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Book Review: Resilience Matters (5th edition)

Recovery Diva

Invited review by John Plodinec, Ph.D. is an independent scholar, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. Once again, Claire has asked me to review the latest in the Resilience Matters series – this one subtitled Collective Action for Healthier Communities. The ebook , again edited by Laurie Mazur, consists of 55 short essays, most of which have appeared as opinion pieces in various periodicals. The ebook is free, and can be downloaded here.

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The 3 Quickest Ways to Improve Crisis Prevention Success Rates

Bernstein Crisis Management

The 3 Quickest Ways to Improve Crisis Prevention Success Rates The least damaging crises are those you prevent altogether or for which, at a minimum, you have crisis prevention systems and processes in place to minimize damage that can’t be totally avoided. Very logical, right? Factually, in our experience, most organizations still remain dramatically underprepared for crises.

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DRI Announces Roberto Zegarra as Director of Education

DRI Drive

DRI International is proud to announce that Roberto (Rob) Zegarra, MBCP, CCRP has been named Director of Education, taking over for retiring director (and recent Honor Roll Award recipient) Gary Villeneuve. “Rob is a truly excellent addition to the team.

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How Free Apps are Mining our Data and Creating Vulnerabilities

Disaster Zone

TikToc is a poster child for this

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

This webinar with Tim Buteyn will teach you strategies for motivating learners even when training them on "boring" topics, methods to capture learner attention and bring your courses to life, and techniques that convert a course from dry and lifeless to relevant and engaging.

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis.

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Risky Business at Silicon Valley Bank: What Happened?

DRI Drive

As federal regulators take over Silicon Valley Bank in the wake of its collapse, many finance sector resilience professionals are looking at its risk management strategies to figure out what went wrong. When the SVB collapse was announced on Mar.

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Multi-Sector Guide to Pandemic Economic Resilience and Related Workbook

Disaster Zone

It is not an after-action report, it a map forward for businesses and governments

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Is E-commerce Right for Smaller Businesses? 10 Stats That Tell the Story

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN March 22, 2023 Is E-commerce Right for Smaller Businesses? 10 Stats That Tell the Story A nearly universal aim among smaller businesses is to become…well, less small.

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ISC West Announces 2023 Programming at The Bridge and Career Zone

Security Industry Association

Revolutionizing the Industry With Premier Programming to Empower Security and Public Safety Professionals and the Next Generation NORWALK, Conn.

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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 this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enhance your professional development and lifelong learning.

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New GAO Report on Disaster Assistance

Recovery Diva

Just out today from the GAO, this two page report titled: Disaster Assistance: Action Needed to Improve Resilience, Response, and Recovery. It offers a big picture overview of several recent GAO reports on disasters

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Protecting Your VMs with the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin Replication Manager

Pure Storage

Protecting Your VMs with the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin Replication Manager by Pure Storage Blog The Pure Storage® vSphere Plugin can now manage VM migrations. Learn more about this new feature and how to use it in your environment.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: A Pandemic Road Map for the Future

Disaster Zone

Not an after-action review, but future-oriented

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10 Disaster Recovery Plan Mistakes to Avoid for Your Business

Erwood Group

Did you know that 60% of small businesses that suffer a cyberattack will shut down within six months? That’s a sobering statistic that underscores the importance of having a solid disaster recovery plan in place.

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Randomware Payments – Some Statistics

Plan B Consulting

This week, Charlie provides some interesting statistics around the payment of ransomware and gives an insight into the amount of money that organisations pay to these criminal gangs. This week and last week I have been umpiring cyber exercises.

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Earthquake Recovery and Democracy

Recovery Diva

From the San Francisco Chronicle: What’s the best way to survive an earthquake? Protect your democracy. The authors conclusion: “The lesson for my new neighbors in the United States: corruption and the erosion of democracy aren’t simply injustices, they’re deadly ”

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Healthy Nation, Safe Nation: Build Health Security into National Security

The Rand Blog

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a need for a more-robust health security paradigm within the broader national security context.

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ChatGPT-4 More Progress

Disaster Zone

The march toward Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues

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Why SREs Need DR Now

Zerto

IT is filled with acronyms. From A to Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA) , there’s no shortage of letter combinations that make up technical jargon.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 17; Updates from Continuity Software, Datadobi, Hitachi Vantara & More

Solutions Review

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of March 17, 2023. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task.

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Fire and Smoke Damper ITM

National Fire Protection Association

Fire, smoke, and combination fire/smoke dampers are crucial pieces of equipment used to reduce the spread of fire and smoke throughout a building. For an overview of the basics on fire and smoke dampers refer to this newly developed fact sheet.

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Venture Capital Gives America a Strategic Edge in the Age of Technology Wars

The Rand Blog

early-stage hardware startups are seriously disadvantaged by a persistent lack of financing. Congress authorized the U.S. Department of Defense to spend $75 million to invest in dual-use hardware startups.

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Confidence is Required to be Successful

Disaster Zone

Confidence, yours and theirs

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Uncover VDI and DaaS data risks with in-session clipboard monitoring

Citrix

This blog post was co-authored by Gavin Strong, Pre-Sales Engineer at Citrix. To meet the needs of a fast-growing, distributed workforce, organizations have rolled out virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with a goal of improving employee productivity and the end-user experience.…

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FinOps: The Key to Cloud Cost Management

Pure Storage

FinOps: The Key to Cloud Cost Management by Pure Storage Blog Waste and spend are two of the biggest challenges with the cloud. Here, learn how FinOps can help and some best practices to implement in your org. The post FinOps: The Key to Cloud Cost Management appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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Article 90: Why It’s So Important for Electrical Inspectors

National Fire Protection Association

Some people may not consider Article 90 of NFPA 70®, National Electrical Code® (NEC®), to be a backbone of electrical inspector knowledge. But a familiarity with Article 90 is crucial for electrical inspectors.

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Twenty Years After the Iraq War, a Q&A with RAND Experts

The Rand Blog

On the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, RAND experts discussed what the war means for the people of Iraq and the veterans who fought there, what lessons the U.S.

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Supporting Colleagues during Ramadan

Advancing Analytics

The Basics What is Ramadan? Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar. It is considered one of the most spiritual times of the year and signifies the time during which the Qur’an (Holy book for Islam) was revealed.

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Microservice-based app delivery using NetScaler and Citrix Ingress Controller

Citrix

Cloud-native applications are built to allow for continuous updating of code without affecting the user experience.

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Achieving Enterprise Resilience In a Time of Uncertainty

Alert Media

The post Achieving Enterprise Resilience In a Time of Uncertainty appeared first on AlertMedia. Safety and Security Security and Safety

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Part Two – How One-to-Many Replication Works

Zerto

In the previous blog, “The Benefits of One-to-Many Replication,” we provided an overview of Zerto’s one-to-many replication feature.

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India Can Bridge the U.S.-Russia Divide over Ukraine

The Rand Blog

No country is as well positioned as India to mediate between Russia and the United States, and bring the Ukraine conflict to an end. Even limited success in ending the war will bolster India's credentials as an emerging great power, capable of accomplishing remarkable things that others cannot

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Americas Partner Network Thrives

Pure Storage

Americas Partner Network Thrives by Pure Storage Blog We put a lot of rigor and care into building a robust and dynamic partner network. Our approach continues to be strong and successful for our customers, our partners, and Pure.

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