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How Extreme Weather Events Could Take Down Entire Socioeconomic Systems

DRI Drive

Planning for individual disasters, rather than thinking of them as interconnected events, could have severe consequences for health, energy and agriculture, food production and other vital sectors, based on a recent research study. The study, developed by researchers at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, focused on understanding how extreme weather might affect linked socioeconomic systems. […].

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Wildfire Resilient Communities

Disaster Zone Podcast

Climate change is bringing heat, drought, and wildfires as significant hazards across the globe. In this podcast, Dr. Paula Scalingi, Executive Director of the Institute for Innovating Security and Resilience is interviewed about the increasing risks of climate fueled wildfires and their impact. Additionally, in the second half of the podcast we discuss how government and other organizations can work together to reduce the impacts of wildfires.

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Pure’s Superpowers: Sustainable Technology and a Responsive Supply Chain

Pure Storage

I love when Pure Storage partners help customers go green. Over the past several years, there has been an increased focus put on the nonfinancial environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors that businesses consider when identifying material risks and growth opportunities. It’s not just limited to when companies are upgrading or changing technology.

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Webinar: The Importance of Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)

Disaster Zone

It is another step—keeping you more secure.

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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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Questioning U.S. Preparedness

Recovery Diva

From CNN: ‘We thought we were safe’: Kentucky disaster shows how US is ill-prepared and under-insured for devastating floods.

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Pure to Peer: Build, Scale, and Power Your Legal Ops Function from the Ground Up

Pure Storage

If you want to know how to build, scale, and power a modern legal ops team, this fireside chat in our new Pure to Peer series is for you. . For this chat, I’m joined by two amazing thought leaders in the legal ops space: Mary O’Carroll, Chief Community Officer at Ironclad, and Micki Nute , Director of Global Legal Operations and Enablement here at Pure Storage.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Wildfire Resilient Communities

Disaster Zone

A discussion of the threat and then solutions.

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A Megaflood Coming to CA

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: A disastrous megaflood is coming to California, experts say, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster in history.

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Unitrends and IT Glue Integration

Unitrends

In today’s landscape of hybrid IT environments, it is important to ensure all IT information is readily and centrally available so that IT teams have access to the right information at the right time. IT documentation ensures policies and procedures, passwords, knowledge, project timelines, instructions and more are collected, organized and stored securely.

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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 Russia's Nuclear Double Cross of Ukraine Teaches Dangerous Lessons

The Rand Blog

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the West's support for Kyiv has been tempered by an ace up Vladimir Putin's sleeve: the potential use of nuclear weapons. But other countries are taking notice, which could imperil world stability even further.

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Business, Interrupted: Supply Chain Lessons Learned

Castellan

The supply chain. Until complications compounded during the coronavirus pandemic, it’s not something most consumers thought much about. But today, with shortages of everything from baby formula to automobiles, it’s constantly making headlines. But for Elaine Boltz , Chief Operating and Transformation Officer at Crocs, the supply chain is now always front of mind.

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CRS Report on Hazard-Resilient Buildings

Recovery Diva

From the CRS, this new (19 page) report: Hazard-Resilient Buildings: Sustaining Occupancy and Function After a Natural Disaster.

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Security Industry Association Announces RISE Scholarship Opportunity

Security Industry Association

SIA invites its young professional members and student members to apply for this program offering $3,000 scholarships to further their education and career goals. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) is now accepting applications for the SIA RISE Scholarship , an initiative led by the SIA RISE community for young professionals.

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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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Why IT Holds the Keys to Digital Transformation Success

Pure Storage

It’s probably fair to call the 2020s the rise of the “internal” customer—but what do we mean by internal customers, and why are they so important? . External customers are who you sell to; internal customers help you to ultimately make those sales: employees, shareholders, stakeholders, partners, and vendors selling to third parties. They’re important because there’s a measurable connection between happy internal customers and happy external customers. .

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Omission Accomplished: When Front-Line Workers Are Excluded from BCM Training 

MHA Consulting

Many organizations seem to go out of their way to provide business continuity training to everyone—except the front-line workers who would most likely be the ones tasked with responding to … The post Omission Accomplished: When Front-Line Workers Are Excluded from BCM Training appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

Over time, enterprises, institutions, and organizations will face disasters that could temporarily or permanently disrupt their operations. These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Savvy organizational leaders employ corporate strategies such as disaster recovery and business continuity to nimbly navigate through such emergencies and maint

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Understanding Russia's Motivations, and Using Them

The Rand Blog

The concept of ontological security could help explain Putin's war on Ukraine and his regime's reasoning. It's about maintaining a continuous sense of self, and in this case, of state identity. Putin may have deemed the invasion necessary to maintain a sense of continuity and order, where order is Russia's continued adversarial relationship with the West.

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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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How flexible is your BCP?

KingsBridge BCP

Is my plan enough? As Business Continuity professionals, we see a lot of plans. We develop plans for our clients, we help mentor clients on how to build their plans themselves, we review existing plans for gaps, and we audit plans. One consistent concern across all plans, regardless of their size: is it a flexible BCP? At what point is your plan too rigid?

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Mais segurança, redução de custos e produtividade para os serviços públicos

Citrix

O setor público na América Latina, particularmente no Brasil, vem passando por um momento de transformação e não apenas por conta do COVID-19. Obviamente a adoção em massa do home office e o consequente aumento da demanda por soluções … The post Mais segurança, redução de custos e produtividade para os serviços públicos first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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August IAEM Disaster Zone Column

Disaster Zone

Be prepared to pivot from what you have done before.

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Russian Forces in Ukraine: Muddling Through

The Rand Blog

The Russian armed forces have suffered tens of thousands of casualties and lost more than 5,000 pieces of equipment. These deficits will make it hard for Russia to hold regions in Ukraine that it may soon try to annex. To succeed, Moscow will have to replenish personnel and equipment at scale—tasks that will prove extremely difficult.

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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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Advania Island Improves Remediation Times

everbridge

To be successful in a technologically advanced world, you must continually improve your digital services to meet changing customer expectations. However, sometimes rapid changes can cause problems – and you don’t want to be caught on your back foot when it happens. Automated incident response can help your organization combat the growing pains change brings by automating workflows for remediation while in the office or asleep in bed, delivering exceptional customer experiences around the clock w

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How to create a zero trust network

Citrix

Looking to achieve zero trust security for your business? You’re not alone. The White House recently released an edict declaring the implementation of a federal zero-trust architecture (ZTA) requiring all agencies to comply with specific cybersecurity standards and objectives by … The post How to create a zero trust network first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Security Classifications Explained

Disaster Zone

What you need to know about the differences.

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‘You Can’t Make a Twinkie With Only 95% of Ingredients’: Supply Shortages Hit the Snack Food Aisle

DRI Drive

The supply chain strikes again! Major food manufacturers are running into major production snags, as key ingredients for big snack items are tied up in scheduling and transportation headaches. “Unfortunately, you can’t make a Twinkie with only 95% of ingredients,” Hostess Brands CFO Travis Leonard said on a recent earnings call, summing up the problem many […].

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Everbridge’s Best in Resilience™ Study Results

everbridge

The Best in Resilience Certification is designed to help organizations protect their people, safeguard operations, and sustain performance with critical event management (CEM) best practices. Our Best in Resilience Certification utilizes a proprietary Critical Event Management (CEM) Standards Framework to provide organizations with the industry’s first end-to-end methodology for evaluating and benchmarking resilience. businesses from over 150 countries, our Best in Resilience Certification helps