Mon.Nov 22, 2021

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Climate Threats Create Catastrophic Flooding in Pacific Northwest

DRI Drive

An unusually intense “atmospheric river event” – fast-moving, moisture-laden air that brings intense rain – hit British Columbia and northern Washington state last week, resulting in record precipitation, flooding, and mudslides that have displaced thousands – and it’s about to get worse. This has been a dangerous year for Vancouver, BC, which only six months […].

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Global Health Data Sharing: The Case of China and the Two Coronavirus Pandemics

The Rand Blog

Although tensions over the coronavirus seem to be prompting China to isolate itself in terms of data sharing, the first coronavirus pandemic in 2003 actually helped open China to health collaborations with other countries. World leaders may be doing their citizens—and global health efforts—a disservice when they allow toxic geopolitics to undercut trust and international collaborations that took decades to build.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment by Stephen O. BenderNew York: Berghahn. Vol. 4 of Catastrophes in Context. (2021). Hardback 978-`-80073-162-2 $60.00; Ebook 978-1-80073-163-9 $29.95 Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley

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The Unitrends State of BCDR Survey Report 2021 – Highlights and Key Takeaways

Unitrends

The Unitrends State of BCDR Survey Report 2021 focuses on the current and future landscape of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) approaches. Survey responses were gathered from more than 750 IT professionals across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions to bring you deep insights into the major IT priorities, pressing business challenges, IT […].

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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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Workplace Technology 2022: Unlocking the art of the possible

Citrix

If there is one positive thing that the technology industry can take from the global pandemic, it is that change is often not as impossible as it may seem. Most businesses were already on some form of digital transformation journey … The post Workplace Technology 2022: Unlocking the art of the possible first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories How to improve your employee experience for a changing world of work Det nya arbetslivets krav för att attrahera och behålla framtid

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Workplace Technology 2022: Unlocking the art of the possible

Citrix

If there is one positive thing that the technology industry can take from the global pandemic, it is that change is often not as impossible as it may seem. Most businesses were already on some form of digital transformation journey … The post Workplace Technology 2022: Unlocking the art of the possible first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Telecom Networks Are Challenged by Ransomware Attacks 

Pure Storage

The attack surface is huge. Carrier networks support millions of end-point devices, including cell phones, wifi routers, devices used in industry and commerce, and so on. Every end point represents a potential entry point to be guarded. Think of it like a castle with a million drawbridges.Telecom and cable networks are among the largest and most complex networks in the world.

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4 Ways To Ensure Reliability of Your Digital Services for GivingTuesday by Jesse Maddex

PagerDuty

In today’s digital economy, seconds matter. For mission-driven organizations, seconds can be a matter of life and death, and service reliability can make or break access to suicide and safety hotlines, disaster relief, time-critical health care, food assistance, and more. That’s where real-time digital operations comes in. At PagerDuty, we’re also helping nonprofit organizations achieve their missions by maximizing uptime at critical times like GivingTuesday , the largest annual global day of gi

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SIA New Member Profile: Constant Technologies

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Constant Technologies specializes in mission-critical audio/visual (A/V) integration and custom control center furniture for command center environments in the public and private sectors. The company is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, with its console operations based in Elkhart, Indiana.

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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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Learning Points From the SEPA Cyber-Attack

Plan B Consulting

Charlie lists the key points that you can learn, from the SEPA cyber-attack that occurred last year. He discusses what is important and how to ask yourself these questions to make sure you and your organisation are always prepared. Keen readers of the bulletin will remember when I wrote a number of bulletins commenting on the SEPA cyber-attack response and communications following their hack on Christmas eve last year.

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Learning Points From the SEPA Cyber-Attack

Plan B Consulting

Charlie lists the key points that you can learn, from the SEPA cyber-attack that occurred last year. He discusses what is important and how to ask yourself these questions to make sure you and your organisation are always prepared. Keen readers of the bulletin will remember when I wrote a number of bulletins commenting on the SEPA cyber-attack response and communications following their hack on Christmas eve last year.

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Learning Points From the SEPA Cyber-Attack

Plan B Consulting

Charlie lists the key points that you can learn, from the SEPA cyber-attack that occurred last year. He discusses what is important and how to ask yourself these questions to make sure you and your organisation are always prepared. Keen readers of the bulletin will remember when I wrote a number of bulletins commenting on the SEPA cyber-attack response and communications following their hack on Christmas eve last year.

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Learning Points From the SEPA Cyber-Attack

Plan B Consulting

Charlie lists the key points that you can learn, from the SEPA cyber-attack that occurred last year. He discusses what is important and how to ask yourself these questions to make sure you and your organisation are always prepared. Keen readers of the bulletin will remember when I wrote a number of bulletins commenting on the SEPA cyber-attack response and communications following their hack on Christmas eve last year.

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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.