Bernstein Crisis Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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DRI Drive

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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Disaster Preparedness Management Government Mitigation 130

Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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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.

Activation

Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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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Backup Response Plan Vulnerability Corporate Governance 116

Zerto

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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Entertainment Business Continuity Activation BCM 111

Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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

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DRI Drive

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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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!

Mitigation

LogisManager

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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Risk Management Management Strategic Activation 105

Security Industry Association

JANUARY 30, 2024

SIA to promote and expand eligibility for its training, scholarship, mentorship and community offerings and foster greater engagement with security industry and Native American populations SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced a commitment to grow its outreach to Native American and indigenous communities beginning in 2024, including expanding access to SIA services and programs such as its training, scholarship and mentorship offerings.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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Synology

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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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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LogisManager

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Management Activation Vulnerability Mitigation 105

Pure Storage

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Architecture Outsourcing Application Government 98

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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Disaster Zone

JANUARY 31, 2024

Using technology to aid in prevention and mitigation.

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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.

Security Industry Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Curtis Marquardt Jr., vice president at UBM New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Utility Business Media (UBM) is a producer and publisher of information and education dedicated to the utility safety and operations leadership community. The company is headquartered in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and its workforce is nationwide, with employees in Arizona, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, Georgia and Florida.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Architecture Outsourcing Application Government 64

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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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Disaster Zone

JANUARY 31, 2024

There appears to be a different tone in Congress.

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Insurance Insurance 100

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

Entertainment

Constellation

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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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Technology 52

Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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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Disaster Recovery Backup Strategic Security 52

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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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Resilience 74

Disaster Zone

JANUARY 29, 2024

You can learn a lot of things not to do.

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BCP Builder

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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