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The Future of Emergency Management Education and Training

Disaster Zone Podcast

Glen Woodbury is the Director, Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School. In this podcast we explore how the programs he manages have adapted to being all distance learning and how going forward, education and training can be shaped by leveraging technology.

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Reduce Ransomware Risk in Educational Institutions

Pure Storage

Reduce Ransomware Risk in Educational Institutions by Pure Storage Blog Ransomware attacks targeting educational institutions increased dramatically in 2023 , with K-12 schools seeing a major spike in these incidents. One recent global study from Sophos found that higher education institutions spend more than $1.4

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The Coming National Security Challenge

Recovery Diva

The college-going rate of high school graduates has dropped from 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2022, and if this trend continues, a group of young Americans will — for the first time in our history — enter the workforce with less education than the one before.”

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Three Education Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss at ISC East

Security Industry Association

14-16 in New York City, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC East recently revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC East program , including keynote presentations from top luminaries and over 40 sessions from top industry expert speakers on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments.

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Election Security

Disaster Zone Podcast

Election security has been in the news since 2020. How secure are elections in the United States and what specifically makes vote by mail a secure way to cast your ballot? He is charged with the executive oversight of the Washington Secretary of State's Elections and Information Security & Response divisions.

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Why Educational Institutions Should Give Cybersecurity Top Priority

Unitrends

As a result, big companies with comprehensive security were […]. The post Why Educational Institutions Should Give Cybersecurity Top Priority appeared first on Unitrends. Corporate networks saw a 50% increase in weekly attacks. However, many of these networks were a means to an end as attackers focused on the supply chain.

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National Health Security Preparedness Index

Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast we learn about the National Health Security Preparedness Index This index gets an annual update and looks at the public health readiness of all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The show’s guest is Glen Mays, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy, Colorado School of Public Health.

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