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Nationally 988 Number Goes Live in July for Suicide Prevention Hotline

Disaster Zone

United States totaled more than 46,000 in 2020.

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Can Your Financial Institution Win the Ransomware War?

Pure Storage

In my previous blog post , I discussed the unfortunate outlook surrounding ransomware threats on today’s financial institutions. In this post, we’re turning the tables and discussing how organizations can fight back—and win. A Quick Overview. For starters, it’s vital that security teams have processes in place to find indicators of compromise (IoCs) in the enterprise ecosystem before an attack is launched.

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Could Insurgency Offer Ukraine a Decisive Edge?

The Rand Blog

While insurgency rarely offers a path to early victory, a campaign of popular resistance that supports the continuing conventional battle could give overmatched Ukraine an edge in its fight against Russian occupiers.

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Illumination for Safety, Security…and Crop Growth: How the Right Lighting Systems Can Serve Multiple Purposes in Agriculture

Security Industry Association

Eddie Reynolds, president and CEO of iluminar. Potential vulnerabilities in the United States’ critical infrastructure have come under increasing scrutiny in the two decades since 9/11. When most people think of “critical infrastructure facilities,” transportation, telecommunications and municipal utilities usually come to mind first. The food and agriculture sector, though, represents one of the most important resources for public health and welfare.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

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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7 Costs of Not Having a Business Continuity Plan

Talkingpoint

According to the World Economic Forum, the?top global risks?businesses face today include extreme weather, economic divergence, infectious diseases, and natural resource crises. Between the global threat landscape, ransomware attacks, supply chain shortages, and the ever-shifting business targets you have to […]. The post 7 Costs of Not Having a Business Continuity Plan appeared first on TierPoint.

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Russia, Ukraine, and the Misuse of History

The Rand Blog

History as playbook has been used to paint the Ukraine conflict as the start of a larger battle for Europe. But even if it is Putin's intent to knock over one domino of a European country after another, the Russian Army—unlike the Soviet Army of old—simply does not have the capacity to do that.

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Tracking Risk Management Bills by State

Disaster Zone

A great resource to follow legislative actions.

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Fill the IT gaps in your organization with an enterprise browser

Citrix

Web standards and browsers have been great at providing a common platform for web and SaaS app delivery. The browser has become a primary interface for users to get work done. However, there are many gaps the modern enterprise needs … The post Fill the IT gaps in your organization with an enterprise browser first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories General availability is here for Citrix Secure Private Access Enable secure web, SaaS app delivery and safe browsing with Citrix browsers

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Why You Should Use Strict 2PL over 2PL

Pure Storage

Database management systems (DBMSs) are used for storing and updating data, and it needs to happen without corrupting queries. This can be difficult to achieve when you have large enterprise applications that are constantly running queries against data to add, update, and delete it. Locking systems in place can help stop “dirty reads,” which can happen if the database doesn’t properly handle simultaneous reads and writes on a specific record.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

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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Security in 3D: LiDAR and Other Sensors Allow the Creation of Rich, Video Game-Like Digital Maps

Security Industry Association

Martin Vojtek, CEO of TACTICAWARE, part of Hexagon Geosystems. Digital twin, LiDAR, sensor fusion, mixed reality and gamification – these are all terms that are more familiar to the IT, autonomous vehicle and gaming industries. But a 3D surveillance control system (3DSCS) brings these cutting-edge technologies to the usually conservative security industry by delivering real-time 3D data and superior intruder detection in an intuitive way.

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Why Is Everyone Talking About Unstructured Data?

Pure Storage

Unstructured data : We keep hearing about what it is and how we need to be ready for it. But what’s the buzz about, and why should organizations care? Here, we’ll talk a bit more about the “why” of its growth, importance, and challenges. . Download Harnessing Unstructured Data is Critical to Business Success to learn more. 1. Soon, The Volume of Unstructured Data Will Outweigh Structured Data.

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Pandemic Changes in Building Access Are Here to Stay: Moving Toward Mobile Access and Touchless Sensors

Security Industry Association

Norbert Artur, director of sales – Canada, Aiphone. Security in multitenant buildings and condominium complexes has been evolving for many years. Property managers continuously look for ways to ensure the safety and security of individual living spaces, as well as common and shared areas, and the events of the past two years increased the already existing demand for comprehensive and efficient access control systems.

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Spot Fake Links In Your Emails

Online Computers

Opening unknown links can be a risk factor for your business and staff. As a result, more and more business owners have incorporated fake link prevention strategies into their security training. We’ve come up with a few tips to help ensure that your staff members have the critical information on how to spot fake links. This training can help prevent hackers from gaining access to your business.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

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.

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Russia and the Ukraine: How Geopolitical Events Impact Resilience Management

Castellan

When it comes to business continuity planning, a lot of organizations think about anticipated event types and make plans to adequately address them. And some of the best programs take this one step further—they imagine other plausible scenarios and create plans that are flexible enough to address those types of events, too. But the strongest and most resilient organizations don’t focus on single event response.

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Answering the most common questions clients ask about IT services providers

Online Computers

New Jersey companies have a lot of questions when choosing an IT services provider. They want to make sure they are making the best decision for their business, and they want to know what to expect from partnering with a particular IT provider. In this blog post, we will answer some of the most common questions our clients ask about our IT services.

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Four Use Cases for Optimizing Your Cloud Operations With PagerDuty® Runbook Automation by Madeline Stack

PagerDuty

The cloud is easy and powerful—until it’s not. Once companies have customers, commitments, and compliance concerns, they often have to create cloud operations teams to manage the cloud on behalf of their fellow employees. Often, organizations that migrate to the cloud find themselves hampered by inefficient cloud operations if they haven’t standardized their IT procedures for operability.

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When to Use a RAID as Your NAS

Pure Storage

When you’re looking into backup and storage options, you’ll come across a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) and network attached storage (NAS). These two technologies work together to give you backup solutions and provide failover if a single drive fails. Both NAS and RAID technology are useful for home users and corporate networks. What Does a NAS RAID Mean?

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

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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Parallel vs. Distributed Computing: An Overview

Pure Storage

Both parallel and distributed computing have been around for a long time and both have contributed greatly to the improvement of computing processes. However, they have key differences in their primary function. . Parallel computing, also known as parallel processing, speeds up a computational task by dividing it into smaller jobs across multiple processors inside one computer.