Recovery Diva

APRIL 29, 2024

From the WashPost: The Drowning South; The new face of flooding. An excerpt: Human-caused climate change is driving an acceleration of sea level rise globally, largely because of the faster melting of the globe’s giant sheets of ice. Scientists do not know for certain why this region is experiencing a surge in sea levels beyond the global average, but one theory is that naturally occurring ocean currents are moving ever-warmer ocean water deep into the Gulf.

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Acronis

APRIL 30, 2024

Secure email gateways (SEGs) have long been a staple in email security, but their effectiveness at combating modern threats has diminished.

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DRI Drive

APRIL 26, 2024

The North Atlantic hurricane season is on the horizon, and this year could put even the most seasoned resilience professionals through their paces. Pointing to warm ocean waters and an upcoming shift from El Niño to La Niña, University of Pennsylvania climate scientists are predicting between 27 and 39 named storms, with a best estimate of 33. […] The post Get Ready for a Record Breaking Hurricane Season appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Recovery Diva

APRIL 27, 2024

From the GAO: FEMA: Opportunities Exist to Address Mission Challenges and Increased Workload. ( March 2024) From GovExec.com: Under-resourced FEMA would see new commitment to growing workforce under bipartisan bill. The agency has struggled to keep pace with new and increased demands. (April 2024.

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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!

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Pure Storage

APRIL 12, 2024

Experts Weigh In on How to Solve Healthcare IT Growing Pains by Pure Storage Blog Few industries have evolved as rapidly as healthcare. If “data is the new oil” was the writing on the wall for IT-based growth opportunities back in 2010, then healthcare has been perhaps the most forward-looking vertical of them all. As the Senior Solutions Architect for Epic , a leading EHR software vendor, seven-year Pure Storage veteran Tom “TDubs” Whalen has been at the frontlines of healthcare’s intersection

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KingsBridge BCP

APRIL 17, 2024

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) on a budget You know you should, customers are demanding and if you want to grow the auditors will require, but how can you afford business continuity planning with the $0 budget you’ve got? Sound familiar? Lucky for you, KingsBridgeBCP has been writing Business Continuity Plans since 1983, so we’ve seen […] The post How you can afford Business Continuity Planning. appeared first on KingsBridgeBCP.

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DRI Drive

APRIL 15, 2024

Michael W. Janko is many things – MBCP, member of the DRI Board of Directors, longtime director of global business continuity for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, and now a published author. We spoke with him about his career through the lens of his new book, Excellence in Operational Resilience: How to Lead, Follow, […] The post Excellence in Operational Resilience: DRI Board’s Mike Janko Takes Us Through His New Book appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 22, 2024

Green Your Data Center with Pure Storage by Pure Storage Blog Happy Earth Day! In celebration of Earth Day, we have a wonderful video where Pure Storage Executives and one of our key partners, Intel, talk about how we approach and implement sustainability into our overall business, goals, and philosophy. As a recognized leader in sustainable data storage, we are proud that we are embracing key principles of sustainability and social change.

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LogisManager

APRIL 14, 2024

Four Impactful Risk Reporting Presentations to Maximize Board Engagement Last Updated: April 14, 2024 The Dual Goals of Risk Management Reporting Risk management is a complex and crucial aspect of organizational governance. Its reporting serves two primary purposes: aligning risks and activities with strategic objectives and demonstrating the effectiveness of enterprise risk management (ERM) programs.

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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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Synology

APRIL 18, 2024

As businesses are creating more data than ever before, organizations must be able to maximize storage capacity and store as much data as possible without overspending. This is where data deduplication comes in. By using this technique, redundant data is spotted and eliminated before being backed up.

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Recovery Diva

APRIL 23, 2024

New FEMA Report: Climate Adaptation Planning Guidance for Emergency Managers. (81 pp). The Climate Adaption Planning: Guidance for Emergency Managers (this guide) is intended to help state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) emergency managers incorporate climate adaptation into emergency management planning efforts. It discusses climate science in the context of disaster preparedness and explains how emergency managers can help communities develop effective climate adaptation strategies.Comm

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Pure Storage

APRIL 17, 2024

Ransomware and Healthcare Payers: What Can You Do to Protect Yourself by Pure Storage Blog For this blog on ransomware and healthcare payers at risk of it, Catherine Sweeney, Senior Account Based Marketing Manager at Pure Storage, spoke with Priscilla Sandberg, Pure Storage’s Senior Strategic Healthcare Alliances Manager. Catherine: I’m talking today with Priscilla Sandberg, Pure healthcare alliances manager who covers the healthcare payer landscape.

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The Rand Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

What might China's future disinformation operations against Taiwan focus on and how can Taipei and its partners combat them? China would likely have at least five discrete audiences for disinformation operations in mind, with specific lines of effort and goals for each.

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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.

Zerto

APRIL 25, 2024

In today’s data-driven business landscape, Microsoft Power BI has emerged as a critical tool for organizations to analyze and visualize their data, derive insights, and make informed decisions. However, ensuring the availability and integrity of this valuable data is paramount. This blog explores the importance of backing up Power BI content and how Zerto Backup for Power BI, powered by Keepit , can help organizations safeguard their Power BI data effectively.

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Acronis

APRIL 11, 2024

The managed service provider (MSP) market is growing rapidly, and with it, the competition for new clients. A solid marketing strategy is crucial for MSPs looking to stand out and attract new clients.

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Recovery Diva

APRIL 22, 2024

From CMBC: Here’s why FEMA has spent about $4 billion to help destroy flood-prone homes The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has spent around $4 billion assisting in the purchase of about 45,000 to 50,000 damaged homes since 1989, according to A.R. Siders, director of the University of Delaware’s Climate Change Science and Policy Hub, who analyzed FEMA’s data in 2019.

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PagerDuty

APRIL 23, 2024

Today, we are proud to share PagerDuty’s fourth annual Impact Report , which describes the work we’ve done across five key Global Impact pillars to build an equitable and sustainable future: our people, our products, responsible business practices, philanthropic investments, and planet stewardship. PagerDuty’s impact strategy is tightly integrated with our mission to revolutionize operations and build customer trust by anticipating the unexpected in an unpredictable world.

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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

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The Rand Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

In early April, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appeared before the U.S. Congress and told the United States to act like a global power. But Kishida's speech contained no censure or accusations. Just a plea from one of America's closest allies to members of Congress to come back and be the champion of the international order that it knows America can be.

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NexusTek

APRIL 29, 2024

April 29, 2024 NexusTek Announces Appointment of Hamilton Yu as New CEO and Bobby Christian as Executive Chairman Denver, CO, April 29, 2024 — NexusTek, a leading national Managed Service Provider, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hamilton Yu as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Hamilton’s appointment comes as Bill Wosilius steps down as CEO of NexusTek, after 5 years of driving growth and unifying a company that had acquired several other tech companies at the time of his ar

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Security Industry Association

APRIL 18, 2024

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Safe and Sound Security is a commercial security company that approaches commercial security systems installation with a passion for customer success. The California-based company has a robust geographic presence with offices in Walnut Creek, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Los Angeles and Pomona and takes pride in safeguarding over 10,000 locations.

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Recovery Diva

APRIL 17, 2024

From the WashPost: Google will provide AI to the military for disaster response. [link] The National Guard will soon use the tech giant’s image-recognition AI to scan images of disaster zones and help prioritize its response. “Spokespeople for both the DIU and Google X said that the AI would only be used domestically within the Unite”d States and its territories, and for disaster response, not military action.

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PagerDuty

APRIL 19, 2024

Beneficial Returns combines financial risk analysis with a charitable mindset to drive impact with PagerDuty’s philanthropic investment As founder and CEO of the impact investment fund Beneficial Returns , Ted Levinson is calling for a mindset shift. He believes it’s time for investors to prioritize social and environmental progress using a market-driven approach.

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The Rand Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

In the digital age, tradeoffs—like displaying our faces and fingerprints—are all but required simply to function in society. But the technology charged with securing our information, protecting what we have given up in these trades against theft, fraud, and other potential harms, doesn't always work.

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KingsBridge BCP

MAY 1, 2024

Optimize your 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; […] The post You mean I don’t have to plan for EVERYTHING?

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Security Industry Association

APRIL 16, 2024

With a commitment to elevating customer experience, ISC West continues to see its numbers grow year over year. NORWALK, Conn. – ISC West 2024 , the nation’s leading comprehensive and converged security trade event, hosted in collaboration with premier sponsor the Security Industry Association (SIA), delivered another year of successful programming and welcomed more than 29,000 security industry professionals to The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Recovery Diva

APRIL 13, 2024

From HSToday: Drought, Heat Raise the Risk of a Repeat of Canada’s Record-breaking Wildfires Last Year. The impact of the fires last year was severe for many U.S. states.

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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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The Rand Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

Russia's President Vladimir Putin rants that the West seeks to “dismember and plunder” his country. By accusing the West of plotting against Russia, the Kremlin likely hopes to distract Russian citizens from its own flawed actions. But the true damage to Russia has been self-inflicted.

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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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Security Industry Association

APRIL 23, 2024

Adom Yusuf shares 8 key updates on SIA’s standards programs coming out of ISC West, held April 9-12 in Las Vegas. The SIA Standards team is celebrating an amazing week in Las Vegas! With the ISC West energy still lingering, I’m eager to spotlight key discussions from many standards-related gatherings. If any of these concepts resonate with you, please don’t hesitate to reach out and be part of the conversation.

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