Fri.Nov 12, 2021

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Assessing Racial Equality in Disaster Management

Recovery Diva

From RAND: Assessing Racial Equity in Disaster Management. The RAND Corporation performed a literature review and exploratory study on racial equity, and how disasters can magnify the challenges already present for diverse community members. According to the report, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) made an effort to address racial inequity in their mission statement, but lack the proper resources to follow through and make a meanin

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Backup Failure: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It

Unitrends

Businesses find comfort in backups, knowing data is protected from loss. Unfortunately, the reliability factor of backups depends on a number of factors, from the backup approach, state of the environment and the backup schedule. Likewise, recovery depends on the type of backups, restore method required and the recovery target. It’s no wonder that even […].

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Protecting Your Home from Animals & Wildlife Intruders

Constellation

It’s common to wonder how to protect your home from wildlife. People in suburban areas are dealing with more wildlife around their homes as development expands into formerly rural areas. The post. (This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post.).

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The Dos and Don’ts of Contract Management

LogisManager

FREE Download: 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools Download Your Copy. Contract Management is an essential part of any Third Party Risk Management program. A strong Contract Management program not only prevents you from missing key deadlines or renewals, but also ensures that each contract is properly reviewed to make certain that it has all of the terms in place needed to protect your organization and mitigate risks from the third parties you work with.

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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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Disaster Recovery with AWS Managed Services, Part I: Single Region

AWS Disaster Recovery

This 3-part blog series discusses disaster recovery (DR) strategies that you can implement to ensure your data is safe and that your workload stays available during a disaster. In Part I, we’ll discuss the single AWS Region/multi-Availability Zone (AZ) DR strategy. The strategy outlined in this blog post addresses how to integrate AWS managed services into a single-Region DR strategy.

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Supporting America's Veterans: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on helping veterans experiencing homelessness, better care for veterans with brain injuries and PTSD, and easing transitions to the civilian workforce.

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RIMS ERM Conference 2021: Integrating Net Zero Commitments into ERM Plans

Risk Management Monitor

In a session titled “Integrating Net Zero Commitments into ERM Plans” at the RIMS ERM Conference 2021 , Michelle Tuveson, executive director of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, led an interactive session focused on how risk managers were handling their companies’ emission reduction pledges and efforts. Tuveson told the audience that while one-third of companies in G20 countries had signed onto “net zero” commitments—promises to eventually eliminate their companies’ carbon emissions complet

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Office Organization Ideas to Improve Efficiency & Productivity

Constellation

These office organization ideas will tame clutter and create a more efficient work space. Office organization brings tangible benefits to your bottom line and to staff morale. The post Office. (This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post.).

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What Happens in Vegas? Find Out at AWS re:Invent 2021

Pure Storage

“Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2021!” The Pure Storage ® team is very much looking forward to saying that to both familiar and new faces (while fist bumping, of course) at this year’s in-person event November 29-December 3 in Las Vegas. We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#1454) and say hello. Pure has made a lot of cloud-focused advances in 2021. We released Portworx ® PX-Backup 2.1 in AWS Marketplace so that customers can easily back up and recover their Kubernetes applications, along with support fo

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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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The Dos and Don’ts of Contract Management

LogisManager

FREE Download: 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools Download Your Copy. Contract Management is an essential part of any Third Party Risk Management program. A strong Contract Management program not only prevents you from missing key deadlines or renewals, but also ensures that each contract is properly reviewed to make certain that it has all of the terms in place needed to protect your organization and mitigate risks from the third parties you work with.

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RIMS ERM Conference 2021: Introducing the New RIMS Maturity Model

Risk Management Monitor

This morning at the two-day RIMS ERM Conference 2021 , attendees got a “sneak preview” of the new RIMS Risk Maturity Model, presented by Carol Fox, former RIMS vice president of strategic initiatives, and Tom Easthope of Microsoft’s enterprise risk management team. RIMS decided to “reboot” the Risk Maturity Model, Fox said, since the original model was launched in 2006, and the field of risk management had changed quite a bit in the years since, as had the world in general.

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2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools

LogisManager

2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools LogicManager positioned highest in Ability to Execute in the Challengers Quadrant. In this Complimentary Report. Market landscape & overview. Comprehensive evaluation of 17 IT VRM Platforms. Key IT VRM Buyer Considerations. What is IT Vendor Risk Management. IT vendor risk management software provides solutions to manage and automate the vendor risk management life cycle, address third-party risk and meet regulatory compliance.

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What the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Means for Security and Life Safety Companies

Security Industry Association

On Nov. 5, on a bipartisan basis, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the most significant U.S. investment in infrastructure in decades, sending the package the U.S. Senate approved in August to President Biden for his signature. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would increase spending on infrastructure by $550 billion over five years.

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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.