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Brand Crisis Management: Protecting Your Reputation

Bernstein Crisis Management

Brand Crisis Management: Protecting and Repairing Your Reputation In today’s competitive market, where a brand’s reputation can be its most significant asset or its Achilles’ heel, mastering brand crisis management is more crucial than ever. Brands that prioritize effective crisis management strategies are not only better equipped to navigate challenges but also stand to enhance their reputation in the process.

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Cybersecurity Month: New Guidance for Tackling Phishing Attacks

DRI Drive

As National Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, a multi-department security team has partnered to issue new guidance for organizations of all sizes on stopping phishing attacks before they do irreparable harm. “Phishing Guidance: Stopping the Attack Cycle at Phase One” is a cybersecurity information sheet developed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), NSA, the […] The post Cybersecurity Month: New Guidance for Tackling Phishing Attacks appeared first on DRI

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A New Model for Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

Emergency management as a profession is constantly evolving. The evolution of federal programs and major disaster events have a way of swaying the priorities of state and local jurisdictions based on new programs and the funding that comes with those programs.In this podcast we explore a number of topics about how emergency management might evolve in the future and the relationship of disaster resilience to our overall disaster response operations that have become much more frequent.The guest fo

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Avoid Salesforce Data Mishaps and Mayhem

Zerto

Data backup and recovery strategies for cloud and SaaS workloads are becoming more of a focus for large and small businesses. It is no longer if an event will occur, but when companies will need to recover from data loss. Salesforce is critical to the success of your business, which means that it’s time to think about how you’re backing up that Salesforce 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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Scareware Ransomware Attacks: The Digital Nightmare Unveiled

Pure Storage

Scareware Ransomware Attacks: The Digital Nightmare Unveiled by Pure Storage Blog In the treacherous world of cybercrime, ransomware attacks have been making headlines for quite some time. These malicious software threats encrypt a victim’s data, demanding a ransom for its release. While ransomware attacks are nothing new, a particularly sinister variant known as “scareware” ransomware has been causing chaos in recent years.

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Get the Facts Right Re Disasters

Recovery Diva

From the NYTimes: Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters “Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfires.

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The Evolving Relationship Between Backup and Disaster Recovery

Zerto

As data proliferates in the information age, data protection becomes more and more important. When computing first began and data was stored in various types of removable media, it quickly became apparent that backups were a good idea, as media could be lost or corrupted. Then it also became apparent that a backup should probably be stored somewhere other than where the primary data was, just in case a disaster of some kind might affect both copies of data in the same location.

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4 Questions IT Managers Can Ask to Strengthen Data Backup and Resiliency

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series is a collection of contributed articles written by thought leaders in enterprise tech. In this feature, Apricorn ‘s Kurt Markley offers four data backup and resilience questions to ask right now. IT leaders face an escalating array of challenges. The landscape of evolving digital threats, coupled with the pandemic-induced surge in remote and hybrid work, has exposed organizations to an increasing number of vulnerabilities.

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SIA Applauds Bipartisan Call for Increased Funding to Nonprofit Security Grant Program

Security Industry Association

The Security Industry Association (SIA) stands in strong support of the recent bipartisan initiative led by Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), urging increased funding to the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP). In a world faced with rapidly growing and ever-evolving security threats, this program is more crucial than ever before.

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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 Resilience Training Can Propel You Towards Success in Life

Beaumont Resilience Training

In the face of life’s challenges, uncertainties, and setbacks, Resilience emerges as a powerful quality that can make the difference between mere survival and thriving. Resilience, often referred to as the ability to bounce back from adversity, is not a fixed trait but a skill that can be nurtured and strengthened. At Beaumont Training, where Resilience coach training and courses in wellbeing are a specialty, we firmly believe that Resilience training can be a life-changing journey towards

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Safeguarding Your Computer Systems: How to Build an IT Disaster Recovery Team

MHA Consulting

The cost of not having an IT disaster recovery team can range from being unable to recover from a disruption, to overspending. In today’s post we’ll look at the right way to build an IT/DR team, focusing on what roles need to be represented to ensure that the organization’s various computing services each receive an appropriate level of protection. Related on MHA Consulting: Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery The Price of Neglecting IT/DR Being a business continui

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4 Questions IT Managers Can Ask to Strengthen Data Backup and Resiliency

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series is a collection of contributed articles written by thought leaders in enterprise technology. In this feature, Apricorn ‘s Kurt Markley offers four data backup and resilience questions to ask right now. IT leaders face an escalating array of challenges. The landscape of evolving digital threats, coupled with the pandemic-induced surge in remote and hybrid work, has exposed organizations to an increasing number of vulnerabilities.

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Guest Post: Building the “Air Domain” Into Your Security Program

Security Industry Association

Building Intelligence’s Bill Edwards, Chair of the SIA Counter-UAS Working Group, Answers the Question, “Where Do I Start?” Bill Edwards is the president of federal and public safety at Building Intelligence Inc. and chair of the SIA Counter-UAS Working Group. He is a retired U.S. Army colonel and veteran of the Iraq War. He is also the author and provider of a series of online training courses.

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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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The Lithuanian Success Story

The Rand Blog

The horrors of the past have motivated Lithuanians to build a successful new independent country. Lithuania is a success story, an advertisement for democracy and market economics during a dark period in Eastern Europe.

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How Banks Can Prepare for the FDIC’s Proposed Standards

LogisManager

How Banks Can Prepare for the FDIC’s Proposed Standards Last Updated: October 19, 2023 FDIC Proposes Stricter Corporate Governance for Banks with $10 Billion or More in Assets On October 3, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) proposed new standards for corporate governance and risk management for financial institutions with $10 billion or more in total assets.

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YOUR NEW ACTION HERO! What is Data Activator?

Advancing Analytics

Data Activator is the newest experience to be added to Microsoft’s unified Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform Fabric, having been made available in the public preview at the beginning of October. But what is it? What does it do? How can you use it? THE TRAILER It activates data right? Err… not sure that’s even a thing. The one liner I’d give it, is that it acts ON your data.

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Regulation Can Only Do So Much: It’s Time to Build for Better Data Privacy

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series is a collection of contributed articles written by thought leaders in enterprise technology. In this feature, Inrupt VP of Trust and Digital Ethics Davi Ottenheimer offers commentary on why regulation can only do so much in the era of data privacy. More than two-thirds of consumers globally are concerned about their online data privacy.

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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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Hurricanes are growing stronger much faster

Disaster Zone

Less time to prepare for the coming storm.

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A Case for Promoting Infrastructure Equity for the Olympics

The Rand Blog

In 2028, Los Angeles will host the Olympic Games for the third time. A critical factor for successfully hosting will be for planners to ask hard questions early, so the community can collaborate with the organizing committee, informing its response to critical themes such as homes, health, transport, jobs, society, and culture.

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How to Achieve Perfect Sprint Planning

Advancing Analytics

This title is a misnomer as perfection is a fallacy, and there’s no such thing as perfect. So instead of focusing on perfection, let’s focus on ‘good enough’ because ‘good enough’ is achievable. What is Sprint Planning? Sprint Planning is a ceremony in the Scrum framework in which the Sprint Team plan out the upcoming sprint. The purpose of Sprint Planning is to plan the tasks against the capacity of the team over the Sprint, with the aim of the Sprint to deliver value.

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AWS Orchestration with Systems Manager & Runbook Automation by Jake Cohen

PagerDuty

“We have the automation, but it will need to be invoked separately for each account. Doable, but time consuming and error-prone. Oh, and only someone from SRE can do it.” It is now the de facto standard for companies to operate across numerous regions and cloud-accounts. The reasons for this vary, and depending on where you sit in the organization, these reasons may be more or less apparent to you: Security : with more concrete barriers between environments, potential attackers have access to

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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

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Concentration of Homeless Following Vermont Floods

Disaster Zone

Certainly not an expected outcome from the flooding.

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Dismantling the Disinformation Business of Chinese Influence Operations

The Rand Blog

Some commercial actors benefit from involvement in Chinese influence operations. What steps could the U.S. government take to address this?

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ISC East to Offer Expansive Slate of Keynote Speakers, Educational Programming and More at Flagship Conference

Security Industry Association

NORWALK, Conn. — ISC East , the Northeast’s leading security and public safety event built by RX Global , hosted in collaboration with premier sponsor the Security Industry Association (SIA) and in partnership with ASIS NYC , is proud to present an expansive slate of keynote speakers and educational programming at this year’s conference. ISC East attendees are invited to participate in all programming, which takes place Nov. 14-16 at the Jacob K.

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How Transportation is Vital in Emergency Management and Business Continuity

CCEM Strategies

Transportation plays a key and invaluable role for company operations and is a vital element of emergency management. It provides the service that links companies to their suppliers, customers and employees. The consequences suffered when transportation services and infrastructure are impacted by a disaster are far reaching. An example of this was BC’s 2021 atmospheric river* which washed out highways and interrupted the distribution of goods and services.

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New Technologies Means New Protocols

Disaster Zone

Electric-powered trucks are part of the equation.