DRI Drive

MAY 3, 2024

As the leading nonprofit helping organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on groups that promote greater resiliency. We encourage Certified Professionals to support these valuable partners. Business Continuity Planners Association – BCPA will host an in-person event on May 9 at Central Lakes Office Park in Edina, MN, focused on the subject, […] The post Collaborative Partner Spotlight: Summer 2024 appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Recovery Diva

MAY 6, 2024

New book available as a free download from the National Academy of Sciences: Community-Driven Relocation: Recommendations for the U.S. Gulf Coast Region and Beyond. (Note the book is 584 pages, but summary is available.) “Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually since 2018.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

National elections in the United Kingdom are likely to bring a change in the political complexion of the government. This short essay puts the case for coming together to put pressure on the new leadership to improve British civil protection. The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure.

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Acronis

MAY 3, 2024

To help stop the wave of Post-it notes that say “Password1!” this World Password Day, we asked Gaidar Magdanurov, President of Acronis and Candid Wüest, VP, Product Management to offer tips for building strong passwords and a prediction of how the use of passwords will change in the years ahead.

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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!

Mitigation

Pure Storage

MAY 1, 2024

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. Even scientific and educational institutions like the British Library in London and Berlin’s natural history museum have been targeted by ransomware gangs in the past year—and are still dealing with the impacts.

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Security Industry Association

MAY 8, 2024

With leadership from chair Jeff Huggins of ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions, the new community will provide resources, programs and events for veterans in the industry and actively serving military planning transitions to the civilian workforce. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has launched the SIA Veterans in Security Forum , an all-new community focused on the issues and concerns of veterans and active military members who are in, or are interested in joining, the

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Recovery Diva

MAY 4, 2024

From HSToday: Preparedness Grants are Key to Resilience. “On April 16, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced more than $1.8 billion in funding for eight fiscal year 2024 preparedness grant programs. These announcements are widely known, broadly disseminated, and make a measurable difference to the safety and security of our nation.

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KingsBridge BCP

MAY 8, 2024

Why is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery important? In today's unpredictable business landscape, the ability to withstand and recover from unforeseen disruptions is crucial for the survival and success of any organization. At the core, this is the "why" of business continuity and disaster recovery. Business continuity involves planning and implementing strategies to keep essential […] The post Keeping Your Business Afloat: The Importance of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

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everbridge

MAY 8, 2024

From compliance to resilience: Navigating the new landscape of critical infrastructure protection with Everbridge By Eric Boger , Everbridge Vice President Risk Intelligence The recent National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience issued by the White House on April 30, 2024, outlines a strategic approach to safeguarding critical infrastructure against emerging threats and enhancing resilience.

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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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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

A New Power-up for Data Resilience: A Guide to Object-level Exclusions by Pure Storage Blog In classic video games, each item in your inventory serves a purpose on your quest. It’s the same in data protection , which requires an arsenal of tools to battle against threats. Just as choosing the right gear can make or break your adventure in a game, selecting which data to disregard and which to shield can be crucial in real-world applications.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 1, 2024

The accident in Baltimore is both a human tragedy and a reminder of how an adversary could seek to close critical waterways. By taking sustained actions to prevent and respond more effectively to obstructive attacks, the United States can help mitigate the risk and protect the maritime movements on which its security depends.

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Security Industry Association

MAY 7, 2024

Leire Arbona Puértolas, Melissa Conley, Heather Haller and Caitlin Kneapler will be honored for their leadership and contributions in biometrics and security at the 2024 SIA GovSummit. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named four women biometrics leaders as recipients of the 2024 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards , a globally recognized program presented by SIA with support from sponsor IDEMIA and organizational and media partners AVISIAN , Biometric Update and SIA’

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PagerDuty

MAY 1, 2024

Many organizations are heavily investing in AI and automation to remove the burden of manual work and operational efficiency. However to drive their wide scale adoption, they also need employees who can collaborate effectively with the technology. To bridge that gap, companies can use upskilling to retain talent, mitigate risks to the business, and allow employees to grow their careers.

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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.

Advancing Analytics

MAY 7, 2024

Advancing Analytics are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with dbt Labs, the company behind the premier analytics engineering product: dbt. dbt is fast becoming the new standard for data transformation workflows, that power and populate our curated layers. Why dbt? dbt Lab’s platform enables organisations to easily build Analytics Engineering best practice into the processes and operations throughout their business, improving data trust due to consistency, and shipping data products fa

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 6, 2024

In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses what is covered in basic and advanced cyber exercises and looks at why organisations should consider running more sophisticated exercises. As cyber attacks continue apace – and having ran a sophisticated cyber exercise on Tuesday – I thought for this week’s bulletin, I would share some thoughts on ‘exercising beyond the basics’.

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Pure Storage

MAY 8, 2024

The Threat of AI-powered Ransomware Attacks by Pure Storage Blog Alongside its many benefits, AI has also empowered malicious actors to launch increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, with ransomware emerging as a particularly potent threat. A recent report by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned that malicious attackers are already taking advantage of AI to evolve ransomware attacks, posing significant risks to individuals, businesses, and even critical infrastructure.

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Acronis

MAY 5, 2024

Backing up Microsoft SharePoint data is fundamental for any organization using the platform. Without a backup data plan, businesses could lose information and experience costly downtime if data is accidentally deleted, corrupted, or damaged by hardware malfunction.

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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

Entertainment

Solutions Review

MAY 3, 2024

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 3, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy s

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everbridge

MAY 3, 2024

By Lorenzo Marchetti , Head of Global Public Affairs In an interconnected world, digital resilience is crucial for navigating crises and safeguarding financial and security assets. The European Union (EU), comprising 27 countries and 450 million people, recognizes the significance of digital resilience and has introduced regulatory mandates to fortify and align the digital ecosystem.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 2, 2024

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released its 2024 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap. But for AI applications to enhance operations as the department envisions, the roadmap needs to include real-world testing and experimental efforts.

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PagerDuty

MAY 2, 2024

Introduction Figuring out how to represent your as-built environment in PagerDuty can be confusing for new users. There are a lot of components to PagerDuty that will help your team be successful managing incidents, integrating with other systems in your environment, running workflows, and using automation. Your organization might have a lot of these components – users, teams, services, integrations, orchestrations, etc.

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Pure Storage

MAY 8, 2024

NPU vs. GPU by Pure Storage Blog Today, hardware and software applications of AI have advanced to become purpose-built to optimize artificial intelligence and neural network operations. These include neural processing units (or NPUs), which are often compared to Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in terms of which can accelerate AI tasks best. These are increasingly common pieces of hardware engineered for cutting-edge AI/ML tasks at the fastest possible speeds—but how are they different?

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Acronis

MAY 2, 2024

It has been nearly eleven years since Intel commenced its World Password Day initiative on May 2, 2013 to spread awareness on password protection best practices. This World Password Day draws attention to the latest threats with the goal of encouraging organizations and communities to embrace new strategies to protect sensitive information.

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Security Industry Association

MAY 2, 2024

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Enterprise Security, Inc. (ESI) is a systems integration company specializing in completely integrated, innovative security management systems. The company is headquartered in in Yorba Linda, California, with additional offices in Tempe and Tucson, Arizona. SIA spoke with Joseph D. Emens, chief operating officer at Enterprise Security, Inc., about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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KingsBridge BCP

MAY 1, 2024

Ultimate BIA with "No Building, No People, No Systems, No Suppliers" There are many levels of complexity to all incidents, often making the task of planning for their impact feel extremely overwhelming. Fires start small but can grow and spread; tornadoes might cause minor damage to a warehouse or take out an entire structure; one […] The post You mean I don’t have to plan for EVERYTHING?

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BMC

MAY 1, 2024

May holds significance at BMC as a month of celebration and introspection, marked by Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. As active participants in the BMC API employee resource group (ERG), we are acutely aware of the unique hurdles our global communities face, particularly within high-pressure environments like the tech industry.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 1, 2024

As difficult as policing vigorous dissent may be, having a flexible and adaptive strategy that draws from best practice and lessons learned will be the most effective way for police to plan, execute, adapt, and resolve the scenes to which they are called.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. Customers could stop placing orders, outgoing shipments could cease, and productivity can grind to a standstill. All of that leads to lost revenue, unhappy customers, and bad publicity.

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Acronis

MAY 2, 2024

Deleted files can still be rescued! Discover the best methods for recovering deleted files on both Windows and Mac operating systems in our comprehensive guide.

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Alert Media

MAY 8, 2024

Use this disaster recovery plan checklist to prepare and secure your business against prolonged downtime after unexpected emergencies.

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