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DRI2022: An Important Update From Al Berman

DRI Drive

After months of soul searching, discussions, and after an extensive in-person site visit to Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas last week, DRI is pleased to announce that there will be a live DRI2022 conference. The conference will take place February 13-16, 2022. Planet Hollywood – and Las Vegas, itself – is taking sanitary and individual […]. The post DRI2022: An Important Update From Al Berman appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Infrastructure Bill: What Gets Funded?

Disaster Zone

Infrastructure week, month and year have finally arrived.

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Critical assets in humanitarian security risk management 

Crisis Response Journal

November 2021: Jason O’Connor discusses the value of networks and why security managers need to invest even more into building personal relationships with their peers

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Taiwan Is Safe Until at Least 2027, but with One Big Caveat

The Rand Blog

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping clearly seeks to bring Taiwan to heel, and by force if necessary, he also continues to promote “peaceful reunification” as Beijing's preferred means. Xi likely would have toughened up his language by now if he thought war was a real possibility.

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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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Report: How Has the Pandemic Changed Risk Management?

DRI Drive

With the continuing impacts of the pandemic, social unrest, geopolitical shakeups, cyber threats and other never-ending uncertainties, are organizations prepared to manage the risks and disruptions facing them, or are they in danger of being overwhelmed? A new report assesses the current risk landscape. The 2021 Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight, published by North […].

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Personal Preparedness

Recovery Diva

As we head into winter, it is worth reviewing this information: How to Build the Ultimate Emergency Response Kit. These dilemmas are often unpredictable, but you can prepare for them ahead of time. One of the best ways to do that is.to build an emergency kit of necessities: food, water, first aid and other survival gear.

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A Kids’ Book About Safety

Disaster Zone

A great Christmas gift idea for the young children in your life.

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Connected Cloud with FlashBlade and Microsoft Azure HPC for EDA Workloads

Pure Storage

Silicon design complexity is ever-growing in resource demand. End users are demanding increasing levels of functionality, better battery life, and lower costs for all the different types of devices they use every day. This is driving chip makers to increase gate counts and push to ever-smaller silicon manufacturing modes. A good example of this rapid innovation is the expected production of 3nm nodes by 2022.

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Advances in Care for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injuries or PTSD

The Rand Blog

A new standard of care proposed by RAND researchers aims to redefine high-quality care for veterans with a traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder. But it also could serve as a template for making health care more effective, more consistent, and more responsive for more patients.

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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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Assessing Racial Equality in Disaster Management

Recovery Diva

From RAND: Assessing Racial Equity in Disaster Management. The RAND Corporation performed a literature review and exploratory study on racial equity, and how disasters can magnify the challenges already present for diverse community members. According to the report, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) made an effort to address racial inequity in their mission statement, but lack the proper resources to follow through and make a meanin

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Protecting Pets from Disasters

Disaster Zone

Today, pets are members of the family.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize Physical Security: Intelligent, Autonomous Systems That Prevent Incidents Are Coming

Security Industry Association

Gopal Paripally, global head of technology and vice president for Johnson Controls. Future security systems will be faster, more efficient and more agile to maintain safety in workplaces, on campuses, and at public venues. The current state of security technology is often too disconnected to easily adapt to future needs. For security systems to respond to threats in a mixed physical and digital environment, these systems will need to evolve to become centrally managed, easy to integrate and buil

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Backup Failure: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It

Unitrends

Businesses find comfort in backups, knowing data is protected from loss. Unfortunately, the reliability factor of backups depends on a number of factors, from the backup approach, state of the environment and the backup schedule. Likewise, recovery depends on the type of backups, restore method required and the recovery target. It’s no wonder that even […].

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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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Disaster Philanthropy

Recovery Diva

Now Available: the eighth edition of the Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report today. Based on the latest available data, the report documents $30 billion in private, public, corporate and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019. Though it feels likes like ages ago, that year we saw Hurricane Dorian cause catastrophic damage, wildfires plague the Amazon, California and Australia, and Cyclone Ida c

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Word of the Day: ‘Bunkum’

Disaster Zone

It certainly fits our current political situation.

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A Tradition of Service: Q&A with Two Veterans

The Rand Blog

Before they became RAND researchers, Jonathan Wong and Joslyn Fleming served as U.S. Marines. In this interview, they discuss what made them want to join the service, what led them to research, and how their military experience guides the work they do at RAND.

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Protecting Your Home from Animals & Wildlife Intruders

Constellation

It’s common to wonder how to protect your home from wildlife. People in suburban areas are dealing with more wildlife around their homes as development expands into formerly rural areas. The post. (This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post.).

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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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IT Spending Trends of 2022

BMC

Remote employees, supply chain headaches, openings, then closures, and the Great Resignation are just some of the stressful issues that most organizations and leaders have had to face this past year. And although many of the unknowns of the pandemic are hopefully coming to an end, that doesn’t mean uncertainty is out the door for […].

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Now a Cyber Vulnerability With Bluetooth

Disaster Zone

Bluetooth is ubiquitous. like, everywhere!

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ISC East Session Preview: See – and Hear – the Potential of Audio Analytics

Security Industry Association

ISC East 2021 is coming up Nov. 17-18 in New York City, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC East recently revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC East program , including keynote presentations from top luminaries and 15+ sessions from over 40 industry expert speakers on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments.

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Home structure fires and even home fire deaths are all too common in the news

National Fire Protection Association

Stories of home structure fires and even home fire deaths are all too common in the news. During 2015 to 2019, US fire departments responded to an estimated average of 346,800 home structure fires per year. These fires caused an annual average of 2,620 civilian deaths; 11,070 civilian fire injuries; and $7.3 billion in direct property damage. Roughly three-quarters of civilian fire deaths and. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Business, Interrupted: Adopting New Skill Sets to Evolve as Continuity and Resilience Professionals

Castellan

As the threat landscape and risks continue to evolve and expand in business continuity and operational resilience for organizations of all sizes around the globe, it is becoming increasingly more important for industry professionals to evolve and change with it. It’s a time of transformation and with that comes the need to continuously add to our skill sets, letting our experiences guide us toward opportunities to be ever-more prepared to deal with the next big disaster or disruption for our wor

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Job: Accounting and Grant Manager Position

Disaster Zone

Come work with Eric Holdeman!

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The Long Path to True Convergence: Where Do Things Really Stand and Why Have They Not Progressed Further?

Security Industry Association

Willem Ryan, vice president, marketing and communications for AlertEnterprise. The ongoing digital transformation means limitless opportunities for those who can harness the digitization of the physical world safely and effectively. But these changes have forever altered the threat landscape, leaving no entity without risk. According to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), today’s threats result from hybrid attacks targeting both physical and cyber assets.

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Christmas Tree Fire Safety Requirements

National Fire Protection Association

With the holiday season fast approaching, the presence of combustible decorations festive lights, and Christmas trees has also arrived. The presence of additional furnishings and contents, especially dry and unmaintained Christmas trees and other vegetation can contribute significantly to the fuel load of a space and how quickly a fire can develop and spread.

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Product’s Perspective: Better Together – The Importance of Using Integrated Software for Vendor Management

LogisManager

Product’s Perspective: Better Together – The Importance of Using Integrated Software for Vendor Management. From the perspective of our Product team, the challenges of risk and compliance professionals are at the forefront. This collaborative group of developers, designers, lawyers and former risk managers uses those insights, along with rigorous R&D, to inform the way LogicManager works.

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Emergency Management Program Manager, Pierce County, Wash.

Disaster Zone

This is a great position.

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IntelligentSIA: 12 Ways to Get Involved With SIA This Month

Security Industry Association

Hey SIA members! Here are the top things you need to know about our latest activities and offerings, upcoming events and opportunities and more. Welcome, New SIA Members! The Security Industry Association (SIA) would like to welcome its newest members: APF Technologies , Concentric Security , Constant Technologies , Dataspeed Inc. , Evolv Technology , Industry Alarm , Johnson Matthey , PureTech Systems and Rhombus Systems.

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Women in Insurance: Sherisa Crevier, Chief Operating Officer, Parker, Smith & Feek

Chisel AI

"Those of us that are in these positions, men and women alike, have a responsibility to develop the women around us to take on those roles." – Sherisa Crevier, COO, Parker, Smith & Feek.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Contract Management

LogisManager

FREE Download: 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools Download Your Copy. Contract Management is an essential part of any Third Party Risk Management program. A strong Contract Management program not only prevents you from missing key deadlines or renewals, but also ensures that each contract is properly reviewed to make certain that it has all of the terms in place needed to protect your organization and mitigate risks from the third parties you work with.