DRI Drive
MARCH 16, 2023
As federal regulators take over Silicon Valley Bank in the wake of its collapse, many finance sector resilience professionals are looking at its risk management strategies to figure out what went wrong. When the SVB collapse was announced on Mar. 10, it surprised many in the banking and finance industry, along with number of workers […] The post Risky Business at Silicon Valley Bank: What Happened?
Recovery Diva
MARCH 13, 2023
FEMA is seeking comments on its new draft guide titled Achieving Equitable Recovery; a Post Disaster Guide for Local Officials. Note the guide is 111pp. Click to access fema_achieving-equitable-recovery-a-post-disaster-guide-local-officials-draft.
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Disaster Zone
MARCH 13, 2023
Drought, rain, snow, more snow, rain, more rain. More drought?
The Rand Blog
MARCH 14, 2023
Bank runs as a source of systemic risk are nothing new. To manage systemic risks in the age of social media, regulators may need to anticipate where the crisis will go and build in automatic brakes to slow them down. There likely won't be time to react at the speed of negotiation between regulators and bankers.
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.
DRI Drive
MARCH 15, 2023
DRI International is proud to announce that Roberto (Rob) Zegarra, MBCP, CCRP has been named Director of Education, taking over for retiring director (and recent Honor Roll Award recipient) Gary Villeneuve. “Rob is a truly excellent addition to the team. He and I have worked together on various projects over more than a decade,” said […] The post DRI Announces Roberto Zegarra as Director of Education appeared first on DRI Drive.
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Disaster Zone
MARCH 14, 2023
Finding your technology path going forward.
Pure Storage
MARCH 16, 2023
Protecting Your VMs with the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin Replication Manager by Pure Storage Blog The Pure Storage® vSphere Plugin can now manage VM migrations. Learn more about this new feature and how to use it in your environment. The post Protecting Your VMs with the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin Replication Manager appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.
DRI Drive
MARCH 13, 2023
Modern response to flood risk hasn’t been enough to withstand the constant threat they create in nearly every populated area. And with the projected outlook only getting worse, how can organizations hope to manage these risks? In “Staying Above Water: A Systemic Response to Rising Flood Risk,” researchers built on the World Economic Forum’s latest […] The post Current Flood Risk Management Isn’t Enough – How Can You Prepare for What’s to Come?
Recovery Diva
MARCH 15, 2023
Just out today from the GAO, this two page report titled: Disaster Assistance: Action Needed to Improve Resilience, Response, and Recovery. It offers a big picture overview of several recent GAO reports on disasters.
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
Disaster Zone
MARCH 16, 2023
It is not an after-action report, it a map forward for businesses and governments.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 14, 2023
If the U.S. military shoots down a North Korean ICBM fired in the direction of the United States and its territories, North Korea will regard it as an act of war. Even in the realm of North Korean rhetoric, this is extreme.
Security Industry Association
MARCH 16, 2023
New Security Industry Association (SIA) member LONG Building Technologies combines building automation, HVAC equipment, HVAC service, security solutions and parts to provide a simple solution for maximum building performance and peace of mind. SIA spoke with Chris Bracken, Alaska branch manager at LONG Building Technologies, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.
Recovery Diva
MARCH 15, 2023
From the San Francisco Chronicle: What’s the best way to survive an earthquake? Protect your democracy. The authors conclusion: “The lesson for my new neighbors in the United States: corruption and the erosion of democracy aren’t simply injustices, they’re deadly.
Pure Storage
MARCH 14, 2023
Beef Up Security Against Physical and Cyber Attacks with Purity//FA 6.4.3 by Pure Storage Blog New Rapid Data Locking (RDL) key helps safeguard data in high-risk environments. The post Beef Up Security Against Physical and Cyber Attacks with Purity//FA 6.4.3 appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 11, 2023
Excessive drinking creates massive economic costs because of its effects on workplace productivity, health care expenditures, and crime. This raises the question: Should some people be required to stop drinking?
Security Industry Association
MARCH 13, 2023
Security Industry Association (SIA) members and the security industry are mourning the recent loss of Ron Spiller, principal at R.F. Spiller & Associates, a SIA and industry icon who passed away on March 6. Spiller, who actively participated in SIA for over 20 years, began his security industry career in 1969 as the general manager of Bourns Security Systems.
Recovery Diva
MARCH 14, 2023
Back in November of 2022, I did a posting about a new report on recovery from the GAO. See: [link] The challenge is to see what GAO recommended and what FEMA actually did in the new disaster recovery report now out for comment. [See previous posting on this site for access.] The best analyses will be published on this site in the future.
MHA Consulting
MARCH 16, 2023
The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources From the Frying Pan into the Fire Last week MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog where he listed, linked to, and described some of the best blog posts and other
The Rand Blog
MARCH 17, 2023
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is formally changing its official mission statement to be more inclusive. This is a meaningful step forward in symbolically affirming the VA's dedication to serving all who served.
Disaster Zone
MARCH 16, 2023
TikToc is a poster child for this.
Recovery Diva
MARCH 11, 2023
From the WashPost: Insurers slashed Hurricane Ian payouts far below damage estimates, documents and insiders reveal
National Fire Protection Association
MARCH 13, 2023
An area of refuge is one way to satisfy the accessible means of egress requirements. One of the most common questions when it comes to areas of refuge besides “What is an area of refuge?” is “Do the exit stairs need to be oversized?” Like so many other code questions the answer is “It depends.” It is going to depend on what is serving as your area of refuge.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 17, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a need for a more-robust health security paradigm within the broader national security context. But addressing preparedness and response shortfalls for national-level challenges might not be fully possible without first addressing the glaring seams and gaps between the various stakeholder communities.
Disaster Zone
MARCH 16, 2023
The march toward Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues.
Zerto
MARCH 15, 2023
IT is filled with acronyms. From A to Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA) , there’s no shortage of letter combinations that make up technical jargon. However, these acronyms help us quickly describe the relationship between technical functions, like two that we hear often when talking about application infrastructure: SRE and DR. Site reliability engineering (SRE) and disaster recovery (DR) are two important activities that ensure the availability and resilience of an organization’s app
Citrix
MARCH 13, 2023
Citrix Gateway service now supports Loss tolerant mode (preview), which uses EDT Lossy transport protocol to enhance the end-user audio experience for users connecting through networks with high latency and packet loss. In recent years, remote work has become increasingly … The post Preview: EDT Lossy on Citrix Gateway service first appeared on Citrix Blogs.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 16, 2023
Ashley Woo, an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, aims to bring teachers' perspectives into policymaking. In this interview, she discusses her research on teachers' responses to state restrictions on how they can address topics related to race and gender in the classroom.
Disaster Zone
MARCH 14, 2023
Thoughts on the situation we have moving forward.
National Fire Protection Association
MARCH 15, 2023
NFPA 70E®, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace® Section 110.5(M)(1) requires auditing of your electrical safety program (ESP) to determine if the ESP continues to comply with current NFPA 70E requirements. Section 110.5(F) requires that the ESP identify the controls by which it is measured and monitored. Electrically safety in the workplace will stagnate without this step where improvements for safety are implemented.
Citrix
MARCH 16, 2023
This blog post was co-authored by Gavin Strong, Pre-Sales Engineer at Citrix. To meet the needs of a fast-growing, distributed workforce, organizations have rolled out virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with a goal of improving employee productivity and the end-user experience.… The post Uncover VDI and DaaS data risks with in-session clipboard monitoring first appeared on Citrix Blogs.
The Rand Blog
MARCH 14, 2023
A 2015 landslide that killed three people in Sitka, Alaska, changed how residents looked at the steep hills all around them. The community worked with researchers to develop a warning system to prevent such tragedies in the future.
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