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Earthquake in Turkey – troublesome details

Recovery Diva

From the Wash Post: Turkey’s earthquake death toll might be more than just a natural disaster. An excerpt: Natural disaster is one aspect of the story. Turkey’s reliance on construction-driven economic growth, cronyism and willingness to ignore its own building standards is the other. The first was unavoidable. Did the second lead to mass casualties?

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Understanding What Paramedics do To Save Lives

Disaster Zone

Eventually they will see "everyone" in their lifetime.

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On Safer Internet Day, here are five tips to keep your children (and your wallet) safe online

Acronis

Today, February 7th, is Safer Internet Day, created in an ongoing effort to combat potential malicious online activity facing the average connected user. While the internet can be a valuable educational resource, it can also be a fertile breeding ground for criminal activity. However, with proactive approaches, your child can stay secure online with minimal intrusion into their privacy from your side.

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Machine Creation Services support for catalogs with Azure VM extensions

Citrix

Azure extensions are small applications that you can add to VMs after deployment that provide VM configuration, monitoring, security, and utility features. For example, the Custom Script Extension allows execution of a script on VMs, and the Azure Monitor Agent … The post Machine Creation Services support for catalogs with Azure VM extensions first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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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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Upgrade Your Own FlashArray with Pure1

Pure Storage

Storage upgrades used to be a big deal—kind of like going in for surgery. First, there’s the pre-op work, such as assessing the risks and checking on the health of the arrays, switches, hosts, and applications. Many specialist teams had to get involved. For example, the virtualization team had to migrate virtual machines to another array and make extra certain to unmount everything so their hosts wouldn’t wind up in a vegetative state.

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7.8 Earthquake Strikes Turkey

Business Continuity Today

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey in the early morning of January 7th (local time) causing widespread damage and possibly leading to casualties. The earthquake's powerful seismic activity was felt across the region, leading to severe damage and thousands of deaths and injuries. This event will impact the region for years to come. Are you ready?

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Clarity from Chaos: the Global Regulatory Challenge

Fusion Risk Management

If you ask most resilience students or apprenticeship trainees what their ultimate career goal position might be, heading up the global resilience team for financial services market leaders would likely be high up there. However, once you have reached those lofty echelons, you have a massive challenge on your hands. These types of institutions have been called ‘too big to fail’ in the past, so given the scale and complexity of them, how do you ensure that they don’t fail?

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Basics of Fire Sprinkler Calculations: Selecting the Design Area in the Density/Area Method

National Fire Protection Association

Automatic fire sprinkler systems have consistently demonstrated their ability to reduce the impact of unwanted fires. But when a sprinkler system fails, many times it is due to insufficient water reaching the fire. An NFPA® research report titled “U.S. Experience with Sprinklers” found that when a system fails to contain a fire, 50 percent of the time it was because water did not reach the fire at all, and 31 percent of the time not enough water reached the fire.

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Ariel Weintraub: No Typical Day - An Inside Look at the Evolving CISO Role

FS-ISAC

Episode Notes On Episode 3, Ariel Weintraub, CISO at MassMutual, discusses the spectrum of her cybersecurity responsibilities, including employee diversity and retention, managing an evolving threat landscape, and incentivizing staff to be more aware of their role in attack prevention, including: How to address new initiatives and evolving priorities while managing ongoing cyber threats. (25:38 – 26:21) Why an increase in incident knowledge and contingency plans can help business resiliency. (29

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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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7.8 Earthquake Strikes Turkey

Business Continuity Today

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey in the early morning of January 7th (local time) causing widespread damage and possibly leading to casualties. The earthquake's powerful seismic activity was felt across the region, leading to severe damage and thousands of deaths and injuries. This event will impact the region for years to come. Are you ready?

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New On-prem Storage for AWS Outposts Servers Hybrid Cloud

Cloudian

New On-prem Storage for AWS Outposts Servers Today, Cloudian announced two exciting developments that make it easy to run your AWS apps on-prem and get local storage for regulatory compliance and low latency. Now, Cloudian offers an enterprise-class solution for on-prem persistent storage with AWS Outposts. New Cloudian HyperStore for AWS Outposts servers: A 1U.