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NOAA: Expect Another Big Hurricane Season

DRI Drive

Echoing early predictions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting another above-normal Atlantic hurricane season – the seventh in a row. NOAA is predicting, with 70% confidence, a range of 13 to 20 named storms with winds of 39 mph or higher from now through Nov. 1. Six to ten of them could […]. The post NOAA: Expect Another Big Hurricane Season appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Cybersecurity Requires Diligence Not Money

Disaster Zone

Throwing money at an issue doesn't always work.

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Disaster Equity Concerns re Upcoming Hurricane Season

Recovery Diva

From HSToday: Interagency Officials Prepare for ‘Another Tough Hurricane Season’. Agency leaders discussed progress on disaster equity initiatives to help those affected by storms who may have limited access to resources.

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Building a Resilience Culture in Your Organization

BryghtPath

Does your organization take business continuity and crisis management seriously? Are you getting the resources you need to run these programs well? If not, my best advice to you starts with a question: “What are you doing to build a culture of resilience within your organization?” Fostering a culture of resilience is arguably one of … The post Building a Resilience Culture in Your Organization appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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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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Camping Bans and Group Shelters Unlikely to Solve Homelessness Crisis

The Rand Blog

Should Los Angeles continue to direct most resources toward creating permanent housing with services? Or should it try to rapidly add more group shelters and shared tiny homes which would allow the city to enforce camping bans in certain areas? There are compelling arguments for both approaches.

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Ransomware’s Latest Targets and How to Protect Yourself

Pure Storage

Ransomware attacks nearly doubled in 2021 and continue to increase substantially. Attack surface areas are increasing, attackers have become more sophisticated , and paying the ransom doesn’t always end the nightmare. . It all explains why, despite having ransomware strategies in place, very few large organizations feel totally prepared. . To uncover the best practices and strategies used by the organizations that do feel most prepared for an attack, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently surv

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What to (re)watch from Citrix Partner Marketing Kickoff 2022

Citrix

The rate of change over the last two years has been breathtaking. Hybrid work models have accelerated everyone’s digital transformation projects. The new expectations of IT have created opportunities for technology and service providers that have made the right investments.… The post What to (re)watch from Citrix Partner Marketing Kickoff 2022 first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Regional Action Requires Coalition Warfare Approach

Disaster Zone

You can't go it alone,d regionally.

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Introducing System Log for the Citrix cloud platform

Citrix

It’s no secret that we are living in a time of digital collaboration. Globally distributed teams are now working seamlessly on projects, effectively communicating, and building environments, all through their devices. This collaboration is powerful but can lead to confusion … The post Introducing System Log for the Citrix cloud platform first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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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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Working in a Hybrid World – The Future of Incident & Crisis Management Rooms

Plan B Consulting

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. The theme for BCAW 2022 is Building Resilience in the Hybrid World and for this reason, we are looking back at Charlie’s thoughts on working in a hybrid world.

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Standards are Evolving – Here’s How You Can Join the Movement

National Fire Protection Association

This spring, as we continued celebrating ANSI’s belated 2021 World Standards Week and gear up for further 2022 celebrations in October, we are reflecting on the history of how our codes and standards came to be and how they continue to evolve in our digital world. With over 125 years under our belt at NFPA, we have evolved the way we disseminate codes and standards.

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Working in a Hybrid World – The Future of Incident & Crisis Management Rooms

Plan B Consulting

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. The theme for BCAW 2022 is Building Resilience in the Hybrid World and for this reason, we are looking back at Charlie’s thoughts on working in a hybrid world.

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Addressing the Shortage of Behavioral Health Clinicians: Lessons from the Military Health System

The Rand Blog

Access to behavioral health services is one of the top challenges for the U.S. health care system, due in part to a shortage of licensed mental health providers. One potential solution to expanding the behavioral health workforce can be found in the U.S. military.

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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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Opening the eyes of the machine: Computer vision with AutoML (Part 1)

Advancing Analytics

Written by Gavita Regunath and Dan Lantos. Automated Machine Learning, or AutoML, has gained a lot of popularity and traction in both the research and business sectors. Why? AutoML has proven to empower citizen data scientists and/or boost existing data scientists' productivity whilst enabling businesses to gain valuable insights. There is no doubt that AutoML has helped democratise and accelerate the development of machine learning models in businesses.

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SIA New Member Profile: The AiN Group

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member the Authorized Integrators Network (AiN) Group was built by and is made up of consumer electronics dealers serving the residential and commercial building industries, providing its members the leverage they need to command the best volume price points on some of the top product lines in the industry. The company is headquartered in Chesterfield, Michigan, and Tampa, Florida, with over 450 dealers and 500 locations across the United States.

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Working in a Hybrid World – The Future of Incident & Crisis Management Rooms

Plan B Consulting

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. The theme for BCAW 2022 is Building Resilience in the Hybrid World and for this reason, we are looking back at Charlie’s thoughts on working in a hybrid world.

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Video: Top 10 Hiring KPIs for Security Systems Integrators

Security Industry Association

In the first of our new SIA Integration Insights video series, we address the fact that hiring is hard, really hard! But just like sales and business operations, if you want to improve performance, you need to measure it and apply some key performance indicators (KPIs). SAGE Integration Chief Operating Officer John Nemerofsky stepped up and shared the KPIs his firm tracks as they try to solve some of the workforce and hiring challenges nearly all security systems integrators are facing.

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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

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Disaster recovery with AWS managed services, Part 2: Multi-Region/backup and restore

AWS Disaster Recovery

In part I of this series, we introduced a disaster recovery (DR) concept that uses managed services through a single AWS Region strategy. In part two, we introduce a multi-Region backup and restore approach. With this approach, you can deploy a DR solution in multiple Regions, but it will be associated with longer RPO/RTO. Using a backup and restore strategy will safeguard applications and data against large-scale events as a cost-effective solution, but will result in longer downtimes and great