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Why Putin's Nuclear Gambit Is a Huge Mistake

The Rand Blog

Russia is losing in Ukraine, and the rhetoric of Russian leaders has recently become ever more apocalyptic. The United States and its allies should be prepared in case Russia goes down the nuclear path, but fear should not drive the Western response to Russia's nuclear bluster.

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Is Using VPN a Good Way to Provide Cybersecurity?

Disaster Zone

Survey shows people use employers VPN at home.

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Experts Warn of Electric Vehicle Fires After Hurricane Ian Damages Lithium-Ion Batteries

National Fire Protection Association

As millions of Americans recover from Hurricane Ian, which made landfall near Fort Myers, Florida, on September 28, officials are warning of a new hazard: electric vehicles (EVs) that were damaged in the storm and now pose a fire risk. “Our first responders are being put in harm’s way,” Florida State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis said in a video posted on social media earlier this month.

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Pure Does It Again! Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage

Pure Storage

I’m proud to share that for the ninth straight year, Gartner has recognized Pure Storage ® as A Leader in Primary Storage. And for the third year in a row, Pure is positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision in the newly published 2022 Gartner ® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage. When I first evaluated Pure two years ago, I thought it was unusual to discover that a company as relatively new as Pure had taken the pole position in a core enterpr

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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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Why Not Space Mirrors?

The Rand Blog

Giant space mirrors can reflect solar radiation away from Earth, potentially helping to address the effects of climate change. But decisionmakers need more information about this technology to determine if it's a viable option.

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The West and Russia the Day After

The Rand Blog

In the 1990s, after the breakup of the USSR, the West adapted to and helpfully influenced the birth of 15 new republics. If liberalizing change comes anew, the West may seek to help Russia heal itself for the long term.

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Best practices to ensure you have the Citrix Linux VDA support you need

Citrix

With the recently released Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2209 and Citrix Linux VDA 2209, we are excited to announce the Citrix Linux VDA now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Rocky Linux 8.6 and Ubuntu 22.04 distributions. This is the first … The post Best practices to ensure you have the Citrix Linux VDA support you need first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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New White House Document

Recovery Diva

Countering Biological Threats, Enhancing Pandemic Preparedness, and Achieving Global Health Security.

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Better Defense Planning Could Use Statistics to Try to See into the Future

The Rand Blog

Statistical forecasting models that are grounded in empirical data can provide a valuable supplement to more-traditional methods. These tools allow for a more-structured and robust exploration of the future, its implications, and our assumptions about it.

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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 channel partners are architecting a seamless zero trust framework

Citrix

Modern threats require a modern approach to security. Plus, our recent survey found that 95 percent of businesses are taking a hybrid approach to work, so there are no sign s of slowing down when it comes to employee use … The post How channel partners are architecting a seamless zero trust framework first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Remote Access Without VPN: Is It Secure?

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An Earthquake Impacting Home Insurance in Florida Following Hurricane Ian

Disaster Zone

The housing market boom in Florida could be over.

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Engineer a secure future in Industry 4.0

Citrix

Today’s manufacturer isn’t short of challenges. Supply chain disruptions and labor shortages are just some of the obstacles it must address. Another is the ever-increasing risk of a cyberattack. In this blog post, we look at what makes the industry … The post Engineer a secure future in Industry 4.0 first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories How banks can build better customer relationships with digital technology Remote Access Without VPN: Is It Secure?

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More Omicron Variants, Possibly More Trouble Ahead

Disaster Zone

The virus continues to evolve.

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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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Streamline repetitive typing with TextExpander and Citrix technologies

Citrix

This is a guest blog post from Citrix Ready partner TextExpander. Your employees are too busy to waste time on any of these tasks: Responding to the same questions over and over in chat. Manual personalization of customer replies … The post Streamline repetitive typing with TextExpander and Citrix technologies first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Citrix and Kyndryl: Enabling your organization’s most valuable asset Extend your device refresh cycle with Citrix and ChromeOS

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Push vs. Pull Logistics System is an Issue

Disaster Zone

When not based on requests, it is a problem

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2 Ways to Kill Linux Processes

Pure Storage

When an application is frozen on a Linux machine, it could cause other issues. You can use the command line utility to manually terminate the process behind the application to free up resources and return the machine to its original state. Every process is assigned an ID, and you can kill the Linux process once you have the ID. 2 Most Popular Ways to Kill Linux Processes.

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Will we have an emergency manager personnel shortage in the future?

Disaster Zone

Fewer people are attending college.

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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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4 Challenges Facing CXOs in A World of Digital Everything by Dormain Drewitz

PagerDuty

As a busy executive, taking time to attend an event and listen to sessions is a luxury. And yet, I know that many of my best breakthrough ideas on how to lead my teams have come from taking those moments to tune into new ideas. The challenge is figuring out where the hidden nuggets of wisdom are buried in a mountain of content. PagerDuty Summit 2022 generated about 15 hours of content, much of it for site reliability engineers, platform teams, and engineering managers.

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Emergency Managers: When Your Government Gets Hacked

Disaster Zone

One tip you can use.

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Four Video Surveillance Trends Alarm Companies Need to Know

Security Industry Association

Emerging Technologies Can Strengthen Partnerships, Build RMR. During the past two years, organizations around the globe have increased their reliance on video surveillance. The explanation as to why is both simple and intricate all at once: Video has become the source of advanced security and operational insights that enables leaders to adapt to the contemporary business environment.

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PrepTalks: “The Big One” Podcast Team “Storytelling to Promote Action”

Continuity Insights

The Big One podcast team shares why they developed “The Big One: Your Survival Guide” and how storytelling can help compel people to take action and prepare for disasters. Source.

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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Security Industry Association

Chuck Davis, founder of Caveat Labs, is a member of SIA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Board. 2022 marks the 19th year of the annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM), a collaboration between government and private industry to raise awareness about cybercrime and how to protect against it. CSAM is co-led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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AI Developers: 7 Reasons You Should Care about Better Data Storage

Pure Storage

An effective AI process simplifies the work of developers and data scientists and minimizes all bottlenecks within the flow of data from sources to accurate outcomes. Do you find yourself wishing that data sets loaded and copied faster? That you didn’t have to think about where to put your code or Docker images? How about adding hassle-free persistent storage for your Kubernetes services?

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Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management  

MHA Consulting

For the past few years the news has been a drumbeat of threatening events—and the beat seems to be growing louder. In such times, the best thing an organization can do is get serious about risk management. Related on BCMMETRICS: The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management An Unstable Global Environment Not since the height of the Cold War has the global environment felt as shaky as it does now.

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Cloud Solutions Rise Above On-Premises

Security Industry Association

Flexibility and Scalability Lead to Increased Migrations. Jeremy Scott is senior director of sales for Arcules. Over the past three years, one of the hottest trends within the security market has been the growing demand for cloud-based video services. While many environments still have on-premises solutions, an increasing number of businesses see advantages in moving to the cloud.

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Data, Data Everywhere

Security Industry Association

The Right Tools Can Make Security Information Actionable – Even Predictive. Alan Stoddard is president of Cognyte North America. The future of the security industry is right in front of us, and it is being driven by data from sensors, smart devices, mobile phones, and other intelligent technologies. This connected environment leads to new opportunities to make informed, real-time security decisions.