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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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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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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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4 Components of an Effective IoT Security Strategy

Behavior Group

By BizTech on 19 December 2016 IoT Security, information security, threat prevention Recent breaches have shown the vulnerability of the Internet of Things, but IT departments can defend against hackers with a multifaceted approach to security. While driving a Jeep Cherokee through downtown St.

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Why Hostile Vehicle Incidents Can’t Be Ignored

Security Industry Association

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has been educating the industry about and advocating for greater protection of public spaces since 2016, particularly through in-person events and through the work of the SIA Perimeter Security Subcommittee – and as evidenced at incidents like Waukesha, our work is far from done.