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Hurricane Season Halfway Point: What to Expect Next

DRI Drive

So far, it’s been a relatively quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season. But as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warns, there’s still plenty of time for that to change for the worse. The Climate Prediction Center, part of the U.S. National Weather Service, has issued a mid-season update on NOAA’s early prediction of an above-normal […].

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First Yellowstone and Now Death Valley

Disaster Zone

Our national parks are not immune to disasters.

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A Five-Step Ransomware Disaster Recovery Plan Template to Consider

Solutions Review

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, Arcserve Director of Product Management Ahsan Siddiqui offers up an example five-step ransomware disaster recovery plan template to consider from his POV. Ransomware attacks continue to impact organizations worldwide—and the costs are staggering.

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Educators' Poor Morale Matters, Even If They Don't Quit. Here's Why

The Rand Blog

State and district education leaders can take steps now to reduce teacher principal stress this fall in two ways: Recognize that job-related stress is systemic and that educators closer to the classroom may experience more of it, and talk with teachers and principals about the sources of stress in their job, and what could alleviate them.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

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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New Article on National Risk Index

Recovery Diva

From Springer open access, this new article: The national risk index: establishing a nationwide baseline for natural hazard risk in the US.

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NFPA and IBC Occupancy Classifications when Hazardous Materials are Present

National Fire Protection Association

Hazardous materials are those chemicals or substances that are classified as a physical hazard material or a health hazard material (see this blog for more information). There's often some confusion around what the appropriate occupancy classification is when hazardous materials are present. Unfortunately, there isn't a straight answer. It is going to depend on what code is applicable in your particular situation.

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The Case for Cautious Optimism in Ukraine

The Rand Blog

While the outcome of the war in Ukraine is by no means clear, the balance of materiel, manpower, and willpower all seem to make the case for cautious optimism. Although Ukraine is unlikely to throw Russia back to its borders any time soon, the war will likely trend in Ukraine's favor in the coming months. But only if the West does not blink first.

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What is file backup software?

Acronis

File backup software enables a user to make one or more exact copies — at a given point in time — of the data that resides on their computer, or exact copies of their PC / Mac’s entire hard drive.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘Use of Social Media in Disasters’

Disaster Zone

What is keeping you from using the power of social media?

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Is Training the Right Solution?

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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Why Data Is Key to the ‘Third Wave’ of IT Agility

Pure Storage

We frequently talk about “waves of agility” in business and technology—like waves of enterprise agility or waves of cloud agility. I’ve been watching the waves of IT agility for a couple of decades now, and we’re clearly in its third wave—and it’s all about data. . Specifically, the third wave of IT agility is about data as a key asset and the idea that businesses that succeed will be using multiple parallel data sources to their advantage.

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Finnish and Swedish NATO Membership: Toward a Larger, Stronger, Smarter Alliance

The Rand Blog

Finland and Sweden are poised to become full NATO members in the near future. The Nordic pair's entry into NATO means that alliance leaders and planners confront new challenges, and just as many opportunities.

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Best Practices for Personal Data Protection

Acronis

Personally identifiable information (PII), or just “personal information” can be any piece of information enabling the identification of an individual — either through independent use, or by combining it with other elements of data.

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Cyber Insurance in Fort Lauderdale: How to Protect Your Business

LAN Infotech

Cyber Insurance in Fort Lauderdale: How to Protect Your Business. Key Points: The threat of cybercrime is real and growing. As the threat of cybercrime grows, so does the need for cyber insurance. Cyber insurance can help protect your business from the financial damages of a cyberattack. The threat of cyberattacks in Fort Lauderdale is real and increasing every day.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

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.

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Recurring Revenue Models Are Great for Growth—Are You Ready?

Pure Storage

“Whoever holds the subscription (as a service) holds the key to growth.” These words of wisdom from Andy Martin, Pure’s vice president of global partner sales, hit the target in terms of the benefits of recurring revenue business models, also known as subscription models. . When businesses offer products and services via subscription models, they cushion the ups and downs of forecasting, purchasing, and migrations that can damage revenue and growth.

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SIA New Member Profile: Sharry

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Sharry provides touchless mobile access, reception management, tenant engagement and enterprise access solutions. The company is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, with additional global offices and teams in the United States and Brazil. SIA spoke with Kevin Wilhelm, country manager at Sharry, about the company’s history and offerings, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Acronis Cyber Protect stopped all the threats in the Advanced Protection Test commissioned by AV-Test.org

Acronis

In their Advanced Protection tests, the famous German testing institute, AV-Test.org, wanted to accent how various products deal with ransomware in reality, and at what stage and how threats are actually detected and stopped. The test was commissioned in February 2022, but the results were published in June.

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A New Era? NATO's Prioritisation of Human Security in an Insecure World

The Rand Blog

Human security and NATO's role and responsibility to protect civilians during conflict saw new prioritization in the alliance's 2022 Strategic Concept. While much progress has been made, more could be done to ensure the alliance can deliver on these commitments.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

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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Huge Momentum for Zerto with New Hires Across the Globe

Zerto

Following a record-breaking year of growth in 2021 , Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has continued its momentum with the expansion into a third region in EMEA – North West Europe. Zerto will now have a presence in France, Spain, Italy, and Israel with the view to build these regions out further in the near future. This expansion aligns Zerto with HPE’s global footprint and supports the growing demand it is seeing in these regions for disaster recovery, backup and cloud mobilit

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Survey Results: Findings from BPC’s Survey of HUD CDBG-DR Grantees

Disaster Zone

For long-term housing following a disaster, HUD CDBG-DR is the answer.

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Why Mac users need cyber protection too?

Acronis

For many years, many consumers and companies have believed that macOS devices are more secure than Windows operating systems (OSs). Unfortunately, this widespread misconception simply isn’t true.

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Learning, Relearning, and Not Learning the Lessons of COVID-19

The Rand Blog

Several recent announcements have demonstrated how little has been learned from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential need for a national reckoning to assess shortfalls and develop recommendations for preparing for and responding to future pandemics and other biological risks. To this end, the United States should create a national commission—not unlike the 9/11 Commission—to develop a way forward.

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Seven principles of the zero trust security model

Citrix

The reality of today’s fast-paced, increasingly remote work environment positions your business as vulnerable to security breaches. Your employees increasingly rely on their own unprotected devices for work, leveraging SaaS and web-based apps to access your valuable assets and data.… The post Seven principles of the zero trust security model first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Disasters Help Define the South

Disaster Zone

Two of the top seven researched words have to do with disasters.

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Personal cyber protection - Acronis

Acronis

Personal cyber protection is the sequence of steps necessary to secure our vital data against all potential cyberthreats.

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In Search of an Equity Lens: A Physician's Journey

The Rand Blog

Patient health outcomes, communication with providers, and overall patient satisfaction improve when patients and providers share a similar background. Further, diverse work environments may positively impact health care provider job satisfaction. Increasing diversity in health care work settings is a first important step that could help to increase equity and inclusion in these environments.

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Automated and Remote Inspection and Testing of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems

National Fire Protection Association

Remote inspections and automated testing were trends that were gaining momentum in codes and standards and field application for several years. Then in the first half of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic was in its early stages and strict lockdowns were being enforced, it pushed this trend to progress even faster as many more realized its potential. During this time, the development of a proposed new standard NFPA 915, Standard on Remote Inspections, continued.

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Your guide to Citrix graphics workload deployments with Citrix HDX 3D Pro

Citrix

Over the last year, I’ve worked with customers to deploy and tune 3D graphics Citrix workloads leveraging graphics processing units (GPUs). Historically, GPUs have been reserved for graphics-intensive workloads, such as engineering modeling or modern workflows like machine learning. But … The post Your guide to Citrix graphics workload deployments with Citrix HDX 3D Pro first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Does Linux need antivirus software?

Acronis

This article is intended for IT professionals who are either new to Linux or are looking to learn more about using third-party antivirus solutions with the Linux OS.

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Going “Beyond the Tailpipe” for Automaker Sustainability Using AI

Pure Storage

All major automakers have committed to carbon reduction goals. A major focus is reducing emissions from cars via increased electrification of vehicles. But sustainability efforts need to look “beyond the tailpipe,” as McKinsey says, to include the entire car manufacturing process. . This is where artificial intelligence (AI) can play a key role. Digital manufacturing transformation that leverages AI is impacting multiple industries.

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Proactive Tips for Businesses Facing Hail Damage Claims

Risk Management Monitor

Last week, a severe thunderstorm unleashed massive hailstones in Alberta, Canada, damaging dozens of cars and unleashing potentially record-breaking hailstones the size of grapefruits. While the stones were notable, the storm was less of a rarity—indeed, hail is becoming increasingly common and increasingly costly as a natural catastrophe peril around the world.