National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While the warmer months of the year signal a time when we can indulge in vacations, beach days, and outdoor activities, the summer and fall are also when hurricanes, thunderstorms, wildfires, and other potential natural disasters make their impressive mark across many areas of the United States, often disrupting the rhythm of our daily lives.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Plans, projects and technologies may occupy most of your time, but it’s worth taking a step back to reflect on how your resilience-focused activities may be aligned…or misaligned. By understanding and anticipating potential threats, organizations can implement measures to mitigate risks before they escalate into crises.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 21, 2025

The new Varonis-Pure Storage integration empowers organizations to secure their data, mitigate risk, and ensure resilience today and into the future. This provides a comprehensive view of data activity across the environment, enabling organizations to detect anomalies and potential security threats early.

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Security Industry Association

MARCH 3, 2025

At their core, global security operations centers (GSOCs) serve as the central nervous system of an organization’s physical security infrastructure, operating 24/7 to monitor and respond to security events across multiple locations. Its truly changing the way security operations are managed. Where do humans fit? So what now?

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JUNE 23, 2021

My subsequent posts shared details on the backup and restore , pilot light, and warm standby active/passive strategies. In this post, you’ll learn how to implement an active/active strategy to run your workload and serve requests in two or more distinct sites. DR strategies: Multi-site active/active. DR strategies.

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LogisManager

JUNE 4, 2024

Step 1: Take a Root-Cause Approach Risk managers should provide a common root cause risk indicator library to process owners so that systemic risks and upstream and downstream dependencies can be easily identified and mitigated. Root causes tell us why an event occurs, revealing where an organization is vulnerable.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

Despite a growing interest in crisis readiness, the stark reality is that a shocking percentage of organizations remain alarmingly unprepared for a significant crisis event that demands immediate, decisive action to prevent severe repercussions. The stress of this scrutiny is not to be underestimated. Preparation.

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Disaster Zone Podcast

JULY 11, 2023

He serves as Director of the Washington Military Department’s Emergency Management Division (EMD), which is responsible for leading and coordinating mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities to minimize the impact of disasters and emergencies on the people, property, environment and economy of Washington State.

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Fusion Risk Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Operational resilience mirrors personal resilience: just as individuals have to navigate unforeseen events, organizations must sustain functionality under pressure. The Increasing Focus on Resilience The financial industry, frequently disrupted by various crises – from cyberattacks to geopolitical events – has witnessed profound impacts.

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Resilience Banking Vulnerability Crisis Management 59

Fusion Risk Management

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In an increasingly interconnected world, organizations with a global presence face a unique set of challenges when it comes to maintaining resilience during geopolitical events. Crisis and Incident Response Geopolitical events often necessitate the activation of emergency response and crisis response plans.

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Security Industry Association

JANUARY 6, 2025

Dunton is committed to advancing the industry through active leadership; she serves on the boards of the AFCOM Greater Minnesota Chapter and the 7×24 Exchange Minnesota Chapter and has contributed her expertise as a board member of the Minnesota ASIS Chapter. View SIAs full committee guide here. Learn more and get started as a volunteer.

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Security Government Education Vulnerability 59

everbridge

APRIL 8, 2025

By envisioning and rehearsing responses to worst-case scenarios, participants gain a deeper understanding of potential challenges and the steps needed to mitigate risks. They bring together relevant stakeholders to simulate a real-life event and walk through the necessary steps to handle it. Test team coordination and communication.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By 2050, severe weather and climate-related events are projected to displace 1.2 Prepare in Advance for a Severe Weather Event. It’s important to prepare for a severe weather event before it happens. It’s important to prepare for a severe weather event before it happens.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Risk transference is one of the four main strategies organizations can use to mitigate risk. There are four main strategies for mitigating risk : · Risk acceptance: Making a conscious decision to remain vulnerable to a potential harm, usually based on a cost-benefit analysis. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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Security Industry Association

APRIL 23, 2025

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Nanodems helps organizations streamline operations, mitigate risk and centralize control of their security assets and systems with its intelligent converged platform. AC : (Apart from some really cool events!) What is your companys vision, and what are your goals for the security industry?

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Marketing Benchmark Security Internet 64

AWS Disaster Recovery

JULY 27, 2021

In this blog post, we share a reference architecture that uses a multi-Region active/passive strategy to implement a hot standby strategy for disaster recovery (DR). With the multi-Region active/passive strategy, your workloads operate in primary and secondary Regions with full capacity. This keeps RTO and RPO low.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s a permanent ongoing activity. More simply, the job of the risk manager is to identify, prioritize, and mitigate the risks faced by the organization. These range from workplace violence to the weather to cyberattacks to supply chain disruptions caused by far-flung geopolitical events. Knowledge of how to mitigate risks.

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Risk Management BCM Management All-Hazards 98

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation. Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied.

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BCP Builder

JANUARY 20, 2025

A business continuity exercise is a simulation or activity designed to test an organisations response to potential disruptions. Mitigating Risks: Exercises help businesses identify and address vulnerabilities before real-world disruptions occur. Simulation Drills Simulation drills replicate real-life events as closely as possible.

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National Fire Protection Association

JUNE 21, 2023

In 2018, Augusta, Georgia, became the first community to implement NFPA 3000®, Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program, to address mass casualty event mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. It’s not a matter of if one is going to happen, it’s when,” said Ryan. The Gun Violence Archive.

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Activation Mitigation Healthcare Publishing 96

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

This helps them prepare for disaster events, which is one of the biggest challenges they can face. Such events include natural disasters like earthquakes or floods, technical failures such as power or network loss, and human actions such as inadvertent or unauthorized modifications. Scope of impact for a disaster event.

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National Fire Protection Association

AUGUST 3, 2022

As we head into one of the hottest months of the year, daily news reports continue to broadcast stories of record high temperatures and severe drought conditions, both contributing factors to the increased wildfire activity spreading across the U.S. and Europe. Here in the U.S.,

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Zerto

AUGUST 24, 2023

The third crucial step in risk assessment is risk control, which involves crafting effective strategies to mitigate the identified risks. There are four fundamental types of risk control: risk acceptance, risk mitigation, risk avoidance, and risk transfer. In our last post, we examined the risk analysis step of risk assessment.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

The wise organization develops strategies and plans to mitigate and prepare for all five types of risk. It does so because recency bias makes recent past events loom the largest in people’s expectations of the future. Assess the residual risk after you have developed plans and mitigation strategies.

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Castellan

APRIL 1, 2022

In its best form, as an element of resilience management, business continuity management applies a holistic, cross-discipline approach across your organization to minimize the frequency of disruptions and lessen the impact of disruptive events. What is Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)? LEARN MORE.

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LAN Infotech

MAY 3, 2022

How to Respond to a Cybersecurity Event. In recent years, the size and magnitude of cybersecurity events have increased. That said, even with strong cybersecurity measures in place, your business may still become a victim of a data loss event. 5 Steps for Responding to Cybersecurity Events. Step 3: Investigate the Event.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. It is a strategy designed to help businesses continue operating with minimal disruption during a disruptive event. But no BCP would have to be activated in that scenario. ?

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Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A recent drone event in New Jersey, where a person used their sUAS platform to drop chemicals into swimming pools to turn the water green, is not about turning pool water green – it’s about capability and the continued maturity of use cases in private-sector environments. Army colonel and veteran of the Iraq War.

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PagerDuty

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This ensures that escalation policies are in place and configured correctly–mitigating risk and accelerating resolution during response. Generally available for Enterprise Incident Management customers who have an active Jeli integration. Phased rollout has begun for all incident management plans.

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Security Industry Association

JUNE 5, 2023

Department of Defense and Special Event Assessment Rating (SEAR) 1-5 events. 32, focusing on the act of mitigating the risk associated with a drone, and highlighting the crucial role the Security Industry Association’s (SIA’s) Counter-UAS Working Group plays in advancing C-UAS-specific regulations within all affected U.S.

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everbridge

MARCH 4, 2022

Today’s security professionals must help their organizations fulfill their duty of care by safeguarding remote employees and field service workers (as well as those traveling on business) against emerging digital and physical threats ranging from ransomware to severe weather events. Q: The pandemic accelerated new work trends.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 9, 2021

This book states that crisis management should only be used for unprecedented or extraordinary events. He said that in the 21st century, a major incident could often be described as unprecedented, giving the impression that within the past 20 years, we have suffered a series of unusual and one-off events or that have not been similar.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 9, 2021

This book states that crisis management should only be used for unprecedented or extraordinary events. He said that in the 21st century, a major incident could often be described as unprecedented, giving the impression that within the past 20 years, we have suffered a series of unusual and one-off events or that have not been similar.

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Crisis Management Management Strategic Publishing 52

Pure Storage

JANUARY 20, 2022

By evaluating customer behavior, companies can create strategic marketing plans that target a particular customer cohort—for example, by offering personalized recommendations based on previous purchases or social media activity. With big data, companies can also identify the activities that keep current customers satisfied.

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Advertising Retail Marketing Audit 139

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

One solution designed to help organizations understand and mitigate ransomware risks is the Pure1 Security Assessment. This helps ensure data availability even in the event of a major ransomware incident. Conduct threat-hunting activities to identify potential indicators of compromise proactively.

Security 52

Security Vulnerability Backup Evaluation 52

Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This event, organized by the SIA Perimeter Security Subcommittee, brought together policymakers, federal and local agencies personnel, security consultants and architects, students, solution providers and others with the goal to learn, network and engage with the perimeter security industry. Comments from Sponsoring Companies.

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Security Government Education Manufacturing 52

everbridge

APRIL 8, 2024

Under SB 553, California employers must conduct risk assessments to identify potential hazards and implement measures to mitigate them. Everbridge can help organizations document these activities, making it easier to demonstrate compliance with SB 553’s record-keeping requirements.

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