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New Report: Streamlining Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

A new report (44 pages) from RAND Corp for FEMA: Streamlining Emergency Management. “The U.S. emergency management system has met a number of increasingly difficult challenges in recent years, such as extended wildfire seasons, more intense storms, and of course an ongoing global pandemic. In fact, FEMA noted that “the number of annual disasters that [they] have managed has tripled in the past ten years and highlights the pivotal moment that climate change and coronavirus disease 2019 (COV

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Integrating Technology into Rapid Damage Assessment and Recovery

Disaster Zone Podcast

Melanie Spring has over 18 years of experience in engineering, operations, continuous improvement, organizational change management, and business transformation, primarily in power and utilities. Having just moved to consulting, her focus is now on helping organizations grow and transform by adopting improved business processes and finding new ways of working, enabled by technology investments.

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Windows 11 Security: What’s New?

Unitrends

Threat actors capitalized on the shift to hybrid work by launching massive attacks on end users and remote applications. Microsoft Windows, being a leader in the desktop OS and SaaS markets, was a prominent target. Native security capabilities built into the Windows 10 platform worked overtime to protect users from numerous threats — 9.6 billion malware attacks, […].

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Oregon Emergency Management Moves Under the Governor

Disaster Zone

This is effective July 1, 2022.

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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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Award Announcement

Recovery Diva

Prof. Shirley Jensen, Cal State University at Long Beach, has created the Claire B. Rubin award, which is given to a notable graduate student each year. Here is the latest winner: Deputy Fire Chief Eleni Pappas in Los Angeles County.

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Cloud Data Security Challenges, Part 1: Gaining Visibility

Pure Storage

There’s a good reason cloud security has become the fastest-growing segment of the security market: Companies are realizing that their data isn’t necessarily secure just because it’s in the cloud and behind the shield of a major hyperscaler/cloud provider. . People (and companies) tend to think of the cloud as secure because the data is backed up and because most of the major cloud providers follow best practices in data protection, such as redundancy.

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Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities

The Rand Blog

Starting in the 1930s, neighborhoods across America were redlined—marked on government maps as too hazardous, as in, too Black or too immigrant, for federal home loans. When zoning officials needed somewhere to put a new factory or freeway, those redlined neighborhoods were like a bullseye that they hit again and again.

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How to Champion Your Business Continuity Program as an Executive Sponsor

BryghtPath

Are you an executive leader wondering how you can more effectively champion your business continuity and crisis management program across your organization? While many companies recognize that active executive sponsorship is a top driver of project or program success, they often do little to equip executive sponsors on how to do it well. We frequently … The post How to Champion Your Business Continuity Program as an Executive Sponsor appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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How The Development Of A Crisis Response Program Strengthens Resilience Management

Castellan

Article Originally Published on Forbes in May 2022. In your role as a board member or a member of your organization’s leadership team, it is your job to set and inspect the organization’s overall vision while also steering the company toward a sustainable future. A large part of sustainability is preventing and overcoming disruptions. This starts with understanding and inspecting the organization’s readiness posture, as well as its ability to respond to disruption.

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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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Uncomplicate Data Storage, Forever

Pure Storage

In the IT world, we witness rapid innovation every single day. But if you listen to the boots on the ground, it would seem one area tends to lag: data storage. . At Pure Storage®, we tend to disagree. We may be biased, but we don’t think of data storage as boring commodity hardware—it’s fuel for disruptors and innovators. To be that, however, it had to be transformed.

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Civilian Casualties: Lessons from the Battle for Raqqa

The Rand Blog

The United States' emphasis on minimizing civilian harm in Raqqa, Syria, was quite clear and strong up and down the chain of command. But the way in which the U.S. military waged war in Raqqa too often undercut that commitment. The Pentagon asked RAND to find out what happened.

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NexusTek Ranked on Channel Futures 2022 MSP 501

NexusTek

June 29, 2022. NexusTek Ranked on Channel Futures 2022 MSP 501—Tech Industry’s Most Prestigious List of Managed Service Providers Worldwide. For the Fifth Consecutive Year, Annual MSP 501 Includes NexusTek Among Industry’s Best-in-Class Businesses Growing Via Recurring Revenue and Innovation. Denver, CO (June 29, 2022) – NexusTek has been named as one of the world’s premier managed service providers in the prestigious 2022 Channel Futures MSP 501 rankings.

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AcceleRISE Is Coming Soon! SIA RISE’s Chair Shares Why You Should Attend

Security Industry Association

Calling all young professionals! We’re gearing up for AcceleRISE 2022 , taking place Aug. 1-3 and created by the SIA RISE community just for you. At AcceleRISE, you’ll get the chance to take your career to the next level, make valuable connections with peers and industry experts and have lots of fun! . In this video message, SIA RISE Chair Kelsey Carnell shares why AcceleRISE is the ultimate conference experience for security’s young professionals and why you won’t want

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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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FlashBlade//S and Evergreen: Future-proofing the Next Decade and Beyond

Pure Storage

Back in February, Rob Lee, CTO, Pure Storage, wrote about Why FlashBlade Is Truly Evergreen , and with our recent announcements around FlashBlade//S ® , it should be clear why building storage platforms designed for sustainability and scalability is so critical to our customers. Like the Ship of Theseus , Pure Storage designs storage arrays and software to be upgradable and scaled non-disruptively, and FlashBlade//S is no exception.

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War of the Worlds: How Cognitive Dissonance and Repression Shape Russian Perceptions of the Conflict in Ukraine

The Rand Blog

Cognitive dissonance theory offers a compelling explanation for one of the confounding phenomena emerging from the war in Ukraine—Russians who refuse to believe their Ukrainian family members' lived experiences of the war. How is it that of the two cognitions Russians are wrestling with, the Kremlin's manufactured truth often prevails?

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Your first steps to closing the cybersecurity talent gap

Acronis

According to the 2021 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, while the cybersecurity workforce gap is closing globally, it is growing in North America. As of June, 2022, over 400,000 cybersecurity professionals are needed in this region. Read on to learn more about the reasons behind IT talent shortages and suggestions on how to close the gap.

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What You Told Us in Our Annual Membership Satisfaction Survey

Security Industry Association

We hear you loud and clear, SIA members! SIA recently concluded its 2022 Membership Satisfaction and Awareness Survey, and we want to thank all of you who responded and share with you some of the top-line results. As part of the survey promotion, we randomly selected from the respondents a couple winners of two free tickets to the SIA event(s) of their choice.

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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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Real Storage as a Service vs. B.S. (Broken Subscriptions)

Pure Storage

In the storage industry today, everyone is talking about delivering a service. I’ve previously written about subscriptions vs. as-a-service models.1 In short: Subscriptions start with financial discussions (CAPEX vs. OPEX). As-a-service starts with monitoring, SLOs, and SLAs: You can’t deliver a service without monitoring and being held to a promised outcome.

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Ahead of the holiday weekend, NFPA offers tips to stay safe in short-term rentals, hotels, and elsewhere

National Fire Protection Association

This Fourth of July weekend, nearly 48 million Americans are expected to travel, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). Many of those travelers will forgo traditional lodging in a hotel and opt for something more unique—perhaps a beach house, an urban apartment unit, or a remote cabin on the lake. Over the past several years, companies like Airbnb and VRBO have grown in. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Exciting new features available in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud 22.06

Acronis

This June release of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud 22.06 is particularly exciting. It not only introduces new features that will help MSPs deliver better service and value to their clients, but also enables them to automate routine tasks via brand-new, out-of-the-box scripting. Here is a synopsis of all the new features included in this release.

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5 Reasons Why You Must Attend AcceleRISE

Security Industry Association

Attention young professionals! Get ready – AcceleRISE 2022 is coming Aug. 1-3 to Austin, Texas. AcceleRISE, hosted by SIA’s RISE community , is the ultimate conference for young talent and newcomers to the security industry who want to take their careers to the next level. Here are five reasons why you can’t miss it: An all-star lineup of industry speakers : At AcceleRISE, you’ll get insights from experts at Netflix, Allegion, Genetec, Axis Communications, dormakaba, Northland

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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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Adaptation or Extinction. How’s Your Storage Vendor Doing?

Pure Storage

The greatest existential threat is the lack of adaptation. Once upon a time, giant apes roamed Southeast Asia. Believed to have stood 10 feet tall and weighed around 1,000 pounds, Gigantopithecus is gone now. Scientists suspect that as their habitat changed, they didn’t adapt to their new environment. Today, we still see the proverbial 800-pound gorillas — a legacy storage vendor.

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Thinking In Systems Make it Simple

Business Continuity Today

Complexity bias is a logical fallacy that leads us to give undue credence to complex concepts. Faced with two competing ideas, we are likely to choose the most complex one. As a result, when we need to solve a problem, we may ignore simple solutions — thinking “that will never work” — and instead favor complex ones. Links Web: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Twitter: [link] Facebook: [link] Youtube: [link] Complexity bias is a logical fallacy that leads us to give undue credence to com

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Russia's Ambitions and the War in Ukraine: Q&A with Dara Massicot

The Rand Blog

Dara Massicot is a senior policy researcher at RAND who specializes in Russian military strategy. In this interview, she discusses Russia's war in Ukraine, its incorrect assumptions about Ukraine's will to fight, and how hard it's going to be for Russia to restore its military capabilities.

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SIA New Member Profile: Metrasens

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Metrasens offers leading advanced magnetic detection technologies. The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom, providing production and research and development as well as servicing the Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific geographic markets with distribution, sales and service. The United States operational hub is in Illinois outside of Chicago, providing regional distribution, sales and service for North America. .

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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