DRI Drive
MAY 18, 2023
Business Continuity Awareness Week continues – today’s theme is personal resilience! Over the course of the pandemic, as many employees began shifting to work-from-home or hybrid work situations, additional focus has been placed on the importance of personal wellbeing and mental health to maintain a productive organization during trying times.
Bernstein Crisis Management
MAY 19, 2023
Crisis Management Explained: A Comprehensive Guide Crisis management is a crucial aspect of running a successful organization. In today’s unpredictable and rapidly changing world, businesses must be prepared to handle unexpected events that can disrupt their normal operations, harm their reputation, or threaten their survival. This comprehensive guide will explore the various aspects of crisis management, including its definition, the importance of having a crisis management plan, the diff
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Recovery Diva
MAY 16, 2023
From the Wash Post, Want to know why America is losing its edge? Look around campus. An excerpt: “Some 2.5 million fewer Americans are enrolled in college than in 2011, and the decline is accelerating. The college-going rate of high school graduates has dropped from 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2022, and if this trend continues, a group of young Americans will — for the first time in our history — enter the workforce with less education than the one before.
Disaster Zone
MAY 15, 2023
Standard stuff, growth over safety. Poor design. Inadequate standards and inspections.
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!
DRI Drive
MAY 19, 2023
To conclude this year’s Business Continuity Awareness Week, we’re focusing on Organizational Resilience! Long the leader in certifying individuals, DRI International also offers accreditation for organizations with the Resilient Enterprise and Center of Excellence in Resilience designations, as well as assessment of organizational resilience with the Resilient Enterprise Assessment Program (REAP).
Continuity Professional Pulse brings together the best content for business continuity professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Recovery Diva
MAY 16, 2023
Opinion piece in HSToday by Richard Serino: A 10-Year Reflection on the Boston Marathon Bombing and a Call for a National Emergency Management Strategy. An excerpt: While nothing can replace those we lost, as a community we take solace that our preparedness saved lives. I often say: It was no accident that Boston was prepared to respond that day, it was no accident that equipment was on site.
Disaster Zone
MAY 18, 2023
A new climate report predicts a minimum of one really hot year.
DRI Drive
MAY 17, 2023
As Business Continuity Awareness Week continues, we’re focusing on operational resilience! Increasingly fueled by regulatory requirements, particularly in the financial sector, operational resilience expands business continuity management programs to focus on the impacts, connected risk appetite and tolerance levels for disruption of product or service delivery to internal and external stakeholders.
The Rand Blog
MAY 13, 2023
Policies restricting discussion of LGBTQ+ issues and representation of LGBTQ+ individuals are likely to make schools less welcoming to the nation's estimated 2 million LGBTQ+ youth. Policymakers should develop policies that cultivate learning and work environments where students and educators of all backgrounds feel safe and valued.
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.
Recovery Diva
MAY 17, 2023
This is the latest effort by the GAO to press FEMA to address its earlier reports: Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Address Increasing Challenges. The full report is 20 pp., but there also is an executive summary available. The Diva considers this a very important report. She is surprised at the tone of the report, which clearly shows the extent of GAO’s dissatisfaction with FEMA’s efforts to date to address several recent GAO reports.
Acronis
MAY 16, 2023
With file-level backups, you backup and restore files such as Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, photographs, videos, and audio files. Many users think that just backing up these kinds of files is all they need. While file-level backups work if you are restoring a small number of files, it is a time-consuming task to restore an entire PC or Mac.
DRI Drive
MAY 16, 2023
It’s Business Continuity Awareness Week, and today’s focus is on Supply Chain Resilience! During the pandemic and beyond, supply chain issues have been a near-constant challenge for resilience professionals. Knowing how to navigate them and prepare for the worst has become an everyday part of the current business continuity landscape. Additional Resources: DRI Webinar: Resilience […] The post Business Continuity Awareness Week: Supply Chain Resilience appeared first on DRI Driv
The Rand Blog
MAY 15, 2023
Norway recently took over chairmanship of the Arctic Council from Russia under conditions never before experienced by the organization in its 27-year history. Despite the current uncertainties, there could be ways to move past the stalemate between Russia and the other council members.
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.
BryghtPath
MAY 16, 2023
In our fast-paced, digitally-driven world, the importance of robust disaster recovery strategies cannot be overstated. An unforeseen disruption, like a data breach or a natural disaster, can severely impact an organization’s operations, reputation, and bottom line. As such, it’s crucial to have an effective plan in place to recover and resume business as quickly as … The post Shifting your disaster recovery strategy to the Cloud appeared first on Bryghtpath.
Security Industry Association
MAY 15, 2023
The Security Industry Association (SIA) Board of Directors recently updated the association’s investment policy to establish a quasi-endowment fund. SIA members and committees are encouraged to submit proposals for funding that will enhance the value of SIA. The SIA quasi-endowment fund is to serve as a long-term spending policy, derived from SIA investments, that would serve as a funding source each year for the following three specific purposes: Fund new, unbudgeted initiatives that will provi
DRI Drive
MAY 15, 2023
Today’s Business Continuity Awareness Week subject spotlights cyber resilience! Organizations today are confronted by a wide range of cyberattacks, and your organization is no exception. There are countless opportunities for hackers to cause massive disruptions, all of which will require a response that will involve you. DRI’s Cyber Resilience course prepare you to address cyber […] The post Business Continuity Awareness Week: Cyber Resilience appeared first on DRI Drive.
NexusTek
MAY 16, 2023
May 16, 2023 NexusTek and New York-based ICCS Join Forces A leading nationwide managed IT services provider expands geographic footprint and capabilities by adding market leader ICCS to its portfolio. Denver, CO, May 16, 2023 — NexusTek , a national provider of managed IT and technology consulting services, has joined with ICCS & Co., LLC (ICCS), a leading regional managed IT services provider based in New York City.
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
Zerto
MAY 19, 2023
On May 18, at a keynote event in Houston, we announced the launch of Zerto 10 , delivering the fastest time to protect, detect, and recover from ransomware. The release enhances Zerto’s already robust suite of cybersecurity capabilities, offering new real-time encryption anomaly detection , a new Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault , and a new secure-hardened Linux appliance.
Disaster Zone
MAY 16, 2023
Details on the upcoming November 2023 conference
The Rand Blog
MAY 17, 2023
Misinformation thrived during the pandemic, exacerbating health inequities. To meet its core mission, the public health field needs to engage more actively, particularly in communities it has historically failed to equitably protect.
Pure Storage
MAY 15, 2023
Veeam USAPI Snapshot Offload to NFS by Pure Storage Blog Snap-to-NFS is a self-backup technology built into FlashArray. This article looks at how to perform Veeam Pure Storage snapshot offload to NFS. The post Veeam USAPI Snapshot Offload to NFS appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.
Acronis
MAY 16, 2023
Backup today is a lifeline to the future for small, medium, and enterprise organizations alike. That’s because data is the world’s most valuable resource (more so than oil, according to The Economist) and you have to protect it. With a backup solution in place, businesses can keep running.
Disaster Zone
MAY 16, 2023
There are always hoops to jump through. Find out which ones!
The Rand Blog
MAY 16, 2023
Since 2004, federal law has barred most participant safety regulations and leaves nearly all issues of safety up to the discretion of the company providing the service. It's time to allow the moratorium on regulation to expire and allow the development of safety standards, led by the FAA.
Pure Storage
MAY 19, 2023
The Pure Digital Experience at Pure//Accelerate by Pure Storage Blog Pure//Accelerate ® 2023 is coming soon to Las Vegas (June 14-16) and will be packed with great sessions geared toward helping you uncomplicate your storage, protect your data, and operate like a public cloud provider. There will also be lots of great conversations and meetups. Who Is the Pure Digital Experience Team?
Alert Media
MAY 18, 2023
The post Highlights from the 2022 Employee Safety Conference appeared first on AlertMedia.
Citrix
MAY 17, 2023
The browser is where significant work gets done. However, consumer browsers offer little protection or IT control to manage corporate web and SaaS apps beyond the initial authentication. Citrix offers solutions to enhance security, performance, and user experience for web … The post Enable secure web, SaaS app delivery and safe browsing with Citrix browsers first appeared on Citrix Blogs.
The Rand Blog
MAY 17, 2023
Priebe and Frederick discuss the implications of the findings in their new report, Future U.S. Peacetime Policy Toward Russia: Exploring the Benefits and Costs of a Less-Hardline Approach.
Pure Storage
MAY 18, 2023
ESG Research Shows Why Data Analytics Maturity Matters by Pure Storage Blog Many organizations have expanded their analytics capabilities by capturing “big data” to explore new business capabilities. Now, some want to accelerate those capabilities by moving beyond experimentation with analytics toward more mature investments and capabilities. In 2020, Pure Storage ® partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to sponsor a study that examines the benefits of these investments and reveals the
Unitrends
MAY 15, 2023
Have you ever thought about what a disaster might look like to your business without the ability to failover? Ransomware, hurricanes, floods, hardware failure, file corruption, human error and dozens of other disasters can bring business productivity to a standstill if your organization is not equipped to handle an outage situation. Does your business […] The post Failover: What It Is and Its Importance in Business Continuity appeared first on Unitrends.
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