The Rand Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

A Chinese review of Russia's use of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in Ukraine is pessimistic about their ability to have a major impact on the outcome of the war. It is not yet clear how this insight will affect China's assessments of its own hypersonic arsenal.

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Solutions Review

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Prioritizing investment in data resilience involves several vital strategies: Assessment and Planning: Conduct thorough evaluations to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in data management and develop comprehensive data resilience plans.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

It enables improved oversight on establishing KPIs and objectives that can be evaluated to understand the benefit of resilience and the investment towards organizational resilience. Example 3: Continual improvement and evaluation Section 8.6

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LogisManager

MARCH 14, 2025

Risk Assessment: Those evaluating risks shouldnt be responsible for mitigating them. Without SoD, youre letting the same people create, evaluate, and approve their own work a clear conflict of interest that leads to unchecked mistakes, abuse, or negligence. Risk Assessor Evaluates risk severity and impact. See the pattern?

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Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 27, 2025

His background in human resources includes organizational process evaluation and improvement, labor laws, integration of businesses, cost reduction, organizational development, and all functional areas of human resources. He has a solid background in high tech, manufacturing, services and management.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

MAY 19, 2023

Key activities in this stage include: Debriefing and evaluation: Reviewing the organization’s response to the crisis, identifying lessons learned, and evaluating the effectiveness of the crisis management plan.

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Zerto

JANUARY 16, 2025

How to Achieve It: Conduct regular DR simulations to evaluate network performance and recovery capabilities. Rigorous Testing and Continuous Optimization Why It Matters: Plans that look good on paper often fail in practice without rigorous testing. Use the results to refine configurations and address bottlenecks.

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Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 22, 2024

What Sets AI-Driven Monitoring Apart Traditional remote video monitoring services depend on human operators to evaluate alerts triggered by motion from various cameras. These solutions can monitor and respond to events in real time, without requiring continuous human intervention.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

MARCH 5, 2024

Post-Crisis Evaluation: After navigating through a crisis, it’s vital to conduct a thorough review of the organization’s response. Adaptability and Flexibility: Crises are inherently unpredictable, and businesses must be able to adapt their strategies as situations evolve.

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Zerto

APRIL 11, 2024

Key Considerations When Choosing a DRaaS Provider Assess and Define Your Disaster Recovery Needs Before you start evaluating DRaaS providers, assess your organization’s specific requirements. Therefore, reliability and availability should be top priorities when evaluating providers. SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR).

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Acronis

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

AV-TEST regularly conducts Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) tests. In December 2024, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud participated in the corporate test, and with a perfect score, solidified its position as a leading security solution.

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Acronis

JULY 1, 2024

SE Labs, an AMTSO member and independent, UK-based testing laboratory evaluated Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Acronis Advanced Security + EDR. The solution garnered a 100% Detection Accuracy Rating against every element of the attacks, from initial delivery to subsequent malicious activities.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Key Components of an Effective Plan Risk Assessment: Identifying and evaluating potential crisis scenarios. Legal and Compliance: For many industries, having a crisis management plan can be a legal or insurance-mandated necessity. Communication Strategy: Ensuring clear, timely communication internally and externally.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

JUNE 26, 2023

Step 7: Continuous Evaluation and Improvement Crisis planning is an ongoing process that requires continuous evaluation and improvement. By identifying gaps, refining protocols, and enhancing team coordination, simulations enable organizations to test and fine-tune their crisis management capabilities.

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Reciprocity

JANUARY 8, 2025

Point-in-time evaluations quickly become outdated, leaving organizations vulnerable to emerging risks and missed opportunities. Moving to continuous risk monitoring isn’t just about frequencyit’s about fundamentally changing how organizations identify, evaluate, and respond to risks in real time.

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Reciprocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These incidents underscore a crucial reality: effective third-party vendor risk management isn’t just about ongoing monitoringit begins the moment you start evaluating a potential partner. This diverts focus from what matters: evaluating and mitigating actual vendor risks.

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LogisManager

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Key Takeaways: The board and regulatory bodies evaluate alignment across departments. The RMM offers a trusted approach to evaluating and strengthening Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) by aligning teams across seven core attributes and 25 success factors based on best practices from ISO 31000, COSO, and others.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. Earthquake disaster risk assessment and evaluation for Turkey. To know whether a reinforced concrete building is safe to live in would require knowledge of:- the shear resistance (i.e.,

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Assessing Ransomware Risk with the Pure Storage Security Assessment by Pure Storage Blog Summary The Pure Storage Security Assessment is a comprehensive evaluation tool that helps organizations identify and address vulnerabilities in their storage environment and offers actionable steps to help them reduce exposure to threats.

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Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

this podcast we learn how EAF has been agile and adaptable by harnessing technology, developing scalable platforms and procedures, and constantly evaluating and improving processes. In the last three years combined, EAF awarded over $205 million in financial assistance to more than 295,000 individuals and families in need around the world.In

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CIO Governance

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Not that it’s possible to evaluate the technical architecture without understanding how well it supports the business architecture. In case you’re a purist, we’re talking about technical architecture , not enterprise architecture. The latter includes the business architecture as well as the technical architecture.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Learning from Every Challenge: Adapting and Improving Every crisis presents an opportunity for growth, and effective crisis management entails a thorough post-crisis evaluation. This analysis dissects what went well and what could be improved, creating a feedback loop that refines crisis strategies for future challenges.

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LogisManager

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here’s how it works: The risk-based process is kicked off by the client identifying who their vendors are, and then evaluating their criticality based on their relationship to the organization. This due diligence assessment process triggers a vendor evaluation workflow. How much sensitive information does this vendor have access to?

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Acronis

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In an impartial evaluation by AV-TEST conducted in May 2024, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security + XDR scored a perfect 6.0 for having minimal impact on Windows performance. Read the blog to see the complete results.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Download Exercise Template This template guides you through the development and effective execution of a wide range of business continuity exercises, including planning, goal setting, evaluation, and documentation of lessons learned. Download The post Download Your Planning Templates appeared first on Disaster Recovery Journal.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This template guides you through the development and effective execution of a wide range of business continuity exercises, including planning, goal setting, evaluation, and documentation of lessons learned. Exercise Template. The post Download Your Planning Templates appeared first on Disaster Recovery Journal.

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BCP Builder

JANUARY 20, 2025

Evaluation Metrics: Time taken to evacuate, system recovery speed, etc. Evaluate and Improve: Conduct post-exercise reviews to identify strengths and weaknesses. Cons: Requires significant time and participant buy-in. Simulation Drills Simulation drills replicate real-life events as closely as possible.

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Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

From HSToday: Emergency Management Leaders Evaluate FEMA’s Priorities in the Changing Face of Disasters.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is why Pure Storage believes in a more comprehensive and transparent approach to storage solution evaluation with our customers—one that establishes workload characteristics and maximum performance requirements first and then examines energy and storage efficiency across various solution options.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Risk Management and Assessment Leaders must evaluate potential risks to the organization and prioritize resources to mitigate them. Measuring Success and Continuous Improvement in Cybersecurity Evaluating the effectiveness of a cybersecurity team and continuously improving its capabilities is crucial to maintaining a strong security posture.

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Security Industry Association

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Qualified Technology Listing Process and Purpose TWIC readers and supporting systems are currently being evaluated and, if approved, are listed on a TWIC Self-Certification Qualified Technology List (TWIC SC QTL) that is made available to maritime facilities, vessel operators and the general public by the TSA.

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LAN Infotech

MARCH 20, 2025

Our experts will evaluate your current setup, identify application dependencies and help you create a seamless transition plan to ensure your business stays secure and productive. Waiting until the last minute could leave your business vulnerable to cyberthreats, productivity bottlenecks and compliance issues.

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LAN Infotech

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Year-End Action: Evaluate your current collaboration tools and ensure they’re up-to-date and well-integrated for seamless team interactions in the New Year. Year-End Action: Evaluate your current training programs and consider adding new online courses or LMS options to keep your team’s skills sharp for the New Year.

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LAN Infotech

MARCH 20, 2025

Our cybersecurity experts will evaluate your current defenses, identify vulnerabilities and implement proactive measures to protect your sensitive information from data extortion. Hackers have found a new way to pressure businesses into paying ransoms, and traditional defenses just arent enough. Dont wait until your data is on the line.

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Zerto

MARCH 31, 2022

While there is never a wrong time to evaluate your data backup and recovery plan, there is certainly no more appropriate day than today—World Backup Day. Since its inception in 2011, World Backup Day has been the yearly reminder for users worldwide to evaluate their backup plans and what they are doing to protect against data loss.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Can you use the latency measured with these benchmark tools to evaluate and compare storage systems? Ideally, move your production applications to the storage system you’re evaluating. Testing a storage system in your environment with your applications is the only responsible way of evaluating it. And what about latency?

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