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New FEMA Report on Climate Adaptation Planning Guidance for Emergency Managers

Recovery Diva

New FEMA Report: Climate Adaptation Planning Guidance for Emergency Managers. (81 pp). The Climate Adaption Planning: Guidance for Emergency Managers (this guide) is intended to help state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) emergency managers incorporate climate adaptation into emergency management planning efforts. It discusses climate science in the context of disaster preparedness and explains how emergency managers can help communities develop effective climate adaptation strategies.Comm

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Office Activism Makes Crisis Management for Businesses More Difficult

Bernstein Crisis Management

Office Activism Makes Crisis Management for Businesses More Difficult Wall St. Journal Calls out the Problem The article discusses the trend of business leaders being increasingly resistant to employee activism that disrupts workplace operations. Google’s recent firing of 28 employees who protested a cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government is highlighted as a significant example of this shift.

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Green Your Data Center with Pure Storage

Pure Storage

Green Your Data Center with Pure Storage by Pure Storage Blog Happy Earth Day! In celebration of Earth Day, we have a wonderful video where Pure Storage Executives and one of our key partners, Intel, talk about how we approach and implement sustainability into our overall business, goals, and philosophy. As a recognized leader in sustainable data storage, we are proud that we are embracing key principles of sustainability and social change.

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PagerDuty FY24 Impact Report: Building an Equitable and Sustainable Future by Shelley Webb

PagerDuty

Today, we are proud to share PagerDuty’s fourth annual Impact Report , which describes the work we’ve done across five key Global Impact pillars to build an equitable and sustainable future: our people, our products, responsible business practices, philanthropic investments, and planet stewardship. PagerDuty’s impact strategy is tightly integrated with our mission to revolutionize operations and build customer trust by anticipating the unexpected in an unpredictable world.

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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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FEMA Grants For Flood Resilience

Recovery Diva

From Homeland Security Today: Biden-Harris Administration Offers $295 Million to Boost Community Resilience Against Climate Change. President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Fund States’ Abilities to Make Structures Safer and More Resilient FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell has announced that 16 states and one Tribal Nation are eligible for a total of up to $295 million in funding for flood resilience through the fiscal year 2023 Swift Current funding opportunity, made possi

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Japan's Remarkable Call for American Leadership

The Rand Blog

In early April, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appeared before the U.S. Congress and told the United States to act like a global power. But Kishida's speech contained no censure or accusations. Just a plea from one of America's closest allies to members of Congress to come back and be the champion of the international order that it knows America can be.

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Operational Excellence at the New York Stock Exchange: Our Q&A with NYSE’s President by Jesse Purewal

PagerDuty

Mitigating the risk of operational failure is top of mind—and a top budget priority —for executives. A single unplanned event can have a disruptive effect across the organization, an outcome management teams work hard to avoid. For the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), operational resilience is critical given the role it plays in the global economy and capital flows.

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FEMA Has Spent $4B to Help Destroy Flood-Prone Homes

Recovery Diva

From CMBC: Here’s why FEMA has spent about $4 billion to help destroy flood-prone homes The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has spent around $4 billion assisting in the purchase of about 45,000 to 50,000 damaged homes since 1989, according to A.R. Siders, director of the University of Delaware’s Climate Change Science and Policy Hub, who analyzed FEMA’s data in 2019.

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Essentials 4 Job Security: Highlights From the 2024 WISF Giveback at ISC West

Security Industry Association

This annual initiative calls on the security industry to give back by supporting Dress for Success of Southern Nevada’s efforts to help women achieve financial independence. The Security Industry Association (SIA) Women in Security Forum (WISF) thanks all companies and security industry professionals who participated in the fourth annual Essentials 4 Job Security Giveback , a program coinciding with ISC West that supports the efforts of Dress for Success of Southern Nevada (DFSSN) to

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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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Microsoft misfire: what can be learnt from the tech giant’s cybersecurity failings

SRM

The industry leader has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons Microsoft has suffered a substantial blow in recent weeks, receiving its most damning set of accusations in four decades. Earlier this month, a federal cybersecurity watchdog group reported that Microsoft’s cloud cybersecurity has colossal and far-spanning shortcomings, including failed technology and an “inadequate” security culture that “requires an overhaul.

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Demystifying Storage Complexity: The Hidden Tradeoffs with Some New Storage Solutions

Pure Storage

Demystifying Storage Complexity: The Hidden Tradeoffs with Some New Storage Solutions by Pure Storage Blog This blog on demystifying storage complexity is Part 3 of a five-part series diving into the claims of new data storage platforms. Click here to read Part 1 and here for Part 2. For over a decade, software-defined storage (SDS) claimed to be a compelling alternative for complex and expensive enterprise data storage.

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Employee Volunteerism Accelerates Progress in Latin America’s Social Sector by Taymar Quezada

PagerDuty

PagerDuty Employees Partner with Propel to Deliver Pivotal Support to Nonprofits At a bustling virtual brainstorming event hosted by the nonprofit Propel , PagerDuty employees Miguel Fuentes Buchholtz and Sara Bertrand eagerly lend their expertise as ‘Community Responders’, voluntary social impact leaders at the company, to support Latin American nonprofits in solving pressing challenges.

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Web3 Fusion: Embracing AI and Beyond

Engaged Foresight

Dreams and Disruptions made waves in Bangkok at the DCN Global Web 3.0: Beyond AI Conference, where digital and media experts from across Asia and the globe engaged in a thought-provoking session of Dungeons & Dragons. They navigated uncharted futures, appreciating the role of unpredictability in learning to foresee and shape tomorrow.

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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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Celebrating Earth Day: Acronis' ongoing journey towards sustainability

Acronis

As Earth Day approaches, it’s the perfect time to reflect on our planet and the steps we're taking to ensure a sustainable future at Acronis.

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Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography

The Rand Blog

A steady stream of advances in quantum computing technology is increasing the urgency to standardize and implement algorithms which are resistant to both present-day computing and on-the-horizon quantum computing. What can we do with post-quantum cryptography now to prepare for the future?

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Digital Security Increasingly Relies on AI. But That Tech Isn't as Secure as We Think

The Rand Blog

In the digital age, tradeoffs—like displaying our faces and fingerprints—are all but required simply to function in society. But the technology charged with securing our information, protecting what we have given up in these trades against theft, fraud, and other potential harms, doesn't always work.

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Biden, Burisma, and Ukraine: Why Moscow's Evolving Narrative of the Crocus City Hall Terrorist Attack Matters for U.S. Elections

The Rand Blog

With the U.S. elections drawing nearer, careful attention should be paid to attempts by foreign actors to influence American voters. By accusing Burisma of sponsoring terrorist attacks in Russia and making loose insinuations that President Biden, the United States, and Western intelligence agencies are somehow connected as well, Russian disinformation campaigns are actively working to undermine and influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

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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