Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 20, 2015
For over 60 years, the Land Rover Defender has been one of the vehicles used by the British Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies around the world.
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 27, 2015
This week Charlie conducted a cyber attack as the scenario in a response exercise. Here are some lessons learnt from conducting the exercise. 1. I don’t think you need to be an IT security expert to conduct a cyber attack exercise. The technical element of the exercise is done by IT, and if you are looking at the first 24 hours of an incident then you don’t have to be too specific about how the attack took place just about what the consequence of the attack was. 2.
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Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 19, 2015
In conflicts and upheavals worldwide, violence disrupts healthcare services when they are needed most.
Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 18, 2015
The reason for commissioning this piece was simple, writes Luavut Zahid, Editor of our Pakistan blog. Pakistan does not have a favourable track record of taking care of its children.
Speaker: Erroll Amacker
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Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 12, 2015
Pakistan already has an abundant supply of refugees and temporarily displaced people, so why it would chose to add to those numbers through its own actions is confusing to say the least, says Luavut Zahid.
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Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 5, 2015
Christo Motz provides some initial observations on a cross-border exercise designed to improve disaster preparedness and strengthen co-operation between professional and volunteer emergency services in the Hungarian-Romanian border region.
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 27, 2015
This week Charlie conducted a cyber attack as the scenario in a response exercise. Here are some lessons learnt from conducting the exercise. 1. I don’t think you need to be an IT security expert to conduct a cyber attack exercise. The technical element of the exercise is done by IT, and if you are looking at the first 24 hours of an incident then you don’t have to be too specific about how the attack took place just about what the consequence of the attack was. 2.
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 10, 2015
I have been talking about doing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), on the building manufacturing plants in the Philippines, where I am presently working. Someone asked me why I was spending so much time developing the BIA template and planning the BIA workshop. Surely, ‘as a consultant you have a standard presentation and template which only needs to be slightly adjusted to each client’.
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 10, 2015
I feel that we can’t let this week’s bulletin go by without commenting on the death of Cecil the lion, which has dominated the news and the social media this week. The story so far is that rich, white, American dentist (not usually a combination which evokes public sympathy), Dr Palmer, pays $50,000 to shoot a lion in Zimbabwe as part of a seemingly legal shooting trip.
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Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 10, 2015
I have been talking about doing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), on the building manufacturing plants in the Philippines, where I am presently working. Someone asked me why I was spending so much time developing the BIA template and planning the BIA workshop. Surely, ‘as a consultant you have a standard presentation and template which only needs to be slightly adjusted to each client’.
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 10, 2015
I feel that we can’t let this week’s bulletin go by without commenting on the death of Cecil the lion, which has dominated the news and the social media this week. The story so far is that rich, white, American dentist (not usually a combination which evokes public sympathy), Dr Palmer, pays $50,000 to shoot a lion in Zimbabwe as part of a seemingly legal shooting trip.
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 6, 2015
Last weekend, the team working on the Philippines project I talked of last week, went off for the weekend to a resort island off the end of Cebu. We had an excellent weekend diving, swimming and chilling. On the way back our minibus was overtaking a line of cars and hit the edge of the curb, over-corrected and skidded off the road, nearly rolling the minibus in the process.
Plan B Consulting
AUGUST 6, 2015
Last weekend, the team working on the Philippines project I talked of last week, went off for the weekend to a resort island off the end of Cebu. We had an excellent weekend diving, swimming and chilling. On the way back our minibus was overtaking a line of cars and hit the edge of the curb, over-corrected and skidded off the road, nearly rolling the minibus in the process.
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