Mon.May 09, 2022

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Can Sunlight Reduce Climate Risks? New Report Outlines Potential Approaches

DRI Drive

A recent United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction report highlighted a sharp increase in disasters with the vast majority of effects borne by low-income countries. With this in mind, the Council on Foreign Relations, with input from an advisory committee including DRI President and CEO Chloe Demrovsky, describes the need for information and policy […].

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SIA New Member Profile: ThreatModeler

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member ThreatModeler is an automated threat modeling solution that fortifies an enterprise’s software development life cycle by identifying, predicting and defining threats, empowering security and DevOps teams to make proactive security decisions. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, with additional employees and consultants across the United States.

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7 App Development Issues (And How to Fix Them)

Pure Storage

What happens when you build modern applications but leave legacy storage to do the heavy lifting? According to a survey of 200 IT professionals, 72% of respondents realize storage can affect the performance of their apps and app development altogether. Yet, 65% admit their storage is too old to handle some of these new workloads. Does that sound familiar?

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Data recovery: Its easy to recover data after loss

Acronis

Why Acronis Backup is the better choice when it comes to data recovery. Data recovery from totally destroyed data carriers is possible through forensic methods, but expensive. A cost-effective alternative is data security locally, remotely and in the cloud with Acronis Backup.

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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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Crisis Management for the Work from Home Team

BryghtPath

It is hard to believe that some offices are approaching the two-year mark of having sent their employees to work from home. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to evolve, it is hardly any wonder that many companies have felt the pressure to continue to keep their workforce away from the office. Even though many … The post Crisis Management for the Work from Home Team appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Outer Space and the Veil of Ignorance: An Alternative Way to Think About Space Regulation

The Rand Blog

There are currently no international binding rules that would address growing threats in space. Without more-defined and enforceable rules of war regarding space and space assets, the danger of a destructive conflict in space grows significantly.

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IntelligentSIA: Join Us at GovSummit + Other Ways to Get Involved This Month

Security Industry Association

Hey SIA members! Here are the top things you need to know about our latest activities and resources, upcoming events and opportunities and more. Welcome, New Members! The Security Industry Association (SIA) would like to welcome its newest members: ARX Perimeters , ASR Enterprises , Bastille , Hochiki America Corp. , Identity One LLC , Metrasens , Red Bison Technology Group , TechnoGen Cyber Security LLC , Theseus Professional Services LLC and Total Security Solutions.

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Citrix Features Explained: Adaptive authentication and access in Citrix Secure Private Access

Citrix

Every employee in your hybrid workforce is unique. They have their own devices and home networks, their own remote work preferences, and their own workflows in how they get their best work done. However, all hybrid employees need reliable and … The post Citrix Features Explained: Adaptive authentication and access in Citrix Secure Private Access first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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How Do F1 Engineers Use Data to Help Drivers Win Races?

Pure Storage

There’s a reason Formula 1 drivers often thank their entire team first thing after the final lap. Instead of “I did it,” you’re likely to hear, “we did it.” It’s a team sport, but it’s also a data-driven and incredibly technical sport. Engineers and analysts trackside and in the factory play as important a role on race day as the drivers do—and like the cars, they’re all #DrivenByData.

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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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Guidance for reducing HTTP protocol RCE security vulnerability risk with Citrix Web App Firewall (CVE-2022-21907)

Citrix

The HTTP protocol stack remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-21907) lies in the management of HTTP Trailers by the kernel mode driver http.sys. Certain operating systems such as Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 version 1809 are, by default, not vulnerable … The post Guidance for reducing HTTP protocol RCE security vulnerability risk with Citrix Web App Firewall (CVE-2022-21907) first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Rota Power Cuts and an Old Incident Revisited – Auckland Power Outage, 1998

Plan B Consulting

This week, Charlie discusses his experience with power cuts in Johannesburg, and previous famous power cuts, such as in Auckland. I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. After a day of lecturing, I took a little stroll near the guest house that I am staying at to just get a little fresh air and some exercise.

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A Look at Trends in IT infrastructure and Operations for 2022

BMC

We’re all hoping that 2022 will finally end the unprecedented challenges brought by the global pandemic and things will return to a new normalcy. For IT infrastructure and operations organizations, the rising trends that we are seeing today will likely continue, but there are still a few areas that will need special attention from IT leaders over the next 12 to 18 months.

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Rota Power Cuts and an Old Incident Revisited – Auckland Power Outage, 1998

Plan B Consulting

This week, Charlie discusses his experience with power cuts in Johannesburg, and previous famous power cuts, such as in Auckland. I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. After a day of lecturing, I took a little stroll near the guest house that I am staying at to just get a little fresh air and some exercise.

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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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Recommended Temperature for an Empty House in Summer & Winter

Constellation

You might be leaving home for a vacation. Or perhaps you are a snowbird, leaving your house vacant for the months of winter and your place in the sun empty over the summer. The post Recommended. (This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post.).

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Migrating Windows 7 to Windows 10 - Windows 7 end of life

Acronis

When setting the annual IT budget, a lot of businesses seem to lean on the old adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That would at least explain why Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system – which admittedly has been a reliable workhorse – still owns 35 percent of the market nearly 10 years after its release.

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A Look at Trends in IT infrastructure and Operations for 2022

BMC

We’re all hoping that 2022 will finally end the unprecedented challenges brought by the global pandemic and things will return to a new normalcy. For IT infrastructure and operations organizations, the rising trends that we are seeing today will likely continue, but there are still a few areas that will need special attention from IT leaders over the next 12 to 18 months.

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What is a NAS Backup? - NAS Cloud Backup Software

Acronis

NAS Backups offer a possibility to backup data according to 3-2-1- Strategy. This method requires three data copies on two media and one external backup. One of these could be a NAS backup. This can be easily connected to a backup software to ensure the best possible backup of your backups.

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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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Rota Power Cuts and an Old Incident Revisited – Auckland Power Outage, 1998

Plan B Consulting

This week, Charlie discusses his experience with power cuts in Johannesburg, and previous famous power cuts, such as in Auckland. I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. After a day of lecturing, I took a little stroll near the guest house that I am staying at to just get a little fresh air and some exercise.

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance considerations for backup and storage

Acronis

Businesses and public institutions based in the European Union (EU) have doubtless heard by now about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new body of privacy regulations that goes into effect on 25 May 2018.

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The No-Code Road to Churn Prediction

Advancing Analytics

For any service company that bills on a recurring basis, a key variable is the rate of churn. Harvard Business Review, March 2016. What is churn? Customer churn, also known as customer attrition, is when customers stop using a service or product offered by a company. In simplistic terms, it is when a customer leaves or ceases to be a client any longer.