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2023 Record Year for Billion Dollar Disasters

Recovery Diva

From HSToday: NOAA : 2023 Worst Year on Record for Billion-Dollar Disasters. According to NOAA, the U.S. experienced 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first eight months of 2023 — the largest number since records began.

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Happy Halloween – Ready for the Zombies?

DRI Drive

Preparing for a zombie apocalypse has been a go-to scenario for imaginative resilience professionals. In fact, that once included the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)! In 2011, the DoD developed strategies to combat a zombie uprising, called the “Counter-Zombie Dominance Plan,” or CONPLAN 8888-11. While acknowledging the potential threat was fictional, it also specified the […] The post Happy Halloween – Ready for the Zombies?

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CISA Head Speaks to Cybersecurity Threat and Emergency Management's Role

Disaster Zone

Brandon Wales, Executive Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA).

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Emergency Managers and the Vitality of Public Information

Disaster Zone Podcast

The challenges around sharing information with the public about emergencies and disasters has never been more difficult. With me today is Brad Huffines, a passionate instructor and thought leader in the world of emergency public messaging. His deep passions draw from his years of weather risk management, emergency management instruction and broadcast meteorology on a local and national stage.

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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 Lack of Value in Hard Disk Drives Could Cost You More than You Know

Pure Storage

The Lack of Value in Hard Disk Drives Could Cost You More than You Know by Pure Storage Blog Storage is challenging, particularly when you’re dealing with complicated systems and old technology that require forklift upgrades. You want to deliver the best for your organization and customers as their trusted advisor, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult with the legacy reality of your current HDD-based system.

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Three Tropical Cyclones Rotating in the Pacific Ocean

Disaster Zone

I've never seen three before.

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. In today’s post we’ll look at some of the things organizations need to know and do in order to be able to “recover right.

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Purity//FA 6.6.0: Paving the Way for FlashArray//E

Pure Storage

Purity//FA 6.6.0: Paving the Way for FlashArray//E by Pure Storage Blog We are very excited to announce the general availability of Purity//FA 6.6.0. This Feature Release (FR) of Purity//FA delivers bold environmental, social, and governance (ESG) benefits, enables storage consolidation, and simplifies storage provisioning along with other improvements for FlashArray™ customers.

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How to Prepare for an OSHA Inspection—Q&A With an Expert

Alert Media

Michael Rubin, a shareholder and OSHA attorney at Ogletree Deakins, shares his expertise on how to prepare for and navigate an OSHA inspection.

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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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For the border it is not all about the wall

Disaster Zone

Other "systems" are needed to manage the border.

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Do Cyber Risks Lurk in Your Business Ecosystem?

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN October 25, 2023 Do Cyber Risks Lurk in Your Business Ecosystem? Digitally connected supply chains and partner ecosystems have brought immense value to modern businesses. However, the same digital connectivity that makes business ecosystems hum more efficiently also introduces a growing form of cyber risk: third-party cyber risk, to be exact.

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Keeping the Lights On

Recovery Diva

What Ukraine Can Teach the World About Resilience and Civil Engineering From Issues: What Ukraine Can Teach the World About Resilience and Civil Engineering Bringing sociology into civil engineering helps explain how Ukraine’s social and physical systems work together to keep the lights on amid constant attacks.

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Lessons from the Chinese Conquest of Taiwan

The Rand Blog

As Chinese political and military leaders envision conquering Taiwan, their predecessors' earlier seizure of the island is likely to inform their thoughts. Deriving lessons from the prior conquest of Taiwan can contribute to anticipation of possible threats and effective responses to them.

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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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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘Emergency Managers and the Vitality of Public Information’

Disaster Zone

Don’t ignore this important aspect of the profession.

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Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 by Bri Solorzano

PagerDuty

Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the culture and contributions of the Hispanic and Latine community. Here at PagerDuty, we have an Employee Resource Group for Latine folks called Dutonienses. Being Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Latine, can mean so many things. There are so many countries and cultures included in those identities and it’s so beautiful.

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Hurricane Otis Surprised Mexico

Recovery Diva

From the WashPost: How Hurricane Otis stunned forecasters with its leap to a Category 5. Forecasters didn’t even anticipate Otis would become a hurricane. Then it broke all-time records.

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Lessons from the Chinese Conquest of Taiwan

The Rand Blog

As Chinese political and military leaders envision conquering Taiwan, their predecessors' earlier seizure of the island is likely to inform their thoughts. Deriving lessons from the prior conquest of Taiwan can contribute to anticipation of possible threats and effective responses to them.

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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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Media Shifts Gears to Cover Maine Shooting Event

Disaster Zone

The number of people killed and wounded drove the coverage

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Guest Post: POV of Two Companies During and After a Cyberattack

Security Industry Association

Nick Stello of the GlobalCyberConsortium shares scenarios and cyber-readiness tips for businesses. Nick Stello, a member of the GlobalCyberConsortium, is senior vice president of information technology at Vornado Realty Trust. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month , and the Security Industry Association (SIA) Cybersecurity Advisory Board is marking the occasion with a series of helpful content, tips and guidance on key cybersecurity topics.

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Risk Management Lifecycle: 5 Steps to a Safer, More Resilient Organization

Alert Media

Identify, analyze, and respond to hazards. The risk management lifecycle is a model of ongoing preparedness and mitigation for your organization.

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Leveraging Fusion Resilience Copilot™ for enhanced resilience program management

Fusion Risk Management

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, having a robust resilience program and leveraging and investing in generative AI to enhance your strategic initiatives is more important than ever. Recognizing the potential of generative AI , Fusion has created Resilience Copilot , a generative AI-powered assistant that accelerate s resilience team initiatives by identifying gaps in an organization’s resilience posture, recommending best practice improvements, and developing ex

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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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Jayaraj Puthanveedu: Protecting Customer Trust in a World Full of Fraud

FS-ISAC

Episode Notes Jayaraj Puthanveedu - MD, Global Head of Resilience, Cyber, and Digital Fraud of BNP Paribas - dives into fraud, what the landscape looks like for financial firms, its impact on customer trust, tips on customer awareness, and much more. Notes from our Discussion with Phil Fraud Landscape for the Customer Fraud is of utmost importance for the financial sector.

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SIA New Member Profile: TYMETAL Corp.

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member TYMETAL Corp. provides high-quality electric security gate systems. The company is headquartered in Greenwich, New York, with two manufacturing locations in upstate New York, a manufacturing facility and sales office in Pearland, Texas, and a stocking facility with a strategic partner in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

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Best Ways For Folder Backup - Step By Step Guide

Acronis

How to backup a folder on windows or mac?

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Top solutions to solve nonprofits’ most common IT issues

Online Computers

Nonprofit organizations play a vital role in New Jersey by addressing various societal needs and contributing to the well-being of its residents. These nonprofits also stimulate the state’s economy by creating jobs and generating revenue. According to the NJ Center for Nonprofits’s Trends and Outlooks 2022 report , New Jersey was home to more than 40,000 registered nonprofits, employing 330,000 people, enlisting 1.6 million volunteers, and spending around $50 billion a year.

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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