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What Kind of Year Has It Been? DRIVE Looks at the Big (and Small) Stories of 2021

DRI Drive

To say 2021 has been eventful is, of course, an understatement. From big news stories like the Texas snowstorm, to smaller curiosities like the Halloween candy hack, we looked back the past year of coverage in Drive to offer a trip down memory lane. January – ‘As the Vaccines Roll Out, What is the Employer’s […]. The post What Kind of Year Has It Been?

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Paper Ballots Provide Security to Election Systems

Disaster Zone

Some states have no paper ballots.

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Info Source on Disaster Economics

Recovery Diva

Source of info on Disaster Economics.

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IT Support in a Pandemic

Disaster Zone Podcast

The COVID-19 Pandemic was a learning experience for everyone. A key player in helping businesses and governments continue to function was the Information Telecommunications (IT) departments. In this Disaster Zone Podcast I interview Linda Gerull, Executive Director for the Department of Technology for the City and County of San Francisco. She describes how they helped departments provide services in the Bay Area.

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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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The Great 2021 Cream Cheese Shortage: A Perfect Storm of Supply Chain and Cyber Attack Woes

DRI Drive

You may have heard about some shops having trouble keeping cream cheese in stock – but do you know the role an October cyberattack played? The recent cream cheese shortage isn’t just because during the holidays, as festive baking results in demand reaching its highest peak for the year. In fact, it was greatly exacerbated […]. The post The Great 2021 Cream Cheese Shortage: A Perfect Storm of Supply Chain and Cyber Attack Woes appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Preparing for Extreme Risks: Building a Resilient Society   

Crisis Response Journal

Roger Gomm outlines the key points from this month's report published by the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning

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Biden's Southeast Asia Policy Still Has Much to Prove

The Rand Blog

As the Biden administration's first year comes to a close, how is the United States faring in Southeast Asia? Washington got a lot right, but it could do better to optimize competition against China and work on a more sensitive understanding of the delicate and at times precarious position Southeast Asian states are in.

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Vote Now for the Lifetime Achievement and ?Product/Service Provider of the Year Awards!

DRI Drive

If you are a DRI Certified Professional in good standing, you are eligible to vote for the 2022 Lifetime Achievement and Product/Service Provider of the Year Awards! Log into your DRI account, and click on the “Vote Now!” tab to make your selections. Don’t wait – the voting period closes Jan. 7. Then join us on […]. The post Vote Now for the Lifetime Achievement and ?

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Disaster Zone Podcast: IT Support in a Pandemic

Disaster Zone

That support remains critical to our functioning even until today.

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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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Winter Gadgets to Help You Stay Warm

Constellation

Staying warm has gone high tech with winter gadgets that help you beat the chill. Yes, putting on a sweater and fuzzy slippers still works, but smart technology for winter offers you a variety of. (This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post.).

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10 Security Trends and Predictions for 2022 

Pure Storage

As we get ready to welcome 2022, this past year has left a big impression on the security landscape. Given what we’ve experienced recently, what will 2022 bring? At any moment, there are both worst-case scenario attacks happening—including the Cuban-based ransomware attack last month that has compromised 49 U.S. infrastructure organizations¹—and lesser security threats causing minimal damage.

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Read the December 2021 Crisis Response Journal – Special Subscription Offer for Certified Professionals

DRI Drive

The latest edition of the Crisis Response Journal is now available for download from our Library! This issue includes an article from DRI’s Lyndon Bird on the relative complexities of business continuity, as well as articles on challenges in Afghanistan, cyberattacks, crisis management across sectors, and much more. DRI has partnered with CRJ to provide […].

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What Was the Biggest Hurricane to Hit Louisiana Since Katrina?

Disaster Zone

Hint, it was just this year.

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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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The Future of Commercial Insurance: AI and Humans Working Together

Chisel AI

Basically, AI is a prediction engine. The more data you feed the system, the more accurate it gets over time. The human-in-the-loop (HITL) approach combines the best of human intelligence and judgement with the best of machine intelligence. Humans and machines working together leverages the strengths of both to produce the best outcomes.

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Truth, Lies and BCDR: Local Immutability

Unitrends

The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) landscape is incredibly dynamic. Advancements in technology transform how we deliver and consume data and organizations must adapt with agility to protect workloads spread across on-premises infrastructure, remote endpoints, cloud and SaaS applications. As vendors drive change in the space, how do you cut through the marketing noise […].

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Leadership During Covid-19: New Report on Trends and Outcomes from DRI International and Harvard National Preparedness Leadership Initiative

DRI Drive

Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI), the leading nonprofit in business continuity and resilience training, has joined with Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) to develop a new report, “Covid-19: An Analysis of Leadership Styles and Outcomes.” This research uses the coronavirus pandemic to inform future preparedness and response efforts.

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Surging COVID Cases Hitting Hospitals and States Spared in the Past

Disaster Zone

It is not the return to normal that people want.

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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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The 16 Best Data Protection Software Companies for 2022

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s listing of the best Data Protection Software offerings is an annual mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd. Our editors selected the best Data Protection Software based on each platform’s Authority Score, a meta-analysis of real user sentiment through the web’s most trusted business software review sites, and our own proprietary five-point inclusion criteria.

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Beverly Farm Foundation’s Timely Communication Provides Parental Peace of Mind

everbridge

“I remember a time before COVID-19 when Everbridge helped turn a scary situation into a good one,” said Maureen Beyer, a mother of a Beverly Farm resident. “My son was at a college campus when a critical situation arose with a college student and a firearm. I was quickly notified by Everbridge that Beverly Farm was on it. It was so nice to know that even when my son was off-campus, he was protected.

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Cloud Cost Management: Objectives, Challenges, and Best Practices

Unitrends

A staggering 50% of businesses spend more than $1.2 million on cloud services annually. Poorly planned cloud investments leave organizations guessing, resulting in mounting bills for metered services that are overallocated or underutilized. Failure to optimize cloud costs gives way to expensive overheads and a loss of competitive edge. Efficient cloud cost management helps businesses get the most out […].

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Avoid Answering This Question Post-Disaster

Disaster Zone

How many people have died?

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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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20 Secrets Hackers Don’t Want You To Know

LAN Infotech

20 Secrets Hackers Don’t Want You To Know. In 2020, there were 1001 data breach cases in the US, according to Statista. And in 2021, things don’t seem to get any better as the data breach incidents through September 2021 have exceeded the number of publicly reported cases by 17%. Hackers use many ways to infiltrate your network and manipulate it for malicious gains.

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Temporary Safety Net Policies Prevented Mass Insurance Loss During the Pandemic

The Rand Blog

Although it provided a foundation, the ACA alone could not have absorbed the effects of the pandemic's sudden job losses on health care coverage. Temporary expansions to the safety net enacted by Congress also were necessary to stem coverage loss. As the pandemic continues policymakers will want to keep safety net provisions as available policy options.

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CRS Report on Mitigation and Climate Adaptation

Recovery Diva

New CRS Report (31pp): FEMA Hazard Mitigation: A First Step Towards Climate Adaptation.

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FEMA Will Start Tracking Race in Disaster Recovery

Disaster Zone

No data means you can’t measure.

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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