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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". If we are asked to do more, it must be at the expense of some other activity. This also exists outside the academic field. What use is it then?

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Counting Costs: The Impact of a Government Shutdown on the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

Department of Defense and four other major departments, the looming shutdown could affect all federal agencies dependent on appropriations, making it more similar to the October 2013 shutdown that lasted 16 days. What is a government shutdown?

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Security Industry Association Announces Winners of the 2023 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards

Security Industry Association

She spent over eight years in the biometrics field focused on quality assurance, information security and quality processes and has led a variety of projects, including the implementation and certification of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System and ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System (ISMS) for NEC Advanced Recognition Systems.

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ISO 27001 Certification Requirements & Standards

Reciprocity

Rather than implementing controls as a checkbox activity, risk-driven organizations proactively choose controls that best mitigate their risks. Your primary reference points will be ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27002:2013, and ISO/IEC 27000:2018. Form a Project Team. You must first pick a project leader to oversee the project.

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27/03/2015 A Threat From Within

Plan B Consulting

The news very quickly turned from why the crash occurred, to why the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane, with the media and German authorities busy searching through his past and questioning anyone who knew him, to find out why. They have procedures to ensure that there is never one member of the crew left alone in the cockpit.

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27/03/2015 A Threat From Within

Plan B Consulting

The news very quickly turned from why the crash occurred, to why the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane, with the media and German authorities busy searching through his past and questioning anyone who knew him, to find out why. They have procedures to ensure that there is never one member of the crew left alone in the cockpit.

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DevOps for Databricks: Databricks Rest API & Python

Advancing Analytics

This is a stark contrast to 2013, in which 92 % of users were Scala coders: Spark usage among Databricks Customers in 2013 vs 2021. Within Azure, authentication can be carried out using a Databricks PAT (Personal Access Token), or Azure Active Directory Tokens (User specific or Service Principle).