DRI Drive

MAY 3, 2024

As the leading nonprofit helping organizations around the world prepare for and recover from disasters, DRI relies on groups that promote greater resiliency. We encourage Certified Professionals to support these valuable partners. Business Continuity Planners Association – BCPA will host an in-person event on May 9 at Central Lakes Office Park in Edina, MN, focused on the subject, […] The post Collaborative Partner Spotlight: Summer 2024 appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Recovery Diva

APRIL 27, 2024

From the GAO: FEMA: Opportunities Exist to Address Mission Challenges and Increased Workload. ( March 2024) From GovExec.com: Under-resourced FEMA would see new commitment to growing workforce under bipartisan bill. The agency has struggled to keep pace with new and increased demands. (April 2024.

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The Rand Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

Russia's President Vladimir Putin rants that the West seeks to “dismember and plunder” his country. By accusing the West of plotting against Russia, the Kremlin likely hopes to distract Russian citizens from its own flawed actions. But the true damage to Russia has been self-inflicted.

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Acronis

MAY 3, 2024

To help stop the wave of Post-it notes that say “Password1!” this World Password Day, we asked Gaidar Magdanurov, President of Acronis and Candid Wüest, VP, Product Management to offer tips for building strong passwords and a prediction of how the use of passwords will change in the years ahead.

Management 98

Management Technology Cybersecurity 98

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

Activation

Pure Storage

MAY 1, 2024

Reduce Ransomware Risk in Educational Institutions by Pure Storage Blog Ransomware attacks targeting educational institutions increased dramatically in 2023 , with K-12 schools seeing a major spike in these incidents. Even scientific and educational institutions like the British Library in London and Berlin’s natural history museum have been targeted by ransomware gangs in the past year—and are still dealing with the impacts.

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Education Insurance Insurance Backup 98

The Rand Blog

MAY 1, 2024

As difficult as policing vigorous dissent may be, having a flexible and adaptive strategy that draws from best practice and lessons learned will be the most effective way for police to plan, execute, adapt, and resolve the scenes to which they are called.

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Security Industry Association

APRIL 29, 2024

What Retailers Need to Know About Using New York’s Retail Security Tax Credit On April 20, the New York State legislature passed its annual budget measure for fiscal year 2025 which addresses multiple priorities and enacts key proposals from Governor Kathy Hochul. Of significance to New York business owners, workers and consumers, the measure included a new Retail Security Tax Credit , which for tax years 2024 and 2025 will provide assistance to small businesses for investing in necessary equipm

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Retail Security Activation Application 98

Acronis

APRIL 29, 2024

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Management enables MSPs with fast, secure and stable remote desktop assistance, their IT experts do not need to make on-site visits to help clients — freeing up their time to focus on high priority activities and maximizing their efficiency.

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Activation Security Management Technology 97

Recovery Diva

APRIL 28, 2024

From HSToday: FEMA Unveils $1.8 Billion in Preparedness Grants to Bolster National Security and Emergency Response.

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Emergency Response Emergency Response Security 100

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!

Mitigation

The Rand Blog

MAY 2, 2024

After two years of the Russia-Ukraine war with still no end in sight, NATO members have begun asking what it will take to turn the tide in Ukraine's favor. To fully expel Russian forces in the next two years, U.S. support and broad NATO investments will be required.

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KingsBridge BCP

MAY 1, 2024

Ultimate BIA with "No Building, No People, No Systems, No Suppliers" There are many levels of complexity to all incidents, often making the task of planning for their impact feel extremely overwhelming. Fires start small but can grow and spread; tornadoes might cause minor damage to a warehouse or take out an entire structure; one […] The post You mean I don’t have to plan for EVERYTHING?

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Business Continuity 90

Acronis

APRIL 30, 2024

Secure email gateways (SEGs) have long been a staple in email security, but their effectiveness at combating modern threats has diminished.

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Security Cybersecurity 98

PagerDuty

MAY 2, 2024

Introduction Figuring out how to represent your as-built environment in PagerDuty can be confusing for new users. There are a lot of components to PagerDuty that will help your team be successful managing incidents, integrating with other systems in your environment, running workflows, and using automation. Your organization might have a lot of these components – users, teams, services, integrations, orchestrations, etc.

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Business Services Application Alert Fashion 59

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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The Rand Blog

MAY 1, 2024

A new Haitian transitional council faces serious challenges in seeking an end to violence, the establishment of a representative government and, ultimately, an enhanced potential for long-term stability, but the island nation's civil society, its youth, and its diaspora could offer a level of hope.

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Security Industry Association

MAY 2, 2024

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Enterprise Security, Inc. (ESI) is a systems integration company specializing in completely integrated, innovative security management systems. The company is headquartered in in Yorba Linda, California, with additional offices in Tempe and Tucson, Arizona. SIA spoke with Joseph D. Emens, chief operating officer at Enterprise Security, Inc., about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Security Cybersecurity Authentication Internet 59

NexusTek

APRIL 29, 2024

April 29, 2024 NexusTek Announces Appointment of Hamilton Yu as New CEO and Bobby Christian as Executive Chairman Denver, CO, April 29, 2024 — NexusTek, a leading national Managed Service Provider, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hamilton Yu as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Hamilton’s appointment comes as Bill Wosilius steps down as CEO of NexusTek, after 5 years of driving growth and unifying a company that had acquired several other tech companies at the time of his ar

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Outsourcing Cyber Resilience Cybersecurity Technology 59

PagerDuty

MAY 1, 2024

Many organizations are heavily investing in AI and automation to remove the burden of manual work and operational efficiency. However to drive their wide scale adoption, they also need employees who can collaborate effectively with the technology. To bridge that gap, companies can use upskilling to retain talent, mitigate risks to the business, and allow employees to grow their careers.

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Capacity Authentication Alert Mitigation 59

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.

The Rand Blog

MAY 2, 2024

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released its 2024 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap. But for AI applications to enhance operations as the department envisions, the roadmap needs to include real-world testing and experimental efforts.

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Application Security 93

Solutions Review

MAY 3, 2024

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 3, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy s

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Technology Disaster Recovery Backup Architecture 52

everbridge

MAY 3, 2024

By Lorenzo Marchetti , Head of Global Public Affairs In an interconnected world, digital resilience is crucial for navigating crises and safeguarding financial and security assets. The European Union (EU), comprising 27 countries and 450 million people, recognizes the significance of digital resilience and has introduced regulatory mandates to fortify and align the digital ecosystem.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

TPUs vs. GPUs: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog Processing units are essential parts of a computer system. They’re the heart of the system—the part responsible for “computing” the data (i.e., performing the input-output, processing, and storage). There are various types of processing units, although the main types are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and tensor processing units (TPUs).

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Healthcare Benchmark Application Architecture 52

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

Entertainment

The Rand Blog

MAY 2, 2024

Often dismissed as “nuisance flooding,” recurrent basement flooding is much more than a nuisance. It costs homeowners, many financially vulnerable, a lot to clean up and poses significant threats to public health and safety. It is time to stop thinking about wet basements as simply a nuisance, and understand the role of flooded basements in some of the critical health issues facing communities.

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Vulnerability 87

Acronis

MAY 2, 2024

It has been nearly eleven years since Intel commenced its World Password Day initiative on May 2, 2013 to spread awareness on password protection best practices. This World Password Day draws attention to the latest threats with the goal of encouraging organizations and communities to embrace new strategies to protect sensitive information.

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Cybersecurity 52

BMC

MAY 1, 2024

May holds significance at BMC as a month of celebration and introspection, marked by Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. As active participants in the BMC API employee resource group (ERG), we are acutely aware of the unique hurdles our global communities face, particularly within high-pressure environments like the tech industry.

Activation 52

Activation Alert Resilience Management 52

Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO vs. RPO: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) are two important concepts used in disaster recovery planning. Both represent critical points of failure. RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable.

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Disaster Recovery Backup Outage Architecture 52

The Rand Blog

MAY 1, 2024

The accident in Baltimore is both a human tragedy and a reminder of how an adversary could seek to close critical waterways. By taking sustained actions to prevent and respond more effectively to obstructive attacks, the United States can help mitigate the risk and protect the maritime movements on which its security depends.

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Security Mitigation 79

KingsBridge BCP

MAY 1, 2024

Optimize your BIA with "No Building, No People, No Systems, No Suppliers" There are many levels of complexity to all incidents, often making the task of planning for their impact feel extremely overwhelming. Fires start small but can grow and spread; tornadoes might cause minor damage to a warehouse or take out an entire structure; […] The post You mean I don’t have to plan for EVERYTHING?

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity 52

BMC

MAY 1, 2024

May holds significance at BMC as a month of celebration and introspection, marked by Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. As active participants in the BMC API employee resource group (ERG), we are acutely aware of the unique hurdles our global communities face, particularly within high-pressure environments like the tech industry.

Activation 52

Activation Alert Resilience Management 52

Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO vs. RPO: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) are two important concepts used in disaster recovery planning. Both represent critical points of failure. RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable.

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Disaster Recovery Backup Outage Architecture 52