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Hacking and Ransomware Remain a Significant Challenge

Disaster Zone

$600 million in ransom payments in 2021.

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Guest Posting on Hurricane Sandy

Recovery Diva

Hurricane Sandy at 10, Katrina at 20: How do we study recovery over decades? As I was wrapping up my book on long-term recovery after Hurricane Sandy, due this fall from Lexington Press, I realized that we are fast approaching the 20 th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Decadal milestones are important in the study of long-term recovery because they provide opportunities for assessment and stock taking.

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Backup Planning: The Complete Guide

Unitrends

Businesses rely on digital systems and the information stored in them. Your entire operation can come to a screeching halt if that information is corrupted, damaged or lost. Data backup planning is one of the best ways to ensure you have at least one copy of your data that can be accessed quickly in any situation. […]. The post Backup Planning: The Complete Guide appeared first on Unitrends.

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PagerDuty Summit ‘22: A Summit Designed with YOU in Mind by Alyssa Sachs

PagerDuty

Here at PagerDuty one of our most important values is “Championing the Customer” – this means doing everything we can to improve the lives of the people who interact with our business and our team. So when we began planning for our first in-person PagerDuty Summit in two years, we needed to hear from you on what kind of conference you wanted to experience this year and what was most critical to improving your day to day life. .

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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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How to create an effective business continuity awareness campaign in your organization

BryghtPath

In most organizations, the only times a business leader and their team learn about business continuity & crisis management is when the time comes to update their business impact analysis and associated plans – or when an incident or crisis occurs. It’s not a great way to drive business continuity awareness. This is a huge … The post How to create an effective business continuity awareness campaign in your organization appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Hot Weather and Heat Injuries

Disaster Zone

Hot weather is coming soon.

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Extremism Online, Russia's Military, Preventing Police Killings: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on the internet's role in stoking extremism and hate, how Russia has failed its military personnel, a research roadmap to help prevent police killings in the United States, and more.

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How NeoInsurance is disrupting traditional Insurance

Advancing Analytics

Insurance Disruption. How NeoInsurance and Insuretech are changing the way we cover consumers. In my last blog we looked at a series of Machine Learning approaches for personal line insurance products. For a lot of traditional insurance companies that is seen as progression, but there nothing in that blog which is pushing the limits of what is possible in Insurance.

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Rethinking the EU's Role in European Collective Defence

The Rand Blog

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is forcing European nations to quickly re-evaluate how best to maintain their collective security. This makes the concept of European strategic autonomy—the EU's increased ability to operate independently and with partners of choice on defence and security matters—more relevant than ever.

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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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Improving Python S3 Client Performance with Rust

Pure Storage

Python is the de facto language for data science because of its ease of use and performance. But performance comes only because libraries like NumPy offload computation-heavy functions, like matrix multiplication, to optimized C code. Data science tooling and workflows continue to improve, data sets get larger, and GPUs get faster. So as object storage systems, like S3, become the standard for large data sets, the retrieval of data from object stores has become a bottleneck.

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Object vs File Storage: When and Why to Use Them

Pure Storage

The primary differences between traditional object and file storage have to do with two things: structure and scalability. File storage is organized into a strict tree-like hierarchy with directories, sub-directories, and so on. To access a stored file, you must follow a specific path to it. Object storage, on the other hand, is stored in a “flat” address space.