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Why 2024 Should Be the Year of Crisis Preparedness for Your Brand

Bernstein Crisis Management

Why 2024 Should Be the Year of Crisis Preparedness for Your Brand We’re going to pose a question here and, while it’s not a terribly complicated one, if you’re reading this post because you truly care about your own organization’s wellbeing then we’d suggest you stop, take a minute and really think about your answer. Ready?

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Technology Continuing to Drive Emergency Management and First Responders

Disaster Zone

Gird up your loins, you will be in a race to adopt new technology.

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Best of 2023: Risk and Crisis Communications

Disaster Zone Podcast

Best of 2023 podcasts: One of emergency management’s major partners in all things concerning disasters, from the preparation phase to the response and recovery is our public information/affairs officers who support what we are trying to do in communicating with the public. It is critical that they have the knowledge and skill to perform their duties in a manner that helps, rather than hinders, our mission of protecting people, property and the environment.

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FlashStack for AI Checks the Boxes for Rapid AI Deployment at Any Scale

Pure Storage

FlashStack for AI Checks the Boxes for Rapid AI Deployment at Any Scale by Pure Storage Blog FlashStack® for AI is a software-defined, intelligently managed, full-stack infrastructure featuring automated real-time scalability. With capacity on demand and integrated management across hybrid-cloud landscapes, FlashStack for AI reduces the complexity associated with setting up an AI environment and simplifies expansion of your AI infrastructure as your needs grow.

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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Celebrating 30 Years of Bernstein Crisis Management

Bernstein Crisis Management

Celebrating 30 Years of Bernstein Crisis Management The big three-oh! This year, Bernstein Crisis Management celebrates thirty years in business, and thirty years of proving critics who weren’t shy about proclaiming, “You can’t manage a crisis!”, wrong. As we celebrate this milestone, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on our journey, the evolution of crisis management, and the ever-increasing relevance of our work in today’s world.

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Ensuring Data Sovereignty and Security Compliance with Thales and Zerto

Zerto

The need to protect sensitive data has never been greater. Organizations continue to migrate to virtual data centers and cloud environments while dealing with the persistent threat of data breaches. Regulatory demands, such as PCI/DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, GDPR, GLBA, and SOX, will continue to proliferate. Thales, with its CipherTrust Data Security Platform and Luna Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), partners with HPE and Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to provide enterprise data protection

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Thinking Forward: Managing Third Party Risk for 2024 & Beyond

LogisManager

Thinking Forward: Managing Third Party Risk for 2024 & Beyond Last Updated: January 2, 2024 In the world of third-party risk management, companies have long been accustomed to doing things the old way, navigating through fragmented processes and siloed approaches. However, as we step into 2024, the landscape demands a transformative shift. It’s time for companies to break free from the constraints of traditional methodologies and embrace a new integrated approach to third-party risk m

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Japan's Fires, Post Earthquake — Lessons to Learn

Disaster Zone

The photographs tell the story.

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Countering Truth Decay: Q&A with Ray Block, Jr.

The Rand Blog

Ray Block, Jr., leads RAND's efforts to combat Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life. It's the talking heads on TV, distrust and conspiracy theories, and basic disagreements over not just what's right, but what's real. He advises people to be active consumers of information.

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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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Coastal Challenges – Cities on the East Coast are Sinking

Recovery Diva

From NYC to D.C. and Beyond, Cities on the East Coast Are Sinking. “Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year – a decline at the ocean’s edge that well outpaces global sea level rise. Particularly hard hit population centers such as New York City and Long Island, Baltimore, and Virginia Beach and Norfolk are seeing areas of rapid “subsidence,” or sinking land, alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing th

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A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware

Pure Storage

A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware by Pure Storage Blog Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly bold these days, evolving their tactics and attacks as fast as we can evolve our defenses. What if, in the ongoing war against cybercrime, you could get intel on what they’re up to straight from a former hacker? Now you can. I worked with former hacker turned internationally-renowned cybersecurity expert, Hector Xavier Monsegur to create a comprehensive ebook designed to help you create

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Best of 2023: Risk and Crisis Communications

Disaster Zone

This is an area many people and organizations screw up.

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California Just Banned 'Crime-Free' Housing. Here's Why Other States Should Too

The Rand Blog

Crime-free housing policies target low-income and minority renters for eviction and violate their civil rights. That's bad enough. But they also fail to reduce crime. At worst, they're a harmful form of discrimination that leads to more crime and homelessness.

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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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Article by the Diva in South Korean Newspaper

Recovery Diva

Translated article from the South Korean newspaper The Segye Times , written by reporter Yeongjun Park from; published in Dec. 2023. “The nature and components of disasters vary widely, requiring training and ongoing education of key personnel.” Claire Rubin, a researcher who works as a disaster prevention consultant in the U.S., emphasized training and education as an iteration of responding to various disasters on Sept. 26 (local time).

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FlashStack for AI Checks the Boxes for Rapid AI Deployment at Any Scale

Pure Storage

FlashStack for AI Checks the Boxes for Rapid AI Deployment at Any Scale by Pure Storage Blog FlashStack® for AI is a software-defined, intelligently managed, full-stack infrastructure featuring automated real-time scalability. With capacity on demand and integrated management across hybrid-cloud landscapes, FlashStack for AI reduces the complexity associated with setting up an AI environment and simplifies expansion of your AI infrastructure as your needs grow.

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Japan Earthquake on New Year's Day

Disaster Zone

Starting the year out with a bang.

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MSP operational risk mitigation strategies in 2024: Defeat technician burnout

Acronis

The majority of MSPs grapple with talent shortages and an IT skills gap. It’s an ongoing challenge to ensure the most highly skilled and specialized technicians are available to focus on the most critical issues. Here, we uncover the top reasons MSP technicians experience burnout, the role of modern endpoint management solutions in improving efficiency, and the Acronis solution for optimizing MSP business operations.

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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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Introduction to Polars

Advancing Analytics

If you’ve ever used Python for analytics you’ll have no doubt heard of Pandas, the incredibly popular and easy-to-use data analysis module. With the rise of Rust ( and it’s 8-year long love story with Stack Overflow developers ) however, a newer and more modern DataFrame library is in development that utilises the Rust language to enable incredibly performant, multi-core analytics.

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A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware

Pure Storage

A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware by Pure Storage Blog Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly bold these days, evolving their tactics and attacks as fast as we can evolve our defenses. What if, in the ongoing war against cybercrime, you could get intel on what they’re up to straight from a former hacker? Now you can. I worked with former hacker turned internationally-renowned cybersecurity expert, Hector Xavier Monsegur to create a comprehensive ebook designed to help you create

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Preventing Controlled Burns from Igniting Wildfires

Disaster Zone

An opportunity to use Siri.

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Exploring AI Large Language Models: Boon or Bane for Security and Surveillance?

Security Industry Association

Will Knehr is senior manager of information security and data privacy at i-PRO Americas. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have taken the world by storm, with ChatGPT becoming the fastest-growing app of all time. Most of us can’t make it more than a few minutes without hearing about the wonders of artificial intelligence. These conversations can be intimidating for some and uninteresting to others, so in this article I will try to break down in very simple terms what exactly LLMs are, th

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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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Unlocking the Value of your Runbook Automation Value Metrics with Snowflake, Jupyter Notebooks, and Python by Justyn Roberts

PagerDuty

This blog was co-authored by Justyn Roberts, Senior Solutions Consultant, PagerDuty Automation has become an integral piece in business practices of the modern organization. Oftentimes when folks hear “automation,” they think of it as a means to remove the manual aspect of the work and speed up the process; however, what lacks the spotlight is the value and return automation can offer to an organization, a team, or even just one specific process.

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A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware

Pure Storage

A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware by Pure Storage Blog Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly bold these days, evolving their tactics and attacks as fast as we can evolve our defenses. What if, in the ongoing war against cybercrime, you could get intel on what they’re up to straight from a former hacker? Now you can. I worked with former hacker turned internationally-renowned cybersecurity expert, Hector Xavier Monsegur to create a comprehensive ebook designed to help you create

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Waterside Disaster Response in Hawaii Ends

Disaster Zone

This was a US Coast Guard led effort.

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What to Expect at Solutions Review’s Spotlight with Cohesity on January 18

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Acronis is entitled: Preserve Healthcare Compliance by Fighting AI-Enabled Ransomware Threats. What is a Solutions Spotlight? Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events.

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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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APAC Retrospective, Part 2: Mobilise: From Signal to Action by David Ridge

PagerDuty

Continuing our series on 2023 learnings from APAC , it’s increasingly evident that incidents in organisations are not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when,’ regardless of their size or industry. Recently, the APAC region has been witnessing regulatory bodies taking stricter actions against major companies for subpar services , leading to substantial penalties.

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Kerberos vs. NTLM

Pure Storage

Kerberos vs. NTLM by Pure Storage Blog Kerberos and NTLM, two prominent encryption methods, differ fundamentally in their approach to authentication and security. While Kerberos employs a robust third-party authentication system with ticket-based access, NTLM relies on a challenge-response mechanism and hashing techniques. These essential differences impact their strengths, vulnerabilities, and suitability for various security scenarios.

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Hot, hotter, hottest: 2023 Expected to be the Hottest Year on Record

Disaster Zone

And, are the impacts of climate change accelerating?

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