Robin Bond

Robin Bond

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Estes Valley Voice •

Beyond the Busy Season: A Business Resilience Summit - Nov. 18

If you are an Estes Valley business owner, you know the seasonal drill: the exhilarating rush of summer and the fall leaf-peeping season, the sparkle of the “holidaze” season, followed by several quieter months that test your nerves and stretch your reserves. And 2025 has added new layers of complexity to an already challenging season. With federal tariffs reshaping supply chains, a government shutdown creating uncertainty and impacting local federal workers, whispers of recession growing loude...
Estes Valley Voice •

New CDC guidelines shift COVID vaccine recommendations to individual consultations

Flu and COVID-19 season is here — running from October to May in the Northern Hemisphere — and Estes Park is already feeling the impact. Estes Valley Voice editor Patti Brown tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks ago after covering a large public event. “I thought at first this was a robust head cold, but after learning that several people who attended the event had COVID, I took a home test. I didn’t need to wait 15 minutes for results — it was obviously positive very quickly,” Brown said. B...
Utility Dive •

This is not a dress rehearsal: What critical infrastructure owners and operators can do right now to defend against nation-state threats

Grid modernization has created a complex ecosystem of network-connected equipment, exposing utilities to a wide range of potential threats from nation-states, criminals, disgruntled employees, and accidental misconfiguration. The energy sector is particularly vulnerable to cyberattack because core cybersecurity strategies—like the use of SPAN ports to direct bulk network data to security analysis systems and physical air gaps to separate the Operational Technologies (OT) network from the rest o
SecureLink •

Top 3 Threats Posed by Third-Party Vendors

It’s pretty common knowledge that many companies outsource some, if not all, of their critical IT to vendors. While outsourcing to vendors or third parties does increase efficiency, it also opens companies up to a world of risk that isn’t always accounted for. To combat these unaccounted for risks, we want to educate people and raise awareness. Below we have listed the top three threats posed by third-party vendors to help you mitigate and prevent these risks. Even organizations with the most r

Planning Ahead: Incident Readiness vs. Business Continuity

Is your organization prepared? Cyberattacks on small and medium businesses (SMBs) are becoming more impactful and frequent thanks to bad actors around the globe, and that’s not all. Business interrupting data incidents are rising via insider attacks, corporate espionage, volatile weather events, and more. From costly downtime to business shutdown, SMBs pay the price for unchecked incidents in the form of dollars, lost market share, damaged reputation, or worse, complete loss of business. From m
Estes Valley Voice •

Pickleball is a hit at YMCA of the Rockies new Vice Family Recreation and Sports Park

The rhythmic pop-pop-pop of pickleball rackets is a new sound echoing against the backdrop of Longs Peak on a late-summer morning at YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park Center. The setting is the new pickleball court, recently made possible by a major gift from donors Susan and Marc Vice, and is one of the features of the newly named Vice Family Recreation and Sports Park. During the project, the basketball and tennis courts were refurbished. On this blue-sky morning, “it’s all local members of the...
Estes Valley Voice •

YMCA shapes futures through food

Food is an international language at the YMCA of the Rockies. Inside the bustling dining halls and well-orchestrated kitchen, young interns from around the world are learning far more than how to prepare and serve meals—they’re gaining cultural exchange, leadership, and skills for life. The interns are from 22 countries, where they are studying hospitality-related fields. They represent far-away places from Thailand to South America to Eastern Europe, and they help prepare and serve 9,000 meals...
Flexential •

Every Season is Hurricane Season When it Comes to Protecting Your Data: The Top 3 Causes of Data Loss in Business

Hurricane season in the U.S. reminds organizations of all shapes and sizes to review – and test – their IT disaster recovery (DR) plans, from securing temporary office space on higher ground to protecting their most precious commodity, their data. The bad news? The greatest threats to your company’s business continuity – including your data – aren’t isolated to July through November. Critical infrastructure can go down any time of year, for reasons ranging from power outages and network failure
Paramount WorkPlace •

5 Emerging Procurement Trends That Are Here to Stay

5 Emerging Procurement Trends That Are Here to Stay The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across trade, education, government, healthcare, and more. And within almost every industry, the procurement department was left to solve unsolvable problems. Long-standing systems for balancing supply and demand fell apart, most visibly in the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) that frontline healthcare workers needed to protect themselves and others during the crisis. In non-healthcare fields, ma
JumpCloud •

Why Aren't More SMEs Using Multi-Factor Authentication?

Cyberattacks against companies large and small are on the rise as hackers engineer new ways to access and steal data. From ransomware to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), two facts are particularly concerning: • Leveraged credentials, most often passwords, cause sixty-one percent of data breaches. • Nearly half of all cyber-attacks target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who are less equipped to recover from damages. Because SMEs inherently lack the cybersecurity resources of large
Flexential •

Dodging Data Disaster in 3 Steps: A Cautionary Tale

When transportation company A&R Logistics began experiencing unexplainable, catastrophic power problems in its Chicago-area data center, the stakes were high. With a nationwide fleet of 800 trucks, 1,200 trailers, 23 terminals and ten warehousing facilities, A&R, a leading provider of dry bulk transportation, has 750 drivers on the road at any given time, from coast to coast. If drivers don’t know which products to deliver, and where and when to deliver them, global petrochemical companies (A&R’
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