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Preparedness Goes Prime Time on NBC’s New Amsterdam

DRI Drive

Doctors on NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam broke out the EPM (Emergency Preparedness Manual) on this week’s episode. With a hurricane bearing down on America’s oldest fictional public hospital (based on Bellevue), extremely attractive doctors play hot potato with an enormous EMP binder because no one wants to be in charge of enacting the hospital’s […].

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High Tech Tools for Hurricane Predication

Recovery Diva

From Inside Climate News: Forecasters Tap High-Tech Tools as US Warns of Another Unusually Active Hurricane Season. Predictions of hurricane paths have improved markedly, but their intensity remains difficult to forecast. Air and water drones could change that.

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5 Things You Should Never Do When You Get A Bad Review

Bernstein Crisis Management

Reduce the odds a single review turns into a truly damaging issue. We see a lot of advice shared about the things you SHOULD do when you get a bad review, but how about a bit of crisis prevention focused advice to match? A key part of handling any negative situations online is making sure you don’t worsen the situation while trying to fix it, and that’s why today we’re going to talk about the 5 thing you should NEVER do when you get a bad review.

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BIG Law Enforcement Mistakes in Texas

Disaster Zone

Columbine changed how we respond to active shooter situations.

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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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NOAA: Expect Another Big Hurricane Season

DRI Drive

Echoing early predictions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting another above-normal Atlantic hurricane season – the seventh in a row. NOAA is predicting, with 70% confidence, a range of 13 to 20 named storms with winds of 39 mph or higher from now through Nov. 1. Six to ten of them could […]. The post NOAA: Expect Another Big Hurricane Season appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Customize Your Hurricane Kits

Recovery Diva

Hurricane Checklists for Building All Kinds of Storm Kits. Needs will vary: Children and grandparents will require different supplies,and everyone will have to take a different approach depending on whether you stay home, head to a shelter or go to someone’s house.

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Major Cyber Organizations of the Russian Intelligence Services

Disaster Zone

You can't tell the players without a scorecard.

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Is the UK Putting COVID-19 in the Rear View Too Early?

DRI Drive

A recent survey of the United Kingdom’s financial sector sees pandemic response dropping in its risk ranking – are they ignoring indicators that we’re not done with the pandemic yet? The Bank of England’s 2022 H1 Systemic Risk Survey asked the UK financial sector how confident they are in the financial system and which risks […]. The post Is the UK Putting COVID-19 in the Rear View Too Early?

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Time to Fight Back Against Ransomware: Zerto Will Show You How

Zerto

Ransomware is the most rampant disaster threat to organizations in every industry. Cybercriminals are disrupting business, causing reputational damage and lost revenue to organizations worldwide. Last year, a minimum of $18 billion was paid in ransoms globally ¹. Growing in both volume and severity, malicious actors are finding increasingly sophisticated methods of targeting the vulnerability of applications.

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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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Disaster Equity Concerns re Upcoming Hurricane Season

Recovery Diva

From HSToday: Interagency Officials Prepare for ‘Another Tough Hurricane Season’. Agency leaders discussed progress on disaster equity initiatives to help those affected by storms who may have limited access to resources.

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Drones Supporting the Delivery of Medical Supplies

Disaster Zone

Another example for what is happening elsewhere.

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Ransomware’s Latest Targets and How to Protect Yourself

Pure Storage

Ransomware attacks nearly doubled in 2021 and continue to increase substantially. Attack surface areas are increasing, attackers have become more sophisticated , and paying the ransom doesn’t always end the nightmare. . It all explains why, despite having ransomware strategies in place, very few large organizations feel totally prepared. . To uncover the best practices and strategies used by the organizations that do feel most prepared for an attack, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently surv

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Disaster recovery with AWS managed services, Part 2: Multi-Region/backup and restore

AWS Disaster Recovery

In part I of this series, we introduced a disaster recovery (DR) concept that uses managed services through a single AWS Region strategy. In part two, we introduce a multi-Region backup and restore approach. With this approach, you can deploy a DR solution in multiple Regions, but it will be associated with longer RPO/RTO. Using a backup and restore strategy will safeguard applications and data against large-scale events as a cost-effective solution, but will result in longer downtimes and great

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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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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine May Harden U.S. Indo-Pacific Allies

The Rand Blog

The effects of Russia's war against Ukraine stretch worldwide as countries watch Ukraine's unfolding tragedy to glean possible lessons for their own security. Understanding how Australia and Japan are perceiving the conflict could be critical for allied strategy in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Cybersecurity Requires Diligence Not Money

Disaster Zone

Throwing money at an issue doesn't always work.

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A Resilient Workforce Is a Key Building Block to Success

BMC

As we mark the close of May’s Mental Health Awareness Month , ever-changing world events—and for some, changes in how and where we work—make it a good time to check in and revisit helpful ways to ensure our own resilience and the resiliency of our people. Tackling the increase in mental health challenges. The last few years have been rife with external and internal stressors and competing responsibilities, so much so that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , 90 percent of countrie

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Building a Resilience Culture in Your Organization

BryghtPath

Does your organization take business continuity and crisis management seriously? Are you getting the resources you need to run these programs well? If not, my best advice to you starts with a question: “What are you doing to build a culture of resilience within your organization?” Fostering a culture of resilience is arguably one of … The post Building a Resilience Culture in Your Organization appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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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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The legal implications of paying ransomware demands: The evolving state of ransomware

Acronis

The legal implications of paying or not paying ransomware demands hover like a specter over businesses as attacks become more prevalent and sophisticated. Ransomware remains the top threat to SMBs and enterprises across healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and other vital sectors, according to the Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2022.

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Business, Interrupted: The Keys to Building a Resilience Management Culture

Castellan

When it comes to success—whether it’s resilience management or crisis response or any of the other many important programs that are part of your organization—building a culture that understands and integrates its importance into day-to-day operations is paramount to success. But, regardless of how enthusiastic you are about your program and the benefits you know it brings to your organization, the reality is, you can’t force the rest of your organization to automatically adopt the culture

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A Resilient Workforce Is a Key Building Block to Success

BMC

As we mark the close of May’s Mental Health Awareness Month , ever-changing world events—and for some, changes in how and where we work—make it a good time to check in and revisit helpful ways to ensure our own resilience and the resiliency of our people. Tackling the increase in mental health challenges. The last few years have been rife with external and internal stressors and competing responsibilities, so much so that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , 90 percent of countrie

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Navigating Electrical Safety Through Marina Waters

National Fire Protection Association

I don’t know about where you reside, but the race is on here in Michigan! The frenzied months of April and May are spent uncovering and cleaning boats, in anticipation of considerable time spent on the water over Memorial Day weekend. But as the boat gets loaded with safety items like fire extinguishers, life jackets, and buoys, it is just as important to consider an additional safety. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Cyber resilience: Software for business continuity

Acronis

Today’s security service providers and IT professionals need to assume that data is constantly under attack. So, it’s essential that cyber resilience must include the ability to continue operations while under attack and to recover from attacks. Cyber resilience creates an end-to-end approach to threat management encompassing information security, business continuity, and disaster recovery.

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A Four Day Week: Is America Ready?

The Rand Blog

As alluring as a calendar filled with three-day weekends may seem, research shows that short school weeks can have educational and health risks for students, but also benefits for them and for school districts that make the change. Do the benefits of the condensed week outweigh the costs?

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Why the Human Experience Will Make or Break Your Digital Transformation

Pure Storage

Think about an experience we go through as humans that’s generally tedious or unpleasant—for example, buying a car. No matter how slick the showroom or gorgeous the car, the experience tends to be slow, painful, and incomprehensible. We have so much digital technology at our disposal to make these experiences better. Yet, time and again, businesses fail to deploy technology in ways that improve the human experience. .

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Enabling a productive remote workspace with NVIDIA and Citrix HDX

Citrix

Recently, I sat down with Lee Bushen from NVIDIA and Citrix’s Muhammad Dawood for a webinar where we discussed how, together, the latest Citrix HDX graphics stack and NVIDIA virtual GPU solutions can provide unmatched graphics acceleration. We talked about … The post Enabling a productive remote workspace with NVIDIA and Citrix HDX first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Adding Mass Shootings to Your Hazards List

Disaster Zone

They are common enough that mass shootings should be listed.

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Camping Bans and Group Shelters Unlikely to Solve Homelessness Crisis

The Rand Blog

Should Los Angeles continue to direct most resources toward creating permanent housing with services? Or should it try to rapidly add more group shelters and shared tiny homes which would allow the city to enforce camping bans in certain areas? There are compelling arguments for both approaches.

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Roll with the Changes: A New Generation Requires a New Approach to BCM 

BCM METRICS

The Internet generation has arrived in the workplace, bringing new ways of thinking, learning, and getting things done. The business continuity profession will need to adapt if it is to partner effectively with these new workers and continue protecting organizations and their stakeholders. Continue reading for more information on a new approach to BCM.

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Application Virtualization vs. Desktop Virtualization: What’s the difference?

Citrix

Organizations may wonder whether application virtualization or desktop virtualization is the way to go. While application virtualization allows companies to easily deliver apps on any device, desktop virtualization is often a better option for organizations that need to emulate entire … The post Application Virtualization vs. Desktop Virtualization: What’s the difference?

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How to Write an Op-ed

Disaster Zone

A good guide to getting it published