Tue.Nov 02, 2021

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Risk Management at Eight Knots! Episode 1, Situational Awareness

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Skippering a sailboat involves lots of inputs - weather, seas, crew, passengers, etc. etc. and requires keeping a constant eye on all of them. Situaitonal Awareness has business applications as well. Enjoy the video!

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

Across the globe, both public and private sectors are more concerned than ever about addressing climate change and its associated risks. “In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people (many on more than one occasion) resulting in approximately US$2.97 trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

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Duterte's Dalliance with China Is Over

The Rand Blog

When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016, he pledged to shift his country's foreign policy away from the United States in favor of China and Russia. His China-friendly policy is now effectively over, and he's doing his best to align the Philippines with the United States once more.

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Risk Management at Eight Knots: Quick-Twitch Heuristic Decision-Making

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Often times there's no time for delay or debate when on busy waters and tricky situations. Decisions come hard and fast. This is also often true in emergency business situaitons. Enjoy this episode on making decisions quickly!

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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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The Threat from Climate Change

Recovery Diva

Negotiators at COP26 are unlikely to deal with the challenges posed by climate migration, a failure that some experts say shows “a lack of political will.”. By 2050, 200 Million Climate Refugees May Have Fled Their Homes. But International Laws Offer Them Little Protection.

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Preventing Sexual Violence in the Military

The Rand Blog

The military has worked hard in recent years to raise awareness about the problem of sexual violence. But it needs to take a big step forward, making investments and changing the culture in ways that will prevent it.

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COVID Update: Vaccines, Children and Trends

Disaster Zone

A quick accounting for where we are as a nation and world.

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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.7 gains new features and better performance

Acronis

To help businesses and partners achieve higher levels of performance, usability, and security, we’re excited to announce the latest release of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure version 4.7 is designed to better fit your clients’ business needs, introducing new capabilities and performance enhancements, while streamlining your team’s experience by improving and optimizing the solution’s manageability.

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Vaccine Boosters for Some. Anti-vax for Others

Disaster Zone

I’m in the “give me the booster” category.

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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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Integrating Risk Disciplines: Business Continuity and Cyber Response

Castellan

Both the definition of “business continuity” and the industry as a whole are evolving. While this has well been the case for the last several years, it’s certainly ever-more true in our post-pandemic world. As we reflect on lessons learned from our pandemic and multi-event response protocols, we can find many opportunities to improve business continuity practices to further solidify resilience.

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Academic Research on Disaster Information Management Is Growing Rapidly and Steadily

Disaster Zone

The Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL).

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The question of the day: what is the NFPA Electrical Inspectors Section (EIS)?

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA’s commitment to electrical safety has not wavered since our founding in 1896. Over the last 125 years, we have supported many different stakeholder groups (architects, contractors, designers, engineers, first responders, and inspectors, to name a few!), each with a unique role and different objectives, but all with the shared bond of a commitment to the elimination of death, injury, [[ This is a content summary only.

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Automate Your Data Storage to Boost Efficiency

Pure Storage

“Sharpen the saw!” Back in the day, when everyone was reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, that was Habit #7. It came from a joke about a lumberjack who was using a dull saw to cut logs and couldn’t stop to sharpen it because he was too busy sawing. The advice was clear: Stop cutting and take time to sharpen your saw to be more effective.

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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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Achieving Supplier Diversity & Enhancing Organizational Resilience Through Strategic Purchasing

everbridge

Supplier diversity, much like duty of care , is becoming a central pillar to the growth and development of many organizations. According to Reginald Williams, a supplier diversity consultant, over 80% of American corporations are practicing supplier diversity. However, in practice companies often fall short of the high standards they aspire to achieve.

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COVID Religious Exemption Requests — Some Guidance for Employers

Disaster Zone

For your consideration.

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Citrix

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Primary Care and COVID-19: It’s Complicated

Disaster Zone

A better working relationship is needed.

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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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Tech Zone Live: Nuevas actualizaciones de Citrix para el trabajo hibrido

Citrix

Mantén la productividad de tu fuerza de trabajo híbrida en un entorno moderno y protegido. Dado que el trabajo híbrido reconfigura las operaciones de negocios y de la TI, las organizaciones deben encontrar otras formas de ayudar a los empleados … The post Tech Zone Live: Nuevas actualizaciones de Citrix para el trabajo hibrido first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Slips, Trips & Falls: Protecting Your Employees This Winter

Alert Media

The post Slips, Trips & Falls: Protecting Your Employees This Winter appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Microsoft and Citrix innovations for the hybrid work world

Citrix

Microsoft Ignite is November 2-4, 2021. Every year, this event delivers an exciting array of new insights and groundbreaking innovations that help organizations build technology solutions for the modern digital workspace. It’s also a great place to learn about … The post Microsoft and Citrix innovations for the hybrid work world first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Your Pandemic Book Reading List

Disaster Zone

In case you have not had your fill of it.

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Citrix ADC integration with Azure GW Load Balancer

Citrix

Citrix ADC offers comprehensive application delivery and security solution for monolithic and microservices-based applications in Azure. With our latest integration announcement, Citrix ADC now supports Azure Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB). Citrix ADC integration with Azure GWLB makes deployment much … The post Citrix ADC integration with Azure GW Load Balancer first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Pandemic Mental Health

Disaster Zone

Where are we now, what can we do?

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Tech Zone Live: Novas atualizações da Citrix para o trabalho híbrido

Citrix

Mantenha sua força de trabalho híbrida produtiva em um ambiente modernos e seguro. Enquanto o trabalho híbrido reformula as operações comerciais e de TI, as organizações precisam de novas maneiras de ajudar os funcionários e outros usuários a permanecerem produtivos, … The post Tech Zone Live: Novas atualizações da Citrix para o trabalho híbrido first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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How to Prepare a Business Continuity Plan

everbridge

The post How to Prepare a Business Continuity Plan appeared first on Everbridge.

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Recovery Point Systems Has Acquired Geminare

Solutions Review

Recovery Point Systems, an Abry Partners company has acquired Geminare, a global resiliency application and data protection innovator. Geminare brings maturity, capability, and reliability across virtually all disaster recovery, business continuity, and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) technologies with its globally recognized Resiliency Management Platform (RMP).

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Helpful tips for New Jersey remote workers to stay HIPAA-compliant

Online Computers

It has always been challenging for companies and individuals to stay compliant with the privacy standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The pandemic has only made it even more difficult to safeguard people’s protected health information (PHI) because healthcare and insurance professionals were forced to work from home.

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Why We Are Bad A Learning

Business Continuity Today

In the field of emergency and business continuity management, we talk about lessons learned, only to repeat the same mistakes and missteps at the people before us. Why are we so bad at learning? Together we explore what learning is, how we do it, and why we do not listen to the past. The Business Continuity Show Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] Awards:[link] Sister Shows EM Student Web - [link] Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [l

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SIA Women in Security Forum Announces 2021 CAN DO Challenge to Combat Food Insecurity

Security Industry Association

WISF is calling upon our friends throughout the security industry and beyond to help overcome hunger in America this holiday season. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) Women in Security Forum (WISF) has announced the 2021 CAN DO Challenge , a charitable initiative taking place Nov. 15-30 to encourage professionals and companies across the security industry to combat food insecurity during the holiday season.

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Your home is your castle.

Resilience Association

Most of us have heard the saying "An Englishman's home is his castle". But while some may think it refers to the principle of protecting loved ones (and valuables), the original meaning was intended to refer to the princ.

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