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Collaborative Partner Spotlight: Fall 2024

DRI Drive

As the leading nonprofit helping organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on groups that promote greater resiliency. We encourage our Certified Professionals to support these valuable partners. Business Resiliency Professionals of Wisconsin – BRPW is back from summer hiatus with a new online meeting scheduled for Sept. 12.

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University Emergency Management Programs

Disaster Zone Podcast

This podcast focuses on the depth and breadth of managing an emergency management program for a major university that has multiple campuses. This is a forthright discussion of the challenges and opportunities of operating in a university setting. The podcast guest is Denise Whisman who has served as the Senior Director of Emergency Management at Arizona State University since May 2023 where she plays a pivotal role in developing and implementing standardized emergency response plans across the u

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How to Manage Escalation with Nuclear Adversaries Like China

The Rand Blog

The United States needs a theory of victory that explains how it plans to win a potential future war with China without triggering a nuclear war. Three historical crises that played out under the shadow of nuclear weapons hold some important lessons.

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New Report on National Resilience Guidance

Recovery Diva

New Report from FEMA on National Resilience Guidance. It is 44 pages long.

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Supply Chain Resilience Checklist

Strengthen your operations with the Supply Chain Resilience Checklist. This practical, easy-to-use tool helps your organization prepare for disruptions and ensure long-term continuity in an unpredictable world. Why Download: Identify and assess critical supply chain risks Ask the right questions to evaluate vendor preparedness Implement effective strategies to reduce vulnerabilities Improve communication, transparency, and coordination across your network What You’ll Learn: How to evaluate and m

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File vs. full backups: Why image-based full backups are essential for businesses

Synology

As data is the lifeline of businesses, companies must implement strong and reliable backup and recovery solutions to safeguard business-critical workloads against ransomware attacks and other threats. In this blog post, let’s take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of file and full backups for organizations looking to create a robust data protection strategy.

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SOLID Principles in Object Oriented Design

BMC

SOLID programming design is a philosophy and approach to creating more robust, flexible, and scalable software systems that maintain integrity over time. As a developer, it is important to understand the right way and wrong way to write code. In this article, we will detail each of the SOLID design principles in context so that you can apply them to your work.

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What Do You Think about a FEMA University?

Recovery Diva

This topic first surfaced in June at the Higher Education Conference at FEMA’s Training Academy. The opposition was almost immediate. It has been spearheaded by Carol Cwiak and Samantha Montano. See this posting for details and suggestions for action: Post from Carol: [link] And this is the blog post from Samantha she is talking about [link] Your comments are invited.

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Reclaiming Control: Mastering the Art of Cloud Repatriation

Zerto

In the rapidly evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, organizations are constantly reevaluating their cloud strategies to ensure they align with business goals. A growing trend is cloud repatriation, the process of migrating data, applications, or workloads from the cloud back to on-premises infrastructure or another cloud environment. In this post, we explore what cloud repatriation is, what it takes to manage it, and all the things you need to consider before initiating such a significant ef

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Beyond Cameras and Detection: Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in Physical Security

Security Industry Association

Jason Veiock is a former chief security officer of a global technology company and an inaugural member of SIA’s AI Advisory Board. Recently pivoting to entrepreneur, he has advised Hakimo, a computer vision startup, on strategy and partnerships since an early stage and launched a venture-backed startup bringing digital transformation and artificial intelligence to physical security.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls In Automation: Keep Humans In the Loop

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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Weathering the Storm: Leveraging Business Continuity for Hurricane Resilience

BryghtPath

Hurricanes are one of the most destructive natural disasters, capable of causing widespread damage to property, infrastructure, and human lives. For businesses, a lack of hurricane resilience can disrupt operations, damage assets, and threaten employee safety. Organizations must have a robust Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to mitigate these risks to ensure resilience and rapid recovery. … The post Weathering the Storm: Leveraging Business Continuity for Hurricane Resilience appeared first

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GAO Summary Report re Progress at Dept. of Homeland Security

Recovery Diva

General Accounting Office Report on Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Homeland Security (35 pp) A very detailed report.

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Becoming a trusted business partner: 5 partnership strategies for MSPs

Acronis

Customer retention is critical for MSPs. Make yourself indispensable to your clients, and you can set yourself up to become a trusted business partner.

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SOLID Principles in Object Oriented Design

BMC

SOLID programming design is a philosophy and approach to creating more robust, flexible, and scalable software systems that maintain integrity over time. As a developer, it is important to understand the right way and wrong way to write code. In this article, we will detail each of the SOLID design principles in context so that you can apply them to your work.

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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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Social Media Manipulation in the Era of AI

The Rand Blog

AI has opened a potential propaganda gold mine. Large language models like ChatGPT can learn to mimic human speech. They can respond to jokes and cultural references and engage users in debates. Social media platforms should redouble their efforts to identify, attribute, and remove fake accounts.

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Pure Storage Announces Support for Next-generation VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes 

Pure Storage

Pure Storage Announces Support for Next-generation VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes by Blog Home At Explore this week, Pure Storage is excited to share that it will support the next generation of VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) when it becomes generally available, which is currently planned to be part of VMware Cloud Foundation 9. Reinforcing Pure Storage’s commitment to driving enterprise-grade storage needs for VMware environments, support for next-gen vVols will enable our enterprise cu

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Lithium Systems switches from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to Acronis

Acronis

Lithium Systems used Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to provide email protection to clients. Despite featuring anti-malware and anti-phishing capabilities, Defender was not providing adequate protection against QR code phishing.

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The State of DR and Cyber Recovery – Part 2: Top Disaster Recovery Challenges and Strategies for Success

Zerto

In part-1 of our miniseries, we looked at the main reasons behind data loss occurrences and some ways to address them with Zerto. In this post, the second in a series of three that explores insights from the IDC white paper sponsored by Zerto, we’ll focus on the top disaster recovery challenges organizations face, and how to address them. Top Disaster Recovery Challenges In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, disaster recovery (DR) is more critical than ever.

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Emergency Preparedness: Active Shooter Tabletop Exercise

April is Workplace Violence Prevention Awareness Month. Enhance your organization’s emergency preparedness with our Active Shooter Tabletop Exercise. Download now to strategically plan, prepare, and test your response to active shooter situations. Key Features: Plan, prepare, and test your emergency response strategy. Simulate real-world scenarios to mitigate risks.

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The State of Public Education in 2024 in Five Charts

The Rand Blog

Every year RAND sends more than a dozen surveys to members of the American Educator Panels to keep tabs on what is happening in classrooms around the country. When we looked back on the last 12 months of reports based on our surveys, these are the findings that told us the most about the state of American public schools.

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Security Pros Share the Secret to Data Resilience 

Pure Storage

Security Pros Share the Secret to Data Resilience by Blog Home Summary In a recent Tech Talk, experts from Presidio and Pure Storage discussed how enterprises can take advantage of their increasing amount of data while keeping it secure. Here’s a stat that might drop your jaw: About 90% of the world’s data was generated in the last two years. “I think a lot of us are trying to figure out how to become better swimmers because we’re all drowning in data,” said Bill Oyler, Practice Director, Profe

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SIA New Member Profile: Velasea

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Velasea specializes in custom-built hardware solutions for video surveillance, edge computing, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, digital signage and broadcast applications. The company is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, with a global business presence in Canada, South America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

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Crisis Management for Construction: Essential Strategies

BryghtPath

Prepare for any crisis with this complete guide to Construction Crisis Management. Protect your team, business & bottom line - read our expert insights now! The post Crisis Management for Construction: Essential Strategies appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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How to Put Your Business Continuity Plans into Action

During a crisis, successful organizations are led by strong leaders who communicate continuously with all stakeholders and have plans that are flexible enough to allow changes to be made on the fly. What You'll Learn: Understanding the characteristics of actionable business continuity plans. Step-by-step guidance on building robust and adaptable BCPs.

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Today's Drinking Water Quality Challenges Require New Approaches

The Rand Blog

Despite advances in technology and increasing regulation, many in the United States still face challenges accessing safe drinking water. Keeping America's water safe requires new approaches to monitoring, tracking, and treatment.

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The Definitive Guide to Turning your Business and Data Center into an AI Factory

Solutions Review

Hitachi Vantara’s Octavian Tanase offers the definitive guide to turning your data centers (and business) into an AI factory. This article originally appeared on Solutions Review’s Insight Jam , an enterprise IT community enabling the human conversation on AI. AI factories and foundries moved into the popular lexicon when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used these terms in his recent keynote address.

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Nominations Open! 2024 Lippert and Progress Awards

Security Industry Association

Nominate a leader for these prestigious awards, recognizing outstanding SIA volunteer leadership and advancement of women in the security industry and presented at SIA Honors Night. The Security Industry Association (SIA) presents the most respected awards in the security industry on an annual basis to members, volunteers, committee chairs, elected officials and practitioners.

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Take Control of Reporting with Configurable Out-of-the-Box LM 2.0 Reports

LogisManager

New Configurable Out-of-the-Box Reports Published: August 28, 2024 Staying ahead of the curve means having the right insights at your fingertips. That’s why we’ve redesigned our most popular reports – the ones our LogicManager community have sworn by for years. While we were at it, we made them configurable so you can tailor them for your unique needs.

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Next-Level Fraud Prevention: Strategies for Today’s Threat Landscape

Speaker: Sierre Lindgren

Fraud is a battle that every organization must face – it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.” Every organization is a potential target for fraud, and the finance department is often the bullseye. From cleverly disguised emails to fraudulent payment requests, the tactics of cybercriminals are advancing rapidly. Drawing insights from real-world cases and industry expertise, we’ll explore the vulnerabilities in your processes and how to fortify them effectively.

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Top Crisis Communication Tools: Safeguard Your Reputation in 2024

BryghtPath

Discover the best crisis communication tools for 2024. Learn how to protect your brand and respond effectively to any crisis with these cutting-edge solutions. The post Top Crisis Communication Tools: Safeguard Your Reputation in 2024 appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Privacy Oversights: Why Your Tech Stack Needs an Update

Solutions Review

LOKKER’s Ian Cohen offers insights on privacy oversight and why your tech stack needs an update. This article originally appeared on Solutions Review’s Insight Jam , an enterprise IT community enabling the human conversation on AI. Browsing the web now feels like whack-a-mole if you’re trying to keep your data private and avoid having every website you encounter courting you daily for a relationship.

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How to Make the Transition From Team Player to Team Leader

Security Industry Association

At AcceleRISE 2024, Sandra Williams, vice president of operations at Boon Edam, shared insights on how to transition to leadership successfully. The Security Industry Association (SIA) recently closed out a successful sixth annual AcceleRISE – a unique event presented by the SIA RISE community and gathering tomorrow’s security leaders. The sold-out event took place Aug. 12-14, 2024, in Washington, D.C., and offered attendees meaningful opportunities to connect, take their careers to the next lev