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Business Continuity Awareness Week: Personal Resilience

DRI Drive

Business Continuity Awareness Week continues – today’s theme is personal resilience! Over the course of the pandemic, as many employees began shifting to work-from-home or hybrid work situations, additional focus has been placed on the importance of personal wellbeing and mental health to maintain a productive organization during trying times.

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Earthquake Vulnerabilities and Failures

Disaster Zone

Standard stuff, growth over safety. Poor design. Inadequate standards and inspections.

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Crisis Management Explained: A Comprehensive Guide

Bernstein Crisis Management

Crisis Management Explained: A Comprehensive Guide Crisis management is a crucial aspect of running a successful organization. In today’s unpredictable and rapidly changing world, businesses must be prepared to handle unexpected events that can disrupt their normal operations, harm their reputation, or threaten their survival. This comprehensive guide will explore the various aspects of crisis management, including its definition, the importance of having a crisis management plan, the diff

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The Coming National Security Challenge

Recovery Diva

From the Wash Post, Want to know why America is losing its edge? Look around campus. An excerpt: “Some 2.5 million fewer Americans are enrolled in college than in 2011, and the decline is accelerating. The college-going rate of high school graduates has dropped from 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2022, and if this trend continues, a group of young Americans will — for the first time in our history — enter the workforce with less education than the one before.

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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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Business Continuity Awareness Week: Organizational Resilience

DRI Drive

To conclude this year’s Business Continuity Awareness Week, we’re focusing on Organizational Resilience! Long the leader in certifying individuals, DRI International also offers accreditation for organizations with the Resilient Enterprise and Center of Excellence in Resilience designations, as well as assessment of organizational resilience with the Resilient Enterprise Assessment Program (REAP).

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The United States Needs a Moonshot to Prevent Extremism from Metastasizing

The Rand Blog

Extremism is like cancer: It will always exist, but ignoring it runs the risk that it rears its ugly head, metastasizing throughout the country. The United States needs to ensure it has the proper tools to diagnose extremism in its earliest stages, and that the agencies tasked with protecting our democracy have the capability to get it into, and keep it in, remission.

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Call for a National Emergency Management Strategy

Recovery Diva

Opinion piece in HSToday by Richard Serino: A 10-Year Reflection on the Boston Marathon Bombing and a Call for a National Emergency Management Strategy. An excerpt: While nothing can replace those we lost, as a community we take solace that our preparedness saved lives. I often say: It was no accident that Boston was prepared to respond that day, it was no accident that equipment was on site.

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Business Continuity Awareness Week: Operational Resilience

DRI Drive

As Business Continuity Awareness Week continues, we’re focusing on operational resilience! Increasingly fueled by regulatory requirements, particularly in the financial sector, operational resilience expands business continuity management programs to focus on the impacts, connected risk appetite and tolerance levels for disruption of product or service delivery to internal and external stakeholders.

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IAEM 2023 Conference

Disaster Zone Podcast

The International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) is the largest such organization in the world. Their 2023 IAEM Conference will be held in Long Beach California. Leading the conference preparations is Duane Hagelgans, Conference Chair. In this podcast we find out about the conference in general and more specifics on how the event is organized, how speakers are chosen and then other opportunities like the Exhibit Hall, where vendors of all types display their wares and services.

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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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Disaster Zone Podcast: The 2023 IAEM Conference

Disaster Zone

Details on the upcoming November 2023 conference

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How Florida's Expansion of 'Don't Say Gay' Law Will Hurt Students and Teachers Across the United States

The Rand Blog

Policies restricting discussion of LGBTQ+ issues and representation of LGBTQ+ individuals are likely to make schools less welcoming to the nation's estimated 2 million LGBTQ+ youth. Policymakers should develop policies that cultivate learning and work environments where students and educators of all backgrounds feel safe and valued.

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Business Continuity Awareness Week: Supply Chain Resilience

DRI Drive

It’s Business Continuity Awareness Week, and today’s focus is on Supply Chain Resilience! During the pandemic and beyond, supply chain issues have been a near-constant challenge for resilience professionals. Knowing how to navigate them and prepare for the worst has become an everyday part of the current business continuity landscape. Additional Resources: DRI Webinar: Resilience […] The post Business Continuity Awareness Week: Supply Chain Resilience appeared first on DRI Driv

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GAO Puts Pressure on FEMA

Recovery Diva

This is the latest effort by the GAO to press FEMA to address its earlier reports: Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Address Increasing Challenges. The full report is 20 pp., but there also is an executive summary available. The Diva considers this a very important report. She is surprised at the tone of the report, which clearly shows the extent of GAO’s dissatisfaction with FEMA’s efforts to date to address several recent GAO reports.

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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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Webinar: How to do Business with FEMA

Disaster Zone

There are always hoops to jump through. Find out which ones!

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What Is Next for the Arctic Council in the Wake of Russian Rule?

The Rand Blog

Norway recently took over chairmanship of the Arctic Council from Russia under conditions never before experienced by the organization in its 27-year history. Despite the current uncertainties, there could be ways to move past the stalemate between Russia and the other council members.

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Business Continuity Awareness Week: Cyber Resilience

DRI Drive

Today’s Business Continuity Awareness Week subject spotlights cyber resilience! Organizations today are confronted by a wide range of cyberattacks, and your organization is no exception. There are countless opportunities for hackers to cause massive disruptions, all of which will require a response that will involve you. DRI’s Cyber Resilience course prepare you to address cyber […] The post Business Continuity Awareness Week: Cyber Resilience appeared first on DRI Drive.

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ESG Research Shows Why Data Analytics Maturity Matters

Pure Storage

ESG Research Shows Why Data Analytics Maturity Matters by Pure Storage Blog Many organizations have expanded their analytics capabilities by capturing “big data” to explore new business capabilities. Now, some want to accelerate those capabilities by moving beyond experimentation with analytics toward more mature investments and capabilities. In 2020, Pure Storage ® partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to sponsor a study that examines the benefits of these investments and reveals the

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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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Zerto Launches Zerto 10 at Keynote Event in Houston, TX

Zerto

On May 18, at a keynote event in Houston, we announced the launch of Zerto 10 , delivering the fastest time to protect, detect, and recover from ransomware. The release enhances Zerto’s already robust suite of cybersecurity capabilities, offering new real-time encryption anomaly detection , a new Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault , and a new secure-hardened Linux appliance.

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What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Risk

MHA Consulting

For most entrepreneurs, worrying about risk takes a back seat to bringing in revenue and building their company’s brand. This is natural. But as their companies grow, business owners can and should start becoming more proactive about mitigating risk. Related on MHA Consulting: Single Points of Failure: Protecting Yourself from Hanging by a Thread Risk and the Entrepreneur In writing today’s blog, I’m going to switch between my consultant’s hat and my entrepreneur’s hat.

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NexusTek and New York-based ICCS Join Forces

NexusTek

May 16, 2023 NexusTek and New York-based ICCS Join Forces A leading nationwide managed IT services provider expands geographic footprint and capabilities by adding market leader ICCS to its portfolio. Denver, CO, May 16, 2023 — NexusTek , a national provider of managed IT and technology consulting services, has joined with ICCS & Co., LLC (ICCS), a leading regional managed IT services provider based in New York City.

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How to create a Full System Image Backup in Under 10 Minutes?

Acronis

With file-level backups, you backup and restore files such as Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, photographs, videos, and audio files. Many users think that just backing up these kinds of files is all they need. While file-level backups work if you are restoring a small number of files, it is a time-consuming task to restore an entire PC or Mac.

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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 Pure Digital Experience at Pure//Accelerate

Pure Storage

The Pure Digital Experience at Pure//Accelerate by Pure Storage Blog Pure//Accelerate ® 2023 is coming soon to Las Vegas (June 14-16) and will be packed with great sessions geared toward helping you uncomplicate your storage, protect your data, and operate like a public cloud provider. There will also be lots of great conversations and meetups. Who Is the Pure Digital Experience Team?

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Highlights from the 2022 Employee Safety Conference

Alert Media

The post Highlights from the 2022 Employee Safety Conference appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Shifting your disaster recovery strategy to the Cloud

BryghtPath

In our fast-paced, digitally-driven world, the importance of robust disaster recovery strategies cannot be overstated. An unforeseen disruption, like a data breach or a natural disaster, can severely impact an organization’s operations, reputation, and bottom line. As such, it’s crucial to have an effective plan in place to recover and resume business as quickly as … The post Shifting your disaster recovery strategy to the Cloud appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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SIA Endowment Proposal Submission Process Opens: Member Ideas Encouraged

Security Industry Association

The Security Industry Association (SIA) Board of Directors recently updated the association’s investment policy to establish a quasi-endowment fund. SIA members and committees are encouraged to submit proposals for funding that will enhance the value of SIA. The SIA quasi-endowment fund is to serve as a long-term spending policy, derived from SIA investments, that would serve as a funding source each year for the following three specific purposes: Fund new, unbudgeted initiatives that will provi

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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