BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

All aspects of Business Continuity, including planning, training, stress testing and exercising of Business Continuity Plans will be seen as a priority. An impacts-oriented all-hazards approach will be worthwhile planning going forward (as it has been in the past). We are all experiencing extreme turbulence and its here to stay.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 27, 2019

Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." His fascination in the modern era consists of a mixture of his genius in many fields (painting, natural history, hydraulics, flight, mechanics, architecture, military strategy, weaponry, anatomy, and so on) and his secretiveness. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x

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Natural Hazard Risk Reduction All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place.

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Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Media 174

BMC

JANUARY 1, 2025

We all know what patterns generally are in common language, but to understand their importance in software engineering it’s important to first discuss algorithms. Factories are a very code-oriented pattern, while pub/sub is more architectural in nature. I look code up on the internet all the time. What are design patterns?

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Pure Storage

MARCH 27, 2025

Building Operational Cyber Resilience using the Pure 5//S Principles by Pure Storage Blog Summary The five key pillars of a cyber resilient architecture are: Speed, Security, Simplicity, Scale, and Sustainability. Previously, it was focused on natural and operational disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, or hazardous spills on highways.

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Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. First of all, we need a change in culture towards something more inclusive and more serious.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations Last Updated on June 4, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 26 minutes We all live in an unpredictable world. BCP requires collaboration across the entire organization and the participation of all business units and departments. Business Continuity is not a data backup.

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Business Continuity BCM Impact Analysis BCP 52

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

We all live in an unpredictable world. Business Continuity should be one of the top priorities for all organization leaders, and response plans should be implemented in organizations of all sizes. BCP requires collaboration across the entire organization and the participation of all business units and departments.

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