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Nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast, what policies have changed?

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Lessons learned after Katrina led the field to refocus again on an all-hazards and a more whole-community-oriented planning approach. Sandy Recovery Improvement Act (2013) – This act changed many of FEMA’s administrative authorities, marking some of the most significant changes in the way the agency functions since the Robert T.

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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

We are now treated to the irony of long queues forming to look at pages and notebooks whose author regarded them as intensely private. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2707-2013 Clayton, M. Nor, for more than four centuries, could they be bothered to read them. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). The intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function. I need not repeat them here. Statler and R.

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ISO 27001 Certification Requirements & Standards

Reciprocity

Your primary reference points will be ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27002:2013, and ISO/IEC 27000:2018. Doing this right is critical because a scope that is too large will increase the project’s time and expense, and a scope that is too narrow may expose your firm to unanticipated hazards. Form a Project Team.

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State Legislative Update: 2024 Legislation Impacting the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

The author has indicated she will reintroduce the measure for the 2025-2026 session. AB-2013 requires AI developers to publicly disclose certain information about data used to train their technology. See SIA’s analysis for more information. Illinois Enacted: SB-2979 marks the first and only reform to BIPA since it was enacted in 2008.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Preparedness funding has ebbed and flowed over the years, peaking a few years after 9/11 and gradually decreasing with health security grant programs decreasing by a third to as much as half from their peaks, with similar reductions across all-hazards emergency management grant programs.

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

Security Industry Association

She spent over eight years in the biometrics field focused on quality assurance, information security and quality processes and has led a variety of projects, including the implementation and certification of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System and ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System (ISMS) for NEC Advanced Recognition Systems.