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Hacking and Ransomware Remain a Significant Challenge

Disaster Zone

$600 million in ransom payments in 2021.

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When I Say Security Tech, Proptech Says…What?

Security Industry Association

Lee Odess, general manager at Latch, serves as chair of SIA’s Proptech Advisory Board. Here is my thesis: The security industry is way off on what it thinks the proptech value creation story is. It has changed dramatically in the past three years, and we need to reset how we collectively position our industry. We believe we are telling a complete and compelling value story around safety and it is “good enough.” But are we, and is it?

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Guest Posting on Hurricane Sandy

Recovery Diva

Hurricane Sandy at 10, Katrina at 20: How do we study recovery over decades? As I was wrapping up my book on long-term recovery after Hurricane Sandy, due this fall from Lexington Press, I realized that we are fast approaching the 20 th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Decadal milestones are important in the study of long-term recovery because they provide opportunities for assessment and stock taking.

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How cyberthreats and cybersecurity are evolving in 2022

Acronis

In planning for an uncertain future where cyberthreats are increasingly common and sophisticated, protecting your data from compromise requires a proactive approach to mitigate the effects of an attack on your systems and potentially save your business from ruin. Because data — your data — is a highly valued commodity, not because of the price it commands when sold on the dark web, but because of how important it is to you.

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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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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘An Interview with FEMA Region X Administrator’

Disaster Zone

A career FEMA employee has been appointed.

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Map of Wildfire Risk in U.S.

Recovery Diva

From the NYTimes: Here’s the First-Ever Map Showing Wildfire Risk to American Homes. New data was used to calculate fire risk to residential and other properties throughout the lower 48 United States. The threats are rising.

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Three Principles for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security

The Rand Blog

In his inaugural address in 1998, former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung defined three principles for Korean peninsula peace and security. How might these principles be adjusted to manage today's changing North Korean threats and the Korean security environment?

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Children’s Book on Disaster Preparedness

Disaster Zone

This one comes from the UN.

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PagerDuty Summit ‘22: A Summit Designed with YOU in Mind by Alyssa Sachs

PagerDuty

Here at PagerDuty one of our most important values is “Championing the Customer” – this means doing everything we can to improve the lives of the people who interact with our business and our team. So when we began planning for our first in-person PagerDuty Summit in two years, we needed to hear from you on what kind of conference you wanted to experience this year and what was most critical to improving your day to day life. .

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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 to create an effective business continuity awareness campaign in your organization

BryghtPath

In most organizations, the only times a business leader and their team learn about business continuity & crisis management is when the time comes to update their business impact analysis and associated plans – or when an incident or crisis occurs. It’s not a great way to drive business continuity awareness. This is a huge … The post How to create an effective business continuity awareness campaign in your organization appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) for MSPs in a comprehensive cyber protection strategy

Acronis

In the event of a sudden and unexpected disruption, from a power outage or natural disaster to equipment failure or system crash, the consequences can be catastrophic. This underlines the compelling case for MSPs to offer clients a way to maintain business continuity if the worst should happen. Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is a solution you can provide to your clients to do just that.

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Security Industry Association Announces Winners for the 2022 Women in Biometrics Awards

Security Industry Association

Gena Alexa, Amanda Conley, Delia McGarry, Diane Stephens and Bobby Varma will be honored for their leadership and contributions in biometrics and security at the 2022 SIA GovSummit. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named five female biometrics leaders as recipients of the 2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards , a globally recognized program presented by SIA with support from sponsors IDEMIA and Paravision and organizational and media supporters AVISIAN , Biometric U

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My way or Highway

arunpraka shray

All of us have heard this phrase ‘my way or the highway’ at some point of time in our lives. I have lived this phrase for 6 whole days when my wife @Tuhina Ray decided to drive down from Bangalore to Manali (she has started a small 3 BR homestay in a sleepy hamlet of Simsa, just 2 km before the bustling town of Manali). 2800 km, 11 states, difficult terrains, miles of melting asphalt in the scorching heat of Telengana, Maharashtra, MP, UP & Punjab.

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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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7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios That You Need to Prepare For

BryghtPath

According to research, about 25% of businesses fail to recover after disasters. If they lack a recovery plan, it becomes hard to cope with the repercussions. That’s why your business needs an ideal business continuity plan (BCP). In this article, we discuss how to test your BCP plan using several different business continuity exercise scenarios. … The post 7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios That You Need to Prepare For appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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The Impact of Hybrid Work Environments on Resilience Management

Castellan

Today, business as usual isn’t the same as we used to know. While some companies sustained on-premises teams throughout the coronavirus pandemic—and some more have returned to that recently—many organizations still operate in a fully-remote or hybrid work environment. As such, these evolving work environments have created new challenges for business continuity, including new and evolving risks for resilience management.

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SIA New Member Profile: Vunetrix

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Vunetrix offers a security network monitoring tool designed to detect real-time performance problems with IP security technologies across multiple geographics and report conditions through a user-friendly dashboard and automated email/SMS alerts. Vunetrix is a gbloal provider of physical security software, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with a satellite office in Edmonton, Alberta, and its extended team located across the United States and Ca

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What is a managed service provider (MSP)?

Acronis

Managed service providers (MSP) are businesses that offer multiple, managed, information technology (IT) services to other businesses. MSPs today largely deliver their services remotely, over a network, although they may maintain other revenue streams that require onsite support.

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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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Please Join Us for the 2022 C&E Women in STEM Education Session & Luncheon!

National Fire Protection Association

From victims of factory fires to leaders in the fire and life safety world, women have been and continue to be major drivers of change within the fire protection and life safety community. Please join us for the Women in STEM education session on Wednesday, June 8 from 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. to witness the reenactment of a leader from the past who led the way to protect American workers after a. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Using FlashArray Snapshots for SQL Server

Pure Storage

Intelligent data management is at the core of digital transformation and modern infrastructure. According to the ESG report, The Evolution of Intelligent Data Management , “More than three-quarters of organizations are satisfied to some extent with their secondary data reuse strategies. ” The report explains eloquently the data gravity issue, how it can be leveraged, and how companies can benefit.

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Industry Partners Announce Comprehensive Security Industry Compensation Study

Security Industry Association

Presented by the Foundation for Advancing Security Talent and bringing together top organizations, the 2022 study will provide the security industry with the data it needs to effectively recruit and hire talent. SILVER SPRING, Md. – Recognizing the industry’s need for current and comprehensive compensation data, particularly for security integrators, leading organizations have partnered to launch the 2022 Security Industry Compensation Study presented by the Foundation for Advancing Security Tal

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What is Hybrid Cloud Architecture? How does it work?

Acronis

Modern business IT demands connections that are faster, more intricate, and constantly available. For managed service providers (MSPs), hybrid cloud architecture offers an easy, efficient, and secure means to meet these client demands – but, for all the benefits you and your clients gain from hybrid cloud storage solutions, many still find the hybrid cloud approach and hybrid cloud management unreasonably complicated.

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Citrix extends the Windows 365 Cloud PC experience for the modern workplace

Citrix

For decades, Citrix and Microsoft have worked together to deliver robust technology solutions that enable IT to support the ever-changing needs of business. As organizations have turned to the cloud to enable increased business agility, our joint efforts have enhanced … The post Citrix extends the Windows 365 Cloud PC experience for the modern workplace first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Pure Fusion Developers: A Day in the Life

Pure Storage

A few days ago, Pure Storage hosted Pure//DEV , our first event focused 100% on developers. During the event, we reviewed Pure Fusion ™, our new product that allows you to operate a full Storage-as-Code™ system, enabling a cloud-like experience for storage consumers. It was an exciting event for me personally to focus on developers exclusively and showcase how Pure Fusion can become foundational to their infrastructure-as-code efforts.

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Five Types of Cyberattacks You Need to Know

Zerto

The threat of cyberattacks on organizations is greater than ever before. Organizations are rapidly adopting cloud services, work from home policies, and IoT, leaving their data in disparate locations, in different workloads, and at the hands of more users than ever before. In this threat landscape, it means they are leaving themselves exposed to vulnerabilities they don’t even know exist. .

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About Time: Deciding When to Start Your RTO Countdown

MHA Consulting

Many organizations lack a clear, recognized understanding of when the metaphorical switch will be flipped to start the recovery time objective (RTO) countdown timer. There are two options, either of … The post About Time: Deciding When to Start Your RTO Countdown appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Citrix

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Spotlight on Success: Pure Leaders Recognized by CRN

Pure Storage

The Channel Company publishes a number of lists annually that showcase those in the industry who truly rise above the crowd. This year, I’m delighted to share that five of my colleagues at Pure have been named to the CRN Women of the Channel list for 2022! . I’ve always enjoyed working with partners across the IT industry to help them help customers be successful.

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The Russian Military Has Failed Its Sons

The Rand Blog

The Russian military has a long history of mistreating its personnel and their frightened families. The military's culture of disregard for the lives and well-being of its personnel has done more than undermine their combat performance; it has also tanked their morale and will to fight.

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What is Happening with the Pandemic?

Disaster Zone

What's going to happen next?

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Are you protecting your third-party contractors from cyberattacks?

Citrix

Akshay Kakar, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Citrix, contributed to this blog post. Cyberattacks should be a concern for everyone — businesses, government organizations, and consumers. Among the targets threat actors focus on as they search for weak links are … The post Are you protecting your third-party contractors from cyberattacks?