Thu.Jun 30, 2022

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Book Review: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina

Recovery Diva

Review of: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina. Authors: Kai Erikson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American. Studies, Yale University and Lori Peek, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural. Hazards Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Publisher: University of Texas Press Austin Texas. ISBN: ISBN: 978-14773-2433-2 (hbk); 978-1-4773-2434-9 (pbk); 142 pages; Paperback Price $27.95;Hardcover Price $90.00.

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Windows 11 Security: What’s New?

Unitrends

Threat actors capitalized on the shift to hybrid work by launching massive attacks on end users and remote applications. Microsoft Windows, being a leader in the desktop OS and SaaS markets, was a prominent target. Native security capabilities built into the Windows 10 platform worked overtime to protect users from numerous threats — 9.6 billion malware attacks, […].

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Improving Animal Rescue Response Times through WIRES

everbridge

Everbridge’s xMatters Digital Service Availability Platform is Improving Animal Rescue Response Times through WIRES in Australia. Australia Flood Disaster 2022. The recent flood/storm weather events across QLD and NSW were unprecedented in scale, and the repercussions on communities, the environment and our native wildlife was devastating. During this event, which began in late February and continued on throughout March and April, we had dedicated Wildlife Information and Rescue Service ( WIRES

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Exciting new features available in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud 22.06

Acronis

This June release of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud 22.06 is particularly exciting. It not only introduces new features that will help MSPs deliver better service and value to their clients, but also enables them to automate routine tasks via brand-new, out-of-the-box scripting. Here is a synopsis of all the new features included in this release.

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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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Citrix ADC with Google Anthos: Multi-layered API protection for modern apps

Citrix

In the previous post in our series on Citrix ADC and Google Anthos , we covered the importance of security and how Citrix ADC can strengthen your security posture across hybrid and multi-cloud using Citrix Web App Firewall (WAF). Citrix … The post Citrix ADC with Google Anthos: Multi-layered API protection for modern apps first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Now in Preview: Service continuity for ChromeOS and Safari for MacOS

Citrix

It has been a busy Q2 for the service continuity team at Citrix. We have been focused on growing the adoption of the feature in Citrix Cloud and have been working with customers on testing and validation. With hundreds of … The post Now in Preview: Service continuity for ChromeOS and Safari for MacOS first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories What’s new with Citrix DaaS and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops — June 2022 Create custom virtual channels with Citrix Workspace

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Why Operational Maturity Helps Businesses Reduce the Great Resignation Trend by Laura Chu

PagerDuty

Why Operational Maturity helps businesses reduce the great resignation trend. The past few years have led to fundamental business and cultural shifts for both companies and employees. . Covid-19 has brought opportunities for companies who invested early in digital operations, while others struggled to maintain the status quo. The latter gave rise to record employee burnout, and what is now commonly referred to as the Great Resignation.

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Create custom virtual channels with Citrix Workspace app for HTML5

Citrix

One of the key functionalities that contributes to Citrix Workspace’s superior user and admin experience are virtual channels. These provide seamless connectivity between the server and client sides using Citrix’s proprietary ICA protocol. They’re bidirectional, error-free, and prioritize the … The post Create custom virtual channels with Citrix Workspace app for HTML5 first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Using Per Protection Group SafeMode with Pure Cloud Block Store

Pure Storage

Disaster recovery—whether it’s in response to a ransomware attack or an on-premises data center failure—is an ever-present consideration on the minds of many IT teams today. To recognize its importance, you only need to look at the multibillion-dollar industry that has been built up around it or read the news to observe the near-daily outages of major businesses or ransoms paid to bad actors.

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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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Science and Security: Setting the Direction for the UK's Research Relationship with China

The Rand Blog

UK-China research has the potential to sustain the very forms of academic excellence that a more-isolationist approach sets out to protect, while also raising the possibility of bridge-building and tackling shared problems. For this to become a reality, knowledge and understanding of China in the United Kingdom must improve.

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

The age of speedy incident reporting regulation is here. To minimize disruption from third-party attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, ransomware, and nation-state threats, regulators around the world are implementing landmark incident reporting standards. Specified goals vary by jurisdiction, but the main aims are to be able to leverage public sector resources in mitigation and attribution, as well as to encourage more robust operational resiliency.

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The consequences of poor IT training

Online Computers

It's no secret that New Jersey businesses today rely heavily on technology. In order to keep up with the competition, they should have a strong IT department with well-trained employees. This is why it’s unfortunate that many businesses don't realize the consequences of poor IT training. In this blog post, we will discuss some of the biggest consequences of inadequate IT training.

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Zero-Days Are Here to Stay: Here's How You Can Prepare

FS-ISAC

More than six months since Log4j made the headlines, the threat of zero-day exploits, or previously unknown vulnerabilities, looms large over the heads of business leaders and cybersecurity teams. For financial services organizations, the stakes are even higher because they deal directly with people’s livelihoods and are amongst the most targeted industries– and breaches can have far-reaching financial, reputational, and regulatory implications.

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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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How to Manage Supplier Risk and Performance in an Uncertain Global Economy

Risk Management Monitor

Essentially every company that manufactures goods today depends on other companies to supply the raw or value-added materials that go into their finished products. Most companies recognize that good supplier relationships are more than simply arm’s length transactions between opposing parties. A better way of looking at those relationships is as partnerships—albeit ones that require management and alignment of objectives first and foremost, but ultimately mutually beneficial relationships.

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Supply Chain Resiliency: Beyond Third-Party Risk Programs

FS-ISAC

With SolarWinds, Accellion, Kaseya, and Log4j, the world realized that third-party suppliers are a key vector of cyber risk. We spoke with MassMutual CISO Ariel Weintraub about how firms need to go beyond third-party risk management to focus on supply chain resiliency, and the different thinking required to effectively build it. 1. In your own words, what is supply chain resiliency, and why is it one of the most important areas of cybersecurity in financial services today?

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How to Improve Safety Culture: 7 Workplace Strategies

Alert Media

The post How to Improve Safety Culture: 7 Workplace Strategies appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit

Business Resilience Decoded

Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit by Disaster Recovery Journal & Asfalis Advisors Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit by Disaster Recovery Journal & Asfalis Advisors

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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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Cloud Data Security Challenges, Part 1: Gaining Visibility

Pure Storage

There’s a good reason cloud security has become the fastest-growing segment of the security market: Companies are realizing that their data isn’t necessarily secure just because it’s in the cloud and behind the shield of a major hyperscaler/cloud provider. . People (and companies) tend to think of the cloud as secure because the data is backed up and because most of the major cloud providers follow best practices in data protection, such as redundancy.

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Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit

Business Resilience Decoded

Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit by Disaster Recovery Journal & Asfalis Advisors Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit by Disaster Recovery Journal & Asfalis Advisors

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S5cmd for High Performance Object Storage

Pure Storage

This article originally appeared on Medium.com. It has been republished with permission from the author. FlashBlade is a high performance object store but many of the basic tools used for browsing and accessing object stores lack parallelization and performance. Common tools include s3cmd and the aws-cli, but neither are built for performance. Pairing a high performance storage backend with an inefficient client application leads to significant under-utilization of the storage system.

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Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit

Business Resilience Decoded

Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit by Disaster Recovery Journal & Asfalis Advisors Case Study: Lessons Learned from Conducting a Cybersecurity Audit by Disaster Recovery Journal & Asfalis Advisors

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