November, 2021

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Survey: What New Risks Will the Post-Pandemic Environment Bring?

DRI Drive

While COVID-19 laid bare the many interconnected global risks resilience professionals have to navigate, some unanticipated risks – including workplace and regulatory issues – are also emerging. Among the responses from a recent AuditBoard survey of professionals in North America: 90% consider cybersecurity and data protection top risks In part, that’s because the increase in […].

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Product Review: Water Purification Tool for Everyone

Disaster Zone

For the person in your life who has everything, but not this item.

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Increase in Hazard Mitigation Funds

Recovery Diva

From the CRS: Recent Funding Increases for FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently announced that $3.46 billion in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding will be made available to states, territories, and tribes (STTs) with major disaster declarations for the COVID-19 pandemic. FEMA also announced increased funding for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program for FY2021.

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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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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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Reining in COVID-19 Disinformation from China, Russia and Elsewhere

The Rand Blog

During the pandemic, the rapid spread of information has been a powerful force for good. But it has also allowed misinformation and conspiracy theories to spread more virulently than ever before. The vast scale of the problem means scalable solutions like machine learning could be needed to rein in the bots, trolls, and conspiracy theories being spread by bad-faith actors.

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Climate Threats Create Catastrophic Flooding in Pacific Northwest

DRI Drive

An unusually intense “atmospheric river event” – fast-moving, moisture-laden air that brings intense rain – hit British Columbia and northern Washington state last week, resulting in record precipitation, flooding, and mudslides that have displaced thousands – and it’s about to get worse. This has been a dangerous year for Vancouver, BC, which only six months […].

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Infrastructure Bill: What Gets Funded?

Disaster Zone

Infrastructure week, month and year have finally arrived.

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Federal Emergency Declarations

Recovery Diva

From the Congressional Research Service, this analysis of three federal statutes re emergency declarations.

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7 compliance mistakes to avoid

CIO Governance

Compliance is a fact of life for just about every company — especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government. And while compliance is often under the mantel of legal, compliance, risk management, or other departments, IT is certain to be involved in any organization’s compliance efforts.

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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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Taiwan Is Safe Until at Least 2027, but with One Big Caveat

The Rand Blog

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping clearly seeks to bring Taiwan to heel, and by force if necessary, he also continues to promote “peaceful reunification” as Beijing's preferred means. Xi likely would have toughened up his language by now if he thought war was a real possibility.

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7 Edge Computing Trends to Watch in 2022

Pure Storage

Edge computing is getting “edgier.” The technology, which allows compute and processing resources to be moved closer to where data is being analyzed, is moving farther and farther away from on-premises data centers—and it’s moving fast. At the moment, about 10% of enterprise data is created and processed outside centralized data centers or clouds, according to Gartner.

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DRI2022: An Important Update From Al Berman

DRI Drive

After months of soul searching, discussions, and after an extensive in-person site visit to Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas last week, DRI is pleased to announce that there will be a live DRI2022 conference. The conference will take place February 13-16, 2022. Planet Hollywood – and Las Vegas, itself – is taking sanitary and individual […]. The post DRI2022: An Important Update From Al Berman appeared first on DRI Drive.

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A a new wave of Covid infections and protests spreads over Europe

Disaster Zone

Austria is one of the nations imposing restrictions

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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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New CRS Report

Recovery Diva

Climate Change, Slow-Onset Disasters, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Lean Six Sigma: Process improvement with a purpose

CIO Governance

Lean Six Sigma combines two methodologies, Lean and Six Sigma, to help accelerate specific processes so that organizations can solve problems faster and reduce waste, while creating more value for customers. It combines the waste-reducing mentality of the Lean methodology with the defect and variance reduction focus of Six Sigma. Together, Lean Six Sigma creates a powerful methodology for keeping businesses ahead of schedule and under budget, enabling organizations to create processes that suppo

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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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Customer Value Story: How to Know What You Don’t Know

LogisManager

Customer Value Story: How to Know What You Don’t Know. After disrupting business operations across the world, the pandemic has been a catalyst for innovation. Since the beginning, LogicManager has been working with our clients to help them pivot and prepare to face new challenges, but also transform and streamline their processes in order to emerge even stronger on the other side.

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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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Report: How Has the Pandemic Changed Risk Management?

DRI Drive

With the continuing impacts of the pandemic, social unrest, geopolitical shakeups, cyber threats and other never-ending uncertainties, are organizations prepared to manage the risks and disruptions facing them, or are they in danger of being overwhelmed? A new report assesses the current risk landscape. The 2021 Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight, published by North […].

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The Value of Experience in Emergency Management

Disaster Zone

It doesn’t come from reading a book.

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Connected Cloud with FlashBlade and Microsoft Azure HPC for EDA Workloads

Pure Storage

Silicon design complexity is ever-growing in resource demand. End users are demanding increasing levels of functionality, better battery life, and lower costs for all the different types of devices they use every day. This is driving chip makers to increase gate counts and push to ever-smaller silicon manufacturing modes. A good example of this rapid innovation is the expected production of 3nm nodes by 2022.

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Standpipe System Design and Calculations

National Fire Protection Association

Standpipe systems consist of piping and hose connections installed throughout a building to provide reliable water for the manual suppression of a fire by either the fire department or trained personnel. NFPA 14, Standard for the Installation of Standpipe and Hose Systems, Chapter 6, outlines design and installation requirements for standpipe and hose systems.

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Global Health Data Sharing: The Case of China and the Two Coronavirus Pandemics

The Rand Blog

Although tensions over the coronavirus seem to be prompting China to isolate itself in terms of data sharing, the first coronavirus pandemic in 2003 actually helped open China to health collaborations with other countries. World leaders may be doing their citizens—and global health efforts—a disservice when they allow toxic geopolitics to undercut trust and international collaborations that took decades to build.

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Top takeaways from the Acronis #CyberFit Summit Schaffhausen 2021

Acronis

The Acronis #CyberFit Summit in Schaffhausen ends on November 19. Whether you were able to join us at the Acronis HQ or not, here’s a quick look at some of the top takeaways from this amazing IT channel event.

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Unitrends Greatest Hits: The Evolution of Music and the Technology That Drives It

Unitrends

“Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what… it has the power to unite us.” – Lady Gaga Music has passed from generation to generation — from the first bone-carved instruments in the Paleolithic period to the easily consumable entertainment product it has become in the 21st […]. The post Unitrends Greatest Hits: The Evolution of Music and the Technology That Drives It appeared first on Unitrends.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: The 2017 Las Vegas Mass Shooting

Disaster Zone

Everyone can learn something from this event.

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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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Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize Physical Security: Intelligent, Autonomous Systems That Prevent Incidents Are Coming

Security Industry Association

Gopal Paripally, global head of technology and vice president for Johnson Controls. Future security systems will be faster, more efficient and more agile to maintain safety in workplaces, on campuses, and at public venues. The current state of security technology is often too disconnected to easily adapt to future needs. For security systems to respond to threats in a mixed physical and digital environment, these systems will need to evolve to become centrally managed, easy to integrate and buil

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How Could the United States React to Russia's Latest Posturing on Ukraine?

The Rand Blog

Russia's military buildup along its border with Ukraine has been accompanied by dramatically tougher rhetoric in recent months. Russian President Vladimir Putin may believe Ukraine is at an inflection point and that it's time to up the ante. The risk of a major war seems real enough to justify a new U.S. approach.

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Hazardous Materials Identification

National Fire Protection Association

There is a nearly boundless amount materials that present increased risks to people exposed to them, whether building occupants, people in nearby structures, or first responders. These materials vary greatly in their composition and physical states. The risks, or hazards, associated with these materials are even more varied and must be assessed for a particular material in the state and manner in. [[ This is a content summary only.

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The Unitrends State of BCDR Survey Report 2021 – Highlights and Key Takeaways

Unitrends

The Unitrends State of BCDR Survey Report 2021 focuses on the current and future landscape of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) approaches. Survey responses were gathered from more than 750 IT professionals across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions to bring you deep insights into the major IT priorities, pressing business challenges, IT […].