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.
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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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
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.
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!
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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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’
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.
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.
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
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.
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’.
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?
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.
Alert Media
MAY 8, 2024
Use this disaster recovery plan checklist to prepare and secure your business against prolonged downtime after unexpected emergencies.
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.
Security Industry Association
MAY 7, 2024
Sean Miller, chief revenue at Sensor Industries, is a member of SIA’s Built Environment Advisory Board. SIA’s Built Environment Advisory Board defined proptech , or property technology in its long form, as “Technology connecting people and information to simplify how commercial real estate is owned, sold, managed, operated, researched, rented or bought and invested in.
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.
Acronis
MAY 6, 2024
In the latest release of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud (24.04), we are excited to introduce significant enhancements to our plans functionality.
AWS Disaster Recovery
MAY 8, 2024
AWS Regions provide fault isolation boundaries that prevent correlated failure and contain the impact from AWS service impairments to a single Region when they occur. You can use these fault boundaries to build multi-Region applications that consist of independent, fault-isolated replicas in each Region that limit shared fate scenarios. This allows you to build multi-Region applications and leverage a spectrum of approaches from backup and restore to pilot light to active/active to implement you
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
The Rand Blog
MAY 8, 2024
Peace talks in Yemen have stalled and the Houthis, who control much of the country, are now attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea in a show of support for Gaza. How did things go so wrong? And how might the United States play a more effective role throughout the region?
Pure Storage
MAY 8, 2024
LPU vs GPU: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog If you’re interested in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, or large language models (LLMs) , you’ve probably heard about the fierce competition between different models and training routines. There’s an ever-growing number of models that try to innovate how their AI learns or what it’s capable of.
Pure Storage
MAY 6, 2024
Why It’s More Important Now Than Ever to Rightsize Your vSphere Deployment by Pure Storage Blog One constant that spans the entire timeline of my career has been the concept of “rightsizing” virtual machine (VM) workloads, and even deployments. Let’s talk about why it matters even more now after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and announcements on how VMware licensing will be consumed going forward.
Pure Storage
MAY 7, 2024
The Power of Containers + AI: Why You Need a Data Platform That Supports Both by Pure Storage Blog Both AI and containerization have evolved rapidly into tech industry standards used by almost every major company across the globe. Understanding where and how they intersect can provide valuable insights into why containers are particularly well-suited for AI workloads.
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