ChannelBloom

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Lauren Cooke in Backup and Recovery Solutions News. Staying on top of the latest industry news and trends is a big part of the job for any Backup and Recovery pro, and Twitter is a great resource. but with 243 million active users, it can be difficult to parse the good from the bad. Here is a great place to start. Follow these the top 21 influencers and thought leaders in the backup and disaster recovery Twittersphere, presented here in no particular order.

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Crisis Response Journal

MARCH 13, 2016

Paul Somerville of Risk Frontiers examines the earthquake off Sumatra, Indonesia in early March, and looks at the breakup of the Australia – India Plate. On March 2, 2016, an Mw 7.

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Behavior Group

DECEMBER 23, 2016

By Help Net Security on 19 December 2016 cyber resilience Global organizations are more confident than ever that they can predict and resist a sophisticated cyber attack, but are falling short of investments and plans to recover from a breach in today’s expanding threat landscape. Now in its 19th year, a survey of 1,735 organizations… Continue reading.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 21, 2016

This week I share some information about staffing during an incident and some of the things that should be planned for prior to incidents taking place. Last week I delivered a series of exercises for a Bank in Portugal. One of the exercises was looking at how their IT development staff would manage an incident if they were to be displaced by more time critical staff from another office.

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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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Alert Media

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The Government’s Take on Alerts. I was surprised to learn that the federal Emergency Alert System (EAS) was only used at the local level until November 9, 2011 at 2 pm eastern. This date marked the first time FEMA ever tested the EAS nationwide. All of the television and radio test sirens you have ever heard were initiated by your local authorities.

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The Business Continuity Podcast

APRIL 28, 2016

Ever wondered how suet pudding could bring one of the UK’s busiest trading floors to a grinding halt? Or why there used to be a caterpillar in the London Risk Register? The business continuity podcast is a straightforward, jargon-free discussion with people who deal with disasters for a living. We delve into the exercises and methodologies that keep organisations like The Economist, Fujitsu and the London Fire Brigade secure and resilient, and explore just how much continuity planning goes into

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ChannelBloom

AUGUST 9, 2016

Rocking with Unitrends! Mark your calendars for the first ever Unitrends partner conference. The global cloud storage market is poised to grow from $18.87 Billion in 2015 to $65.41 Billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 28.2%*. This invitation-only event will deliver the knowledge you need to increase your business and capture your share of this explosive market.

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ChannelBloom

JUNE 14, 2016

SUPERSIZE Your Unitrends. Recovery Series Appliance. Unitrends offers comprehensive protection and true recovery assurance. Our Recovery-Series physical appliances provide local data backup and recovery for physical and virtual environments, with the option to integrate with our cloud (or yours) for long term data retention and offsite disaster recovery. ?

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ChannelBloom

JUNE 2, 2016

Want to effectively and seamlessly protect your company’s data? Join us over a delicious steak lunch to learn more about Unitrends’ backup and disaster recovery solutions. Unitrends solutions are built to be flexible as you adapt your environment – whether physical or virtual – so it’s easy to protect and recover data in case of a disruptive event.

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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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Crisis Response Journal

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Cyber attacks and data breaches are here to stay. As long as confidential commercial data and personal information hold a financial value on the black market, the battle between cyber criminals and corporations will continue.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The special Security and Crisis Management Summit was jointly organized by ACI EUROPE and ACI ASIA PACIFIC and took place in Brussels (Belgium) on November 22 – 23, 2016, writes Lina Kolesnikova.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

“Look for the robots, because robots are coming to the rescue,” said Dr Robin Murphy, Director for the Texas based Centre for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) in her enlightening TED Talk.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Public Health England has recently published a Cold Weather Plan, giving advice to help prevent the major avoidable effects on health during periods of cold weather in England, writes Roger Gomm.

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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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Crisis Response Journal

JUNE 7, 2016

Michael McCabe says that although artificial intelligence brings real benefits in the security and resilience fields, it is unlikely that the human factor will become obsolete.

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Crisis Response Journal

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

On September 14-15, a high level meeting on disaster risk reduction and management, with a specific focus on innovation and technology, was held in Danang, Vietnam, writes Ørjan Karlsson.

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Crisis Response Journal

OCTOBER 23, 2016

This new Search and Rescue blog series will take a critical look at some of the innovative developments and new technology in the SAR sphere, explore trends and case studies, review events, and report on burning issues, says the blog’s Editor, Martin Boyl By Martin Boyle

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Crisis Response Journal

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Dr Behrouz Moghadasi, who has been training volunteers in disaster management across Nepal, presents some images of the Khoryug Nepal Project, which involved training 40 individuals from eight monasteries in Nepal in CERT.

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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.

Crisis Response Journal

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Chris Phillips says that although the business community can do little about the threat of terrorism, it has a duty of care to look after its staff and customers should a major event occur.

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Crisis Response Journal

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Reita Waara describes how the inclusion of large numbers of volunteers in a large oil spill exercise in the Finnish city of Kemi is so important to future emergency responses of this type.

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Crisis Response Journal

OCTOBER 4, 2016

On Monday, September 26, the EU Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator Gilles de Kerchove told the members of the EU Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee that: "The terrorist threat has never been so high in the last 20 years.

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Crisis Response Journal

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Writing for Security Debrief – a blog dedicated to homeland security, terrorism and counter-terrorism, intelligence and law enforcement that provides context to the debates, policies and politics that are playing out in Washington, DC, USA – Rich Cooper e By Rich Cooper

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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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Crisis Response Journal

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The Joint Committee on Human Rights appointed by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to consider matters relating to human rights in the United Kingdom has reported that there is no workable definition of ‘extremism’ and that for this reason the g

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Crisis Response Journal

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Nations on the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea have decided to bolster their tsunami warning systems by giving France, Greece, Italy and Turkey a region-wide alert role, reports Jonathan Fowler for the UNISDR.

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Crisis Response Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

A critical incident review titled Bringing calm to chaos, looks at the San Bernardino public safety response to the 2015 terrorist shooting incident at the Inland Regional Centre, reports Roger Gomm for CRJ.

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Crisis Response Journal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The National Flood Resilience Review was established in January 2016 to assess how the UK can be better protected from future flooding and extreme weather events such as during December 2015, reports Roger Gomm for CRJ.

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Crisis Response Journal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Assessments that tell policymakers how vulnerable and resilient their communities are to floods and other destructive events aren’t always accurate, according to the first-ever validation of a wide range of available tools.

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