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Russia shootings: Lone wolves and their characters 

Crisis Response Journal

September 2021: Lina Kolesnikova analyses two shootings – one at a school and one at a university, looking at each attacker’s profile, their pre-attack behaviour and their plans

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Downsizing Fire Departments

Disaster Zone

The dollars keep adding up, but the statistics don’t.

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LogicManager Positioned as a Challenger in the Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management

LogisManager

LogicManager Positioned as a Challenger in 2021 Gartner®. Magic Quadrant Download a complimentary copy of the report to learn more. Get a Free Copy of the Report. Gartner, a company that delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams, has released their 2021 Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management. This report helps leaders in IT, cybersecurity and risk management gain a comprehensive understanding of their rapidly evolving market.

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The Best Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software to Consider

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s listing of the best governance, risk, and compliance software is an annual mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd. Our editors selected the best governance, risk, and compliance software based on each solution’s Authority Score; a meta-analysis of real user sentiment through the web’s most trusted business software review sites, and our own proprietary five-point inclusion criteria.

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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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LogicManager Recognized in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for IT Risk Management

LogisManager

LogicManager placed highest for Ability to Execute in the Challengers quadrant in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for ITRM Download a complimentary copy of the report to learn more. Get a Free Copy of the Report. IT threats are inevitable. But the consequences of those threats don’t have to be; in fact, manifestations of IT risk, like negligence, liabilities and reputational damage, are 100% preventable through enterprise risk management software like LogicManager. .

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O futuro do trabalho vai nos tirar da zona de conforto

Citrix

O local de trabalho de hoje é composto por várias gerações, adaptando-se a um novo normal. No entanto, para muitos dos funcionários da geração mais jovem, cujas primeiras experiências de trabalho ocorreram durante a pandemia, o trabalho remoto é tudo … The post O futuro do trabalho vai nos tirar da zona de conforto first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Future Generations at Risk for Climate Impacts

Disaster Zone

Yes, it is the children and grandchildren who will suffer more.

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Teleportation in Citrix Workspace with Grouproom.io     

Citrix

How do you capture the magic of collaborative hallway conversations in hybrid and remote workstyles? Some of the most creative and innovative times in my professional life have happened when I was with a group of colleagues, in the same … The post Teleportation in Citrix Workspace with Grouproom.io first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Empowering contact center agents with Citrix and Chrome OS Meet GroupRoom, the digital hybrid workplace of the future.

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History and the Future of Emergency Management

Disaster Zone

An excellent commentary on the current state of affairs.

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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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How Citrix is working to ensure pay equity

Citrix

Providing equitable reward opportunities for all employees is a critical tenet of the core of Citrix’s compensation strategy. Pay equity is so important at Citrix that, beginning this year, part of our executive officers’ variable cash compensation plan includes pay … The post How Citrix is working to ensure pay equity first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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A Q&A With Deanne Criswell, FEMA Administrator

Disaster Zone

A call to arms, but too little, too late.

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Empowering contact center agents with Citrix and Chrome OS

Citrix

Agents in contact centers are most likely the first and one of the key touchpoints your customers will have with your company. The outcome of this connection and future buying decisions will depend on whether that experience was delightful or … The post Empowering contact center agents with Citrix and Chrome OS first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Citrix innovations to power your hybrid-cloud migration Teleportation in Citrix Workspace with Grouproom.io     

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Jobs: FEMA Is Hiring Public Affairs Staff in Region X

Disaster Zone

You have to be quick!

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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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Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD Type 2) with Delta and Databricks

Advancing Analytics

From Warehouse to Lakehouse Pt.2 SCD Type 2 in SQL and Python. Introduction For more information on this blog series and Slowly Changing Dimensions with Databricks and Delta Lakes check out SCD Type 1 from part 1 of the ‘From Warehouse to Lakehouse’ series: [link] All code examples are available in SQL and Python (PySpark) from my GitHub repo so you can follow along: [link] Notebook – ‘SQLSCD-Type2 & PythonSCD-Type2 SCD Type 2 – Add a new row (with active row indicators or dates).

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How mature are your digital operations? Take a look at our 5-tier model to find out by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

With an increased reliance on digital services, companies have more at stake when things go wrong. Those without a way to manage unplanned, real-time work are putting a lot at risk—including the long-term success of the business and its reputation. Technical teams are the backbone for digital transformation projects that drive the business forward, yet every moment that ITOps professionals or developers spend troubleshooting or fixing issues takes time away from opportunities for innovation.

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Databricks Delta Cache and Spark Cache

Advancing Analytics

As data sizes and demand increases as time goes on, you often see slowness on Databricks this can be due to number of factors from security, network transfers, read/write requests, and memory space. A common cause of this is when Databricks has to contently reads parquet files from the file system, increasing the I/O and network throughput. Databricks has to manage and monitor the cluster to ensure it does not exceed the I/O treads threshold and that the workers have enough memory to cope with t

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Ransomware is on the rise, and no industry is safe

OffsiteDataSync

According to Nuspire’s 2021 Q2 Quarterly Threat Landscape Report , the second quarter saw a 55.240% increase in ransomware activity with the attacks becoming “more common and more damaging”. The report is sourced from 90 billion traffic logs to outline new cyber criminal activity, tactics, techniques, and procedures. Q2 contained one of the most notable ransomware attacks in recent history when Colonial Pipeline was hit by the DarkSide ransomware gang.

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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