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.

All-Hazards

Disaster Zone Podcast

JUNE 4, 2024

He leads the Office of Emergency Management’s mission to cultivate a resilient community through collaborative partnerships to prevent, prepare, mitigate, respond and recover from large-scale emergencies and disasters. He has held that position for over seven years. He has held that position for over seven years.

All-Hazards

Online Computers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

That's why it's important for you to have a disaster preparedness plan (DPP) to help prevent or lessen the damage of a disaster and quickly resume normal business operations. But how can you be sure that your strategy to mitigate disasters will actually work?

Disaster Preparedness

everbridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Events such as the devastating incident in Maui serve as grim reminders of the ongoing challenges that persist in disaster preparedness and response. This showcases how proactive measures can mitigate the impact of disasters. Increasingly, this issue appears to be unique to the United States. seems to be falling behind.

Disaster Preparedness

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It is also a time for us, particularly in the disaster preparedness community, to reflect on what has changed since 9/11 and what has not. The state of preparedness in the United States is evolving.

Disaster Management

The Rand Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Building back better means focusing on recovery that not only restores damage from a disaster but also reduces future risk.

Disaster Preparedness

Zerto

JUNE 7, 2022

How do you best mitigate threats and best protect against ransomware? While that is a big component, protection also involves implementing the proper set of security controls and adopting good cyber practices to mitigate the risk of a compromise. Recover In Minutes and Get Out of Ransomware Jail.

Malware

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The DRF is the source for myriad programs under the Federal Emergency Management Agency that provide disaster assistance to impacted communities. The post Federal Disaster Funding at Play in Fiscal Year 2024 and Government Shutdown Negotiations appeared first on National Center for Disaster Preparedness | NCDP.

Government

National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the plans that can be used is NFPA 1660, Standard for Emergency, Continuity, and Crisis Management: Preparedness, Response and Recovery, which provides guidelines for creating, implementing, assessing, and maintaining effective disaster/emergency management and business continuity programs.

Disaster Preparedness

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

UNDRR has a recurrent initiative for assessing the state of disaster preparedness around the world, and this results in a document, the Global Assessment Report (GAR), which is issued biennially to coincide with the UN's Global Platform on DRR. DRR is thus now truly mainstreamed at the global level.

Risk Reduction

Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Processes, steps, and guidelines in a business continuity plan answer one question: “How businesses can continue offering acceptable service levels when disaster strikes.” At a high level, some of the key elements of a BCP are: Information about and/or references to BC governance, policies and standards.

BCP

Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

To help mitigate against ransomware attacks, organizations need to not only carefully identify which applications should be refactored but consider the integration of data protection solutions early on. Check out the IDC whitepaper The State of Ransomware and Disaster Preparedness. CDP-As-Code.

Disaster Recovery

Online Computers

JUNE 5, 2023

Managed IT services providers (MSPs) play a pivotal role in enabling businesses to adapt and thrive in the face of unexpected catastrophes such as data breaches, hardware failures, and natural disasters. Related reading : Is your business ready for any disaster? Contact us today.

Business Continuity

National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

While Preparedness Month focuses on natural disasters that most likely occur in the months ahead, any event that can cause catastrophe within a community year-round should be included in these plans as well. Our CRR digital tool CRAIG 1300® serves as a powerful platform for identifying leading risks within a given area.

Risk Reduction

NexusTek

MARCH 4, 2020

Within your BCP, a theorized list of implications that a peril would have on your business and ways to mitigate the impact of peril or outage-induced downtime are vital to the success of your plan. LEARN MORE about Unified Communications Planning is imperative in pandemic and disaster preparedness.

Failover

everbridge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cybersecurity solutions increasingly harnessed these technologies to analyze extensive data, detect anomalies, and automate incident response, leading to quicker and more precise threat identification and mitigation.

Management

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This occurred on January 9, 2025, when a civilian drone collided with a firefighting airplane over the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles County, further reducing the window of time needed to save lives and mitigate property damage. These operational constraints must be addressed to fully realize this technologys potential.

Damage Assessment

Business Resilience Decoded

AUGUST 24, 2023

That means training and exercises will revolve around evaluating the disaster and making decisions as quickly as possible. From an emergency management standpoint, the jurisdiction wherever the fire originates is responsible for mitigating the fire. Teams should be ready to step in and help a smaller jurisdiction if asked.

Management

Fusion Risk Management

AUGUST 7, 2023

With this in mind, it’s becoming increasingly important that organizations look at climate change and natural disaster preparedness not just from an ESG (environmental, social, and governance) perspective but also from an operational resiliency one. Is there anyone else trained up to cover for her in the meantime?

All-Hazards

MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The Importance of Testing and Exercises In case you missed it, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote an excellent blog last week called, “The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order.” Unfortunately, it’s a tool that most companies neglect.

Disaster Recovery

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MARCH 27, 2025

However, several critical gaps remain that must be addressed to ensure these technologies effectively strengthen local disaster preparedness and reach the last mile. These improved, low-resource forecasts are being integrated into an anticipatory action framework to help prepare and mitigate the risks of extreme weather events.

Risk Reduction

MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The Importance of Testing and Exercises In case you missed it, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote an excellent blog last week called, “The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order.” Unfortunately, it’s a tool that most companies neglect.

Disaster Recovery

everbridge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hurricane preparedness considerations for hospitals include the same requirements as corporate and government entities. Planning for the following four contingencies can mitigate the harm caused by a hurricane: Be ready to call in backup team members or contractors should the storm prevent a member of your crisis team from being available.

Hospitality

Solutions Review

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supply chain mapping will grow in importance in 2023 as it also helps in identifying concentration risk or compliance risk, allowing businesses to see the early warning signals, predict potential disruptions, identify supply chain bottlenecks and take proactive measures to mitigate risks, and maintain competitiveness.

Backup

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

In my role leading the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Climate School, as well as through other positions, I have dedicated my career to fostering the impact of disaster research in the fields of policy and practice. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

Pandemic

Security Industry Association

JUNE 14, 2021

Security can easily be viewed as a cost center unless time is taken to showcase the value of risks mitigated or prevented by the investments being made. He is also the lead Boeing interface for both national and international security policy engagement with numerous government and industry advisory groups.

Education

Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 30, 2021

When a storm of any magnitude hits, multiple businesses will likely be affected, so establishing a vendor rapport beforehand allows you to pre-negotiate rates and availability guarantees, helping to save time and money after a disaster.

Risk Management

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 4, 2020

Rising rates of violence prompt the need for new approaches that not only mitigate the current crisis but also prepare for the widespread repercussions of the pandemic. We must work to mitigate the underlying vulnerabilities that will continue to foster stressful home environments, even after the pandemic wanes.

Pandemic

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2023

It’s always been important for BC professionals to be aware of the adverse weather that might impact their people, technology, and facilities and to take steps to mitigate them. Assessing the natural threats facing the organization has been a cornerstone of BCM all along. What has changed about all that?

BCM

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2022

Ransomware attacks are increasing in frequency and severity. As a business continuity professional, there are steps you can take before and during such an attack to help your organization get … The post How to Help Your Organization Get Through a Ransomware Attack appeared first on MHA Consulting.

Continuity Professionals

Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 4, 2022

Such a program must focus on the detailed assessment of key risks to the supply chain and the creation of mitigation strategies that limit their impact on a company’s ability to satisfy its customers. How Did We Get Here? To better prepare an organization for the future, it is important to reflect on events in the past.

Logistics

Erwood Group

JULY 7, 2022

It is disaster preparedness for business. Now that we know that business continuity in its simplest form, is disaster preparedness for business; we need to discuss more how as a business we properly prepare for disasters and disruptions. What is business continuity? There you go.

Business Continuity

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

AUGUST 22, 2024

Most significantly, it helped local governments find reliable funding for pre-disaster mitigation. In the past, local governments struggled to identify consistent funding for their pre-disaster mitigation planning. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.

Disaster Preparedness

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 12, 2021

Thus, identifying and planning for the risks of potential disasters, such as a pandemic, is the first step to ensuring that communities and regions are prepared for them. Although each hazard mitigation plan is approved by FEMA, each state widely varies in how thoroughly it includes pandemic risk assessment and strategy in the plan.

Hazard

Castellan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For 2021, the theme aligns with President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Racial Equality and has strategies that include ways to empower diverse communities that have often been underserved when it comes to disaster preparedness.

Business Continuity

Risk Management Monitor

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Those that do make the connection are on the path to better mitigating financial exposure, reputational damage, business interruption, and other losses. Preparedness: On the journey to resilience, it’s important to develop an accurate perception of an organization’s preparedness.

Resilience

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

AUGUST 22, 2022

billion – none of which even begins to move the needle on climate mitigation. However, these programs are specifically written for disaster assistance – e.g., debris removal, restoration of damaged facilities, evacuation and sheltering etc. – The NEA and the Stafford Act have been two of the strongest tools at Biden’s disposal.

Authorization