September, 2022

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Risk Assessment: The Best Way to Identify Your Biggest Threats

MHA Consulting

The threat and risk assessment or TRA is one of the cornerstones of business continuity methodology. Today, we’ll talk about what it is, why it’s important, and how to do … The post Risk Assessment: The Best Way to Identify Your Biggest Threats appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Another Outcome from Rising Seas

Recovery Diva

From Time: Rising Seas Are Going to Create a Huge Property Tax Headache for Coastal Communities. Thanks to Elaine Sudanowicz for the citation

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What’s Your Volcano Plan? Researchers Warn We’re ‘Woefully Underprepared’

DRI Drive

A volcanic eruption could have powerful impacts on supply chains, climate and food security – but are resilience professionals taking such a threat seriously enough? Not according to the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER).

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Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight: 5 Takeaways

DRI Drive

A recent report on enterprise risk management finds business leaders feeling risk complexities are increasing, and finding difficulty integrating ERM with strategic decision making, among other responses.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

This webinar with Tim Buteyn will teach you strategies for motivating learners even when training them on "boring" topics, methods to capture learner attention and bring your courses to life, and techniques that convert a course from dry and lifeless to relevant and engaging.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘Pro Bono Lawyers for Disaster Justice’

Disaster Zone

Navigating the complex world of disaster recovery

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Don’t get it right, get it written.

Kings Bridge BCP

This is one of the best pieces of creative writing advice I’ve ever read. When I first heard that line, it was in a screenwriting course I took in my spare time. Back when I had spare time!)

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Resources for Hurricane Fiona

Recovery Diva

From the Disaster Philanthropy organization, see this note: Dear Claire, I am sure you share my concern for the communities devastated by Hurricane Fiona. Although uncertainty over the storm’s full impact will last for days, if not weeks, officials anticipate the damage will be extensive.

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Florida Panthers Join Acronis’ #TeamUp Program

LAN Infotech

Florida Panthers join Acronis’ #TeamUp Program to support cyber protection partnerships with world-class sports teams. Florida Panthers become the latest company to join the #CyberFit movement, welcoming LAN Infotech as the #TeamUp partner.

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Supply Chain Risk Looms Large – But Are the Response Capabilities Overhyped?

DRI Drive

After the past few years of disruptions, a huge majority of resilience professionals view supply chain risk as a top priority. But new research says the most popular fixes may not be able to match expectations.

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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 this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enhance your professional development and lifelong learning.

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Vaccines and Vaccinations for COVID Boosters

Disaster Zone

Great information you need to read

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Goodbye to All That: How to Phase Out Your Data Center

MHA Consulting

Many organizations are considering reducing their involvement in the data center business and moving some or all of their computing environment to the cloud or a colocation facility. A successful … The post Goodbye to All That: How to Phase Out Your Data Center appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Debunking Russian Lies About Biolabs at Upcoming U.N. Meetings

The Rand Blog

Before Russia invaded Ukraine in February, its diplomatic missions began circulating some particularly fantastical lies. It's tempting to write off such claims as cartoonish propaganda. But Russia is making similarly outrageous claims to the United Nations and other international forums.

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Population Decline in All U.S. Territories

Recovery Diva

People are fleeing Puerto Rico, Guam and every other U.S. territory. What gives? Interesting article from the WashPost

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Don’t Give Up the Ship: Demonstrating the Benefits of Rigorous Crisis Management Training 

BCM METRICS

Too many business leaders think rigorous crisis management training is a waste of time. The defining moment in the career of a respected U.S. Navy captain shows its value. On Patrol in the Persian Gulf If you’re like me, you’ve never heard of U.S. Navy Capt. Paul Rinn.

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Download the September Edition of the Crisis Response Journal!

DRI Drive

The September edition of the Crisis Response Journal is now available to download from our Library! This month’s topics include ethical emergency management, COVID-19 risk fatigue, information warfare, and much more.

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USCG Needs to Do More Tsunami Planning

Disaster Zone

A GAO report on the topic

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CISO diaries: Why Patch Tuesday is a CISO’s best friend

Acronis

The second Tuesday of every month is a day that should be marked on every cybersecurity professional’s calendar, as it marks Patch Tuesday.

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Elon Musk May Have a Point About Bots on Twitter

The Rand Blog

Twitter has a deep bench of engineers working for the company. They have access to trillions of data points on their over 300 million monthly active users. Why has a company this size struggled to clean up its platform

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New FEMA Guidance

Recovery Diva

FEMA Releases “Local Elected and Appointed Officials Guide: Roles and Resources in Emergency Management

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Top 5 Cyberattacks and How They Happen

Unitrends

“There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don’t yet know they have been hacked.” — Former Executive Chairman and CEO of Cisco John Chambers Every day, countless businesses fall victim to cybercrime.

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Recovery Tips in the Wake of Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Fiona

Risk Management Monitor

Across the Caribbean, Florida, and up the Eastern seaboard to Atlantic Canada, communities are facing devastation from a recent—and ongoing—spate of mid-season hurricanes. After making landfall in Western Florida yesterday as a Category 4 hurricane, Hurricane Ian has been cutting a path of destruction across the state and will make its way into the Carolinas.

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Reporting Cybersecurity Intrusions: Establishing a Standard

Disaster Zone

Right now we don’t have a well-understood manner of reporting

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Learning the Local Culture: BCM Pros Need to Suit Their Programs to the Locality

MHA Consulting

It’s human nature for people to take the assumptions of their culture for granted, not realizing that people elsewhere might look at things in a radically different way.

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RAND Experts React to Putin's Latest Threatening Rhetoric

The Rand Blog

Vladimir Putin appeared to double-down on his country's war effort in Ukraine September 21st, calling up hundreds of thousands of new troops, threatening Ukraine and the West, vowing to use “all the means at our disposal,” and pointing out that he is not bluffing.

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Personal Preparedness – Cell Phones

Recovery Diva

From the Wash Post: These tips for extending usefulness of cell phones during and after disasters

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Mobile Pathways – Building Trust to Ensure Vaccine Equity by Suprita Makh

PagerDuty

Life across the world has settled into a “new normal” as we approach almost three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re getting used to waves of variants and we’ve gone back to work, school, weddings, concerts, and holidays.

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Acronis #CyberFit Summit Miami 2022: Cyber Protect the Future!

Acronis

The largest-ever gathering of cyber protection professionals is less than a month away!

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Chief Resilience Offices and Officers

Disaster Zone

There is more of a move afoot to establish state CROs

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Citrix and Kyndryl: Enabling your organization’s most valuable asset

Citrix

Productivity and innovative thinking are key enablers of profitability in today’s hyper-competitive business environment. Your people are your organization’s most valuable asset. In fact, they are your very business.

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Should Greenland and Denmark Become Part of NORAD?

The Rand Blog

As tensions with Russia rise to levels not seen since the Cold War, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) may need to detect and counter increasing numbers of aerial intrusions. One way to strengthen NORAD's capabilities: Invite Greenland and Denmark to join the command

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Why Are Conditions in Puerto Rico So Bad?

Recovery Diva

From the Wash Post, this editorial opinion piece: A storm of red tape and incompetence battered Puerto Rico long before Fiona. A related article from the Wash Post: FEMA tells a skeptical Puerto Rico that this time won’t be like Hurricane Maria

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Security Industry Association Announces New Apprenticeship Program for Integrators

Security Industry Association

SIA’s apprenticeship initiative will meet the demand for a highly skilled technical workforce, grow career development opportunities and diversify the industry’s talent pipeline. SILVER SPRING, Md. –