Tue.May 17, 2022

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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘An Interview with FEMA Region X Administrator’

Disaster Zone

A career FEMA employee has been appointed.

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7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios That You Need to Prepare For

BryghtPath

According to research, about 25% of businesses fail to recover after disasters. If they lack a recovery plan, it becomes hard to cope with the repercussions. That’s why your business needs an ideal business continuity plan (BCP). In this article, we discuss how to test your BCP plan using several different business continuity exercise scenarios. … The post 7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios That You Need to Prepare For appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Children’s Book on Disaster Preparedness

Disaster Zone

This one comes from the UN.

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What is a managed service provider (MSP)?

Acronis

Managed service providers (MSP) are businesses that offer multiple, managed, information technology (IT) services to other businesses. MSPs today largely deliver their services remotely, over a network, although they may maintain other revenue streams that require onsite support.

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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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Using FlashArray Snapshots for SQL Server

Pure Storage

Intelligent data management is at the core of digital transformation and modern infrastructure. According to the ESG report, The Evolution of Intelligent Data Management , “More than three-quarters of organizations are satisfied to some extent with their secondary data reuse strategies. ” The report explains eloquently the data gravity issue, how it can be leveraged, and how companies can benefit.

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ABAC vs. RBAC: What’s the Difference?

Citrix

Two of the most common methods for securing access to business resources are attribute-based access control (ABAC) and role-based access control (RBAC). These types of access control models determine authorization based on who the user is and what resources they’re … The post ABAC vs. RBAC: What's the Difference? first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Flying Blind in a Pandemic

Disaster Zone

At-home testing clouds the case count.

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Citrix DaaS: entrega de desktops virtuais oferecidos como serviço na nuvem

Citrix

Nos últimos tempos um novo termo tem se tornado cada vez mais popular no cenário de TI: é o DaaS , ou Desktop-as-a-Service. A entrega de desktops virtuais oferecidos como serviço na nuvem tem crescido tanto por conta das suas … The post Citrix DaaS: entrega de desktops virtuais oferecidos como serviço na nuvem first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Maximize productivity while ensuring secure access for your hybrid workforce Are you ready for hybrid retail?

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SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans

Disaster Zone

These loans have dried up.

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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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'Truth Decay' in Europe Is Real, but Its Advance Can Be Slowed

The Rand Blog

Though present in Europe, the evidence suggests that trends of Truth Decay are not as widespread or as pronounced as they are in the United States. There is still time for policymakers to intervene and limit their growth.

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Security Industry Association Announces 2022 Winners of the Industry Advocate Award

Security Industry Association

Joseph Hogan and David Ray will be honored for their leadership and support of SIA’s government relations initiatives at the 2022 SIA GovSummit. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Joseph Hogan, vice president and assistant general counsel, building management systems at Johnson Controls; and David Ray, chief operating officer and general counsel at Rank One Computing, as the 2022 recipients of the SIA Industry Advocate Award.

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How an MSP Protects Your Company Part 3

Online Computers

ADVANCED THREATS. First, read what a Managed Service Provider is before you take a deeper look into how an MSP protects your company. And here’s Part 2: The Human Element , if you missed it. Here are the more advanced threats that can harm your company, and why an MSP is your best option. Malware. According to Google, malware (short for “malicious software”) is software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems.

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Security Industry Association Announces 2022 Winners of the SIA Legislator of the Year Award

Security Industry Association

Virginia Del. Jay Leftwich and Virginia Sen. Scott Surovell will be honored for their leadership in advancing landmark biometrics legislation at the 2022 SIA GovSummit. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Virginia Del. Jay Leftwich, Jr. (R-Chesapeake) and Virginia Sen. Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax) as the 2022 recipients of the SIA Legislator of the Year Award.

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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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Communications and Active Shooter Response Planning

Business Continuity Today

The news of two active shooter events one in Buffalo NY and the other at a church in Laguna Woods CA, and mass notification communications mistake by a major city in SoCal are driving the conversation in emergency management. Do you have a plan on how to communicate with your team, your clients, and stakeholders? Now is the time to take a look at your plan, test it and revise it if you need to.

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New Research: Almost Two-thirds of Orgs Have Responded to a Cyberattack with a DR Solution in the Last 12 Months

Continuity Insights

Zerto commissioned IDC to conduct a major ransomware and disaster preparedness survey, which revealed that 79% of respondents have activated a disaster recovery (DR) response within the past 12 months. Nearly two thirds (61%) of these incidents were triggered by ransomware or other malware with 60% of organizations reporting they had experienced unrecoverable data during.

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Communications and Active Shooter Response Planning

Business Continuity Today

The news of two active shooter events one in Buffalo NY and the other at a church in Laguna Woods CA, and mass notification communications mistake by a major city in SoCal are driving the conversation in emergency management. Do you have a plan on how to communicate with your team, your clients, and stakeholders? Now is the time to take a look at your plan, test it and revise it if you need to.

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Continuity Centers Promotes Cohen to CIO

Continuity Insights

Continuity Centers, a leader in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery (BCDR), and Information Technology Security Solutions, has announced the promotion of Marc Cohen to Chief Information Officer (CIO). Cohen has had many successes in leading teams and aligning technology with business objectives over his 26-year career in the IT Managed Services space.

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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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My way or Highway

arunpraka shray

All of us have heard this phrase ‘my way or the highway’ at some point of time in our lives. I have lived this phrase for 6 whole days when my wife @Tuhina Ray decided to drive down from Bangalore to Manali (she has started a small 3 BR homestay in a sleepy hamlet of Simsa, just 2 km before the bustling town of Manali). 2800 km, 11 states, difficult terrains, miles of melting asphalt in the scorching heat of Telengana, Maharashtra, MP, UP & Punjab.

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Infinite Blue Announces Partnership with UK-Based Best BCM

Continuity Insights

Infinite Blue, a leading provider of business continuity/disaster recovery planning and response management software, has named Best BCM, a specialist UK-based business continuity management services consultancy, as a Value-Added Reseller (VAR) and services partner. This partnership enables Best BCM to resell and implement Infinite Blue’s award-winning software BC in the Cloud®, along with its Mass.

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Premier Continuum Certified as a Canadian Women’s Brand by WBE Canada

Continuity Insights

Premier Continuum has been awarded the “Canadian Women Brand” by Women Business Enterprises Canada Council (WBE Canada) in 2022. The WBE certification supports Canadian women-owned businesses in their business development with numerous stakeholders, buyers, business suppliers and governments in North America. Premier Continuum was founded back in 1997 by Isabelle Primeau, a woman entrepreneur specializing.

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How Significant Is Your Wildfire Risk?

Continuity Insights

In this long read from a reporting team with The Washington Post, the authors take a significant look into wildfire risk and the greater dangers people will face in the next few decades. This important report reminds Americans that fire risk is changing. One in six Americans currently live in areas with significant wildfire risk. Source.

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Fusion Risk Management Expands Offering for Technology and Data Service Providers

Continuity Insights

Fusion Risk Management, the leader in operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management software and services, today announced that it is further strengthening its offerings to help technology and data service providers bolster the resiliency of digital elements of critical value chains. As a trusted risk and resiliency technology and services provider to globally and.

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Preparing for the Unexpected – Live From the 2022 Continuity Insights Management Conference

Continuity Insights

Join Preparing for the Unexpected host Alex Fullick and BCI Award Winning BCM/Risk guru, James Green as they interview attendees, and talk about all things related to risk, resilience, and Business Continuity, at the 2022 Continuity Insights Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Day 2 / Hour 1: For this hour, Fullick and James talk about: Beijing. Source.

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National Weather Disasters Are Becoming More Prevalent and Severe… and Help Is not Necessarily on the Way

Continuity Insights

By Frank Shultz, Infinite Blue: Twenty times last year a weather or climate disaster cost the US at least a billion dollars. These disasters also resulted in the deaths of at least 688 people, the most since 2017. The trend is not only for weather disasters to be more expensive, but more frequent; even adjusted. Source.