DRI Drive
DECEMBER 17, 2021
To say 2021 has been eventful is, of course, an understatement. From big news stories like the Texas snowstorm, to smaller curiosities like the Halloween candy hack, we looked back the past year of coverage in Drive to offer a trip down memory lane. January – ‘As the Vaccines Roll Out, What is the Employer’s […]. The post What Kind of Year Has It Been?
Disaster Zone
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Some states have no paper ballots.
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Crisis Response Journal
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Roger Gomm outlines the key points from this month's report published by the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning
The Rand Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2021
As the Biden administration's first year comes to a close, how is the United States faring in Southeast Asia? Washington got a lot right, but it could do better to optimize competition against China and work on a more sensitive understanding of the delicate and at times precarious position Southeast Asian states are in.
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
DECEMBER 15, 2021
You may have heard about some shops having trouble keeping cream cheese in stock – but do you know the role an October cyberattack played? The recent cream cheese shortage isn’t just because during the holidays, as festive baking results in demand reaching its highest peak for the year. In fact, it was greatly exacerbated […]. The post The Great 2021 Cream Cheese Shortage: A Perfect Storm of Supply Chain and Cyber Attack Woes appeared first on DRI Drive.
Continuity Professional Pulse brings together the best content for business continuity professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Recovery Diva
DECEMBER 11, 2021
Source of info on Disaster Economics.
The Rand Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Although it provided a foundation, the ACA alone could not have absorbed the effects of the pandemic's sudden job losses on health care coverage. Temporary expansions to the safety net enacted by Congress also were necessary to stem coverage loss. As the pandemic continues policymakers will want to keep safety net provisions as available policy options.
DRI Drive
DECEMBER 13, 2021
If you are a DRI Certified Professional in good standing, you are eligible to vote for the 2022 Lifetime Achievement and Product/Service Provider of the Year Awards! Log into your DRI account, and click on the “Vote Now!” tab to make your selections. Don’t wait – the voting period closes Jan. 7. Then join us on […]. The post Vote Now for the Lifetime Achievement and ?
Disaster Zone
DECEMBER 14, 2021
That support remains critical to our functioning even until today.
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
DECEMBER 15, 2021
State Pandemic Scorecard. For the past year, POLITICO’s Recovery Lab project has been chronicling how the pandemic is playing out around the country with a special eye to the innovations and policies enacted by officials at the state and local levels. We’ve noticed differences in how the pandemic has affected states, but it’s been hard to figure out just how large, and how meaningful, those differences have been.
Constellation
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Staying warm has gone high tech with winter gadgets that help you beat the chill. Yes, putting on a sweater and fuzzy slippers still works, but smart technology for winter offers you a variety of. (This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post.).
DRI Drive
DECEMBER 16, 2021
The latest edition of the Crisis Response Journal is now available for download from our Library! This issue includes an article from DRI’s Lyndon Bird on the relative complexities of business continuity, as well as articles on challenges in Afghanistan, cyberattacks, crisis management across sectors, and much more. DRI has partnered with CRJ to provide […].
Pure Storage
DECEMBER 14, 2021
As we get ready to welcome 2022, this past year has left a big impression on the security landscape. Given what we’ve experienced recently, what will 2022 bring? At any moment, there are both worst-case scenario attacks happening—including the Cuban-based ransomware attack last month that has compromised 49 U.S. infrastructure organizations¹—and lesser security threats causing minimal damage.
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
DECEMBER 12, 2021
As the Diva watched TV accounts of the latest rash of tornadoes in TN and KY, she noticed that most of the coverage failed to discuss the power of the storms as measured by the Enhanced Fujita scale. According to the Wash Post article , the National Weather Service will be making a determination of the number on that scale of 5. Here is an explanation of the EF scale for measuring tornadoes.
Disaster Zone
DECEMBER 12, 2021
It is not the return to normal that people want.
DRI Drive
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI), the leading nonprofit in business continuity and resilience training, has joined with Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) to develop a new report, “Covid-19: An Analysis of Leadership Styles and Outcomes.” This research uses the coronavirus pandemic to inform future preparedness and response efforts.
Chisel AI
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Basically, AI is a prediction engine. The more data you feed the system, the more accurate it gets over time. The human-in-the-loop (HITL) approach combines the best of human intelligence and judgement with the best of machine intelligence. Humans and machines working together leverages the strengths of both to produce the best outcomes.
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
Unitrends
DECEMBER 16, 2021
The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) landscape is incredibly dynamic. Advancements in technology transform how we deliver and consume data and organizations must adapt with agility to protect workloads spread across on-premises infrastructure, remote endpoints, cloud and SaaS applications. As vendors drive change in the space, how do you cut through the marketing noise […].
everbridge
DECEMBER 13, 2021
“I remember a time before COVID-19 when Everbridge helped turn a scary situation into a good one,” said Maureen Beyer, a mother of a Beverly Farm resident. “My son was at a college campus when a critical situation arose with a college student and a firearm. I was quickly notified by Everbridge that Beverly Farm was on it. It was so nice to know that even when my son was off-campus, he was protected.
LAN Infotech
DECEMBER 12, 2021
20 Secrets Hackers Don’t Want You To Know. In 2020, there were 1001 data breach cases in the US, according to Statista. And in 2021, things don’t seem to get any better as the data breach incidents through September 2021 have exceeded the number of publicly reported cases by 17%. Hackers use many ways to infiltrate your network and manipulate it for malicious gains.
Recovery Diva
DECEMBER 13, 2021
So far the worst tornado on record happened in 1925. See: Deadliest tornado in U.S. history hit the Midwest nearly a century ago.
Unitrends
DECEMBER 15, 2021
A staggering 50% of businesses spend more than $1.2 million on cloud services annually. Poorly planned cloud investments leave organizations guessing, resulting in mounting bills for metered services that are overallocated or underutilized. Failure to optimize cloud costs gives way to expensive overheads and a loss of competitive edge. Efficient cloud cost management helps businesses get the most out […].
The Rand Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Collaborative technologies such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams have transformed how we work, visit the doctor, and go to school. But can they also shift demographic trends in migration, fertility, morbidity, and mortality? And if so, how?
Acronis
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Since being identified on December 9, the Log4j vulnerability has become a major concern for IT professionals who were forced to suddenly shift from their end-of-year wind down to high alert for potential exploits. To assuage some of these concerns – and ensure that the Acronis community has the knowledge they need to respond to this vulnerability effectively, Acronis led an informational webinar.
PagerDuty
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Recognizing that the leading cause of death in the world today is delay, PagerDuty launched its Time-Critical Health focus area in 2019 with the mission to help save lives by reaching people faster. Specifically, we invest in tech-forward solutions that improve outcomes for the most underserved people in the world. This commitment was called into practice over the past 22 months as frontline health care workers and organizations tended to the dual needs of the pandemic response and ensured the c
Solutions Review
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Solutions Review’s listing of the best Disaster Recovery as a Service companies is an annual sneak peek of the solution providers included in our Buyer’s Guide and Solutions Directory. Information was gathered via online materials and reports, conversations with vendor representatives, and examinations of product demonstrations and free trials.
Castellan
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Is the key to business continuity success understanding risk and how to manage it across your organization? That’s what we discussed in an episode of Castellan’s new podcast, Business, Interrupted , with Melanie Lucht, Associate Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at Carnegie Mellon University. Lucht brings unique insight into the congruences between risk management and business continuity to shore up operational resilience, especially related to disaster recovery and response.
BryghtPath
DECEMBER 14, 2021
As a business owner, you need the assurance that your business will continue to operate smoothly despite the unexpected. This is where business continuity planning comes in. A well-developed business continuity plan can help you minimize the effects of a disruption to your business operations and improve your organization’s resilience. However, for your continuity plan … The post Business Continuity Awareness – Why It’s Important appeared first on Bryghtpath.
Security Industry Association
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and supply chain assurance top the list of key trends impacting the industry moving into 2022. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has identified and forecasted the 2022 Security Megatrends, which form the basis of SIA’s signature annual Security Megatrends report defining the top 10 factors influencing both short- and long-term change in the global security industry.
The Rand Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2021
After having gone years without a significant threat from Russia, NATO leaders and legislatures now may be recognizing that the security environment has changed and that the more comfortable political status quo is gone. But if NATO were to decide to stand firmly together, conflict in Europe may be deterred and strategic stability restored.
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