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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

By 2020 it had forgotten or ignored most of the lessons, sold off or destroyed the equipment and drugs, and turned its attention firmly to lesser contingencies, despite the fact that pandemics consistently topped the list in the national risk register. Despite the obvious need for mitigation, emergency response capability cannot be neglected.

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How Pure Protect //DRaaS Shields Your Business from Natural Disasters 

Pure Storage

Australian wildfires (2020): After losing their office to wildfires, an Australian company restored operations within 48 hours thanks to their offsite backup and recovery system.

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Adapting to Climate Change

Disaster Zone Podcast

While climate change and disasters are mentioned frequently in the popular media, most of the information being shared is about climate mitigation that has to do with reducing the amount of carbon being emitted into the atmosphere. There is little discussion of climate adaptation. There is little discussion of climate adaptation.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Chapter 2, “Mutual Aid: Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management” by Miriam Belblidia and Chenier Kliebert, describes successful lessons of a Mutual Aid Response Network (MARN) involving over 5,000 participants in a grassroots response to COVOID-19 pandemic and a record-breaking Gulf Coast hurricane season 2020.

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Mitigating Bias by Becoming an Ally

BMC

2020 and the first half of 2021 have shown us incredible feats of humanity that have helped balance cultural inequality and inequity, and forced us to reassess how we treat each other. The Platinum Rule comes to mind as we think about how we want our community, our society, and the world to move forward […].

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5 Effective Strategies to Mitigate Market Risk

Reciprocity

For example, a treasury bond you bought in 2020 with a very low interest rate is worth less in 2023, since new bonds now carry higher interest rates. Types of Market Risks Interest rate risk This risk is caused by changes in interest rates. Volatility in interest rates can cause the value of fixed-rate investments to decline.

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What a 1930s Bank Robber Can Teach Financial Institutions About Ransomware

Pure Storage

In 2020 alone, phishing and ransomware attacks increased 520% in just four. More than one-third of financial services organizations surveyed by Sophos , a British security firm, were hit by ransomware in 2020. Download our free e-book, A Hacker’s Guide to Ransomware Mitigation and Recovery.

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