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How DRI Digital Badges Can Advance Your Career in Resilience

DRI Drive

In today’s competitive job market, it can be hard to stand out from the crowd and showcase your skills and achievements. That’s why DRI digital badges are a great way to boost your career progression and demonstrate your expertise in the business continuity management and resilience fields. DRI digital badges are verifiable, portable and shareable […] The post How DRI Digital Badges Can Advance Your Career in Resilience appeared first on DRI Drive.

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How to Ask for Money

Disaster Zone Podcast

One of the personal and organizational constraining factors that limit our aspirations is the lack of funding. To accomplish anything requires money. Emergency management as a profession has become overly dependent on grant funding. However, there are other sources of funding that can be tapped. In this podcast we talk with an expert fundraiser. We discuss the challenges that come from even just thinking about asking for money and then transition to some tools you can use to get the money you ne

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Highlights from the Annual Conference of the Natural Hazards Center, July 2023

Recovery Diva

For many of us the annual conference of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado/Boulder was a “must attend” event for many years. For those of us who did not make it this year, I give my sincere thanks to Dr. Lori Peek, Director of the Center, for sharing the online sources for the keynote and plenary sessions recently completed at the Center’s annual conference.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: How to Ask for Money

Disaster Zone

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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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SIA New Member Profile: Flash Security Integrators

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Flash Security Integrators Inc. offers home security, commercial security and multitenant solutions. The company is headquartered in Hazlet, New Jersey. SIA spoke with Michael Laterza, president/co-founder/owner at Flash Security Integrators, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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New Study of the Future of Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

From HSToday: DHS S&T Awards Funds to PNNL to Research the Future of Emergency Management. S&T and PNNL will work with emergency management practitioners, technologists, futurists, and others to develop concepts, requirements, and vision for next-generation EOCs. “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $1.67 million to the Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to conduct research on strengthen

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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

MHA Consulting

Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct. The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. In today’s post, we’ll look at seven ways the practice of BC is evolving and describe how BC practitioners must adapt to stay relevant and productive. Related on MHA Consulting: Roll with the Changes: A New Generation Requires a New Approach to BCM It is comforting to think that if we master one set of marketable skil

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Five ways modern backup combats ransomware: Key insights from the Gartner® report

Acronis

In the report, the Gartner analysts provide expert advice that will "highlight features that aid in detecting ransomware attacks, protecting the backup repository and accelerating recovery.

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People of Pure: Justin Emerson

Pure Storage

People of Pure: Justin Emerson by Pure Storage Blog “I don’t like to talk about competitors, but if you can get somebody to believe that what you do is different from everybody else, you don’t need to.” Welcome to Justin Emerson’s mission and modus operandi as FlashBlade ® Principal Product Manager and Technical Evangelist, a title whose religious intonations, he says, are not necessarily something to dismiss.

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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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Why High Heat is Especially Harmful to Older People

Recovery Diva

From The Conversation: Extreme heat is particularly hard on older adults – an aging population and climate change are putting ever more people at risk This article gets into the reasons why.

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CPSC Forum Focuses on Lithium-Ion Battery, E-Mobility Safety

National Fire Protection Association

Addressing the stark reality of hazards related to a rapidly growing e-mobility industry, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) hosted a forum yesterday to spotlight growing concerns surrounding lithium-ion battery safety, especially fires occurring in e-bikes and other micro-mobility devices. In 2019, 13 injuries in New York City were caused by fires linked to e-mobility devices powered by lithium-ion batteries.

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The importance of data replication: Securing Your Data Against Loss and Corruption

Acronis

Secure your data with replication tools: protect your data against loss using the best methods and data replication tools.

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Boost Splunk by Maximizing Server Utilization with Containers & Pure

Pure Storage

Boost Splunk by Maximizing Server Utilization with Containers & Pure by Pure Storage Blog Organizations are amassing data at an exponential rate. According to the latest estimates , 328.77 million terabytes, or 0.33 zettabytes of data, is created every day. Over the past decade, businesses have harnessed this “big data” to unlock new possibilities and enhance analytical capabilities.

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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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Personal Recovery Hardships After Hurricane Ian in FL

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: For Florida’s Hurricane Ian survivors, extreme heat is a ‘second disaster. ” The state’s record-breaking weather shows how compound climate events hurt the most vulnerable.

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How Zerto Helps State, Local and Education Solve and Scale Data Protection

Zerto

IT professionals serving state, local and education entities have a tremendous responsibility. Tasked with keeping data protected from bad actors while ensuring IT systems operate without disruption is not for the faint of heart. Educators need their applications available to reliably teach to our children, while constituents need access to emergency, financial and social services in their most critical time of need.

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Email Phishing Unveiled: Identifying and Preventing Deceptive Attacks

Acronis

Discover the ins and outs of email phishing in our comprehensive guide. Learn how to identify deceptive attacks and implement effective strategies to safeguard your digital communications against these prevalent threats.

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Code Compliant Electrical Installation the Key to Swimmer Safety and a Secure Electrical System in Pools

National Fire Protection Association

Now that summer has arrived, many of us will be taking advantage of the nice weather to jump into swimming pools to cool off. But what many people don’t realize, there’s a lot to keeping us safe from electrical hazards in these wet environments. Much of this depends on the initial electrical installation. Something that is often overlooked after the pool has been installed and inspected, is maintenance of the pool and associated pool equipment.

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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 CA and FL Have Become Almost Uninsurable”- NYTimes

Recovery Diva

Why California and Florida Have Become Almost Uninsurable. Climate change is an obvious factor, but the states’ governments share a large part of the blame.

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UFOs Are Not the Only Potential Threat in American Skies

The Rand Blog

How can the United States best monitor its millions of square miles of domestic airspace for unidentified anomalous phenomena—what were once called UFOs—or anything else? Public reporting could help officials identify potential threats—but it'd help if the sightings being reported were actually unknown aerial phenomena and not U.S. military aircraft.

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Foundation for Advancing Security Talent Welcomes Michal Moss Early to FAST Board of Directors

Security Industry Association

Michal Moss Early, executive director of corporate strategy at Digital Monitoring Products, was recently appointed by the Security Industry Association (SIA) as a member of the Foundation for Advancing Security Talent (FAST) Board of Directors. Effective July 1, 2023, Moss Early will serve a two-year term on the FAST board. Michal Moss Early is an experienced leader in the security industry, with five years’ experience at Digital Monitoring Products.

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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Part III - The Electrical Components Causing Fatalities in the Workplace.

National Fire Protection Association

Last month’s blog revealed the top four locations for exposure to electricity fatalities to be a home, an industrial facility, a construction site, and a street. The next thing being investigated is which electrical components are the major cause of those fatalities. Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) database is being used to assist employers in decreasing these workplace fatalities.

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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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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 28; Updates from Cohesity, Continuity Software, Infinidat & More

Solutions Review

Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of July 28, 2023. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy

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The EU Can't Treat Ukrainian Refugees Like Short-Term Visitors

The Rand Blog

Although EU countries, communities, and citizens have been very welcoming to Ukrainian refugees, it is not enough to treat them as short-term visitors, meet their immediate humanitarian needs, and let them wait out the war. By educating and employing them instead, EU countries can enrich their own communities and support Ukraine.

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How to restore iPhone from a backup?

Acronis

Learn how to restore iPhone from backup with Step-by-step guide for Iphone data recovery - expert tips included and the best iphone backup software you can use

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Business Continuity Plan Update: Navigating 2023 Challenges

BryghtPath

Discover key strategies for your business continuity plan update to navigate 2023 challenges, from disaster recovery planning to cybersecurity focus. The post Business Continuity Plan Update: Navigating 2023 Challenges appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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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