Business Power Outage Emergency Response Planning in 7 Easy Steps
Alert Media
JULY 18, 2023
Keep your business moving with a power outage emergency response plan. Power outages can be devastating, but they don’t have to slow you down.
How to Build a Flood Emergency Response Plan for Your Business
Alert Media
JULY 5, 2023
Prepare your business for a flood emergency with an effective response plan. When the waters rise, you don’t want to be left wondering what to do.
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How to Create an IT Incident Response Plan for Your Business
Alert Media
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
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How to Create an Active Shooter Response Plan
Alert Media
JULY 27, 2021
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Crisis Management Training: Practice Makes Perfect
Bernstein Crisis Management
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Spoiler alert: It’s not going to end well. Crisis Response Planning: Effective training will guide participants through developing a robust crisis response plan. If we told you that you’re going to perform a play, tonight, with no practice, most people would run for the hills.
6 Steps to Creating an Effective Emergency Response Plan
Alert Media
JULY 6, 2021
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Enhancing inclusive emergency communication: Addressing access and functional needs communities amid disasters
everbridge
MAY 9, 2024
Working together to develop and implement inclusive communication plans, share resources, and coordinate efforts ensures that everyone receives timely and relevant emergency information and assistance. Accessible communication channels: Ensure that emergency communication channels and platforms are accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Amplifying School Security With Gunshot Detection Systems
Security Industry Association
MARCH 19, 2024
These systems can be leveraged to quickly alert everyone of a dangerous situation, enabling them to react and respond before it is too late. Providing vital location information, including where in the building the incident is happening, cuts through typical alert delays and enables a more immediate response to be initiated.
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Winter safety tips for employees in private and public sectors
everbridge
DECEMBER 11, 2023
This can include automated alerts, sirens, or mass messaging platforms to reach individuals across different locations. Automate severe weather alerts These alerts are crucial for organizations to ensure timely communication and response during winter storms.
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What to Do if a Wildfire is Approaching Your Home
Disaster Safety
AUGUST 13, 2021
alerts for your?area. Download the FEMA App and receive real-time alerts from the National Weather Service for up to five locations nationwide. Sign up for community alerts in your area and be aware of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA), which require no sign up.
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Optimize Your Emergency Response: Team Roles and Responsibilities
Alert Media
JULY 7, 2023
Find out how to cover all your bases with incident response plans and teams today. Do your people know who to call when an emergency arises?
What to Do if a Wildfire is Approaching Your Business
Disaster Safety
AUGUST 23, 2021
alerts for your?area. Download the FEMA App and receive real-time alerts from the National Weather Service for up to five locations nationwide. Sign up for community alerts in your area and be aware of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA), which require no sign up.
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Understanding DORA: How to operationalize digital resilience
everbridge
MAY 3, 2024
It facilitates the automation of standard operating procedures and response plans, as well as communicating with key stakeholders. These solutions will automate communications to impacted individuals, responders, and stakeholders, integrating with operationalized response plans.
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PagerDuty Deploys $600K to Further Investments in Global Health by Olivia Khalili
PagerDuty
DECEMBER 15, 2021
As one of our first time-critical health grantees, Nexleaf used grant funding and PagerDuty’s incident response platform, with technical pro bono support from PagerDuty employees, to enhance the delivery of power outage alerts and make them more useful for healthcare workers in 13 under-resourced health facilities in Kenya.
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Getting Ahead of Cybercriminals: 5 Essential Cybersecurity Practices
NexusTek
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Create an Incident Response Plan. Develop a comprehensive incident response plan for your business, so you know exactly how to respond should you fall victim to cyberattack. Routine scanning of your company’s network edge helps to identify any points of vulnerability that need attention. Why Is This Important?
7 Reasons Why Cybersecurity Fails
NexusTek
JULY 28, 2021
You don’t have an incident response plan. Incident response preparedness can save up to $2 million on data breaches, according to IBM, and yet 39% of small and medium-sized businesses do not have an incident response plan. View Essential Cybersecurity Plan. View Standard Cybersecurity Plan.
Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You
FS-ISAC
JUNE 30, 2022
There are several steps financial institutions can take to improve response time and ensure readiness when a crisis strikes. Develop an effective incident response plan and handling strategies. Incident response plans at financial institutions vary in maturity , but can always be improved.
Jerry Perullo: Cyber in the Board Room: Battle-Tested Advice
FS-ISAC
JULY 27, 2023
A lot of governance is focused on when the Board is alerted and when they should get involved. These should be included in the incident response plan. (17:32) CISOs should also identify which of these risks to take to the Board. (15:45) 19:13) –Adding a narrative executive summary and an appendix to the presentation. (20:18)
Chronic Hazards
everbridge
MAY 2, 2023
This includes tracking the impact of chronic hazards on operations, reviewing and updating risk assessments, and revising response plans as needed. It should also include plans for responding to and recovering from events, as well as a system for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of risk management measures.
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Bracing for the Unknown With a Hurricane Tabletop Exercise
Alert Media
AUGUST 4, 2023
Test your response plan and readiness with tabletop exercises. Meet a hurricane head on to ensure safety and operational resilience.
Cyber Security: 8 Steps to Cyber Resilience
NexusTek
JULY 7, 2021
IT teams must proactively monitor network systems and alerts for potential cyber threats. The three-step process of risk identification, analysis, and evaluation provides a foundation for the development of business continuity and disaster recovery plans to maintain operations during an internal or even external crisis.
Guide to active shooter drills in the workplace
everbridge
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Develop a comprehensive response plan This plan should be tailored to your specific organization, considering all security and safety considerations. Collaborate with security professionals and law enforcement to ensure that your plan aligns with best practices and accounts for the unique dynamics of your workplace.
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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
MAY 12, 2021
Thus, in addition to having a clear strategy and response plan, it is essential to identify the most vulnerable populations and hazard areas, and to have a strong framework for coordination among emergency management and public health agencies.
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Ensuring Operational Resilience Amidst Geopolitical Events
Fusion Risk Management
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Crisis and Incident Response Geopolitical events often necessitate the activation of emergency response and crisis response plans.
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Check our our new “Shield your Business from CHAOS” Podcast!
KingsBridge BCP
AUGUST 5, 2022
In this edition of the “Shield your Business from CHAOS” podcast, we discuss the No People, No Building, No Systems, No Suppliers response planning method. ear-worm alert: you might find yourself humming the tune we used with the “HOOH!!*. S1E2 – No People, Building, Systems or Suppliers. Off you go!
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Ransomware Attacks Leave Businesses Around the World Reeling
LAN Infotech
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Since every business is at risk of ransomware attacks, your initial step should be to draft a written response plan in case of a successful ransomware attack. A written plan helps an organization avoid rash decisions and have an organized, calm response. How Can A Company Tackle Ransomware Attack.
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Guest Post: POV of Two Companies During and After a Cyberattack
Security Industry Association
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Note: Since this company was alerted of the virus’ presence, it took immediate action to stop further infection and spread. For the purposes of illustration, we will consider that the virus continues to propagate faster than Alpha’s ability to detect and respond so that we may observe the actions of their cyber readiness and response.
How to Counter AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats to Physical Security Products
Security Industry Association
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Develop and maintain a response plan : It is important to have a plan in place to respond to security incidents in a timely and effective manner and which includes AI transparency and explainability information to aid communication with customers and other stakeholders who may be affected by a breach.
Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane
everbridge
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
They are responsible for ensuring public safety, emergency response, and timely community awareness. In the lead-up to a hurricane, encouraging citizens to sign up for automated community messages can lead to more effective alerting. Hurricane Preparedness on Campus.
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Money at Risk: Finance & Data Security in the Digital Age
NexusTek
APRIL 19, 2023
When aberrant or suspicious behavior is detected within the financial firm’s network, SIEM tools immediately generate alerts. Incident Response Planning: In today’s world, businesses recognize that it’s not a matter of “if” a cyber incident occurs; it’s a matter of when.
Powerful New IT Tools
LAN Infotech
JUNE 6, 2023
And if any data is found, the tool alerts the company, allowing them to take action to secure their data before it falls into the wrong hands. In order to mitigate this risk, it’s important to have a plan in place to respond quickly and effectively in the event of a security breach. IT security is an ongoing process.
PR: how a well-managed data breach can help limit the impact on your reputation
SRM
APRIL 2, 2019
We can have meticulous Incident Response plans in place but if we can’t communicate effectively with the press we leave the interpretation of facts in the hands of journalists and editors whose motivation is not to reassure but to create attention-grabbing headlines.
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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?
FEI
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Just when we thought we might be turning the corner, a new variant has come along and extended the need for our emergency response teams to stay alert to threats. As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 response and the lessons learned, we’ve incorporated various changes into our emergency response plans to better support our teams.
Check out our KISSBCP Podcast!
KingsBridge BCP
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
In this edition of the “Shield your Business from CHAOS” podcast, we discuss the No People, No Building, No Systems, No Suppliers response planning method. ear-worm alert: you might find yourself humming the tune we used with the “HOOH!!* S1E2 – No People, Building, Systems or Suppliers. Off you go!
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5 Ways to Improve Your Economic Recovery Results Quickly
Swan Island Network
APRIL 30, 2020
Follow external sources that impact your organization, like open-source intelligence (OSINT), social media, and government alerts. Follow these steps and you will be more able to craft an effective response plan and execute it quickly. Track virus recurrences and changes to your supply chain. Share and collaborate.
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The Ethical Dilemma of Being Resilient
Fusion Risk Management
MARCH 16, 2022
Ensure you have a crisis communications response plan and embed scenario testing into your preparation strategy. Assume that there is reputational risk and brand exposure in every response and align the necessary operational changes to your ethical and moral compass.
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5 Ransomware Recovery Steps to Take After a Breach
Pure Storage
DECEMBER 6, 2021
At this point, you’re working to minimize the damage, get back online, and alert the right people. Prioritize systems for recovery and restoration efforts based on your response plan. Let’s look at how to do that. 5 Steps for Ransomware Recovery After an Attack.
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SIA New Member Profile: IXP Corporation
Security Industry Association
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Proactive threat identification: Video analytics technology can be utilized to automatically detect and alert security personnel about suspicious behaviors or events. Timely alerts can save lives in the case of an extreme weather emergency or even an imminent threat from an active shooter on campus.
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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure
Pure Storage
APRIL 26, 2022
“Organizations should focus on data protection, including backing up systems routinely, reinforcing basic cybersecurity awareness and education, and revisiting cyber incident response plans often.” ” Data-drill Disaster Planning.
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How Managed Services Overcome Barriers to Resilience
everbridge
JUNE 7, 2023
Even more detrimental to a response is having to create individual response plans amidst a crisis when time is of the essence. In the example of severe weather, the MSP receives preemptive alerts that a severe weather event was developing in a region where employees, community members, and/or physical offices are located.
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Lessons Your Business Can Learn from Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack
LAN Infotech
MAY 25, 2021
Had the attack been on the OT, the technologies that control physical processes would have created a red alert about the intent of the hackers. Cybersecurity experts also help you with response planning, which is critical for every part of business planning. It was not an attack on the operational technology (OT).
Practicing Emergency Preparedness
Alert Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
The exercise participants responded to a dispatch call of an incident that involved the widely used agricultural product, anhydrous ammonia” This is a great example of applying an emergency situation relevant to an industry and preparing a response plan.
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Create Your Fire Emergency Action Plan (Template Download)
Alert Media
DECEMBER 13, 2023
A strong fire emergency action plan includes an evacuation map, a leadership hierarchy, communication and contingency plans, and documentation.
Create Your Fire Emergency Action Plan (Template Download)
Alert Media
DECEMBER 13, 2023
A strong fire emergency action plan includes an evacuation map, a leadership hierarchy, communication and contingency plans, and documentation.
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