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Book Review: Resilience Matters;Flourishing in an Era of Extremes

Recovery Diva

In fact, the heated rhetoric sometimes hurts the author’s credibility. One of the authors states that a group called Catalyst Miami found temperatures in poorer sections of Miami 30(!) When Hurricane Maria swept Puerto Rico in 2017, 100 percent of the “excess deaths” caused by the storm were among older adults.

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SIA New Member Profile: Infinite Electronics

Security Industry Association

In May 2017, Infinite Electronics, a supplier of engineering-grade wired and wireless connectivity products, acquired Transtector, adding the company’s strong engineering capabilities, world-class manufacturing operations and diversified set of products to its family of brands. And what makes your offerings/company unique?

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Securing Mass Gathering Events: A Simple Design Framework That Considers the Air Domain

Security Industry Association

He is also the author and provider of a series of online training courses. Take, for example, the 2017 shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada , where the use of a tall building provided a clear line of sight to concertgoers. Bill Edwards is the president of federal and public safety at Building Intelligence Inc. He is a retired U.S.

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The Best Risk Management Courses on Udemy to Consider for 2021

Solutions Review

Description: Throughout this course, we will discuss what comprises Risk (assets, threats, and vulnerabilities), providing numerous real-world examples along the way. We will also cover Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Measurements, showing how you can calculate the risk of an uncertainty due to vulnerabilities and threats.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

At the same time, we see widening inequalities in who has access to recovery resources, and disparities in vulnerability that are too often predictable by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity. In an era of threats and vulnerabilities that are increasing in complexity we need to simplify the process.

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Harnessing Static and Dynamic Code Scanning in DevSecOps

Pure Storage

Harnessing Static and Dynamic Code Scanning in DevSecOps by Pure Storage Blog This blog on static and dynamic code scanning in DevSecOps was co-authored by Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, CTO for Security and Networking, and Rajan Yadav , Director of Engineering, CNBU (Portworx), Pure Storage. What Is Code Scanning?

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Looking Around the Corner: Why ESG Has Never Been More Important

LogisManager

In 2017, Pepsi launched a commercial with the intention to highlight the Black Lives Matter movement. And if they have a vulnerability, they want that company to be transparent about it and share how they’re addressing it. View Now About the Author: Steven Minksy. Their new board will drive these major investment changes.