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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Secondly, and more importantly, vulnerability, risk, impact and their controlling factors are all trending. I recommend going back to vulnerability and endeavouring to identify, understand and reduce it. Put bluntly, in disaster risk reduction, these days the goalposts are moving faster than the players. What can we do instead?

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2016 Incident Landscape: Changes and Challenges

Plan B Consulting

I think these changes are going to affect us in 2016 and for several years to come. So what are the new challenges we are going to face in 2016? Review again your vulnerability to flooding. Review your vulnerability and put plans in place for loss of critical transport infrastructure. The incidents continue.

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2016 Incident Landscape: Changes and Challenges

Plan B Consulting

I think these changes are going to affect us in 2016 and for several years to come. So what are the new challenges we are going to face in 2016? Review again your vulnerability to flooding. Review your vulnerability and put plans in place for loss of critical transport infrastructure. The incidents continue.

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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. The post 20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016) appeared first on PlanB Consulting. UK the “most prepared country”?

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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Exercise Cygnus was a command post exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 in order to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom. Lack of a plan.

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5 Real-life business continuity planning cases you need to know

Online Computers

Sadly, city administrators knew about their computer systems’ vulnerabilities but had failed to take action in time. Just two months prior to the attack, an audit found almost 2,000 vulnerabilities in the City of Atlanta’s IT system, the majority of which stemmed from obsolete software and an IT culture of ad hoc processes.

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How To Demonstrate Storage & Backup Compliance A Practical Guide

Solutions Review

In addition, many of these standards require organizations to verify that they are carrying out their fiduciary responsibilities concerning Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVEs). Many of the tools used to scan for vulnerabilities and security misconfigurations do a poor job in identifying storage and backup risks.

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