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Enhance emergency alerts with Device-Based Geo-FencingĀ 

everbridge

This blog post dives into the evolution of emergency alert targeting, introducing the innovative concept of Device-Based Geo-Fencing (DBGF), outlining its implications, and shedding light on the road ahead to enhance public safety measures. Beginning with WEA 1.0, introducing polygons and circles for cell selection.

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Guide to active shooter drills in the workplace

everbridge

The tragic rise in active shooter incidents in every US state serves as a stark reminder of the need for preparedness. As organizations strive to create safe environments, the importance of active shooter drills in the workplace cannot be overstated. Should your organization run active shooter drills?

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Keep a Keen Eye on your SaaS Backups!

Zerto

Despite basic out-of-the-box protection from SaaS vendors, data residing in SaaS applications is your responsibility, not the vendorā€™s. Moreover, monitoring data activities allows organizations to proactively detect and respond to security threats, such as unauthorized access or data breaches.

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Winter safety tips for employees in private and public sectorsĀ 

everbridge

This can include automated alerts, sirens, or mass messaging platforms to reach individuals across different locations. Automate severe weather alerts These alerts are crucial for organizations to ensure timely communication and response during winter storms.

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Automating Common Diagnostics for Kubernetes, Linux, and other Common Components by Joseph Mandros

PagerDuty

But before we jump in, letā€™s make clear what automated diagnostics isnā€™t , based on some audience feedback on Twitter from the last article : Automated diagnostics is different from alert correlation. Alert correlation depends on a specified depth of signals, as well as an engine that can properly identify said correlated signals.

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Why SREs Need DR Now

Zerto

DR tries to minimize the impact a disaster has on applications, restoring them to a usable state as quickly as possible. SRE, on the other hand, is a discipline (and job title for many) that applies engineering practices to operations to improve the reliability and availability of the infrastructure that hosts applications.

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Money at Risk: Finance & Data Security in the Digital Age

NexusTek

Recent research focusing on threat activity in 2022 revealed that distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have become the biggest threat to financial services businesses. When aberrant or suspicious behavior is detected within the financial firmā€™s network, SIEM tools immediately generate alerts.