Sat.May 27, 2023 - Fri.Jun 02, 2023

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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

There was a time when only the military had to concern itself with scanning the horizon for potential dangers. But in our current period of an ever-expanding set of global threats, most organizations would benefit from developing a system for actively monitoring potential threats to their operations and assets. Related on MHA Consulting: Driving Blind: The Problem with Skipping the Threat and Risk Assessment The Need for Threat Intelligence Traditional business continuity methodology leans heavi

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What F-16s Will (and Won't) Do for Ukraine

The Rand Blog

After months of publicly lobbying to acquire U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, it appears that Ukraine may receive them later this year. However, there remains a long road ahead before the F-16s would see service in Ukraine—and it is an open question how much they would affect the outcome of the war.

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More on the CA Snow Melt

Recovery Diva

From the NYTimes: California’s Snow Is Melting and It’s a Beautiful Thing. An excerpt: “But this year still feels like a reward. Rather than solely preparing for the upcoming natural disaster season of fire and drought, we get to anticipate a summer when flowing rivers and deep lakes will be full of people enjoying them. If only for one year, abundant, clear and cold waters will come down from the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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Driving Scientific Discovery with Big Data

Pure Storage

Driving Scientific Discovery with Big Data by Pure Storage Blog Medical research dominated headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. And the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) was one of the first institutions to give the world some hope. Working alongside the Nuffield Department of Medicine, NDPH’s RECOVERY Trial provided an early breakthrough in the COVID-19 response: discovering that an inexpensive steroid could save many severely ill patients.

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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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SIA New Member Profile: NATANLife Security

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member NATANLife Security helps entrepreneurs create sustainable companies that run autonomously. The company is headquartered in Glen Rose, Texas, and serves businesses across the United States. SIA spoke with Zack Spelz, director of NATANLife Security, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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7 Advantages of Regular Crisis & Continuity Exercises

BryghtPath

Have you ever spent time assembling a crack crisis management & business continuity program, only to discover that leaders weren’t willing to invest the time to conduct crisis exercises? A few years ago, we worked with a large organization that invested significantly in building a robust crisis management & business continuity program with us.

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Non-disruptive Workload Mobility with ActiveWorkload

Pure Storage

Non-disruptive Workload Mobility with ActiveWorkload by Pure Storage Blog You bought a FlashArray//X20 —wise choice! You love it; it’s fast, efficient, and feature-rich. The hardware is non-disruptively upgraded every two years, new capabilities come out without licensing costs, and the data reduction is extremely effective. In fact, it’s so cheap to run and upgrade, your boss lets you buy more of them…maybe a newer, high-performance FlashArray//XL ™ for your mission-critical applications

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Security Industry Association Earns American National Standards Institute Reaccreditation for SIA Standards

Security Industry Association

SIA is committed to continue developing its industry standards in accordance with ANSI requirements and invites members to get involved. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has successfully completed the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) reaccreditation process for its standards development program. ANSI – the nonprofit standards body accreditation organization that oversees development of voluntary consensus standards for products, processes, systems and pers

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What’s New with Citrix — CVAD 2305 and Cloud Updates

Citrix

It’s no secret that Citrix continues to innovate and deliver new capabilities to make your environments more flexible, increase deployment speed, and improve end user experiences. Citrix is also fully committed to meeting organizations where they are in their deployment … The post What’s New with Citrix — CVAD 2305 and Cloud Updates first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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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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Deadly North Carolina Construction Blaze Could Spark Update to State Fire Code to Include More from NFPA 241

National Fire Protection Association

Fire safety officials in North Carolina are considering incorporating requirements from the latest edition of NFPA 241, Standard for Safeguarding Construction, Alteration, and Demolition Operations, into the state fire code after a massive, deadly blaze earlier this month. “We do hope that the latest updates [to NFPA 241] will be considered,” Chief State Fire Marshal Brian Taylor told The Charlotte Observer.

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Ten States Sue FEMA over Flood Insurance Rates

Recovery Diva

From NPR: 10 states and scores of local governments sue FEMA over higher flood insurance rates

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Equity Impact Review Process Overview

Disaster Zone

Some thoughts on how to integrate equity into your planning and actions.

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Rising to the Challenge: A Methodological Approach to Prioritizing Defense Investments

The Rand Blog

Meeting the Pentagon's goals to invest efficiently in military capabilities calls for a methodological process hinging on five key elements: aligning strategies with tasks, understanding what drives military innovation, embracing specificity in problem-solving, preparing for an unknown future, and assessing technology investments for prioritization.

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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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What’s New with Citrix Session Recording – May 2023

Citrix

The majority of organizations using Citrix operate in hybrid deployments. Citrix is built to meet you where you are in your hybrid journey, and that flexibility extends to Citrix Session Recording. Nowadays, Citrix Session Recording supports fully IT-managed deployments and … The post What’s New with Citrix Session Recording – May 2023 first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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NexusTek Recognized on CRN’s 2023 Solution Provider 500 List

NexusTek

May 30, 2023 NexusTek Recognized on CRN’s 2023 Solution Provider 500 List Honored as a leading solution provider for the fifth consecutive year Denver , CO , May 30, 2023 — NexusTek, a top national cloud, managed IT services, and cybersecurity provider, announced today that CRN ® , a brand of The Channel Company , has named NexusTek to its 2023 Solution Provider 500 list.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Drone Diplomacy in the USA vs. Europe

Disaster Zone

Comparing policy differences between Europe and the United States.

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Why Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault?

Zerto

Ransomware threats and cyberattacks continue to grow in frequency, severity, and sophistication. A recent study by IDC found most disaster recovery incidents in the last 12 months were triggered by ransomware and malware. The cost of executing an attack continues to fall thanks to the rise of ransomware as a service, and successful ransom payments are fuelling the development of next-gen malware.

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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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How cloud economics can help you optimize DaaS costs

Citrix

56 percent less hardware spending each year. That’s how much organizations can potentially save with a desktop as a service (DaaS) solution. There are many benefits related to moving to the cloud using solutions like DaaS (such as … The post How cloud economics can help you optimize DaaS costs first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Generative AI for the PagerDuty Operations Cloud by Sean Scott

PagerDuty

When it comes to keeping your business’s lights on, you need to manage and orchestrate your operational activities, prioritize high-impact and urgent work, and maintain day-to-day precision. Trust is paramount during mission-critical, time-sensitive crisis response and the narrow margin for error means there is little room and low acceptance for generative AI hallucinations or false positives.

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Long-Term Care Providers Need to Look at Their Disaster Plans

Disaster Zone

What the Kirkland verdict means for emergency preparedness.

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Be Your Best Threat

FS-ISAC

Know Thyself γνῶθι σεαυτόν – Know Thyself. It’s one of three maxims inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Now, lest you think this is some vain personal attempt to appear intellectual at the beginning of a blog post, let me assure you I physically cannot grow a beard bushy enough to be considered a philosopher. But I can apply it to cybersecurity.

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What’s New with Citrix — CVAD 2305 and Cloud Updates

Citrix

It’s no secret that Citrix continues to innovate and deliver new capabilities to make your environments more flexible, increase deployment speed, and improve end user experiences. Citrix is also fully committed to meeting organizations where they are in their deployment … The post What’s New with Citrix — CVAD 2305 and Cloud Updates first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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An Autistic Soldier Wants You to Read This

The Rand Blog

Despite the recruitment challenges it is currently facing, the Army continues to make personnel decisions based on last century's understanding of neurodivergent diagnoses. The loosening of stigma associated with these diagnoses could improve recruitment, and the Army might reap the benefits of neurodiversity.

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2023 Hurricane Prediction Announced

Disaster Zone

Will it turn out to be “normal?

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Accommodate More Complex Networks with Purity//FA 6.4.5

Pure Storage

Accommodate More Complex Networks with Purity//FA 6.4.5 by Pure Storage Blog Integrating enterprise storage into complicated data centers has always been tricky. A pretty common occurrence is having to navigate production network topologies that have been around for a while with reactionary growth. Storage networks are no exception to this concept—their Ethernet-based fabrics are subject to the same quasi-chaos and ever-expanding hunger for more networks and IP addresses.

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How to Conduct a Business Impact Analysis

BryghtPath

Imagine a significant disruption, such as a cyberattack, a natural disaster, or a pandemic, hit your business. How would you cope with losing data, customers, revenue, or reputation? How would you recover your operations and resume your normal activities? How would you prevent or minimize the impact of such events in the future? These are … The post How to Conduct a Business Impact Analysis appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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How cloud economics can help you optimize DaaS costs

Citrix

56 percent less hardware spending each year. That’s how much organizations can potentially save with a desktop as a service (DaaS) solution. There are many benefits related to moving to the cloud using solutions like DaaS (such as … The post How cloud economics can help you optimize DaaS costs first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Five ways you can boost defenses for your clients with Advanced Security

Acronis

As a managed IT service provider, you know that cyberthreats are constantly evolving, and that next-generation anti-malware services are crucial for protecting your clients' businesses. Thanks to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud's Advanced Security pack, delivering those services has never been easier.

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Video: Visitor Management 101 With Sharry’s Kevin Wilhelm

Security Industry Association

In this video, SIA Proptech Advisory Board member Kevin Wilhelm discusses visitor management and the balance between security and the guest experience. New video from SIA’s Proptech Advisory Board ! In this overview from Proptech Advisory Board member Kevin Wilhelm, country manager at Sharry, explore how to look at managing visitors from a customer experience and security standpoint for your building or development.

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How to build organizational resilience: six proven steps

everbridge

In today’s world, where natural disasters, terrorist threats, and cyberattacks are becoming increasingly common, business leaders must prioritize building resilience to ensure the long-term success of their organizations. However, the ways an organization can adapt, recover, and thrive in the face of adversity are often unclear. Read on to learn why building a resilient organization is so important for leaders, and how following the six steps can strengthen an organization’s overall abilit