Recovery Diva

MAY 10, 2024

A special edition of Issues is titled On the Front Lines of Change: Reporting from the Gulf of Mexico. Several articles dealing with findings from research on past Gulf Coast disasters.

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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

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Security Industry Association

APRIL 26, 2024

SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) and the International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) have urged Congress to oppose inclusion in the FAA Reauthorization measure of an extraneous provision seeking to prohibit the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from using facial recognition technology. In an April 15, 2024, letter to Sens.

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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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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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Recovery Diva

APRIL 20, 2024

From Homeland Security Today: Biden-Harris Administration Offers $295 Million to Boost Community Resilience Against Climate Change. President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Fund States’ Abilities to Make Structures Safer and More Resilient FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell has announced that 16 states and one Tribal Nation are eligible for a total of up to $295 million in funding for flood resilience through the fiscal year 2023 Swift Current funding opportunity, made possi

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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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The Rand Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Wellington's strategic pivot is good news for Washington and its allies. But the United States should temper its expectations: New Zealand is likely to continue to preserve productive relations with China while it emphasizes the importance of stronger security ties with the United States.

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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 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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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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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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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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Security Industry Association

MAY 10, 2024

#SecurityGivesBack on June 7, 2024, with a new day focused on community service projects. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the first-ever Security Industry Community Service Day , an initiative created by the SIA Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Advisory Board to rally the entire security industry to give back and make the world a better place.

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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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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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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

What is Zero Trust Architecture? by Pure Storage Blog The foundational principle of zero trust architecture (ZTA) is this: Assuming trust anywhere in network security is a flawed approach and no longer sufficient against today’s advanced cyberthreats, implicit trust should never be granted to a user, device, or application based only on that user, device, or application’s location on a secure network.

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The Rand Blog

MAY 9, 2024

RAND researchers fielded their survey to provide the first nationally representative look at what people will actually do when faced with an unfair AI outcome.

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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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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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Recovery Diva

APRIL 30, 2024

From HSToday: PERSPECTIVE: The Subversive Manipulation of Crowds: Understanding the Doctrine Guiding Unrest in U.S. Streets “The Israel/Hamas conflict is stimulating growing unrest across the nation. Although the conflict in Gaza is the current motivation for protest, unrest in major U.S. cities is a recurring dynamic. And while causes may differ, the formula employed to incite unrest follows a standard “playbook” that has proven effective dating back over three-quarters of a century.

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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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The Rand Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

It takes hard work, but it is possible to increase the number of organ donations and benefit patients. Rather than looking to quick fixes that may not actually improve the system, the focus needs to continue to build off what we already have.

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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.

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Constellation

MAY 10, 2024

Is remote work sustainable? Can remote work and energy efficiency contribute to your bottom line and a cleaner environment? The post Remote Work and Energy Efficiency appeared first on Constellation Residential and Small Business Blog.

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