Disaster Zone

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The United States is not Iraq and Syria--Is it?

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] It showed (perhaps somewhat predictively) that there was only one tiny square of the vast affected area in which Modified Mercalli intensity (which is largely a measure of damage) reached 9.0, the 'violent' level. [2] This is--just about--enough to damage very significantly a well-engineered structure (but not necessarily enough to bring it crashing down).

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Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Evaluation 183

Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

From the Wash Post: Turkey’s earthquake death toll might be more than just a natural disaster. An excerpt: Natural disaster is one aspect of the story. Turkey’s reliance on construction-driven economic growth, cronyism and willingness to ignore its own building standards is the other. The first was unavoidable. Did the second lead to mass casualties?

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The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In his second State of the Union address, President Joe Biden covered a wide range of issues facing the United States at home and abroad, including police violence, gun policy, Russia's war in Ukraine, and U.S. competition with China.

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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

Disaster Zone

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Eventually they will see "everyone" in their lifetime.

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Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From HSToday: PERSPECTIVE: Deadly Earthquakes in Turkey: How Endemic Corruption Worsens the Situation. The quakes were so large and shallow that they would substantially damage older buildings. However, the number of newly built yet devastated buildings is exceptionally high.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Storage upgrades used to be a big deal—kind of like going in for surgery. First, there’s the pre-op work, such as assessing the risks and checking on the health of the arrays, switches, hosts, and applications. Many specialist teams had to get involved. For example, the virtualization team had to migrate virtual machines to another array and make extra certain to unmount everything so their hosts wouldn’t wind up in a vegetative state.

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Failover Authentication Security Vulnerability 104

Disaster Zone

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

General information we all can use.

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Cybersecurity 171

Acronis

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Unfortunately, ransomware attacks are increasing — both in terms of frequency and success as measured in costs. Here are 8 tips on how to protect from ransomware attacks.

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Cybersecurity 104

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.

Evaluation

Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

From CNN, a series of short clips from early report of the Turkey Earthquakes on 2/6. Among other things it provides an interesting account of the powerful aftershocks. For the best and most current technical info, go this USGS site. I expect many more postings as the recovery period begins.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In December of 2022, I participated in an eWeekChat event talking about predictions for 2023. One of the predictions I made was that “new flash capacity will get within striking distance [of the cost] of new HDD capacity in 2023.” As we ring in the new year and get into the swing of 2023, I thought it would make sense to explain some of my reasoning and why we here at Pure Storage are so confident that the disk/flash TCO cutover is closer than many people may realize.

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Resilience Capacity Manufacturing Benchmark 102

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Russia's experience in Ukraine one year in is an example of what happens when a nation tries to fight a war without fully considering the logistics and sustainment that go alongside such a fight. The consequences for failing to fully consider these concepts drove Russia into a prolonged conflict for which it was already ill-prepared a year ago, with increasingly dire consequences for its future.

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Logistics 98

BMC

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ChatGPT’s ability to converse on seemingly everything has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. Social media is loving it. News media outlets are reporting on it. Educators are worried about it. But is ChatGPT ready to securely support and deliver enterprise applications? Read on to see how BMC is planning to support large language model (LLM)-based approaches for self-service and other enterprise use cases.

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Security Media Application Education 98

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.

Recovery Diva

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

From Politico: Earthquake stuns Syria’s Aleppo even after war’s horrors. The natural disaster piled on many man-made ones.

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Security Industry Association

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Security Industry Association (SIA) member American Alarm and Communications is a security systems integration and monitoring company serving homes and businesses across New England. The company is headquartered in Arlington, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Weymouth, Randolph and Auburn, Massachusetts; Manchester, New Hampshire; Wallingford, Connecticut; and Warwick, Rhode Island.

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Communications Command Center Security Banking 98

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In 2021, the California state Legislature passed legislation allowing a streamlined pathway for homeowners to produce duplexes and split lots. But a year after the law took effect, the resulting housing production pipeline looks to be trivial. Why has the law that some were convinced would make the sky fall barely registered?

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Acronis

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today, February 7th, is Safer Internet Day, created in an ongoing effort to combat potential malicious online activity facing the average connected user. While the internet can be a valuable educational resource, it can also be a fertile breeding ground for criminal activity. However, with proactive approaches, your child can stay secure online with minimal intrusion into their privacy from your side.

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Internet Activation Security Education 98

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

Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

SIEM security systems sink or swim depending on their storage. This was true from the time SIEM came into the security market around 2005, and it’s especially true today. Sixty-one percent of enterprises require at least 1TB of storage or more for their SIEM systems every day, thanks to the number of data and log sources ingested by the systems, according to IDC.

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Capacity Security Alert High Availability 98

Security Industry Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Hey SIA members! Here are the top things you need to know about our latest activities and resources, upcoming events and opportunities and more. Welcome, New Members! The Security Industry Association (SIA) would like to welcome its newest members: Archer , Asfalis Advisors , BadgePass , FaceFirst , FaceTec , Fiset Security Consulting , GRAPH Strategy , Hechtman Venture Development , Leonardo/ELSAG LPR Systems , LONG Building Technologies , Observation Without Limits , OneSystems Technologies ,

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Security Cybersecurity Architecture Transportation 98

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The impact of Brexit on the Netherlands is significant. The Dutch government would have preferred the UK to stay in the EU. But despite all this, the Netherlands approached Brexit with relative clarity of purpose and the administration of the program brought a satisfactory outcome.

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Government 98

Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series is a collection of contributed articles written by industry experts in enterprise software categories. In this feature, Seagate Technology’ s CISO and VP of Information Security Brad Jones offers the essentials of understanding cloud misconfiguration breaches. Cloud misconfiguration is a key data security and privacy challenge.

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Disaster Recovery Security Backup Application 96

Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Pure Storage has been 100% partner focused since our first FlashArray ™ sale in 2011. At that time, we had one product available, built with the intent of disrupting the legacy storage market. Our software-driven, all-flash stateless storage array laid the foundation on which we continue to deliver innovative products and solutions. It was a unique approach to legacy storage technology, and resellers around the world were intrigued.

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Technology Management Marketing 98

NexusTek

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

READ TIME: 4 MIN February 8, 2023 3 Real-Life Cybersecurity Incidents… and What They Can Teach You Before getting into the gritty details, let us first acknowledge that no one—be it an individual or a business—likes being “made an example of” in front of an audience. Being the victim of a cyberattack is painful in a number of ways, not the least of which is the public embarrassment or stigma associated with data breach.

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Cybersecurity Backup Disaster Recovery Authentication 94

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol wants South Korea to become a global pivotal state that plays a valuable role in the international community. Turning this into reality will inevitably mean striking a balance between the United States and China.

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National Fire Protection Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If chickens don’t fly, then how can egg prices continue to soar? Poor attempts at dad jokes aside, record-high egg prices are something we are all facing at the moment and, frankly, don’t find all that funny. According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average price of eggs more than doubled between January 2022 and December 2022, from $1.93 per dozen to $4.25 per dozen.

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All-Hazards Hazard Mitigation Internet 92

Acronis

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Data exfiltration, also known as data theft or data exportation, is the transfer of sensitive data to unauthorized parties or destinations with the intent to cause malicious damage or reap financial gains.

Cybersecurity 90

Cybersecurity 90

Zerto

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For the second year in a row, AssureStor, a long-standing Zerto GoldPartner and Aggregator partner, has won the Cloud DR and Continuity Product of the Year at the 2022 Cloud Computing Excellence Awards. Using Zerto as a core component of its platform, AssureStor has a wealth of experience protecting and recovering customers’ data across servers or complete environments.

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Disaster Recovery Cloud Computing Data Recovery Security 86

The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In very short order, Japan moved to change decades of strategic thinking and embark on a new approach to security. The stark reality of geopolitics and the realization that what was once hypothetical is now possible were likely enough to convince Japan that the time for a new approach to its security is now.

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Strategic Security 98

National Fire Protection Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Are you in the field installing a fire alarm system and need to know what the required fire alarm pull station height is? Or maybe you are working on a fire alarm design detail and want to know what the required height is for your fire alarm call point. You’re not the first one to ask this question, so I will get right into it. What is the required height for a fire alarm pull station?

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Acronis

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is the process of encrypting data between devices so that only the sender and the receiver can view the contents of the message.

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Cybersecurity Technology 96