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A Resilient Workforce Is a Key Building Block to Success

BMC

As we mark the close of May’s Mental Health Awareness Month , ever-changing world events—and for some, changes in how and where we work—make it a good time to check in and revisit helpful ways to ensure our own resilience and the resiliency of our people. Tackling the increase in mental health challenges. The last few years have been rife with external and internal stressors and competing responsibilities, so much so that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , 90 percent of countrie

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The legal implications of paying ransomware demands: The evolving state of ransomware

Acronis

The legal implications of paying or not paying ransomware demands hover like a specter over businesses as attacks become more prevalent and sophisticated. Ransomware remains the top threat to SMBs and enterprises across healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and other vital sectors, according to the Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2022.

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Business, Interrupted: The Keys to Building a Resilience Management Culture

Castellan

When it comes to success—whether it’s resilience management or crisis response or any of the other many important programs that are part of your organization—building a culture that understands and integrates its importance into day-to-day operations is paramount to success. But, regardless of how enthusiastic you are about your program and the benefits you know it brings to your organization, the reality is, you can’t force the rest of your organization to automatically adopt the culture

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Cyber resilience: Software for business continuity

Acronis

Today’s security service providers and IT professionals need to assume that data is constantly under attack. So, it’s essential that cyber resilience must include the ability to continue operations while under attack and to recover from attacks. Cyber resilience creates an end-to-end approach to threat management encompassing information security, business continuity, and disaster recovery.

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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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Combating Disinformation by Bolstering Truth and Trust

The Rand Blog

For Jessica Cecil, founder and former head of the Trusted News Initiative, today feels a bit like the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, in which agreed-upon facts endure in only a few isolated places of elite discussion and there is no common language of politics. She spoke about the need for governments, companies, news organizations, and relevant civil society groups to work together to combat disinformation at a meeting of RAND Europe's Council of Advisors.

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xMatters Surpasses the Competition

everbridge

We are excited to announce that xMatters, an Everbridge company, outperformed PagerDuty in a recent GigaOm benchmark report! The report took a deep dive into the features and functionality of the xMatters and PagerDuty platforms in a comprehensive head-to-head study based on tests conducted on both platforms. Being featured in a report of this scale, not only shows our efforts to keep businesses safe and operations running in physical and digital environments, but also reinforces our commitment

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Citrix ADC with Google Anthos: Consistent, reliable app delivery for Kubernetes apps

Citrix

In the first blog post in our Citrix ADC with Google Anthos series , we talked about the importance of modern app delivery and security for hybrid multi-cloud for IT transformation and app modernization, and how Citrix ADC and Google … The post Citrix ADC with Google Anthos: Consistent, reliable app delivery for Kubernetes apps first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘The Upcoming Cold War with Russia’

Disaster Zone

Intercontinental cyber weapons.

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Business, Interrupted: The Keys to Building a Resilience Management Culture

Castellan

When it comes to success—whether it’s resilience management or crisis response or any of the other many important programs that are part of your organization—building a culture that understands and integrates its importance into day-to-day operations is paramount to success. But, regardless of how enthusiastic you are about your program and the benefits you know it brings to your organization, the reality is, you can’t force the rest of your organization to automatically adopt the culture

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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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Recent Active Shooter Incidents Highlight the Tragic Reality that Communities Must Remain Vigilant in Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering from these Horrific Threats to Public Safety

National Fire Protection Association

Buffalo, New York. Uvalde, Texas. In the span of just 12 days, the U.S. has witnessed two horrific active shooter events that, according to recent news reports, have claimed the lives of 31 people, wounded 18, and has left the country deep in mourning. For the last couple of years, the national attention has focused much on the pandemic. But as the events of the last week and a half have. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Russia Will Struggle to Sustain Its Disinformation Machine, Former New York Times/BBC Chief Tells RAND Europe

The Rand Blog

As former head of the New York Times and the BBC, Mark Thompson has tackled disinformation on both sides of the Atlantic. One of his big takeaways: It's not as easy as you might think to sustain a successful disinformation campaign.

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PagerDuty Summit: The Future of Work Starts Here by Sean Scott

PagerDuty

The pace of technological change has made jobs harder, particularly over the past couple of years. A recent PagerDuty survey found that 42% of respondents worked more hours in 2021 compared to 2020. And if 2022 is any indication – especially as businesses become more dependent than ever on digital systems – there’s no chance of a technology slowdown anytime soon. .

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Scaling Synopsys VCS Workloads in Hybrid Cloud with Azure and FlashBlade

Pure Storage

Logical verification is a critical part of the digital chip design process. Synopsys VCS is a high-performance verification tool used by semiconductor companies. In the workflow diagram below, Synopsys VCS compiles a set of Verilog files and generates an executable simulation file. The simulation file is used to validate the IC design and performance of the system on a chip (SoC).

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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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The Power of Mesh Networks During Emergencies

Business Continuity Today

The new internet may soon be coming to a home near you in the form of Mesh Networking. So what is Mesh Networking and how does it differ from traditional networks…and how will it change disaster communications? Links Web: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Twitter: [link] Facebook: [link] Youtube: [link] The new internet may soon be coming to a home near you in the form of Mesh Networking.

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A Resilient Workforce Is a Key Building Block to Success

BMC

As we mark the close of May’s Mental Health Awareness Month , ever-changing world events—and for some, changes in how and where we work—make it a good time to check in and revisit helpful ways to ensure our own resilience and the resiliency of our people. Tackling the increase in mental health challenges. The last few years have been rife with external and internal stressors and competing responsibilities, so much so that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , 90 percent of countrie

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The Power of Mesh Networks During Emergencies

Business Continuity Today

The new internet may soon be coming to a home near you in the form of Mesh Networking. So what is Mesh Networking and how does it differ from traditional networks…and how will it change disaster communications? Links Web: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Twitter: [link] Facebook: [link] Youtube: [link] The new internet may soon be coming to a home near you in the form of Mesh Networking.

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Time to Fight Back Against Ransomware: Zerto Will Show You How

Zerto

Ransomware is the most rampant disaster threat to organizations in every industry. Cybercriminals are disrupting business, causing reputational damage and lost revenue to organizations worldwide. Last year, a minimum of $18 billion was paid in ransoms globally ¹. Growing in both volume and severity, malicious actors are finding increasingly sophisticated methods of targeting the vulnerability of applications.

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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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Faster Data Loading for Pandas on S3

Pure Storage

Pandas is a powerful tool for data exploration and analysis, leveraging Python’s ease of use with the optimized execution of NumPy’s arithmetic libraries. But there are three common shortcomings of Pandas: 1) slow IO from object storage, 2) single-threaded execution, and 3) the requirement that datasets fit in memory. As object storage becomes the primary storage for data science, slow data loading from S3 inhibits iteration and experimentation.