Mon.Sep 20, 2021

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Waste: The critical legacy of flooding 

Crisis Response Journal

The growing importance of waste management is pushing society to consider it to be as vital as other CI sectors such as energy, and transportation, writes Lina Kolesnikova

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Spotlight on Resilience – Building a Transition Bridge from Service Life to Business

DRI Drive

The topic of resilience, whether it is organizational, operational, societal or personal, has been making waves within business circles for the last decade, as organisations begin to realise that to survive in today’s complex environment requires the need to take a system of systems approach to building and maintaining resilience. While this ability to think […].

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10 Data Compliance Best Practices to Establish Today

Pure Storage

Poor data security compliance policies can make it easier for ransomware attackers to succeed in their efforts to lock up your data. As Sophos recently reported , some attackers are shifting to extortion-style attacks. Instead of simply encrypting files, they threaten to publish data unless a ransom is paid, thereby putting the victimized organization in a position where it will get slammed with regulatory fines—not to mention damage to its brand.

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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Electrical Equipment Working Space

National Fire Protection Association

The National Electrical Code® (NEC)® Section 110.26 requires adequate working space for all electrical equipment. NEC Section 110.26(A) requires a clear space at least 30 inches wide and 36 inches deep if the equipment is likely to be worked on while energized. This space is necessary not only to allow workers room to perform tasks but also room to move if something goes wrong.

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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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Parenting During the Pandemic: Communicating with Children About COVID-19

The Rand Blog

School and nursery closures, lockdowns, and ongoing pandemic restrictions brought huge changes to children and families. The way parents communicated with their children about these events was vital in helping children to cope.

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Summit Gives Biden Chance to Nudge Post-Soviet States Toward Democracy

The Rand Blog

President Biden is likely to invite the thriving Baltic countries to his “summit for democracy” in December. But he might also invite four mid-tier post-Soviet states: Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine—imperfect democracies all. By both praising and nudging this latter set, Biden could give his agenda more meaning.

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Dealing with Anniversaries

Plan B Consulting

Charlie discusses how companies should be commemorating and including the anniversaries of traumatic events within their business continuity plans, whilst keeping in mind how anniversaries such as these will also affect your employees. Last week it was 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. The commemorations that followed got me thinking about anniversaries and how organisations should commemorate and acknowledge them.

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Commvault Launches New Ransomware Protection and Response Services

Solutions Review

Commvault recently announced new ransomware services designed to help organizations to prepare for, defend against, and respond to today’s evolving cyber threat landscape. The new offering, Commvault Ransomware Protection and Response Services, delivers the resource and expertise necessary to harden users’ Commvault solutions from an attack, review the state of their data protection solution over time, and help them recover business-critical data when an attack occurs.

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Dealing with Anniversaries

Plan B Consulting

Charlie discusses how companies should be commemorating and including the anniversaries of traumatic events within their business continuity plans, whilst keeping in mind how anniversaries such as these will also affect your employees. Last week it was 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. The commemorations that followed got me thinking about anniversaries and how organisations should commemorate and acknowledge them.

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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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Testing your Response Plans: What Would Confucius Say?

On Solve

With the help of Confucius, Dr. Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. I wrote about this many years ago. With the recent COVID-19 events, it is time to look at it again. An exercise of the elements of a Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications or IT Disaster Recovery (BR/CM/CC/DR) plan is an important aspect of an organization’s emergency preparedness.

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Dealing with Anniversaries

Plan B Consulting

Charlie discusses how companies should be commemorating and including the anniversaries of traumatic events within their business continuity plans, whilst keeping in mind how anniversaries such as these will also affect your employees. Last week it was 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. The commemorations that followed got me thinking about anniversaries and how organisations should commemorate and acknowledge them.

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3 Steps To Better User Access Reviews

LogisManager

FREE DOWNLOAD: 3 Steps To Better User Access Reviews Download Your Copy. Why are User Access Reviews Important? The purpose of a user access review is to mitigate cybersecurity threats like privilege creep, excessive privileges, access misuse and employee mistakes. But ultimately, the end goal is to prevent disastrous incidents like ransomware attacks and data breaches.