Thu.Aug 26, 2021

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Refugee camps and Covid-19: A crisis within a crisis  

Crisis Response Journal

September 2021: In the third part of CRJ’s blog series discussing the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, Dr Kazi Sakib outlines the co-ordinated response by humanitarian and government agencies

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Safety Experts Plan for Fall

everbridge

Everbridge recently hosted a Safety Experts Plan for Fall webinar, with an expert panel comprised of Dr. Rashid Chotani (Chief Medical Director/Senior Scientist, IEM), Steven J. Healy (President and CEO, Margolis Healy), Marisa R. Randazzo, Ph.D. (CEO and Founder, SIGMA Threat Management Associates) and James Podlucky (Industry Solutions Manager, Everbridge).

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Making the Case for your Business Continuity Program

BryghtPath

Covid 19. Wildfires. Heatwaves. Floods. It’s no wonder that by 2025, 70% of CEOs are predicted to place organizational resilience as a top priority for their organization’s strategic objectives. With resiliency thrust into the limelight, many business continuity professionals may see their next step to sit back and wait for the budget money to rain … The post Making the Case for your Business Continuity Program appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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DCIG: Acronis offers MSPs clear advantages over StorageCraft

Acronis

Choosing the right solution to build your services around can feel like a tricky prospect. Analyst firm Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) recently compared Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud and StorageCraft Cloud Services — and we encourage service providers to consider their findings.

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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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Testing Your Emergency Notification System: What Businesses Can Learn From the National EAS Test

Alert Media

The post Testing Your Emergency Notification System: What Businesses Can Learn From the National EAS Test appeared first on AlertMedia.

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How to Improve Data Compliance with Smarter Storage

Pure Storage

How you secure and manage your data isn’t just about ransomware prevention. There’s another costly implication of data mismanagement: data compliance infractions and the resulting fines levied by data protection authorities. Amazon was recently issued a record-breaking $886 million fine. The alleged data compliance infraction highlights the ever-present complexity of compliance regulations.

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A Sample Threat and Risk Assessment: The Case of Acme Widget Corp.

MHA Consulting

A picture is worth a thousand words, and an example might be worth a thousand pictures. In today’s post, we present a sample Threat and Risk Assessment. The original of … The post A Sample Threat and Risk Assessment: The Case of Acme Widget Corp. appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Women @ Work: Making an impact by empowering others

Citrix

As Senior Director of Product Management, Marissa Schmidt manages development of the core features of Citrix ADC, as well as pooled capacity, licensing, and platforms for hybrid multi-cloud solutions. She loves how working in product management helps to drive product … The post Women @ Work: Making an impact by empowering others first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Modern Storage Fuels CatholicTV Network’s Agility and Innovation

Pure Storage

Cable television is an unforgiving industry, especially for nonprofit channels that need to stay relevant in the face of new competitors, new mediums, and new consumption habits. For CatholicTV, America’s first Catholic television station, success is about anticipating what’s next and adapting early, making strategic technology investments that allow it to stay one step ahead of the market while keeping costs in check. .

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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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Fusion’s Product Innovations for Summer 2021  

Fusion Risk Management

At Fusion, we continue to take a customer-centric approach to innovation and are creating inventive technology to better serve the needs of our customers. Today marks another exciting milestone in that journey: Fusion’s Summer 2021 release. In this blog, we detail the latest innovations to Fusion’s operational resilience platform. These new features make Fusion’s technology even more powerful.

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PagerDuty becomes Great Place to Work-certified™ in the U.S. by Joe Militello

PagerDuty

We’re delighted to announce that PagerDuty has been certified as a Great Place to Work© in the U.S. The prestigious award recognizes the best workplaces and company cultures—based entirely on employee feedback. 91% of our employees said PagerDuty is a great place to work, compared to 59% of employees in a typical U.S.-based company. At PagerDuty, we know that Dutonians (our employees) are our greatest asset, and we’ve always strived to put our people first.

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Cloud Backup in Azure with Zerto for Kubernetes

Zerto

We hear from a lot of customers looking to use the public cloud as targets for cloud backup. If it’s a priority in the VM world, it’s even more of a requirement for Kubernetes: when running clusters in Azure Kubernetes Service or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, it’s natural to want to archive copies in long-term retention (LTR) repositories.

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6 Ways AI is Transforming the Finance Industry

Advancing Analytics

"AI is the 'new electricity' … just as electricity transformed many industries roughly one hundred years ago; AI will also now change every major industry." That is a pretty powerful statement above by Dr Andrew Ng! However, we are all well aware that many industries have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) with varying degrees of success. Just as electricity has revolutionised industries in the past century, AI has the power to disrupt industries significantly in the next century.

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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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The 7 Deadly Sins of Exercises

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 75: This week’s podcast is all about sin. Vanessa’s guest is Rick Christ, a senior consultant at Crisis Prevention and Response, Inc., and a FEMA Master Exercise Practitioner. Rick lays out his seven deadly sins of crisis management exercises. The sins are mistakes organizations commonly make in preparing for and conducting exercises to demonstrate their readiness to respond to a disaster.

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How to Mitigate the Effects of Floods on Your Supply Chain

everbridge

Floods may now be an unfortunate counterweight to the wildfires that have come to characterize summers worldwide. In 2021 alone, floods wreaked havoc in Western Europe, China’s Henan province, and Tennessee and North Carolina in the United States. Hundreds of lives were lost, property damage ran in the billions, and global supply chains were thrown into disarray.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Exercises

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 75: This week’s podcast is all about sin. Vanessa’s guest is Rick Christ, a senior consultant at Crisis Prevention and Response, Inc., and a FEMA Master Exercise Practitioner. Rick lays out his seven deadly sins of crisis management exercises. The sins are mistakes organizations commonly make in preparing for and conducting exercises to demonstrate their readiness to respond to a disaster.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Exercises

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 75: This week’s podcast is all about sin. Vanessa’s guest is Rick Christ, a senior consultant at Crisis Prevention and Response, Inc., and a FEMA Master Exercise Practitioner. Rick lays out his seven deadly sins of crisis management exercises. The sins are mistakes organizations commonly make in preparing for and conducting exercises to demonstrate their readiness to respond to a disaster.

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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