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Strategic Risk Management

LogisManager

Strategic Risk Management Last Updated: December 19, 2023 Strategic Risk Management (SRM) is integral to navigating the complexities of today’s business landscape and securing long-term objectives. Understanding and managing strategic risks align with the broader goal of effective governance, particularly at the board level. By scrutinizing inherent risks and stress-testing against external factors, SRM becomes a crucial competency in safeguarding your company’s reputation and overall dire

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DRI International Releases 9th Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report

DRI Drive

DRI International has published its Ninth Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report. The report provides an independent analysis of current and emerging risks as viewed by those directly involved in resilience management. Supported by the DRI Future Vision Committee (FVC), a group of international thought leaders in the field, it is based on a […] The post DRI International Releases 9th Annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report appeared first on DRI Drive.

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The Challenge of Disaster Logistics

Disaster Zone Podcast

Logistics is a challenging function, be it just shipping Christmas gifts from one end of the country to another. Add the challenge of logistics during and following a disaster, and the difficulties mount. In this podcast Gerardo Castillo, President of AshBritt Management and Logistics is interviewed about his experience, the challenge of logistics and some history and solutions for the problem of logistics and finding solutions that work.

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7 Challenges with Applying AI to Data Security—and the Real Way to Solve Them

Pure Storage

7 Challenges with Applying AI to Data Security—and the Real Way to Solve Them by Pure Storage Blog As AI makes headlines and augments the way we work, there’s one area to be cautiously optimistic about: cybersecurity. Can it lend a hand? Certainly. But it can lend a hand to the bad guys, too. In the hands of bad actors, AI capabilities can help them identify vulnerabilities and exploit paths faster to launch attacks or breach your defenses.

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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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Recovery in Maui Going Slowly

Recovery Diva

From the Guardian: Survivors of deadly Maui blaze face displacement after displacement: ‘I live a nomadic life’ An excerpt: “The deadliest US wildfire in more than a century – which incinerated the historic town of Lahaina, killed 100 people and destroyed 3% of Maui’s residential housing stock – pushed the island’s longstanding affordable housing crisis to a new inflection point.

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Training Solutions: Enhancing Tribal Nations’ Readiness and Resilience

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

U.S. Tribal Nations have historically been disproportionately affected by disasters but without access to the same resources before, during, and after calamitous events. The risks to Tribal Nations only increase in the face of climate change, which will further exacerbate inequities and pose new challenges for Tribal communities. The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) of the Climate School, Columbia University, has been awarded a $1.5 million three-year grant from the Federal Emerg

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Disaster Zone Podcast: The Challenge of Disaster Logistics

Disaster Zone

Ah, if only logistics was easy.

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The U.S. Military Needs to Build Arctic Capabilities and Capacity

The Rand Blog

By making substantial investments in Arctic platforms, equipment, infrastructure, and training, U.S. military forces will be better able to shape the Arctic security environment, helping to deter potential threats and protect U.S. interests in a region that is tightly linked to overall U.S. interests.

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Why Climate Risk Now Affects Where Millions Of Americans Choose To Live – Chloe Demrovsky for Forbes

DRI Drive

“In recent decades, we have seen paradoxical population booms in climate-risk-prone Southern cities particularly in Texas. Cities like Houston and San Antonio but also Miami and Fort Lauderdale in Florida are attracting investment in spite of being vulnerable to extreme weather including wildfires, extreme heat and flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms.

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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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6 Advantages of Deploying Cloud Adjacent Storage on Equinix Metal

Pure Storage

6 Advantages of Deploying Cloud Adjacent Storage on Equinix Metal by Pure Storage Blog This guest blog on 6 Advantages of Deploying Cloud Adjacent Storage on Equinix Metal was authored by Brian Stein Senior Vice president of Equinix’s Edge Infrastructure Services. It has been republished with the original author’s credit and consent. As businesses shift to a highly distributed and data-driven landscape, their storage infrastructure requirements often change.

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Okla. Governor Appoints Mitigation Expert to Lead State Emergency Management

Disaster Zone

It is a sign of the times.

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Philosophical Debates About AI Risks Are a Distraction

The Rand Blog

Careful, objective study can help policymakers and the public understand how to harness the benefits of AI while also mitigating its risks. But the effective altruism versus effective acceleration debate is not a useful framework for such analyses, because while the two positions may be opposed, both start from assumptions rather than questions.

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2023 Roundup: The Year in Cyberattacks

DRI Drive

With cyberattacks becoming more common and more varied, a few stood out this year for the ways they impacted the organizations that were hit. 2023 was another big year for malware, ransomware, brute force attacks, and any number of other methods of cybercrime, meaning you can read multiple “top cyberattack” lists and see surprisingly little […] The post 2023 Roundup: The Year in Cyberattacks appeared first on DRI Drive.

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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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2023 Wrapped: PagerDuty Community Year in Review by Xenda Amici

PagerDuty

What a year for the Developer Relations team! The Developer Advocates–or the avocados as we like to call them–helped spread PagerDuty’s presence in the practitioner community across 4 continents: Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania! We asked them to share some highlights from 2023 and here are some of their best stories: Xenda Amici, Community Manager (Portugal): “In August I had the great pleasure of joining Dormain, Kat, Mandi, Tara and Tiago on the Community & Advocacy team.

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SIA Learning and Development: A Year in Review

Security Industry Association

Providing quality education and professional development opportunities for security professionals is a cornerstone of the Security Industry Association’s (SIA’s) strategic framework and an integral aspect of its key services provided to SIA members. Some learning needs across the industry remain constant from year to year. For example, providing high-caliber conference programming on emerging trends, business insights, innovative technology applications and vertical market case studies wil

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This Holiday Season, Don't Skimp On Sleep

The Rand Blog

By prioritizing sleep, you can improve your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, leading to a more fulfilling and enjoyable holiday season.

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Backup Policy Management via UniView: Automate Your Backup Schedules

Unitrends

In today’s fast-evolving business landscape, hybrid and multicloud strategies have become the gold standard for organizations to achieve operational excellence. The strategic deployment of diverse cloud platforms and services, together with on-premises infrastructure, is helping companies significantly improve their agility, cost-effectiveness, flexibility, efficiency and scalability.

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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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What Is Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) in the Data Center?

Pure Storage

What Is Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) in the Data Center? by Pure Storage Blog In an era marked by aggressive ESG goals and a heightened focus on reducing carbon footprints, the quest for more energy-efficient data centers has never been more critical. As enterprises make procurement decisions based more on efficiency and data center footprints, knowledge is power in determining which technologies are superior—and have the measurable results to prove it.

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A Holiday Message to SIA Members

Security Industry Association

23 From 2023: Some of Our Best Moments and Proudest Accomplishments Dear SIA members, As we head into the final stretch of 2023, we wish you all much peace and enjoyment with your families, friends and colleagues over the holidays! We’re proud of the accomplishments that members and volunteers like you have produced this year with the support from of our dedicated staff, and we wanted to highlight “23 from 2023” – a look at some of the best accomplishments and proudest moments SIA achieved as a

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Deepfakes Aren't the Disinformation Threat They're Made Out to Be

The Rand Blog

Concerns over generative AI too often stray into alarmism, of hypothetical dystopias where fact is indistinguishable from fiction. That has distorted the picture. To really understand deepfakes, it is better to look at how they are being used today.

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Fabric Notebook Concurrency Explained

Advancing Analytics

If you keep up with the latest developments in the data space, you will probably know that Microsoft Fabric has now reached general availability. While it clearly still needs some more features it seems like Microsoft are fully behind Fabric and it will be an important product for them going forward. At Advancing Analytics we have been lucky enough to have access to Fabric during its preview and have even started to develop our own Fabric accelerator.

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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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Customer-driven Capacity Upgrade for Pure Cloud Block Store

Pure Storage

Customer-driven Capacity Upgrade for Pure Cloud Block Store by Pure Storage Blog This article on a new customer-driven capacity upgrade capability with Purity version 6.6.2 originally appeared on the author’s website and has been republished with permission from the author. Pure Cloud Block Store ™ is a data storage platform that leverages cloud native resources to upgrade the raw capacity of the platform.

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Guest Post: Security Installations in a Wireless World

Security Industry Association

Wesco’s Bill Geary Discusses How Smart Buildings Demand a Future-Ready Infrastructure Bill Geary is executive vice president and general manager, communications and security solutions at Wesco. In recent years, building infrastructure has been redefined to include communication systems and broadband networks, with cabling playing as important a role in the foundation of a building as concrete and plumbing.

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Elements of an Eventual Russia-Ukraine Armistice and the Prospect for Regional Stability in Europe

The Rand Blog

There is no going back to normal relations with Russia after its wanton violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. But it is still possible to conceive of managing the competition with Russia and working out regional arrangements that will reduce the possibility of future conflicts and contribute to regional and global stability.

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The hidden costs of shadow IT: How unsanctioned tech impacts your budget

Online Computers

In 2013, thieves stole two laptops from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ), the state’s largest healthcare provider. The unencrypted laptops contained the electronic protected health information, or ePHI, of nearly 690,000 NJ residents. Had those laptops been encrypted, then the thieves would have been unable to access the ePHI of those New Jerseyans.

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Backup and Recovery IT Services: What to Look For

Unitrends

In today’s digitally-driven world, the significance of data cannot be overstated. Data drives decisions, powers operations and underpins every facet of modern business. However, this growing significance of data also makes it a lucrative target for cybercriminals. According to Statista, 72% of organizations worldwide have been subjected to some form of cyberattack.

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