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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. Security’ involves protection against major threats, such as terrorist activity. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans.

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Idaho Office of Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

As the Director, he is responsible for Idaho’s emergency preparedness and response planning in support of the Idaho Homeland Security and Emergency Management Strategies. As the Governor’s Authorized Representative Brad acts as the single point of contact for all federal, regional, and state emergency management activities.

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

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Today, many BCDR programs rely on response plans for a handful of most likely potential incidents. This activity was so widespread that the FBI issued warnings regarding these scams targeting individuals and businesses involved in the recovery efforts. But government action alone is not enough. Build awareness.

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Change Healthcare’s 2024 Data Breach: Key Risk Management Lessons

LogisManager

The root cause of the contagion was traced to inadequate oversight of third-party integrations, a vulnerability that could have been mitigated with stronger governance and continuous monitoring. Lack of Continuous Monitoring and Incident Response : The failure to detect the breach early on allowed the issue to spread unchecked.

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

This form of cybercrime has surged as the digital landscape grows increasingly interconnected, with businesses, governments, and individuals becoming prime targets. Continuously monitor system logs to detect unusual activity, such as failed login attempts or unauthorized data transfers.

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Testing your Response Plans: What Would Confucius Say?

On Solve

With the help of Confucius, Dr. Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. A BR/CM/CC/DR plan exercise validates the plan and procedures, tests/trains responders in simulated real conditions and provides feedback to the plan developers and responders.

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Conducting effective tabletop exercises for emergency preparedness

everbridge

Tabletop exercises are structured, scenario-driven discussions designed to test and evaluate the effectiveness of an organizations emergency response plans. Purpose of tabletop exercises The primary objective of these exercises is to: Assess the efficiency of response plans. Test team coordination and communication.