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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The 2019 report is accompanied by an executive summary called GAR Distilled. Further Reading The full and abbreviated Global Assessment Report 2019 can both be freely downloaded from [link] Alexander, D.E. Linnerooth-Bayer (eds) 2019. Mechler, R.,

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Why Crisis Management Planning Should Be On Your To-Do List

Bernstein Crisis Management

In contrast, when Capital One experienced a data breach in 2019, they quickly identified and fixed the vulnerability, clearly communicated what happened and what customers could do, and offered free credit monitoring to affected customers. They were criticized for their delayed and confusing response, which aggravated public distrust.

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Guidance for reducing HTTP protocol RCE security vulnerability risk with Citrix Web App Firewall (CVE-2022-21907)

Citrix

The HTTP protocol stack remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-21907) lies in the management of HTTP Trailers by the kernel mode driver http.sys.

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8 Cybersecurity Risks That May Impact Organizations in 2019

Behavior Group

Aon’s 2019 Cyber Security Risk Report features eight risks that may impact organizations in the next 12 months, no matter where they are on their digital journey. Aon’s 2019 Cyber Security Risk Report features eight risks that may impact organizations in the next 12 months, no matter where they are on their digital journey.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2019. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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Getting Ahead of Cybercriminals: 5 Essential Cybersecurity Practices

NexusTek

If you’re finding the prospect of staying ahead of cybercriminals overwhelming, you’re in good company: 88% of SMB leaders view their businesses as vulnerable to cybercrime 3. Patches and updates are routinely required to address known vulnerabilities that cybercriminals can target. Vulnerability Scanning. Why Is This Important?

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Helpful anecdotes are inserted throughout, balancing critical assessments where organizations and countries have not used available methods of risk assessment, and as a result, “…acting individually and through collective bodies, succeed neither in effective policy nor practice in reducing vulnerability of the built environment.” [p.