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7 years after Flint, another water public health crisis is born of neglect

DisasterDoc

We all need water. It is a physiological need for all life on Earth. Lack of proper water sources in a community would easily constitute a public health crisis. Sphere. The post 7 years after Flint, another water public health crisis is born of neglect appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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An Online Master’s Degree In Infrastructure Planning and Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

It is now possible to get an online degree as a Master of Infrastructure Planning and Management. This podcast is an interview with Wendy Freitag, Program Director for the University of Washington’s program linked above. In this podcast we talk generally about online degrees in general, to include those in emergency management. How they compare school to school and with resident courses of study.

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Malicious actors and deepfakes 

Crisis Response Journal

Lina Kolesnikova describes the implications of deepfakes being used by criminals to trigger civil unrest, influence political decisions and for large-scale fraud

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Boards need to make ransomware protection a top priority

Cloudian

Ransomware attacks increased 150% last year according to Group-IB, a leading cybersecurity solutions provider, a trend that shows no signs of slowing. Given the financial, operational and reputational risk that ransomware poses, boards of directors need to make sure that safeguarding data from an attack is a top priority for the organizations they oversee.

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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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Top Software Tools to Ensure Business Continuity

Virtual Corporation

If COVID-19 has taught the business world anything, it's that business continuity tools are essential to ensuring the operation of everyday processes when the world is turned upside down. Stay-at-home orders paired with an overwhelming number of abroad or overseas employees have meant that the need for constant digital communication, sharing, and incident management ability has drastically increased.

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The role of AI and machine learning in public safety

Crisis Response Journal

EENA's Marta Azevedo Silva explores the merits of both digital technologies in emergency response and crisis management

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The Benefits of Colocation in a Pennsylvania Data Center

Talkingpoint

It’s easy to assume the growth of hyperscale clouds like AWS, Azure, and GCP has impacted the colocation market, but colocation remains a strong choice for businesses today. In this post, we focus on the benefits of colocation by narrowing in on […]. The post The Benefits of Colocation in a Pennsylvania Data Center appeared first on TierPoint.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

In a previous blog post , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. These strategies enable you to prepare for and recover from a disaster. By using the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper to design your DR strategy, your workloads can remain available despite disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions.

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What You Need to Know About Active Shooter Drills at Work

Alert Media

The post What You Need to Know About Active Shooter Drills at Work appeared first on AlertMedia.

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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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Shermon Cruz speak futures at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education

Engaged Foresight

Center for Engaged Foresight Director and Chief Futurist was one the panelists of the recent Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education Futures Forward Webinar “Developing Futures Capabilities in Public Service. The second episode tackled ways by which public service institutions can develop futures capabilities that allow public service to move beyond traditional policy silos and realize multiple developments can intersect and collaborate in plural and unexpected ways.

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4 Tips to Prepare for the Back to Office Transition

On Solve

Rising vaccination rates. Pandemic fatigue. Pent-up consumer demand. Whatever the impetus, the answer is the same: It’s time to ramp up plans to go back to the office. The question is, how? In this new ebook, discover how to prepare for the knowns and unknowns during these uncertain times. You’ll find tips and advice on every page about how to plan, communicate, mitigate risks and protect the health and safety of your employees, staff and other stakeholders.

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Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

AWS Disaster Recovery

September 8, 2021 : Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput , we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution.

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Security Industry Association Launches New CSPM Review Course

Security Industry Association

New course from SIA is designed to help professionals prepare for the CSPM exam. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has launched a new course to help industry professionals prepare to take the Certified Security Project Manager (CSPM) exam. The new CSPM Review Course expands SIA’s CSPM offerings; it will be offered virtually and will be taught by CSPM-certified instructors with extensive experience in security project management.

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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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CEF Chief Futurist at EMKAN Futures Podcast

Engaged Foresight

Dubai-based futurist and founder of Emkan Futures, a strategic foresight consulting firm based in the United Arab Emirates recently interviewed and featured CEF Chief Futurist Shermon Cruz. The podcast explored the futures of foresight in Asia, the emergence of futures thinking in the Philippines, the Association of Professional Futurists among others.

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Why passwords are to blame for loss of revenue, identity attrition and poor customer experiences

Behavior Group

Transmit Security has released a state of customer authentication report that includes customer experience insights based on its survey of 600 U.S. consumers. According to the report findings, organizations are losing potential customers and a substantial amount of revenue due to their dependency on traditional password systems and outdated customer authentication models.

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Gamification: Developing Your Team for Disaster and Crisis Training

Business Continuity Today

Today the role of the emergency and business continuity manager includes outreach to all of the stakeholders in the organization and the community. Sharing information in the past was static, gamification can bring the audience to the emergency manager and interaction with stakeholders to a new level. Gamification adds game-like elements to non-game situations to promote action and behavior change.

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Introducing the Veritas NetInsights Console: Simplify Data Protection Lifecycle Management

VOX Veritas

The new Veritas NetInsights Console is a unified, SaaS-based platform that helps manage your data protection solution through its complete lifecycle.

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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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Gamification in Talent Development

Engaged Foresight

Prof. Shermon Cruz will be the resource speaker of the Philippine Society for Talent Development webinar entitled “Gamification for Talent Development” on May 14, 2021. To register, this is the link. What exactly is gamification in talent development? Can games or gamification designs and systems amplify your capacity to learn and generate insights at the individual, collaborative and institutional levels?

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Using Technology For Global Planning

Business Resilience Decoded

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Gamification: Developing Your Team for Disaster and Crisis Training

Business Continuity Today

Today the role of the emergency and business continuity manager includes outreach to all of the stakeholders in the organization and the community. Sharing information in the past was static, gamification can bring the audience to the emergency manager and interaction with stakeholders to a new level. Gamification adds game-like elements to non-game situations to promote action and behavior change.

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SIA New Member Profile: The Homeland Security Consulting Group

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member The Homeland Security Consulting Group (HSCG) works to help public safety and security companies do more business protecting critical infrastructure through homeland security consulting and business development. The company is headquartered in Potomac, Maryland. SIA spoke with David McWhorter, founder of The Homeland Security Consulting Group, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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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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Calligo moves up the Top 100 Solution Providers rankings

Calligo

CDN’s annual ranking of the Top 100 Solution Providers in Canada places Calligo four places higher than last year, and is still the only one to place such emphasis on data ’s intelligent use and continuous safety.

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Using Technology For Global Planning

Business Resilience Decoded

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Using Technology For Global Planning

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 67: Anne-Marie McLaughlin of New York University Contact Anne-Marie McLaughlin at: [link]. Business Resilience Decoded: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Episode 67: Anne-Marie McLaughlin of New York University Contact Anne-Marie McLaughlin at: [link].