Recovery Diva

MARCH 19, 2023

Invited review by John Plodinec, Ph.D. is an independent scholar, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. Once again, Claire has asked me to review the latest in the Resilience Matters series – this one subtitled Collective Action for Healthier Communities. The ebook , again edited by Laurie Mazur, consists of 55 short essays, most of which have appeared as opinion pieces in various periodicals. The ebook is free, and can be downloaded here.

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Disaster Zone

MARCH 14, 2023

Finding your technology path going forward

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Technology 189

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.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

MARCH 21, 2023

The 3 Quickest Ways to Improve Crisis Prevention Success Rates The least damaging crises are those you prevent altogether or for which, at a minimum, you have crisis prevention systems and processes in place to minimize damage that can’t be totally avoided. Very logical, right? Factually, in our experience, most organizations still remain dramatically underprepared for crises.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

This webinar with Tim Buteyn will teach you strategies for motivating learners even when training them on "boring" topics, methods to capture learner attention and bring your courses to life, and techniques that convert a course from dry and lifeless to relevant and engaging.

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.

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Communications Consulting BCM Media 84

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.pdf

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Disaster Zone

MARCH 13, 2023

Drought, rain, snow, more snow, rain, more rain. More drought

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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.

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Banking Resilience Risk Management Management 130

NexusTek

MARCH 1, 2023

READ TIME: 4 MIN March 1, 2023 Future-Proofing in an Age of Constant Change The notion of future-proofing your business within an environment characterized by constant change may seem contradictory at first glance.

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Strategic Manufacturing Cybersecurity Technology 81

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enhance your professional development and lifelong learning.

Entertainment

MHA Consulting

MARCH 9, 2023

We write a lot about BIAs in our blog and ebooks, and no wonder: the business impact analysis is the cornerstone of a sound business continuity program. In today’s post, we list, link to, and describe MHA’s best BIA resources.

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Consulting Impact Analysis BCM Outage 84

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.

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Banking Media Management 108

Recovery Diva

MARCH 17, 2023

As regular readers know, the Diva has been very busy providing essential postings in recent days. If you appreciate the effort, please consider donating to support this blog. Please use the Donate Now button in the right hand column. The blog has been running for 13 years, and an archive exists for articles still available via the search function. Funds are needed to maintain the site with WordPress. Thank you

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Disaster Zone

MARCH 16, 2023

TikToc is a poster child for this

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Vulnerability 140

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?

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Risk Management Management 130

Pure Storage

MARCH 1, 2023

What defines the “end of an era” and the dawn of a new one? It’s not just a groundbreaking invention. Electricity was discovered in the 1700s, but that’s not when it changed everything. It took another 100 years to become practical, and another 50 to be widespread. That’s the key.

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Capacity Marketing Resilience Management 110

NexusTek

MARCH 7, 2023

READ TIME: 4 MIN March 7, 2023 How SMBs Can Strategize Like Enterprise-Level Organizations When it comes to IT strategy, larger businesses often have an edge over smaller ones.

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Strategic Technology Cloud Computing Evaluation 72

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.”

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Consulting BCM Mitigation Outage 71

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

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Disaster Zone

MARCH 16, 2023

It is not an after-action report, it a map forward for businesses and governments

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Pandemic Government Resilience 140

everbridge

MARCH 9, 2023

Adlan Hussain , Product Marketing As noted in the Wall Street Journal in February 2023, physical attacks on the U.S. power grid rose 71% last year compared with 2021 and will likely increase this year. The U.S.

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Vulnerability Transportation Government Emergency Response 98

Security Industry Association

MARCH 8, 2023

Each year, the SIA Power 100 program showcases 100 women who are role models, leaders, innovators and influencers in the global security industry. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has revealed the 2023 honoree list for the SIA Women in Security Forum (WISF) Power 100.

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Security Education Communications Technology 98

Solutions Review

MARCH 10, 2023

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of March 10, 2023. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task.

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Malware Publishing Resilience Marketing 64

Citrix

MARCH 8, 2023

Over the past few months, you may have heard about some significant changes to Citrix. Most notably, Citrix Systems went private in September of 2022 and became a business unit of Cloud Software Group.

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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 ”

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Disaster Zone

MARCH 9, 2023

Time has passed quickly

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put the world on notice that Russia might resume nuclear explosive testing. He may see this as bolstering his scare tactics over Ukraine by signaling a possible willingness to use nuclear weapons.

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Technology 92

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.

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Security Manufacturing Activation Consulting 91

AWS Disaster Recovery

MARCH 10, 2023

Welcome to the third post of a multi-part series that addresses disaster recovery (DR) strategies with the use of AWS-managed services to align with customer requirements of performance, cost, and compliance.

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Disaster Recovery Activation Failover High Availability 87

Citrix

MARCH 9, 2023

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Authentication Activation Security 86

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.

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Disaster Zone

MARCH 3, 2023

It is a play that was foretold before it happened

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Vladimir Putin faces no elections, no party or state institutions that threaten his rule, no domestic political opposition. He is not moved by humanitarian crises or overly concerned about international condemnation.

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