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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Secondly, and more importantly, vulnerability, risk, impact and their controlling factors are all trending. Hence, public discourse and concerns could conceivably change overnight (as they did in the USA after "Nine-Eleven" in 2001). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. References Alexander, D.E.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Much of this change was propelled by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.) All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Top 10 BCM Resources All that being said, here are my top 10 resources to help you become a ninja-level BCM practitioner: 1. Prepare My Business for an Emergency. BCM consultancy websites.

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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

everbridge

According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. Asia suffered 40% of all disaster incidents and accounted for 49% of all deaths and 66% of all people affected.

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Security Industry Association Announces Winners of the 2023 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards

Security Industry Association

The 2023 awardees, who will be honored at SIA GovSummit , SIA’s annual government security conference, are: Larisa Boyko, Director, Quality Assurance, Advanced Recognition Systems, NEC Corporation of America Larisa Boyko is a seasoned information technology professional with over 20 years of experience in the software development life cycle.