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Announcing the 2022 DRI Awards of Excellence Finalists!

DRI Drive

Each year, the DRI International Awards of Excellence program honors the leaders and innovators in the fields of continuity management, technology recovery, and crisis and risk management. We’re pleased to announce the finalists for this year’s Awards of Excellence. This year’s winners will be revealed at the Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony at DRI2022 in Las Vegas, […].

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Oregon State Resilience Officer

Disaster Zone Podcast

13 states have either a State Resilience Officer or a Chief Resilience Officer. In this podcast we have an interview with Mike Harryman, State Resilience Officer for the State of Oregon. Besides the pandemic, Oregon has had several other major disasters, including the largest wildfire in its history and a historic heatwave that killed scores of people.

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CRS Report on Vaccination Authorities

Recovery Diva

From the CRS, this 37 page report: State and Federal Authority to Mandate. COVID-19 Vaccination.

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Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse

The Rand Blog

A statement that NATO has no intention to offer Ukraine membership at present should only be made in return for a tangible drawdown of Russian forces on the border. It concedes nothing to declare that NATO is not planning to do something it has no intention of doing anyway.

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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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2022 Predictions: Nationalism on the Rise?

DRI Drive

The DRI International Future Vision Committee has released its 7th Annual Predictions Report, looking ahead to 2022 and its impact on the resilience community. Download the complete report free from the DRI Library, and read on for a prediction on the threat of nationalism. Prediction 4: Nationalism and ethnic conflict intensify A more difficult economic […].

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More on the Marshall, CO Fires

Recovery Diva

From the Denver Post: Marshall firestorm shows Colorado suburbs now vulnerable as climate warms, “hardening” needed, experts say “We are sitting ducks to the repercussions of the climate that we have to deal with year-round”.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘Oregon State Resilience Officer’

Disaster Zone

An interview with Mike Harryman.

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2022 Predictions: How Bad Will Flooding Get?

DRI Drive

The DRI International Future Vision Committee has released its 7th Annual Predictions Report, looking ahead to 2022 and its impact on the resilience community. Download the complete report free from the DRI Library, and read on for a prediction on increasing flood danger. Prediction 2: Flooding and coastal erosion at a rate we have not […]. The post 2022 Predictions: How Bad Will Flooding Get?

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Technology: 5 IT Trends to Watch in 2022

Unitrends

The IT landscape is ever-changing. In a dynamic tech market, companies are constantly innovating to deliver new and emerging technologies in various sectors like AI, cloud, security and digital transformation.

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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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2021 in Review

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: U.S. saw second-most billion-dollar weather disasters on record in 2021. A record warm December fueled a pair of devastating tornado outbreaks, two of the year’s 20 billion-dollar events.

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Application-Consistent SQL Server Backup and Recovery with vVols

Pure Storage

For years now, Pure Storage ® customers have enjoyed the benefits of being able to take application-consistent snapshot-based backups of their SQL Server databases, enabled via the Pure Storage SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) extension. Directly from within SSMS, Pure customers can configure backup jobs, perform backups, mount those backups to additional drives, and restore databases in place.

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Read the 7th Annual DRI Predictions Report and Keep the Conversation Going at DRI2022

DRI Drive

What does 2022 hold for the resilience community? Find out with the DRI Future Vision Committee’s 7th Annual Predictions Report – resilience predictions for the profession by the profession. This report looks at what to expect in the coming year, including: the continuing pandemic response climate change global inflation power grid attacks and much more. […].

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5 Factors for Improving Business Continuity in 2022

On Solve

Effective business continuity is measured by an organization’s ability to continue operations and maintain solvency, regardless of critical events and the circumstances – both expected and unknown – that lead to them. What does it take? Proactive preparation and the resources to put your plan in motion are at the core. Let’s take a look at the factors that go into developing an effective business continuity strategy, and how you can make them work for you: 1.

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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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New Report from the NAS

Recovery Diva

From the NAS: Offshore Situation Room; Enhancing Resilience to Offshore Oil Disasters in the Gulf of Mexico: Proceedi n gs of a Workshop (2021 ). The pdf version of the book can be downloaded free. .

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Backup is now an IT Specialty: CEO Bret Piatt in MSPInsights

OffsiteDataSync

It wasn’t that long ago that data protection fell under the responsibilities of an IT generalist. After all, there really was nothing particularly complicated about doing a nightly backup to tape and then shipping off a copy to Iron Mountain. Now, however, it’s a whole new ballgame. Ransomware attacks, natural disasters and an increased reliance on IT to run basic day-to-day functions means that the C-suite expects to return to normal in hours, not days or weeks following a catastrophic event.

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2022 Predictions: Which Way Will the Economic Recovery Go?

DRI Drive

The DRI International Future Vision Committee has released its 7th Annual Predictions Report, looking ahead to 2022 and its impact on the resilience community. Download the complete report free from the DRI Library, and read on for a prediction on the continuing global economic recovery. Prediction 3: Inflation and higher interest rates slow global economic […].

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Business, Interrupted: Shipping, Security, and Supply Chain Continuity

Castellan

This past holiday season, many consumers were met with frustrations as products on shelves dwindled and manufacturers were left scratching their heads trying to solve what seemed a never-ending problem for 2021—supply chain disruptions. Throughout the year, nowhere may the impact of these delays be felt more intensely than on the very ports designed to manage the flow.

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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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Texas Governor’s Deadly Decisions Lead to Request for Federal Assistance

Recovery Diva

From Mysanantonio.com: Texas receives FEMA aid while Abbott fights government on COVID-19 mandates. Closing paragraph of the article: “This week, Texas has put on a surprised Pikachu face while calling for help from the federal government over skyrocketing numbers, the residual effect of which San Antonio schools have already begun to feel. Texas is now left shrugging at a growing mess that certainly wasn’t helped by Abbott’s attempts to block every effort to slow the pandemic.

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How to Help Your Organization Get Through a Ransomware Attack

MHA Consulting

Ransomware attacks are increasing in frequency and severity. As a business continuity professional, there are steps you can take before and during such an attack to help your organization get … The post How to Help Your Organization Get Through a Ransomware Attack appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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2022 Predictions: Will Climate Change Become an Area of Conflict?

DRI Drive

The DRI International Future Vision Committee has released its 7th Annual Predictions Report, looking ahead to 2022 and its impact on the resilience community. Download the complete report free from the DRI Library, and read on for a prediction on the possible polarization of climate change. Prediction 1: Climate change will increase polarization between generations, […].

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Resilience Assessments Give Your Board Insight Into Your Risk Appetite

Castellan

This is part 2 of a two-part series exploring the resilience movement, how it can positively impact modern business, and the roles executives and key stakeholders play in ensuring operational resilience while managing efficiencies and adapting to changing environments with an expanding threat landscape. When it comes to figuring out the balancing act between managing efficiencies and embracing the resilience movement, your executives and key stakeholders play critical roles in organizational suc

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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

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Backups may not save you from ransomware: CEO Bret Piatt in BetaNews

OffsiteDataSync

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack was huge news for many reasons (not the least of which was the gasoline panic buying it caused in the Southeast). But one of the most notable for IT was the fact that the company paid a $4.4 million ransom in Bitcoin to recover its data. Wouldn’t an organization that large, that manages critical energy infrastructure have backups?

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Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?

The Rand Blog

Relations with Cambodia and Laos have fallen victim to the U.S. administration's foreign policy priority of shared values over shared interests. This approach has failed to make headway in Cambodia and Laos, isolates the United States in a region where few countries are true democracies, and unnecessarily cedes ground to Beijing.

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2022 Predictions: Power Grids at Risk?

DRI Drive

The DRI International Future Vision Committee has released its 7th Annual Predictions Report, looking ahead to 2022 and its impact on the resilience community. Download the complete report free from the DRI Library, and read on for a prediction the multiple risks facing power grids and pipelines. Prediction 5: Electric grids and oil/gas pipelines will […].

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Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 2, Data and Replication

AWS Disaster Recovery

In Part 1 of this blog series, we looked at how to use AWS compute, networking, and security services to create a foundation for a multi-Region application. Data is at the center of many applications. In this post, Part 2, we will look at AWS data services that offer native features to help get your data where it needs to be. In Part 3, we’ll look at AWS application management and monitoring services to help you build, monitor, and maintain a multi-Region application.

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Ransomware recovery for state and local governments: CEO Bret PIatt in GCN

OffsiteDataSync

City and county governments are some of cybercriminals’ favorite targets for ransomware. Over the past few years, major cities like Atlanta, New Orleans and Baltimore have been left nearly dead in the water from an IT perspective after devastating attacks rifled through nearly all their data. Some, like Delaware County, chose to pay ransom, while others, like Atlanta and Baltimore, chose to recover without paying.