC or Mac user, are you doing your due diligence and safeguarding your endpoint data?

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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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UN Report on Persons with Disabilities and Disasters

Recovery Diva

New Report from the UN: Global Survey Report on Persons with Disabilities and Disasters 2023 ( 43 pp). Thanks to Jessica Hubbard for providing this citation.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘Transforming Wildfire Management With AI’

Disaster Zone

Using technology to aid in prevention and mitigation.

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AI and Enterprise IT: How to Embrace Change without Disruption

Pure Storage

AI and Enterprise IT: How to Embrace Change without Disruption by Pure Storage Blog AI will be disruptive to enterprises, but how will it be disruptive to the enterprise IT architectures that support them? Recently, I joined Gestalt IT to discuss this and how AI will affect everything from power utilization and rack space to data governance and compliance.

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Why is L.A. Still Letting Single-Family Homeowners Block Solutions to the Housing Crisis?

The Rand Blog

Some constituencies will always oppose development. Los Angeles policymakers who are serious about solving the dual crises of housing affordability and homelessness have to take a hard look at how much political capital they are willing to spend to create effective policies in the face of such objections.

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Next-Level Fraud Prevention: Strategies for Today’s Threat Landscape

Speaker: Sierre Lindgren

Fraud is a battle that every organization must face – it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.” Every organization is a potential target for fraud, and the finance department is often the bullseye. From cleverly disguised emails to fraudulent payment requests, the tactics of cybercriminals are advancing rapidly. Drawing insights from real-world cases and industry expertise, we’ll explore the vulnerabilities in your processes and how to fortify them effectively.

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Small Business Trends for 2024

Constellation

Emerging small business trends are reshaping how businesses will operate this year and beyond. Technology that was recently only available to larger corporations with big budgets is now within reach of small businesses. The post Small Business Trends for 2024 appeared first on Constellation Residential and Small Business Blog.

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Is National Flood Insurance Program Off the Chopping Block?

Disaster Zone

There appears to be a different tone in Congress.

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AI and Enterprise IT: How to Embrace Change without Disruption

Pure Storage

AI and Enterprise IT: How to Embrace Change without Disruption by Pure Storage Blog AI will be disruptive to enterprises, but how will it be disruptive to the enterprise IT architectures that support them? Recently, I joined Gestalt IT to discuss this and how AI will affect everything from power utilization and rack space to data governance and compliance.

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Support for Veterans Leaves Rape Victims Behind

The Rand Blog

Far too many survivors of military sexual trauma are unable to access the generous benefits available to those injured by enemies overseas. Survivors are already far less likely to qualify for the full range of benefits and services available to those injured in combat, and the United States is doing nothing to rectify this injustice, allowing further inequities to fester.

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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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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of February 2; Updates from Cohesity, HYCU, Infinidat & More

Solutions Review

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of February 2, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space.

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Anti-Leadership Tips from Politicians

Disaster Zone

You can learn a lot of things not to do.

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Business Continuity and Risk Management

BCP Builder

What is the relationship between Business Continuity and Risk Management? The relationship between Business Continuity and Risk Management depends on the organization. In most cases, Business Continuity is a sub-domain of Risk Management. If there is an existing Enterprise Risk Management framework in the organization, can you use that in your Business Continuity Planning?

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Lessons for Industrial Resilience: The UK's Typhoon Export Conundrum

The Rand Blog

If Turkey steps back from its pursuit of the Typhoon, it would join India, South Korea, Finland, the UAE, and Switzerland on the list of countries to decline acquisition of the four-nation collaborative platform jointly exported by the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The United Kingdom and Germany have the most to gain, or lose, from the Typhoon's success.

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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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How to Automate Time Tracking as MSPs

Acronis

Discover efficient strategies for automating time tracking in your MSP business with our comprehensive guide. Enhance productivity and accuracy in billing with tailored solutions for managed service providers by Acronis.

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A Storage-efficient Solution for Rapid Restore of VMs

Pure Storage

A Storage-efficient Solution for Rapid Restore of VMs by Pure Storage Blog With the tremendous growth of data, companies are looking for the best approach to back it up. Ensuring the fast recovery of data when a disaster occurs has become more difficult. Businesses face even more significant challenges if they don’t modernize their rapid restore strategy as well.

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Managing ICT third-party risk under DORA regulation

Fusion Risk Management

With less than a year to go until the January 2025 deadline to meet the requirements of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) regulation, entities are digging deeper into understanding the organizational and technical requirements of the regulation. As organizations begin to determine the impact that DORA has on their specific business, a common thread has emerged: while Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) is its own pillar in the regulation,