Disaster Zone

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Everyone has a role and it starts with climate adaptation by cities and counties.

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Devastated by a tornado 10 years ago, Joplin, Mo., offers lessons in what comes next. Note: A full chapter is devoted to the details of the Joplin recovery in our recent book, U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century, by Rubin and Cutter.

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Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Before a winter weather event. 1. Monitor the weather. Find a reliable source for severe weather information. Follow the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center ( WPC ) on Facebook or Twitter and your local NWS office. Tune in to local news often when winter weather is forecast. Enable wireless emergency alerts on your cell phone.?.

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The Rand Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As another extraordinary year draws to a close, we continue to believe that objective, nonpartisan research and analysis has a key role to play in navigating what continues to be a difficult time. Here are the 10 research projects that resonated most with rand.org readers in 2021.

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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!

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Disaster Zone

DECEMBER 21, 2021

See my earlier blog post on the delta variant.

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Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Winter weather can cause business disruption, structural damage to buildings from excessive snow loads, water damage from bursting frozen pipes, and can generate dangerous ice dams on the roof. Depending on your business’ specific location, it could have greater risk of exposure to these elements. Let’s review some things you can do to prepare ahead of the winter season.

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The Rand Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The paradox of 2021 was that even as COVID-19 dragged on, bringing a certain limiting sameness to many daily lives, the events of the year felt unprecedented. Vaccine rollouts, an attack on the U.S. Capitol, massive ransomware attacks, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, record numbers of job openings and people quitting, and more. RAND researchers weighed in on all these topics and more.

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Disaster Zone

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It has been studied to death, but with no real interest and no action.

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Unitrends

DECEMBER 23, 2021

2021 was a busy year for our Backup & Recovery blog channel. The traffic and readership for our blogs increased tremendously compared to previous years. It is gratifying to see our content resonating so well with our audience. As the year comes to an end, we’ve created a list that recaps the ten most popular […]. The post Unitrends Blog: The Best of 2021 appeared first on Unitrends.

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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 Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Winter weather causes slippery conditions, structural damage to buildings from excessive snow loads, water damage from frozen pipes, and can create dangerous ice dams on the roof. Here are five larger improvement projects to prepare your home for the winter season. 1. Upgrade your windows and/or doors. Create a plan for your home before and after a winter storm.

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The Rand Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Relinquishing diplomatic partners could free Taiwan from an unwinnable competition with China and refocus attention on what really matters: reducing China's coercive power by strengthening relationships with powers that can truly help.

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Disaster Zone

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You can call me a doubting Thomas.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Modern F1 race cars are networked, connected, intelligent machines that can include hundreds of sensors and nearly a mile of wiring. These sensors deliver billions of data points for analysis that help teams outperform the competition—like when data from the Mercedes-AMG Petronas’ F1 car helped Lewis Hamilton secure his dramatic win at Silverstone this year.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The last half of 2021 has witnessed a resurgence in economic activities in the US due to several monetary and fiscal stimulus and increased consumer spending. However, the supply chain challenges, rising price pressure, and lingering virus concerns have increased inflation. Several pundits predict that 2022 may present several disruptions which may interfere with your … The post 4 Top Business Disruptions to Plan for in 2022 appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Synology

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Work pressure and irregular staffing make holiday seasons the perfect occasion for threat actors. Besides direct attacks on your infrastructure, phishing and other scams targeting employees also take a flight in the weeks before Christmas. Routine maintenance becomes difficult with fewer hands to do the job. Add working from home to the mix, and it […].

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Disaster Zone

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Predictable? Yes. Preventable? Maybe. The future is unsure.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This is part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories. In this submission, EasyMorph Founder Dmitry Gudkov offers commentary on BI stagnation and the current state of the market for data analytics tools. Data and cyber resilient storage is a critical component for any enterprise’s corporate cybersecurity strategy.

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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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Castellan

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This is part 1 of a two-part series exploring the resilience movement, how it can positively impact modern business, and the roles executives and key stakeholders play in ensuring business resilience while managing efficiencies, and adapting to changing environments with an expanding threat landscape. While it’s hard to find a lot of bright spots from the pandemic, when it comes to business continuity, there actually may be one: a renewed focus on continuity, risk and efficiency management, and

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Security Industry Association

DECEMBER 20, 2021

SIA will award $3,000 scholarships to eight young security professionals and students to be used toward continuing education and professional development. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named the recipients of the 2022 SIA RISE Scholarship , a program offered through SIA’s RISE community for young security professionals and students, which supports the education and career development goals of young industry talent.

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Disaster Zone

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There is a weather connection to wildfires.

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Acronis

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The December 2021 release of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud gives MSPs yet another boost to their cyber protection service offerings and includes tools that tick key boxes on client ‘wish lists’ too. Read on for a preview of this month’s highlights and to find links to more details.

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LAN Infotech

DECEMBER 18, 2021

SD-WAN: The Complete Buyer’s Guide. With more business-critical applications going on the cloud , it’s becoming extremely necessary for the organization to consider the internet as part of its core network. Paying for private links (MPLS) may not help as they can get crazy expensive with every expansion. The next best solution is VPN, and we’ve seen businesses building robust networks with several VPNs running on multiple ISPs.

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Security Industry Association

DECEMBER 20, 2021

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Resecurity is a cybersecurity company that delivers a unified software platform for endpoint protection, risk management and threat intelligence. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and its software-as-a-service (SaaS)/platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions offer intelligence-driven security tools for large enterprises and government agencies.

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Disaster Zone

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The worst of the pandemic “could be” ahead.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage . At the end of November, I blogged about the need for disaster recovery in the cloud and also attended AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a great conference, and I was able to see some great AWS solutions up close and personal both from the AWS team and other vendors.

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Citrix

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Work has changed more in the last year than at any time in history. And more change is in store. Fueled by the pandemic, employees have begun to rethink what work means and what they expect from it. And to … The post Employee Experience 2022: Prepare to reboot first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Hybrid is here to stay: Redefining work in 2022 The future of work is choice Fieldwork by Citrix: Highlights from 2021.

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The Rand Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

From the Air Force to Africa to RAND, Jacqueline Burns resolved to help people whose lives have been torn apart by conflict or disaster. As a senior policy analyst she wants to be a part of finding better solutions to the complex questions of peace and security.

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Disaster Zone

DECEMBER 20, 2021

COVID-19, the gift that keeps on giving.

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National Fire Protection Association

DECEMBER 19, 2021

NFPA will soon say goodbye to long-time fire service veteran Greg Cade who will retire from his role as a regional director for the Association by year end after 50-plus years of life safety leadership roles including time spent as the U.S. Fire Administrator. A lot has changed in the world since Cade became a firefighter in Prince George’s County in Maryland back in 1968.

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Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Seasonal Prep: Nine budget friendly ways to prepare your commercial building BEFORE the winter season. Read More. Building Improvement Projects: Large improvement projects to get your building ready for winter weather. Read More. Severe Winter Weather: What to do for your business before, during and after a severe winter weather event. Read More. The post Winter Weather Ready – Business appeared first on DISASTERSAFETY.ORG.

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