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Pandemic effects on crisis responders and emergency planners 

Crisis Response Journal

The pandemic has affected all of us and uncertainty is mentally and emotionally uncomfortable. The last 18 months have been uncertain on a life and death coin toss for some.

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Media’s Use of Drones

Disaster Zone Podcast

One segment of our community that is using drones more and more includes the television media. This podcast is an interview with Greg Thies, News Operations Manager at King Television in Seattle, a NBC affiliate. In this podcast we learn about what the safety and operational protocols are in use to provide the safe operation of drones by the media. There is also information on how they approach working with first responders when they arrive on a disaster site.

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Getting to Know Us: The Summer Internship Program

Donyati

Eager to recruit the best, Donyati opens its arms every year to aspiring interns. The Summer Internship Program, a key recruiting channel, has grown in just three years from one to 10 interns – and has led to four full-time hires. Running from May to August, the Program offers professional networking, career advancement and guided discovery opportunities.

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The Main Types of Workplace Violence and 6 Steps to Mitigate Risks

Alert Media

The post The Main Types of Workplace Violence and 6 Steps to Mitigate Risks appeared first on AlertMedia.

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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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Blinkered by Covid-19: How to mitigate risks for business travel  

Crisis Response Journal

Scott Sunderman reminds us that there is a shared responsibility when it comes to mitigating risk and that managing travel risk should be holistic, appropriate and offer clear guidance for travellers

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You’ve Been Hit by Ransomware. Now What?

Pure Storage

These days, ransomware has become a full-fledged business. And with companies like Colonial Pipeline and JBS USA Holdings opting to pay up, it’s proving to be quite the profitable business, worth billions of dollars in some cases. But is paying the ransom the right thing to do when you’ve been attacked? Do you have a choice? The answer depends on who’s launching the attack, what they’re asking for, and how effective your data protection and recovery strategies are.

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Run Hide Fight: Pros and Cons

Alert Media

The post Run Hide Fight: Pros and Cons appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Water safety during Covid-19 

Crisis Response Journal

Rob Fagan says that although restrictions might be lifting around the world, it is important not to let our guards down when it comes to taking up leisure activities - safety must always be a priority

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Active Directory and Single Sign On (SSO) in Business Continuity

KingsBridge BCP

When we head to client sites, we listen for the key words Active Directory. This part of IT infrastructure can be a blessing for every day functionality. It can also fall apart dramatically during an incident. Before we get to the implications of what might happen if it goes down, let’s give a general explanation of what it is. Active Directory. Active Directory (AD) is the place on the network where all of the user permissions are stored.

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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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LAN Infotech Ranked In Top 501 MSPs Worldwide Of 2021

LAN Infotech

LAN Infotech Ranked In Top 501 MSPs Worldwide Of 2021 — What Does That Mean For You? Effective IT support and guidance is about more than monitoring a client’s IT systems and resetting their passwords from time to time. Truly innovative services foresee and adapt to ongoing changes in the IT landscape. That’s what LAN Infotech does, which is just one reason why we have been named to the Channel Future’s 2021 MSP 501, a list recognizing the top managed services providers (MSPs) worldwide.

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Respond to Business Challenges with Agile Storage

Pure Storage

The headlines were everywhere: Suez Canal Blocked After Giant Container Ship Gets Stuck. The mishap was big news all over the world. And why was it such big news? It had an outsized impact on worldwide commerce. . The incident disrupted supply chains and impacted business operations globally. Luckily, the ship was freed and the crucial trade route reopened after six days.

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Call for evidence: A call to arms 

Crisis Response Journal

July 2021: Phil Trendall comments on the importance of the call for evidence on the National Resilience Strategy and explores the opportunities that could arise from the process

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Table Service: 8 Ways Tabletop Exercises Can Benefit Your Company

MHA Consulting

Tabletop exercises are commonly associated with crisis management training; however, there are many other situations where they can provide significant value at modest cost. In today’s post, we’ll look at … The post Table Service: 8 Ways Tabletop Exercises Can Benefit Your Company appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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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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Secure clients and yourself with Acronis MSP Protection

Acronis

Businesses rely on data and IT more than ever before, especially after the widespread adoption of remote-first work models during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This reliance on data has dramatically increased the need for effective and comprehensive cyber protection — and nowhere is this threat more strongly felt than among managed service providers (MSPs) who keep their clients’ organizations running.

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Eliminate MySQL and MariaDB Replication Time to Availability

Pure Storage

Horizontal scaling can improve use cases such as increasing an application architecture’s responsiveness and read scale. Change operations are directed to a specific system, and read operations could be directed to any of the replicas in the environment, allowing for better query response times compared to a single system. Horizontal scaling can also provide high availability, ensuring that it won’t disrupt access to the database if one system goes offline.

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Horizon Europe: Working towards disaster resilience  

Crisis Response Journal

July 2021: Andrew Staniforth provides an insightful update on the pioneering programme funded by the EU

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Deep Dive Into Cloud Backups, Tapes, AaaS & More

Assurance IT

This is the second part of the interview between co-founder at Assurance IT and Senior System Engineer from Veeam. In the first section, they revealed a 360 view on ransomware and its prevention methods. To read the first part, click here. In this part, they do a deep dive into cloud backups, tapes, advanced AaaS and more. They discuss how the cast & acquisition saves enterprises, what enterprises have coming for them and why VMware Cloud is being used by remote workers.

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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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#MSInspire living up to its name for partners

Acronis

With one day down and the second underway, there’s been a lot of excitement at the Microsoft Inspire 2021 event. As promised, it’s a great opportunity to get a preview of the upcoming advances in Microsoft’s technology and its ecosystem of 400,000 partners, as well as to connect with our partners in attendance who are looking to protect their clients’ Microsoft environments.

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Testing and Exercise Outputs are the Building Blocks of a Successful Resiliency Program

Castellan

When it comes to disaster recovery exercises, your exercise outputs—the reports and results—can be just as valuable, maybe even more so, than the actual exercise itself. That’s why it’s critically important to test, exercise, and document your business continuity and disaster recovery plans frequently. In a recent blog post, we talked about a gamut of issues relating to exercises including the top 10 considerations for success.

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Livestock in wildfires 

Crisis Response Journal

July 2021: Lyzi G Cota provides practical advice and guidance on how to protect livestock and pets before, during and after a fire

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist

LogisManager

Download: HIPAA Compliance Checklist Download Your Copy. Beginning your journey to HIPAA compliance starts with assessing the risks that pose a threat to your compliance status. Not only does this help you better allocate time and resources, but it sets your organization up for long-term success in maintaining compliance. Download this checklist for a standardized, step-by-step process for evaluating your risks when it comes to HIPAA compliance.

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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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Dell’s Mid-Range PowerStore Conundrum 

Pure Storage

A few years ago, my wife and I relocated to a suburb of Atlanta. We quickly learned a lot about the region’s well-known southern hospitality. But it wasn’t long before we heard people saying, “ bless their heart.” It’s a phrase you use when you “want to be sweet but don’t want to act ugly.” It also works to express several types of feelings toward another person¹.

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Understanding and stopping 5 popular cybersecurity exploitation techniques

Behavior Group

With more than 550,000 new malware samples being discovered every day, closing the security gaps that enable these cyberthreats to access systems should be a priority for organizations. Unfortunately, many are leaving themselves needlessly exposed to risk. Exploits are often associated with zero-day attacks that take advantage of vulnerabilities not yet known to the software… Continue reading.

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Rethinking IT governance for agility and innovation

CIO Governance

Josh Hamit understands why IT governance sometimes gets a bad rap.

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SIA New Member Profile: Techmaven

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Techmaven is a woman-owned company that provides design, engineering, consulting, installation and service for its clientele. The company is headquartered on Long Island in Setauket, New York, and serves clients across the United States and internationally. . SIA spoke with Techmaven President Amanda Meltzer about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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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