Podcasts about Disaster recovery

What's possible when partnership, trust and an optimistic mindset come together under pressure? Aurecon CEO Louise Adams and Perenti CEO and Managing Director Vanessa Torres speak about how they connected over their shared passion for the role of optimism. Learn about the role optimism played in transforming the GEMCO wharf from catastrophe to rebuilt and operational in 14 months – a process that could have taken three to five years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is presented by Create A Video – AP Dillon is a reporter for the North State Journal. Read her reporting at NSJonline.com. She publishes a Substack.com newsletter called More To The Story. She joined me to discuss the failure of Roy Cooper's hurricane recovery efforts as Governor and how his campaign is trying to attack his opponent over Helene recovery efforts. Ever accusation is a confession.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-kaliner-show--6946691/support.Subscribe to the free podcast My preferred podcast platform: SpreakerCheck out my preferred gold & silver company: Revelation Gold GroupHelp support Pete's Walk to End Alzheimers here.All the links to Pete's Prep are free! Plus get exclusive content here!VHS to Digital & Video Transfer Services in Charlotte NC Media Bias Check: GroundNews promo code!Advertising and Booking inquiries: Pete@ThePeteKalinerShow.com  

When natural disasters strike, marginalized communities are often left behind without access to essential recovery resources or digital infrastructure. In her groundbreaking book Climate and Code: Building a Digital and Connected Climate-Resilient Future, Georgetown University Law Center professor and National Geographic Explorer Monica Sanders explores how law, community wisdom, and technology can bridge this gap to build disaster equity. Monica Sanders, founder of The Undivide Project, joins us for an insightful conversation on redefining resilience from the ground up. Drawing from her personal experience surviving Hurricane Katrina to examining digital redlining and community-led initiatives in Panama and Baltimore, Monica highlights why digital access is a critical lifeline during extreme weather events. Discover how centering local knowledge and co-creating digital solutions can empower communities to withstand environmental crises and shape a more resilient future. COMPLETE BLOG & TRANSCRIPT: https://caremorebebetter.com/climate-and-code-bridging-the-digital-divide-in-disaster-recovery-with-monica-sanders/ About Guest: Monica C. Sanders, JD, LL.M., is a law professor, author, journalist, and social entrepreneur working at the intersection of climate resilience, technology, and justice. A New Orleans native whose work was shaped by Hurricane Katrina, she founded The Undivide Project to help communities use digital infrastructure and data to strengthen disaster resilience, and Bonne Terre Labs to build decision-intelligence tools for more responsible infrastructure investment. Sanders teaches at Georgetown University Law Center, is a National Geographic Explorer and Forbes Senior Contributor, and previously held senior disaster, homeland security, and humanitarian roles in government and at the American Red Cross. Her new book, Climate and Code, explores how law and technology can help build a more resilient and equitable future. Guest Website: https://www.monicacsanders.com Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicasanders12/ Guest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monicadrrprof/ Guest YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theundivideproject4007/videos Resources Mentioned: BOOK: Climate and Code: Building Digital Justice in a Connected World Chapters with Time Stamps: 02:40 How Hurricane Katrina Shaped Disaster Resilience And Equity 07:38 Valuing Natural Systems: The Barataria Estuary As Environmental Infrastructure 12:14 Designing Technology With Communities, Not For Them 20:18 Digital Access As A Critical Component Of Climate Resilience 28:51 Data Centers, Hyperscale Tech, And Environmental Justice 38:27 Climate And Code: Leveraging AI Responsibly Without Losing Human Innovation 48:06 Actionable Steps To Build Equitable Community Resilience CONNECT & SUPPORT CARE MORE BE BETTERSubstack: https://caremorebebetter.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetterTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caremorebebetterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/caremorebebetterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-betterCAUSE PARTNER: If you value open dialogue, sustainability, and social equity, I invite you to support our new cause partner —Prescott College. To learn more about this effort and to support the show, visit: https://caremorebebetter.com/support/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In Part Two, Dr. Gopa Green shares how she coordinated a regional response to the Tubbs Fire while facing personal loss, the challenges health care teams faced, and lessons for recovery and stronger disaster preparedness.

In Part Two, Dr. Gopa Green shares how she coordinated a regional response to the Tubbs Fire while facing personal loss, the challenges health care teams faced, and lessons for recovery and stronger disaster preparedness.

What do you say to someone whose house has burnt down and whose husband is still missing?0:00 – Intro: Faith. No Filter.0:43 – The Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Network6:43 – Joining the police: "the veil taken off"10:15 – His first suicide call, at 1914:13 – Hiding the uniform18:43 – Waking up in the back of an ambulance23:26 – When tragedy tears apart a team27:18 – The reality of moral injury38:41 – The role of chaplaincy: “We don't go to fix things”42:06 – Why words ruin silent solidarity51:13 – "It was a terrible privilege"In this episode of Filthy Hope, hosts Rev. Ness Williams-Henke and Rev. Jon Humphries sit down with Rev. Dr. Mark Layson, who serves as the director and senior chaplain for the Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Network (DRCN) in New South Wales. Drawing from his seven years in the police force, four years as a firefighter, and extensive clinical research into moral injury, Mark shares how his own constructs were broken down and rebuilt by the raw realities of frontline emergency work. Together, they strip away the plastic platitudes surrounding trauma, crisis, and faith and confront how human environments handle distress.Moving past traditional psychological labels, they unpack the vital necessity of the "subclinical space": the holy ground where individuals are allowed to simply break down and process tragedy without being prematurely pathologized. Mark outlines the distinct role of disaster recovery chaplains who arrive not to offer easy fixes, theological formulas, or clean wrappers, but to serve as a compassionate, quiet witness to deep devastation. It is an intense look at post-traumatic growth and the paradoxical "terrible privilege" of holding a small candle of hope for people navigating the darkest valleys of existence.#FilthyHope #FaithNoFilter #TraumaAndFaith #FirstResponders #MoralInjury #Chaplaincy #PostTraumaticGrowth #RawFaith #DisasterRecovery

Australia could be one of the safest places on Earth if a global catastrophe strikes.New research has found Australia's isolation, self-sufficiency, and political stability mean it can withstand most crises.The catastrophe could be anything from nuclear winter to asteroid strikes, or even a technological doomsday.But researchers warn no country would escape unscathed.

You already had the threat intel. The IP was on your blocklist, the file hash was known bad. So why did your MDR only raise an alert instead of blocking it? Lieuwe Jan Koning, Co-founder & CTO at ON2IT, and colleague Nicholai Piagentini, Technical Enablement Engineer at ON2IT, make the case for preemptive cybersecurity: the shift from detect-and-clean-up to block-first, and what it means for the future of MDR.Timestamps:(00:00) - Preemptive cybersecurity: what it means for MDR (00:59) - Why detect-and-clean-up is not enough (the leaking tap) (01:42) - You knew the threat: block first (03:34) - Fusing the SOC and operations teams (05:57) - Speed, seconds, and AI versus AI (08:15) - Data freedom and vendor lock-in (10:33) - Dynamic policy without breaking change control Key Topics Covered:Preemptive cybersecurity as the Gartner-flagged direction, and why MDR has to move past detect-and-respondTurning known indicators of compromise into automated blocks at the endpoint, network, and cloudCollapsing the SOC and operational teams so detection and enforcement act as oneSub-second response, AI-driven attacks, and why MTTD and MTTR need to convergeData freedom and data sovereignty, and avoiding vendor cloud lock-inRelated ON2IT Content & Referenced Resources:Threat Talks website: https://threat-talks.com/ ON2IT (Zero Trust as a Service): https://on2it.net/ AMS-IX: https://www.ams-ix.net/ams 

Send us Fan MailHow do you keep serving your community when a hurricane devastates your town? In this episode of The Hot Slice podcast, we hear from Philip Bollhoeffer, vice president of food and beverage for Parks Hospitality Group. Bollhoeffer was the chef who opened the Soprana Rooftop Cucina concept in Asheville, North Carolina, in March 2024. Six months later, Hurricane Helene created deadly flooding in Asheville, and the pizzeria stepped up to help its community: serving as home to media briefings, feeding hungry neighbors and housing employees whose homes were damaged by flooding.Soprana Rooftop Cucina's efforts to help the community during a disaster earned it the Community Impact Award from the Pizza Industry Excellence (PIE) Awards sponsored by Pizza Today. The business also took home the Pizzeria of the Year award for the Southeast region.On this episode, Bollhoeffer shares:•How masons painstakingly crafted a brick pizza oven on the eighth floor of a hotel.•Why local sourcing matters to the pizzeria's menu and the mission.•How the operation saves money by utilizing shared services as part of a hospitality group.•How the team kept serving during disaster recovery – and what it meant to their community.•Why it's important to build your merchandise program around products fans actually want.We cover all this and more on this episode of The Hot Slice podcast.Show Notes:Pizzeria Operator Survey: Be Counted! Pizza Today wants to hear how economic factors and consumer trends are impacting your business. Take our quick survey to ensure your responses will be part of our December 2026 cover story and special report.Pizza Expo Columbus: Celebrate National Pizza Month with your community Oct. 11-12 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. We've got a trade show floor specific to pizzeria operators; seminars, demos and workshops led by successful pizzeria owners, The Great American Pizza Challenge and more.PIE Awards: We've raised the bar for the 2027 PIE Awards, and nominations are open now. Winners will appear in Pizza Today magazine, be honored during a live ceremony at Pizza Expo 2027 and get the chance to join a special episode of The Hot Slice. Don't miss the early-bird entry price, available through Oct. 15.

Amy Rose (CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation) joins the podcast to explore the structural differences between open-source software and open data. Amy breaks down how Overture—founded by AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom—builds interoperable global map layers, resolves complex entity definitions across disparate datasets, and why modern agentic AI workflows require record-level metadata rather than dataset-level summaries.

What distinguishes trauma-responsive care from trauma-informed care, and how can it be applied in practice to support children and families affected by disaster?In this episode, Michelle Roberts (Psychologist) and Sarah Eagland (Social Worker) explore what it looks like to account for and effectively respond to trauma in the context of disaster. Highlighting the important role of trauma-responsive care in translating knowledge and awareness into action and adaptation, they discuss how practitioners can contribute to positive outcomes for children, families and communities.  Equally prioritising practitioner wellbeing, they explore how a culture of psychological safety can support multidisciplinary teams working in disaster recovery and resilience.Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.Share your comments, questions and feedback about Mental Health in Practice: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/ 

The number of missing Australians in the Himalayan flooding disaster has risen to 43, with more than 800 people have killed and thousands more missing. Australia has sent personnel and emergency aid to support rescue efforts, and international specialists are working to reach 350 workers who may have survived in underground tunnels.

Jackelyn Hwang is an expert on the social dynamics of cities. In one line of research, she combines AI and Google Street View to measure quality-of-life factors – such as trash, blight, new construction, and the pace of recovery from climate disasters – to analyze gentrification, racial equity, and overall resident well-being. Her work has shown, for instance, that predominantly Black neighborhoods are last and slowest to gentrify and that displaced Black residents often end up in worse neighborhoods. She recently worked with policymakers at the housing department of Oakland, California, on anti-displacement and anti-homelessness programs and is now working with policymakers across the Bay Area to strengthen neighborhoods. We are clearing a path to more stable communities for everyone, Hwang tells host Russ Altman on this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast. Have a question for Russ? Send it our way in writing or via voice memo, and it might be featured on an upcoming episode. Please introduce yourself, let us know where you're listening from, and share your question. You can send questions to thefutureofeverything@stanford.edu. Episode Reference Links: Stanford Profile: Jackelyn Hwang Learn more about Jackie's work on housing instability in Oakland Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything Website Connect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / Mastodon Connect with School of Engineering >>> Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook Chapters: (00:00:00) Introduction Russ Altman introduces guest Jackie Hwang, a professor of sociology at Stanford University. (00:02:53) Path into Urban Sociology How Hwang's experiences near Philadelphia shaped her interest in cities, inequality, and neighborhood change. (00:04:56) The 21st-Century American City How gentrification, immigration, crime, education, housing, and climate change are reshaping cities. (00:08:03) Defining Gentrification How sociologists understand gentrification as a class-based transformation of neighborhoods. (00:10:02) Studying Gentrification Why race, segregation, and neighborhood inequality complicate simple stories of urban renewal. (00:11:50) Displacement and Instability Why gentrification does not always increase moving rates, but still affects where people end up. (00:14:48) Policy and Anti-Displacement How Hwang's research informs local policy, housing strategy, and homelessness prevention. (00:18:10) Measuring Neighborhood Change How technology can help researchers study changing neighborhoods at scale. (00:18:55) Google Street View and Cities How Street View opened new ways to observe gentrification and neighborhood conditions. (00:20:36) Computer Vision for Urban Research How AI and computer vision are being used to analyze neighborhood conditions. (00:21:53) What Neighborhoods Reveal How visible signs like trash, blight, vacant lots, and construction signal neighborhood change. (00:23:10) Eye Tracking and Perception How researchers study what people notice in neighborhoods and how those cues affect stress. (00:24:09) Climate Change and Recovery How disasters can widen neighborhood inequality through uneven rebuilding and abandonment. (00:26:14) Neighborhoods and Wellbeing How better measurements of neighborhood conditions could guide interventions for safer, more stable communities. (00:28:00) Future In a Minute Rapid-fire Q&A: affordable housing, neighborhood change, and better urban data. (00:29:32) Conclusion Connect With Us:Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything WebsiteConnect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / MastodonConnect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The search for survivors is continuing in Nepal and Tibet after the devastating flash flood that ripped through the Himalayan border region. An already hard job has been made even harder with reports of secondary flood warnings. Dr Jitendra Bothara is a Nepal-born disaster recovery expert who has worked in major disaster zones around the world, including the 2022 floods in Pakistan.

Hear from Texas A&M doctoral candidate Thomas Manzini as he shares how artificial intelligence (AI) helps turn drone imagery into fast, actionable damage reports, improving disaster response when every minute counts.Learn More: CLARKE Project

Earlier this year I sat down at the inaugural WRITA spring conference with Chuck Boyer (Assistant CIO, City of Phoenix, and WRITA Conference Chair), Nick Phillips (CISO, City of Boise), and Scott Magerfleisch (Executive Counselor, Info-Tech Research Group, former CIO, City of Greeley, CO).A backup can be healthy.A recovery can still fail.Boise's infrastructure team brought in Info-Tech to build a real disaster recovery plan — not because anything had gone wrong, but because "we know what to do" was living in people's heads instead of on paper. 3.5 days in a room with IT staff only, no business units. They worked through 15 applications. The city has more than 200. What Nick took away wasn't about storage. It was watching application owners and managers realize that the thing they'd been calling a playbook couldn't be handed to someone else and executed.Chuck has a phrase for why the necessary changes stall out anyway: organizational will. Scott's version of the same idea, applied to AI, is that you have to name the problem before you name the tool.We also talked about:Why every ERP conversation turns into "while we're in here, let's redo the chart of accounts"Business relationship managers (BRMs), and getting to a department before they've already bought the productPublic works asked the cyber team to come teach. So did the library. Lessons Learned.Timestamps 01:48 "Hire for fit, train for skill" 04:58 Culture change dies the moment a leader asks the team to go first 10:22 Why Boise brought in Info-Tech to build a real disaster recovery plan anyway 12:25 200+ server-based apps. They got through 15. 13:04 "We thought we had playbooks. I don't think we truly did." 16:16 Technical debt, aging servers, and the organizational will it takes to touch them 20:24 "We can't do AI for the sake of AI" 22:46 The messy, ugly side of AI nobody's posting about on LinkedIn 25:44 Phoenix's plan: council meetings, agendas, minutes and resolutions, all in an LLM 30:05 Boise's BRMs 32:46 Public works asked the cyber team to come teach. So did the library. Lessons Learned. 36:21 A Colorado city sent over a million dollars to an attacker after a contractor's email was compromised 40:24 "You're not competing with your neighbor"

When disaster strikes, the decisions made in the first hours can have a major impact on the extent of the damage and the recovery process.In this episode of OMAG All Access, host William Shepherd, OMAG Director of Risk Management, sits down with Jay Baker and Ryan Allen of ServiceMaster to discuss disaster response and restoration for Oklahoma cities and towns.From water and fire damage to tornadoes, flooding and mold, the conversation covers what happens after a loss, why a quick response matters and what municipalities can do before disaster strikes. Jay and Ryan also share lessons from decades of restoration experience, common mistakes that can lead to additional damage and what municipalities should consider when choosing a restoration partner.In this episode:Why restoration professionals should be contacted as quickly as possible after a lossHow delayed response can lead to secondary damageSteps municipalities can take before a disaster occursWhat city staff can safely do while waiting for help to arriveCommon mistakes during the restoration processWhat to look for when selecting a restoration partnerLessons learned from major floods, tornadoes and other challenging lossesPreparation can make all the difference when the unexpected happens. Listen in for practical information that can help your municipality build a stronger disaster response plan.

Part Two continues with Srinath Yadlapalli, MD, Lori-Ann Fisher, MD, and Racquel Lowe-Jones, MD, discussing water quality, coordination with hospital administration and the Ministry of Health, and the broader recovery process.

Part Two continues with Srinath Yadlapalli, MD, Lori-Ann Fisher, MD, and Racquel Lowe-Jones, MD, discussing water quality, coordination with hospital administration and the Ministry of Health, and the broader recovery process.

When disasters strike, homes and families often receive immediate attention—but how do businesses recover? Gina Spagnola, President and CEO of the Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce, shares how chambers of commerce help businesses rebuild, recover, and get back on their feet after hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, and other disasters.From Hurricane Ike in Galveston to disaster recovery efforts across the United States and internationally, Gina explains the lessons she has learned about business recovery, community resilience, disaster preparedness, and the importance of knowing when—and how—to rebuild.Learn how chambers of commerce can support local businesses after disasters, connect communities with critical resources, and help economies recover when disaster strikes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can practitioners work safely and collaboratively to support children and families impacted by disaster?Michelle Roberts (Psychologist) and Sarah Eagland (Social Worker) unpack the role of trauma-informed care in addressing the diverse and often-overlooked needs of children in the context of disaster. Focusing on strengths-based approaches, they explore opportunities to build skills that promote feelings of safety, calm, control and agency for children and families.The episode encourages practitioners across health, mental health and community settings to nurture their own wellbeing when working in challenging contexts.Liked this episode? Stay tuned for future episodes by following Mental Health in Practice.Visit the MHPN website for episode host and guest bios, recommended resources and a self-directed CPD form.Share your comments, questions and feedback about Mental Health in Practice: https://mhpn.org.au/podcast-feedback/

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Dr. Josh Bear, a research professor specializing in community resilience and disaster response, shares insights into the complex human and community behaviors during emergencies. We explore how recovery can span years, the importance of tailored communication, and the role of simulation in improving disaster management.BIO: Dr. Joshua Behr is a research professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC). He conducts studies, performs modeling, and publishes insights on resilience, catastrophic events, recovery, evacuation and sheltering, and supply chain material & labor convergence. This entails leveraging natural systems data to model storms and flooding, built environment data to characterize the physical structures in our communities, and social-behavioral data related to population perceptions and behavioral response.Support the showOur premiere sponsor, Social News Desk, has an exclusive offer for PIO Podcast listeners. Head over to socialnewsdesk.com/pio to get three months free when a qualifying agency signs up.

IANR 2632 080826 Line Up4-6pmINTERVIEWS Here's the guest line-up for Sat, August 8, 2026 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker or go to our website and click on the IANR link. Our Podcast has been rated #2 among 100 Podcasts in Houston by feedspot.com and rated in the Top 20 Apple Podcasts in 13 countries by Podstatus.com. In 6 years and with over 1,000 Podcasts, we get thousands of hits each day.TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU'LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.4:20 pm Artificial Intelligence is progressing faster than human intelligence can keep up with it, just as experts had warned us two years ago that the landscape of human experience and work would change dramatically. Many groups and individuals have come along in the past fewmonths to help those less educated in AI to catch up so that they can stay relevant. Today, we hear from Raja Roy and Shashikant Sarada, two professionals who regularly interface with AI in their workplaces, about an AI Bootcamp that the IIT Kharagpur Foundation is holding shortly to help in this re-training of computer skills.4:50 pm Living in the Gulf Coast, we are all well aware of the weather events that can cause havoc to the region, ranging from deep freezes to floods from heavy rains to hurricanes and tornadoes. Kara Cook-Schultz is Director of Disaster Recovery and Community Resilience at the Greater Houston Community Foundation, where she leads regional efforts to strengthen disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and long-term resilience. She also serves as co-director of the Greater Houston Disaster Alliance, a partnership between the GHCF and United Way of Greater Houston that works year-round to improve disaster readiness and strengthen long-term recovery across the region. She joins us today to tell us how to prepare for natural disasters.5:20 pm Immigrations cases have been thrown into chaos with changing rules of enforcement ever since the Trump Administration took office. Thousands of immigrants have been rounded up and deported or detained in rapidly deployed detention facilities. Heavily armed and ill trained ICE agents have been sent to Democratic cities resultingin violence and deaths and provoking national protests. H1-B visas have been capped and changes made to the work authorization process, bond eligibility if detained and to asylum regulations. Immigration attorney James Parkerwith Willy Nanayakkara & Associates talks about how important it has become to have the right legal representation to tackle these issues.Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at indoamericannews@yahoo.comPlease pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.And remember to visit our digital archives from over 18 years. Plus, our entire 45 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University

What do you do when you create an AI that can find security vulnerabilities in almost everything? As AI exposes vulnerabilities hidden deep within critical systems, organisations face a new challenge: staying ahead of threats that can now be discovered at machine speed.This week, Technology Now explores the changing cyber security landscape as AI transforms how vulnerabilities are found, fixed, and exploited, forcing organisations to rethink how they manage risk. Jon Green, CTO HPE Networking, joins us to help explain:  How AI can be used to pen test new software before releaseHow AI could fundamentally change the way organisations patch and upgrade technology Why critical infrastructure is particularly vulnerable to these types of attacksWhether we could be heading towards a future where software is completely vulnerability free

Jeffrey Mosher welcomes back Brad Zaun, Acting Great Lakes Regional Administrator, SBA U.S. Small Business Administration Welcome back to the show, Brad! I hear you just landed in Phoenix for the third SBA Manufacturing Supply Chain Matchmaker, similar to the one the agency held in Detroit last month. Tell, me how is it going and what's the impact these matchmakers have had strengthening American small businesses and Made In America growth Speaking of growth, the SBA signed an MOU with the Department of Labor (20250716-DOL-SBA-MOU.pdf)aimed at, as Administrator Loeffler says, “ cultivating a pipeline of skilled workers and capital to support their growth in a powerful new era of Made in America.” Tell us more, and how the two agencies are working together building a more skilled workforce that small business owners can tap into? Late last week, the SBA announced SCALE – $9 M in grant funding for the Supply Chain Acceleration and Logistics Enablement Program for public or private entities, nonprofit orgs, and institutions capable of delivering accelerated programs, tech assistance, and services helping small businesses grow priority supply chains in advanced tech and manufacturing. What does this look like, how can parties apply, and what's the deadline? In honor of the U.S.' 250 years of independence, the SBA has created the 250 pledge. Tell us more and how small businesses can sign up? The Midwest – including Michigan, have been hit by a lot of storms, winds, flooding, tornadoes, and drought over the past year. Tell me more about SBA's Disaster Recovery programs and where people can find out more, find if they are in a covered impacted area, and how to apply for assistance? Disaster assistance | U.S. Small Business Administration MySBA Loan Portal Disaster Declaration Search SBA Announces $9 Million in Grant Funding for the Supply Chain Acceleration and Logistics Enablement (SCALE) Program Funding will help small firms scale production and support strategic priorities Published on July 23, 2026 WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced it is seeking proposals for a new funding competition as part of the Supply Chain Acceleration and Logistics Enablement (SCALE) Program, which will award 20 grants of up to $500,000 each over a two‑year period of performance. The program, which will provide a total of $9 million in funding, is designed to help small businesses address supply chain constraints, increase production, and expand participation in strategically important supply chains. “Thanks to President Trump's tireless commitment to building in America, this Administration is driving the most aggressive reindustrialization effort our nation has ever seen,” said SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler. “The Trump SBA is dedicated to strengthening our manufacturing base by supporting the capital and resources required to return to Made in America. The SBA's SCALE Program offers targeted support to rebuild critical supply chains across our industrial base by empowering high‑potential domestic suppliers to meet new demand, reshore production, and put American workers and producers back in charge of the industries that keep our nation strong - from agriculture and energy to defense.” ### About the U.S. Small Business Administration The U.S. Small Business Administration helps power the American dream of entrepreneurship. As the leading voice for small businesses within the federal government, the SBA empowers job creators with the resources and support they need to start, grow, and expand their businesses or recover from a declared disaster. It delivers services through an extensive network of SBA field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations. To learn more, visit www.sba.gov.

Part One features host Srinath Yadlapalli, MD, in conversation with Lori-Ann Fisher, MD, and Racquel Lowe-Jones, MD, as they discuss the immediate impact of Hurricane Melissa on kidney care and dialysis in Jamaica.

Part One features host Srinath Yadlapalli, MD, in conversation with Lori-Ann Fisher, MD, and Racquel Lowe-Jones, MD, as they discuss the immediate impact of Hurricane Melissa on kidney care and dialysis in Jamaica.

After exploring identity sprawl, cloud complexity, ransomware recovery, disaster recovery strategy, and cyber resilience, Paul sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulveda, who returns for the conclusion of this special five-part series.Together, they revisit the foundational practices that consistently determine whether an organization recovers or becomes the next cautionary tale.From immutable backups and recovery testing to application ownership and modern cyber recovery platforms, the panel cuts through the noise to focus on what actually works under the highest pressure. The episode concludes with each guest sharing the single most important priority every IT leader should take back to their organization.Whether you're a CIO, CISO, IT Director, Infrastructure Architect, or Disaster Recovery professional, this final conversation brings together the key lessons from the series into a single practical roadmap for building true cyber resilience.Topics DiscussedWhy backup testing is the only way to know you'll recoverThe technologies that are changing modern cyber recoveryWhy application owners must be part of every recovery strategyImmutable backups and the role they play in ransomware defenseLessons learned from the experts across all five episodesThe top priorities every IT leader should focus on to strengthen resiliencePractical steps organizations can take today to prepare for tomorrow's outage

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a critical part of business operations—but few organizations have asked the most important question: What happens when AI goes down?In Part 4 of the Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Series, Paul sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulveda as the team explores why AI is creating an entirely new category of disaster recovery challenges. From cloud-based AI services and on-premises LLMs to identity dependencies and the security risks of vibe coding, today's recovery plans weren't designed for tomorrow's AI-driven business.If AI is making decisions, powering workflows, and helping employees work faster, it also needs a recovery strategy.Part 4 of 5 in the Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Series.Topics Discussed:Why AI is becoming a mission-critical business serviceThe new single points of failure AI introducesVibe coding and emerging security risksCloud AI vs. on-premises AI recoveryWho owns AI when systems fail?Why AI belongs in every disaster recovery plan

You can buy the best security tools on the market, but when disaster strikes, your recovery depends on people, not technology. In Part 3 of this series, Paul sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulveda. Joe Ross explains why tabletop exercises are essential, how to prepare business stakeholders before a crisis, and what really happens when 150 critical applications suddenly go offline. They also discuss the importance of having calm communicators, engaged application owners, and a culture that can adapt when every incident throws a new curveball.In this episode, we discuss:Why testing is the foundation of every successful recovery planHow tabletop exercises expose gaps before a real incidentPreparing business stakeholders, not just IT, for cyber eventsWhat it takes to recover when 150 critical applications go downThe importance of application owners during a recovery effortWhy communication is just as critical as technical expertiseBuilding a culture of cyber resilience instead of reactive recoveryLessons learned from real-world disaster recovery and ransomware eventsWhy identity management continues to be one of the biggest challenges in cybersecurity

Zero Trust has transitioned from buzzword to basic necessity. As AI has transformed the cybersecurity landscape, becoming a tool for both attack and defence, organisations are being forced to rethink how thy protect themselves, their users, and their networks. Technology Now welcomes back friend of the show Jaye Tillson, CTO Security and HPE Distinguished Technologist to discuss:• The impact of AI on cyber threats as well as cybersecurity• How Zero Trust can contain breeches if they cannot be prevented entirely• Why limited access is more important than ever in a distributed network

What separates communities that merely recover after disaster from those that come back stronger? In this episode of the Leaders of Transformation, Nicole Jansen welcomes back former Augusta mayor, leadership coach, and community builder Deke Copenhaver to discuss how communities can become stronger after disaster through trust-based leadership and servant-hearted collaboration. Following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, Deke stepped into an unpaid leadership role to help launch the Greater Augusta Long-Term Recovery Group. What began as a local disaster response has become a powerful model for rebuilding homes, restoring hope, and uniting people across generations, organizations, and lines of difference. Together, Nicole and Deke explore how trust, faith, collaboration, and a mindset of abundance can transform not only disaster recovery but the future of communities everywhere. If you're passionate about leadership, community impact, or creating lasting change, this conversation offers a practical blueprint for turning crisis into opportunity. What We Discuss in this Episode Why trust is the foundation of effective community leadership How servant leadership creates lasting transformation after disaster The story behind the Greater Augusta Long-Term Recovery Group Lessons learned from rebuilding after Hurricane Helene How faith-based organizations, nonprofits, businesses, and volunteers are uniting around a common mission Why simple, trust-based systems often outperform bureaucracy Building a disaster recovery model that other communities can replicate The importance of developing leaders who care more about impact than recognition Why communities heal best from the grassroots up - not the top down The difference between a scarcity mindset and an abundance mindset How young people are finding purpose through serving others Why belonging creates stronger communities than simply fitting in Practical ways to build bridges across political, cultural, and generational divides How service restores hope for both those receiving help and those giving it What it takes to build resilient communities that emerge stronger after crisis Highlights 00:00 – Rebuilding More Than Homes After Disaster 03:00 – Hurricane Helene and the Birth of a Community Movement 07:00 – Why Trust Became Their Greatest Asset 11:00 – Bringing Faith, Business, and Nonprofits Together 16:00 – A Simpler Model for Disaster Recovery 20:00 – Reaching the Forgotten and Vulnerable 25:00 – Why Grassroots Leadership Outperforms Bureaucracy 30:00 – Building Communities on Trust Instead of Fear 35:00 – Raising the Next Generation of Servant Leaders 40:00 – The Power of an Abundance Mindset 45:00 – Creating Belonging Across Every Divide 49:00 – Healing Communities One Relationship at a Time 53:00 – A Blueprint Other Cities Can Follow 57:00 – Hope for the Future of Our Communities Episode Show Notes and Resources: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/leadership/555-rebuild-stronger-turning-disaster-into-trust-unity-and-hope-with-deke-copenhaver/  Check out our complete library of episodes and other leadership resources here: https://leadersoftransformation.com ________

This episode features Tim Wolf, Senior Solutions Architect at Semperis, and Tim Springston, Principal Product Manager for Recovery Solutions at Semperis.Tim Wolf spent years as a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer helping enterprise customers architect identity solutions at scale. Tim Springston brings 25 years in identity and security and served as Microsoft's product manager for Azure AD recoverability, including direct involvement in building the Entra ID shared responsibility model documentation.In this episode, they walk through what the shared responsibility model actually means for Entra tenant data, how token-based attacks sidestep phishing-resistant authentication, and what happens when a threat actor hard-deletes objects and locks you out.They examine where Microsoft's new Entra ID Identity Resilience Recovery feature stops short, and why planning your recovery before anything goes wrong is the only call to action that matters.Guest BiosTim Wolf Tim Wolf is a Senior Solution Architect at Semperis. Tim's mission is protecting identities. Currently at Semperis, Tim ensures the resilience of Active Directory and Entra ID. Their background includes years as a Microsoft PFE, implementing Zero Trust and modern Authentication like Fido at an enterprise scale. Tim is an active speaker at multiple conferences, advocating for secure and automated identity architectures.Tim Springston Tim Springston is Principal Product Manager for recovery solutions at Semperis. He has over 25 years' identity and security experience with education, government, and Fortune 500 organizations from around the world. In his 25 years at Microsoft, he led services and support for Active Directory and later for Microsoft's cloud identity platform as it evolved from Windows Azure AD to Azure AD. At Microsoft, he was a recurring speaker at internal TechReady conferences and external events. Prior to Semperis, Tim was Microsoft's product manager for Azure AD (now Entra ID) recoverability and Sophos' IAM product manager for the Sophos Central cybersecurity platform.Guest Quotes  “The first step in resiliency is not just having a backup plan or a backup tool or capabilities to put things back. You need to know what's important to your organization. If you know what's important, you know what to put back, you know when it's broken.” - Tim Springston “If Entra ID is going down... This is business critical today. You're not available to sign in to Teams, to SharePoint, to Salesforce, to your business critical application.  So to really understand Entra ID is business critical.” - Tim WolfTime stamps 0:40 Meet Tim Wolf and Tim Springston 2:32 The Microsoft Shared Responsibility Model for Entra ID 6:22 How Entra ID Tenants Are Being Attacked 8:45 Token-Based Attacks Explained 12:26 What Happens When a Threat Actor Takes Over Your Tenant 19:05 Microsoft's New Entra ID Recovery Solution 25:24 The Difference Between Accidents and Adversaries 28:54 Semperis' Disaster Recovery for Entra Tenant 39:27 Hard Delete and Tenant Cloning Limits 45:30 Resiliency Playbooks and Testing 49:58 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsSponsor The HIP Podcast is brought to you by Semperis, the leader in identity-driven cyber resilience for the hybrid enterprise. Trusted by the world's leading businesses, Semperis protects critical Active Directory and Entra ID environments from cyberattacks, ensuring rapid recovery and business continuity when every second counts. Visit semperis.com to learn more.Links Connect with Tim Wolf on LinkedInConnect with Tim Springston on LinkedInConnect with Sean on LinkedInDon't miss future episodesLearn more about Semperis

Disaster recovery has undergone a complete transformation. What was once focused on tape backups, secondary data centers, and keeping systems online has become a race against sophisticated cyber threats where minutes matter and identity is the new security perimeter.In this episode of Business, Brains & The Bottom Line, Paul Di Liegro sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulveda to explore how disaster recovery has evolved alongside today's cybersecurity landscape. Together, they discuss the shift to hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the growing impact of ransomware, and why traditional recovery strategies are no longer enough.Whether you're a CIO, IT leader, security professional, or business executive, this conversation provides valuable insight into building resilience in a world where cyberattacks are no longer a matter of if, but when.In this episode you'll discover:How disaster recovery has evolved over the past two decadesWhy cybersecurity and disaster recovery are now inseparableThe challenges of protecting today's hybrid and multi-cloud environmentsWhy identity has become the foundation of modern securityPractical lessons for improving organizational resilience before disaster strikes

Susan is an award-winning founder and CEO building technology at the intersection of climate resilience, housing, and human behavior. An expert in designing technology for behavior change, she is co-founder and CEO of Tessi, leveraging AI to make repairing homes after natural disasters faster, safer and smarter. In parallel, Susan maintains a small personal climate investment and advisory platform (Spark Global) that supports her board roles, EIR work, and select early-stage climate companies.

Disaster recovery is no longer just about backups. It is about resiliency, recovery speed, cyber readiness, and operational flexibility.In this episode of Nutanix Weekly, Phil Sellers is joined by Andy Greene and Chris Calhoun from XenTegra to break down Nutanix Multi-Cloud Snapshot Technology (MST) and how organizations are using it to modernize disaster recovery without overspending on infrastructure.The conversation explores how MST enables organizations to replicate snapshots to S3-compatible storage providers like AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud, Wasabi, Backblaze, and Nutanix Objects to improve resiliency, optimize storage costs, and simplify long-term retention.The team also discusses:Nutanix Instant Restore in NCI 7.5.1Faster VM recovery and improved availabilityRansomware and clean room recovery strategiesPilot light vs. zero compute DR modelsHybrid cloud resiliencyLong-term snapshot retentionBalancing recovery objectives with budget realitiesWhether you are building a modern DR strategy or evaluating new approaches to cyber resilience, this episode provides practical insight into how Nutanix MST helps organizations stay available when it matters most.

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In Elixir Wizards S15E04, Charles Suggs and Emma Whamond are joined by Somtochi Onyekwere, a software engineer at Fly.io and contributor to the Corrosion distributed database project, to talk about distributed systems, infrastructure resilience, and the growing fragility of centralized cloud platforms.   We discuss what recent outages across major providers reveal about modern infrastructure and why more teams are starting to rethink assumptions around reliability, failover, and system design. Somtochi explains how Fly.io approaches geographic distribution, eventual consistency, and replication across nodes, along with the trade-offs that come with building systems this way.   The conversation explores CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types), consensus, split-brain prevention, and what actually happens when distributed systems fail in production. We also talk about testing strategies, rollback planning, property-based testing tools, and how teams can reduce blast radius when things inevitably go wrong.   Along the way, we discuss AI infrastructure, sandboxing AI agents, and how newer workloads may add pressure to already centralized systems. The episode closes with practical advice for developers who want to build more resilient applications without over-complicating their architecture. Topics Discussed in this Episode: Corrosion and distributed database replication Centralized cloud fragility and recent outage patterns Distributed systems versus traditional cloud architectures Multi-region deployment strategies for Phoenix applications CRDTs and conflict resolution in distributed systems Eventual consistency versus strict consistency tradeoffs Consensus, leader election, and split-brain prevention Testing failover and recovery scenarios Property-based testing and Antithesis Rollback planning for database schema migrations Reducing blast radius through system isolation Health checks and blue-green deployment strategies Fly Proxy request routing and replay behavior Cross-region synchronization and replication challenges Single points of failure inside “redundant” systems Backup restoration testing and disaster recovery planning Network partitions and failure handling in production Infrastructure monitoring and operational visibility AI infrastructure workloads and operational strain Sandboxing and securing AI agents Sprites and AI workflows at Fly.io Latency improvements from geographic distribution Distributed systems tradeoffs in real-world environments Transitive dependency failures across cloud providers Practical resilience strategies for modern engineering teams Links Mentioned: https://fly.io https://github.com/superfly/corrosion https://docs.gitops.weaveworks.org/ FluxCD https://fluxcd.io/ Fly.io Stateful Sandbox Environments https://sprites.dev/ Cloudflare Workers AI Inference Platform https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-ai/ “An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing” Twitter post from PocketOS founder: https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248 Oct 2025 AWS Outage https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/24/amazon-reveals-cause-of-aws-outage Dec 2025 Cloudflare Outage https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/05/another-cloudflare-outage-takes-down-websites-linkedin-zoom July 2025 Crowdstrike Outage https://www.ibm.com/think/news/recent-crowdstrike-outage-what-you-should-know March 2026 Stryker Cyber Attack https://www.stryker.com/us/en/about/news/2026/a-message-to-our-customers-03-2026.html https://aws.amazon.com/ https://cloud.google.com/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us https://fly.io/docs/elixir/ CRDTs!! https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s13-e03-local-first-liveview-svelte-pwa/ https://antithesis.com/docs/resources/property_based_testing/ https://hex.pm/packages/proper

Episode DescriptionIn this episode of the Emergency Management Network Podcast, Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky introduce a new long-form series, The 48 Laws of Emergency Management.This series explores the hard-earned lessons, leadership principles, operational realities, and unwritten rules that define the profession of emergency management. Drawing inspiration from decades of field experience, philosophy, crisis leadership, disaster policy, and organizational behavior, Todd and Andrew discuss why emergency management is far more than plans and checklists. It is about people, decision-making, trust, adaptation, communication, and leadership under pressure.This opening episode serves as an overview of the series and lays the foundation for future conversations. The discussion examines how emergency managers operate in ambiguity, why relationships matter more than org charts, and how the profession continues to evolve in an increasingly complex world.Whether you are a new emergency manager, a seasoned practitioner, or simply interested in leadership and crisis management, this series aims to challenge assumptions and encourage deeper thinking about the profession and its future.Show NotesThe Emergency Management Network launches a new ongoing series: The 48 Laws of Emergency Management. Hosted by Todd DeVoe and Andrew Boyarsky, this series examines the deeper realities of emergency management through practical experience, philosophy, leadership lessons, and honest conversation about the profession.Emergency management is often taught through doctrine, frameworks, and plans, but the real work of the profession happens in the face of uncertainty. This series explores the lessons that emergency managers learn over years of disasters, activations, political environments, public expectations, and operational pressures.In this introductory episode, Todd and Andrew discuss:* Why emergency management is fundamentally about people* The unwritten rules of leadership during a crisis* How emergency managers build influence without direct authority* Why relationships matter more than organizational charts* The importance of trust, communication, and credibility* The tension between policy and operational reality* How philosophy and systems thinking apply to emergency management* Leadership lessons from military command philosophy and disaster response* Why is adaptability one of the profession's most important traits* The future challenges facing emergency management professionalsThe conversation also explores how emergency management has evolved into a profession that requires strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, operational competence, and the ability to work across disciplines and political environments.This episode sets the stage for future installments, in which Todd and Andrew will break down individual “laws” and discuss the practical application of each principle in real-world emergency management.TagsEmergency Management, Emergency Management Network, EMN, Todd DeVoe, Andrew Boyarsky, Disaster Response, Crisis Leadership, FEMA, IAEM, Public Safety, Emergency Planning, Incident Command, EOC, Community Resilience, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Communication, Leadership, Systems Thinking, Homeland Security, Disaster Policy, Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Operations, Crisis Management, Disaster Leadership, Emergency Manager, Organizational Leadership This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emnetwork.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Disaster Tough Podcast, John Scardena breaks down the latest FEMA developments, including the FEMA Review Council recommendations and @Cameron Hamilton's nomination for Senate confirmation. More importantly, this episode focuses on what emergency managers, crisis leaders, and public safety professionals should actually do when major news occurs. Rather than getting consumed by rumors, predictive analysis, or “what if” thinking, this episode challenges leaders to focus on operational readiness, credibility, adaptability, and mission execution. John introduces practical leadership concepts like the “So What? Now What?” mindset and the “Washing Machine” framework: Keep, Stop, Enhance, or Start.

This Week:  Disaster Recovery & Incident Response For Accidental Techies Our conversations from the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference continue with your DR & IR plan. Cyberattacks, hardware failure or human error can cause big problems, but get minimized when you … Continue reading →

Guests Christine Kim (My Dog is My Home), Shari Myers (The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies), and Meghan Mertyris (NLIHC's Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition) discuss the current federal landscape for pet-inclusive disaster housing response and recovery. While short-term protections exist, long-term protections and resources for disaster survivors with pets are limited. Expertise from both housing advocates and animal welfare advocates is critical to effectively expand the resources and protections available to survivors and their pets. Join a Disaster Housing and Recovery Coalition (DHRC) Working Group: https://nlihc.org/disaster-housing-recovery-research-resilience Learn more about the My Dog is My Home Co-Sheltering Collaborative: https://www.co-shelteringcollaborative.org/ Learn more about the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies: https://disasterstrategies.org/ Read the 2026 report on California's Pet Assistance and Support (PAS) program: https://hpri.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PAS-final-edits__HPRI-1_20.pdf

In this episode we welcome Naveen Neelakantam, Chief Architect of Everpure's Digital Experience Business Unit. Naveen dives into the origin and evolution of Everpure's Digital Experience (DX), detailing how DX revolutionized storage management by moving beyond reactive support. The foundation of this lies in the phone home telemetry data collected from storage arrays, which first enabled the Cloud Assist capability. This data powers the ability to proactively identify and prevent issues, non-disruptively upgrade systems, and ensure a first-class support experience for every customer. Naveen explains how the intelligence gathered through telemetry propelled innovations like Pure1 and Evergreen//One. Pure1, the cloud-based platform, uses machine learning to offer predictive recommendations—such as projecting capacity needs to avoid unexpected overages. This predictive power is central to Evergreen//One, the consumption-based storage-as-a-service offering. By managing the physical appliance using telemetry, Everpure allows customers to consume logical storage connected to SLAs, simplifying the procurement process and eliminating the complexity of managing hardware specifics. This subscription model provides predictability and isolates customers from pricing pressures on components. Our discussion shifts to the future of storage and the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence. Naveen details AI Co-pilot, an agentic AI interface that helps users triangulate performance issues and orchestrate complex operations, such as migrating VMs, through conversational language using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This move to active management is further realized through Pure1 Edge, allowing fleet-level data management and cloud-based upgrades. We then touche on Everpure Protect, a crucial cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution. Ultimately, Naveen advises IT leaders to embrace AI as a powerful tool—like the domestication of the horse—that will make people more effective and accelerate innovation. To learn more, visit: https://www.purestorage.com/products/monitoring-fleet-management.html Check out the new Everpure digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Pure experts: https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/ 00:00 Intro and Welcome 01:45 Naveen's Career Journey 09:29 Origin of Digital Experience 12:45 Proactive Recommendations 16:05 Cloud Management and Subscriptions 18:12 Stat of the Episode on Storage Capacity Growth 21:30 AI Co-Pilot and Automation 32:14 Telemetry 37:01 Pure1 and Subscription Management 39:51 Everpure Protect DRaaS 45:44 Hot Takes Segment

Podcast: ICS Arabia PodcastEpisode: Disaster Recovery in OT with Saltanat MashirovaPub date: 2026-04-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationwe are joined by Saltanat to discuss a vital topic: Disaster Recovery in OT. Saltanat introduced her new framework, designed specifically to help OT companies effectively tackle disasters and incidents. This framework is a important to consider for any OT organization looking to protect its assets and ensure a fast, effective recovery and response process.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ICS ARABIA PODCAST, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Most organizations are prepping for disaster recovery when they should be building for cyber recovery, and those are not the same thing.  Recorded live at RSAC Conference 2026, Ron sat down with Chris Bevil, Principal Security AI Strategist at Commvault, to break down what actually happens after a breach hits and why most teams are caught flat-footed.  Chris walks us through Commvault's Minutes to Meltdown tabletop exercise, why isolated recovery environments matter, and how clean data determines whether you get your company back in hours or in 200+ days.  This episode will tell you what separates a team that recovers from a team that unravels.  Impactful Moments 01:16 - Live at RSAC 2026 with Chris Bevil, Principal, Security AI Strategist at Commvault 01:40 - Minutes to Meltdown origin story 03:00 - What goes into a Meltdown?  04:48 - What happens in the first 30 minutes of chaos 07:00 - What Commvault actually does 08:21 - What is IRE? Isolated recovery environment breakdown 10:40 - What is Disaster Recovery in 2026?  13:00 - How cyber recovery differs from disaster recovery  14:20 - Where attackers go in the first 30 minutes 15:40 - The 3-2-1 rule and where teams fail 21:45 - What successful recovery looks like 25:14 - AI strategy at Commvault Links Connect with our guest, Chris Bevil, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-b-211998a/ Love Hacker Valley Studio? Pick up some swag: https://store.hackervalley.com Become a sponsor of the show to amplify your brand: https://hackervalley.com/work-with-us/    

In this episode of Automox Insiders, host Maddie Regis chats with Adam Whitman, Manager of Solutions Engineering at Automox, about all things IT spring cleaning. From patch management and software audits to business continuity planning and endpoint hygiene, Adam shares practical, real-world tips for tidying up your tech stack and staying ahead of IT clutter. Along the way, he reflects on his career journey from marketing to IT leadership and reveals some personal spring cleaning confessions. Tune in for expert advice and a fresh perspective to help you refresh your IT environment this season.This podcast originally aired April 24, 2025

Matt Loria built a top-tier cybersecurity and IT firm without a single tech degree or certification.Back when he and his brother ran a computer recycling business, they went repeatedly through IT providers. It was always the same: things started great, then the service just vanished. When Matt eventually told his brother he was starting his own IT firm, his brother pointed out the obvious.. "You don't know anything about IT."But Matt knew exactly what it looked like when someone did it wrong, and he knew how to fix it.That gap became the foundation for Auxiom. By bringing in a technical co-founder and focusing on the service and culture the industry was missing, he turned the company into a gold standard. Today, Auxiom handles everything from network security to AI readiness for massive, billion-dollar companies.We covered:→ Why antivirus software alone leaves your business dangerously exposed→ What a cyber attack actually costs after the breach (the rebuilding is worse than the hack)→ How AI has supercharged the threat landscape and what the good guys are doing to keep up→ Why every executive needs 30-60 minutes a day inside AI tools right now→ And why Matt interviews a candidate's spouse before making a major hireOne major takeaway: owners can't vision cast for something they don't know exists. That's why it's imperative every business owner gets their hands dirty with AI.Thank you Matt for coming to the studio and for sharing your story and expertise. It was a blast talking to you man!*Chapters*0:00 - Intro & Welcome1:06 - Meet Matt Loria and Auxiom7:37 - How Matt Got Into the IT Industry11:27 - The Gap in the Market That Started It All12:14 - What Is Managed IT Services?13:10 - Cybersecurity and Why It Has to Be the Foundation14:09 - How AI Has Changed the Threat Landscape16:33 - First Steps for Business Owners to Protect Themselves18:54 - The Real Cost of a Cyber Attack24:47 - Entrepreneurship, Failure, and the Mindset of Going Broke25:47 - Why Marrying the Right Person Changes Everything30:30 - Who Auxiom Serves and How to Work With Them31:33 - The BLTnT Podcast Story35:22 - AI as a Business Tool, Not Just a Shortcut39:44 - Outro*Connect with Matt* Web: https://auxiom.com/ |  @BLTnTPodcast LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mattloriaBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dillon-england-show--6370921/support.*Connect with Dillon*https://www.instagram.com/thedillonenglandshow/https://twitter.com/imdillonenglandhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonmengland/https://www.facebook.com/dillon.england.5*Sponsor — Broadcast Brew (Low-Acid Coffee)*Order our LOW ACID COFFEE “THE BROADCAST BREW”Thank you to Cool Beans Coffee Brewery for your partnership.https://www.coolbeanscoffeemi.com/product-page/broadcast-brew-low-acid-blend*ABOUT THE DILLON ENGLAND SHOW*Authentic conversations with interesting people across personal growth, entrepreneurship, and lifestyle — direct, faith-forward, Detroit grit.Subscribe for full conversations and weekly clips.Share this with someone on your leadership team.Comment your biggest takeaway.

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Welcome to episode 345 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and are ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including what's going on between Anthropic, the DOD, and OpenAI, what the war means for Middle East data centers (Spoiler – I hope you have a good Disaster Recovery plan), and Transit Gateway pricing changes that are enough to make a grown man cry. And don't bother waiting: Matt has completely forgotten almost two years of “bye everybody” and now claims full amnesia as to what his outtro is. Oh well. Let's get into today's show.  Titles we almost went with this week Claude Learned to Use a Computer Better Than Your Dad **OpenAI Amazon and OpenAI’s $138 Billion AI Bromance When Two AZs Go Dark the Cloud Gets Crispy Fifty Billion Reasons AWS Loves OpenAI Now **Anthropic Azure Still Wins Even When AWS Thinks It Did Fire, Water, and a Multi-AZ Assumption Goes Up in Smoke Claude Refuses to Go Full Skynet for the Pentagon GPT-5.3 Instant Finally Stops Lecturing You No Killer Robots Without Human Approval Please Terraform Finally Sees Your Forgotten Cloud Resources Stage Before You Rage Deploy Azure Firewall CrowdStrike to Zscaler AWS Wants Your Security Tab One Hub to Rule Your API Sprawl Transit Gateway Attachments Just Got Surprisingly Expensive Azure Container Registry Finally Has Room for Your AI Hoarding Bedrock Gets a Roommate OpenAI Moves In Azure Firewall Gets a Safety on the Trigger Stop Writing Scripts, Just Import the Dang Infrastructure Audit Your APIs Before March 2026 Bites You Damn it… my excuse not to DR is gone I'm Epically Furious about DR AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money  03:34 Anthropic acquires Vercept to advance Claude’s computer use capabilities  Anthropic acquired Vercept, a team specializing in AI perception and interaction, to strengthen Claude’s computer use capabilities.  The Vercept founders, including Ross Girshick, bring deep expertise in how AI systems visually interpret and interact with software interfaces. Claude Sonnet 4.6 shows substantial improvement in computer use benchmarks, jumping from under 15% on the OSWorld evaluation in late 2024 to 72.5% today.  The model is now approaching human-level performance on tasks like navigating spreadsheets and completing multi-tab web forms. Computer use enables Claude to operate inside live applications the way a human would, handling multi-step workflows across tools that cannot be automated through code alone.  This is relevant for enterprise use cases involving document processing, browser-based workflows, and cross-application task management. This is Anthropic’s second acquisition in a short period, following the purchase of Bun, which was tied to the Claude Code milestone. The pattern suggests Anthropic is actively acquiring specialized engineering teams rather

Three million homes are damaged by natural disasters in the US every year — and with a billion-dollar storm hitting roughly every ten days, that number is only growing. But the system for repairing affected homes is stuck in the past, with mountains of paperwork, fragmented funding, and rampant fraud leaving vulnerable homeowners stranded.This week on Everybody in the Pool, Molly sits down with Susan Hunt Stevens, the founder and CEO of Tessi, a platform working to fix what she calls the “broken post-disaster home repair system.” Tessi brings homeowners, vetted contractors, insurers, government programs, and other funders onto a single platform that uses AI-driven damage assessments to quickly evaluate a home in the wake of a disaster.We talk about:How Tessi uses AI and aerial imagery to generate damage assessments within 24 hoursHow the surge in natural disasters has made homeowners increasingly vulnerable to contractor fraudWhy only 4% of homeowners affected by flooding and hurricanes are actually covered by insuranceHow homeowners can use disaster repair as an opportunity to implement climate-adaptive upgradesTessi's role in a complicated ecosystem where any repair might be funded by a patchwork of insurance, personal savings, home equity loans, government aid, and even GoFundMeHow Tessi is partnering with volunteer disaster relief organizations to serve socially vulnerable homeowners who fall outside the paid systemTessi's goal of serving 1 million homes within 5 yearsLinks:Tessi: https://tessi.ai/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member for the ad-free version of the show: https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.