Mon.Jul 17, 2023

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Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy

Pure Storage

Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy by Pure Storage Blog Last week, the White House released the updated National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2023—“A Path to Resilience.” It’s the first official update to the strategy since 2018, building on the 2020 Ransomware Memo that addressed a slew of high-profile attacks. In addition to identifying new trends and threats, the strategy aims to bolster critical infrastructures, U.S. intelligence and defense, and the global c

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Security Industry Association Appoints Ken Francis as Chair of SIA Executive Advisory Board

Security Industry Association

Francis, president of Eagle Eye Networks, will assume the role of chair of the association’s panel of executive thought leaders from SIA member companies. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has appointed Ken Francis – president of Eagle Eye Networks and a former member of the SIA Board of Directors – to serve as the new chair of the SIA Executive Advisory Board.

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Making Military Aid Work

The Rand Blog

Security cooperation and military aid efforts can fail, but they can also exceed expectations and provide strategic benefits. Ukraine appears to be one such success. For a relatively modest investment between 2014 and 2021, the United States has reaped a substantial gain in terms of Ukraine's military capacity and efficacy.

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The Role of State Guard in Disaster Response

Disaster Zone

It is up to each state to decide if, when and how.

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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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In National Security, Autistic Employees Are in the Closet. Here's Why

The Rand Blog

Archaic U.S. military and federal policies, combined with decades-old understandings about autism spectrum disorder, create an environment where people hide their autism and other cognitive diagnoses. Our national security challenges are too difficult and too important to leave to the portion of the population that uses its brains in only “typical” ways.

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How Do We Make Early Warning and Early Action for Food Security More Effective?

The Rand Blog

Although food security early warning early action (FS-EWEA) has a track record of reducing food insecurity, it is designed for rural settings, and effective action remains elusive. Extending FS-EWEA to the millions living in fragile urban contexts requires answering four critical questions.

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Great Examples of Dynamic Risks

Disaster Zone

Three examples

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The Promise—and Pitfalls—of Researching Extremism Online

The Rand Blog

How big of a problem is extremism in the United States and around the world? Is it getting worse? Are social media platforms responsible, or did the internet simply reveal existing trends? We have few answers because this research is easy to do poorly and hard to do well. The challenges fall into three buckets: users, platforms, and content.

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Unitrends and RapidFire Tools Network Detective Pro Integration

Unitrends

In today’s hybrid business environment, data is present in more places than ever before. With the increased shift in data migration from on-premises legacy systems to cloud-supported platforms, mission-critical data and workloads end up being haphazardly distributed across multiple locations. Monitoring them can be a huge challenge, especially with data volumes constantly growing.

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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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Business Continuity Professionals – Is AI Going to Make You Redundant

Plan B Consulting

Charlie discusses the emerging use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and looks at what changes it can make within your organisation and the positives and possible downsides of using AI. I came across an article on AI and business continuity a couple of days ago.

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A Well-architected Lakehouse with Hydr8

Advancing Analytics

The Azure well-architected framework is a set of principles to help you achieve excellence in your cloud journey. By designing solutions around these principles, you can build high-quality solutions that are robust and cost effective. A common challenge faced by our clients is that knowing the well-architected framework is not the same as being able to deliver products to this standard.

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Unitrends and RapidFire Tools Network Detective Pro Integration

Unitrends

In today’s hybrid business environment, data is present in more places than ever before. With the increased shift in data migration from on-premises legacy systems to cloud-supported platforms, mission-critical data and workloads end up being haphazardly distributed across multiple locations. Monitoring them can be a huge challenge, especially with data volumes constantly growing.

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