Tue.Jul 19, 2022

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DRI Updates Commitment to Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

DRI Drive

As a leading resource in disaster recovery and business continuity, DRI International has updated its written voluntary commitment to the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Recovery’s Sendai Framework 2015-2030. “The Sendai Framework created a shift from managing disasters to managing risks. For this purpose, it underlines the need to build the knowledge of government […].

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Disaster Zone Podcast: The Future of EMI, Training or Education?

Disaster Zone

Emergency management's premier government educational institution.

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FEMA’s Public Assistant Alternative Procedures Assessed by OIG

Recovery Diva

From HSToday: OIG Assesses FEMA’s Public Assistance Alternative Procedures. The Office of Inspector General OIG assessed whether Public Assistance Alternative Procedures (PAAP) for permanent work projects sped disaster recovery, increased the accuracy of cost estimates to restore facilities, improved the effectiveness of financial incentives and disincentives, the cost effectiveness of PAAP, and whether the PAAP independent expert panel was effective.

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Finding Common Ground on Cyber and Elections Security

Disaster Zone

Elections are a critical infrastructure.

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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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Pure Storage at VMware Explore 2022

Pure Storage

I’m thoroughly excited, for the first time in years, to attend an in-person VMworld. Honestly, I started to think that I might never attend one again. And as it turns out, I technically can’t. Because it’s now called VMware Explore! What’s in a (new) Name? If you look back, the buzzwords of past VMware events were largely centered on the virtual machine (VM)—VM backup, VM recovery, VM granularity, VM insights.

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Announcing Citrix HDX Plus for Windows 365

Citrix

Citrix and Microsoft have been innovating and collaborating for more than 30 years, helping companies accelerate their digital transformations and power better ways to work. We recently announced that this collaboration now extends to Windows 365, in the form of … The post Announcing Citrix HDX Plus for Windows 365 first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Food Insecurity for the World

Disaster Zone

Food distribution as a mission area for emergency management due to climate change.

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Get ready for MFA across all Citrix properties

Citrix

Citrix enables companies around the world to do their best work, flexibly and securely, whether their assets are hosted on premises, or across hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. In early 2020, we took a key step toward enhancing the security … The post Get ready for MFA across all Citrix properties first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Introducing Citrix support for Google Cloud Identity and non-domain joined workloads Citrix im Aufbruch – heute und morgen Citrix r

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Earth Shaking News

Disaster Zone

It is about the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake fault.

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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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What Are Smart Blinds?

Constellation

If you are asking yourself, what are smart blinds, we’ve got answers–and tips that can help you think about putting them in your house. Smart blinds cover your windows like regular blinds, but they can be opened and closed using an app on your smartphone or by giving a command to your smart home system. The post What Are Smart Blinds? appeared first on Constellation Residential and Small Business Blog.

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International Political Instability

Disaster Zone

A confluence of national political turmoil.

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The Value of Conducting Tabletop Exercises

Business Continuity Today

Tabletop exercises are a tool that you need to add to your organization. It is not critical to have the "right" scenario. It could be anything that could harm your organization's reputation and its ability to function, from a natural disaster or accident to human-caused crises such as a security breach, terror attack, or internally perpetrated wrongdoing.

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Dangerous Heat in Europe

Disaster Zone

A national emergency in England.

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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 Value of Conducting Tabletop Exercises

Business Continuity Today

Tabletop exercises are a tool that you need to add to your organization. It is not critical to have the "right" scenario. It could be anything that could harm your organization's reputation and its ability to function, from a natural disaster or accident to human-caused crises such as a security breach, terror attack, or internally perpetrated wrongdoing.

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Gun Violence in America

Disaster Zone

Some facts and figures to contemplate.

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Making the Case for a Systems Approach to Ballistic Security

Security Industry Association

In Bullet-Resistant Systems, Key Components Come Together to Build Something Greater. Jim Richards is the CEO of Total Security Solutions. For those unfamiliar with ballistic security, it would be easy to assume the process is as simple as a single piece of bullet-resistant glass. The terms themselves – “ballistic”, “bulletproof” and “bullet-resistant” – tend to inspire confidence, and the average person may not be aware of the various components of a ballistic barrier system.

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