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Are Military Coups Back in Style in Africa?

The Rand Blog

On a continent that was recently lauded for its democratic advancement, this backsliding suggests the military coup may be dangerously back in fashion. There have been five coups in sub-Saharan Africa since August 2020.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes.

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Do you have a data breach response plan?

IT Governance BC

An effective incident response programme can help you detect, react to and respond to incidents in a fast, planned and coordinated fashion, limiting the damage, reducing recovery time and costs, and enabling you to meet the GDPR’s requirements.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

susceptible t o fads and fashions instead of true paradigms? By contrast, a fad or fashion involves imitation rather than strictly parallel endeavour (a fad is a more pejorative version of a fashion).

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CCPA Compliance Checklist

Reciprocity

Guides and checklists can only go so far if you’re still using old-fashioned spreadsheets to track your compliance efforts.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

The return of the mullet What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet.

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Communicating When Disaster Strikes – Tips for Preparedness

Kings Bridge BCP

In order to keep gossip to a minimum and maintain a positive reputation, clear communication about the incident must occur in a timely fashion. One of the first things people do when disaster strikes is start communicating. Someone calls 911.

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Unitrends is Hiring Channel Account Managers

ChannelBloom

Resolve partner related issues and sales conflicts in a timely fashion. Position Description: The Channel Account Manager is responsible for aiding in identifying, developing, and expanding relationships with resellers with their Regional Senior Channel Account Manager. Duties of a CAM may include training, mentoring, and motivating channel partners in the assigned territory; generating additional demand through partner events, calls, emails, etc.;

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How to Protect Your Database with Zerto

Zerto

In this fashion, Zerto restores business continuity as soon as possible, and the failed, corrupted, or compromised VM can continue to be analyzed for root causes. For a business, databases have become more valuable than diamonds, as they often store millions of dollars in value.

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Data and Cyber Resilience is Critical to Your Company’s Cybersecurity Strategy

Solutions Review

The lens through which to see data backup and disaster recovery (BUDR) must be widened to encompass cyber defence and data infrastructure in a more comprehensive fashion.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas.

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Automating Risk Functions for Greater Value Creation

Risk Management Monitor

No longer duplicate costs by operating the departments of your business in a siloed fashion. Despite recent volatility, more than 60% of risk executives surveyed in a recent PwC US Pulse Survey were optimistic about the global economy, as well as the state of the pandemic recovery. This optimism could stem from a greater alignment between risk functions and the business.

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The 7 Best Ransomware Books Available on Amazon

Solutions Review

There are plenty of free resources available online (including our popular best practices section, Buyer’s Guide for Data Protection Platforms , and Data Protection Vendor Comparison Map ), but sometimes, it’s best to do things the old-fashioned way.

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How To Prepare For A Strong Recovery From COVID-19

Swan Island Network

You need to work with customers and suppliers in a tightly coordinated fashion. How To Prepare For A Strong Recovery From COVID-19. Pete O'Dell. March 29, 2020. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. The world is in free fall and people are confused.

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Know Your Risk: Managing an Expanding Universe of Uncertainty

Fusion Risk Management

You can do this by connecting your information technology assets and their risks in an integrated fashion across all program areas in your organization. Solutions Customer Summit Series.

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Risk Management: Is Your Strategy Keeping Pace?

On Solve

Without this, the tendency is for departments to operate in separate silos and tackle risk in a disjointed, ad-hoc fashion. Like most everything in our world, today’s business climate is marked by constant change.

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Business, Interrupted: Creating a Network of Preparedness

Castellan

As organizations of all sizes experience a range of concurrent disruptions, from managing pandemic response to tackling cyber breaches, we’ve now moved into an era where we should no longer wonder if we might experience a disruption but accept that for all of us the new focus should be when.

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Why All CISOs Need to Prioritize Quantum Tech Today

FS-ISAC

Major technological shifts do not happen in a linear fashion. For most CISOs who think about quantum technologies at all, it is a vague consideration for a day far in the future. It is hard to prioritize it when we have so many concerns we need to deal with today.

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The 9 Best Books for Disaster Recovery Managers in 2022

Solutions Review

Our editors have compiled this directory of the best books for disaster recovery managers based on Amazon user reviews, rating, and ability to add business value.

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What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review

MHA Consulting

This year made one thing clear: the old-fashioned manual workaround ought to be the next big thing.

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Supply Chain Disruption Forcing San Diego Businesses to Make Tough Decision this Holiday Season

Erwood Group

This is especially true for technology, fashion, and perishable products that rapidly lose value and salability over time.”. Supply Chain Disruption Forcing San Diego Businesses to Make Tough Decision this Holiday Season. Local Crisis Management Expert Believes Distributions Challenges Are an Opportunity, Not a Crisis. The Halloween decorations have been put away and we are now entering the holiday shopping season.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

Remote access capabilities (VPN) can accommodate large-scale remote access of displaced employees either in a remote or relocated fashion. Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans. Business Continuity Plans.

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VeeamON 2022: a heavy focus on improved software efficiencies with the final customer outcome in mind

OffsiteDataSync

In typical Veeam fashion, the after-party did not disappoint and proved to be the perfect way to finish off VeeamON 2022 and already has us excited for theVeeamON 2023 – see you in Miami! .

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Backup and Recovery Vendors: What MSPs Should Want and Demand

Solutions Review

MSPs today need a single web app to manage customer data in a multi-tenant fashion. This is part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories.

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3 Guiding Principles for RegTech Success

Pure Storage

Simplicity: Legacy solutions have generally been implemented in a piecemeal fashion, leading to overly complex systems. This is the first blog post in a series on RegTech.

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A man walks into a room

Emergency Planning

It has a reddish tinge, which leaves him open to much ridicule both in the streets and at fashionable gatherings. A man walks into the room. He is extremely handsome and quite tall (at least for his time, about 520 years ago). He is neither fat nor thin.

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Three ISC West Sessions That Will Help You Keep an Eye on Tech Trends

Security Industry Association

While it’s a massive and complex project, the Mexico City Smart City project really shows all the ways that cloud video surveillance differs from old fashioned on-premises security systems in any application.

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ISO 27001 Requirements Checklist: Steps and Tips for Implementation

Reciprocity

Complying with regulatory and security frameworks is labor intensive, especially if you are tracking requirements on an old-fashioned spreadsheet.

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Breakthrough Awards: Mississippi Department of Revenue, our Data Warrior of the Year

Pure Storage

The beauty of the FlashBlade architecture is that it can scale in a linear fashion, and we don’t have to worry about bottlenecks as our data volumes grow,” says Deehan. “We’ve

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Microsoft Team Solutions for Law Firms in South Florida

LAN Infotech

With the uncertainty surrounding the possibility of a complete return-to-office situation, hybrid technologies and policies enable attorneys to work remotely or in a hybrid fashion that is efficient and effective. Microsoft Team Solutions for Law Firms in South Florida.

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Building Your Compass for Real-time Risk and Resiliency

Fusion Risk Management

The technologies available today bring real-time perspective into any situation, spotting key vulnerabilities and single points of failure before disaster strikes, detecting issues, and deploying key assets in an integrated and frictionless fashion. Compass Customer Summit Series.

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6 Edge Computing Trends to Watch in 2022

Pure Storage

But in many ways, only being able to deploy edge systems in a connected fashion was not only difficult but also made certain offerings unavailable—especially to more remote industries and operations. Edge computing is getting “edgier.”

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The DRaaS Spectrum: Which Type Is Right for You?

Zerto

Old-fashioned as that sounds, this cumbersome and time-consuming process was once the gold standard for disaster recovery services—it saved organizations from potentially suffering even longer outages and excessive data loss. What Is DRaaS? .

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7 Edge Computing Trends to Watch in 2022

Pure Storage

But in many ways, only being able to deploy edge systems in a connected fashion was not only difficult but also made certain offerings unavailable—especially to more remote industries and operations. Edge computing is getting “edgier.”

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Lowering Azure VMs Recovery Time with Pure Cloud Block Store and Azure Automation

Pure Storage

The gold standard of DR solutions is ensuring these two goals are set to a lower value with minimum effort and in a cost-saving fashion. . Planning your business disaster recovery solution is an exhausting process that requires a lot of rehearsal testing and allocation of expensive resources.

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Microsoft Exchange Emergency Mitigation (EM) Service

LAN Infotech

Exchange Server can only function in a highly privileged fashion, which makes it an attractive target for hackers who, once they breach the network, run laterally through the infrastructure, resulting in devastating consequences for the business.

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Employee Engagement is Key in COVID-19 Recovery

Risk Management Monitor

Many organizations across industries have already embraced the fact that working remotely, in some form or fashion, is here to stay. Businesses and their employees have had to rapidly adjust to the shutdowns and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and their ability to adapt and pivot will continue to be critical as organizations start to recover from the impacts of the crisis.

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Foundation for Advancing Security Talent Opens Registration for 2023 FAST Golf Classic

Security Industry Association

White sand bunkers protect large, undulating, bent grass greens fashioned after those at Augusta National Golf Club. DALLAS, Texas— Registration for the FAST Golf Classic Tournament is now open for 2023. 

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Blazing-Fast SQL Backup and Restore for Retailers

Pure Storage

Are you confident you can recover SQL in a timely fashion? Retail is a transaction-centric industry. There are a lot of transactions every day for goods and services. How many is a lot? Globally, there are roughly 1.01 billion credit-card transactions every day.

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Third-Party Risk Management 101

Fusion Risk Management

Tracking these items in an organized fashion is critical to the effectiveness of the contract management process.