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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future.

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Mastering Business Continuity Exercises: Best Practices, Scenarios, and Tools for 2025

BCP Builder

Evaluation Metrics: Time taken to evacuate, system recovery speed, etc. Here are six essential scenarios: Cybersecurity Breach Test your incident response plan by simulating a data breach or ransomware attack. Health Crisis Test your readiness for a sudden health emergency, like a pandemic.

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

Sextortion scams surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attackers sending emails claiming to have hacked webcams or email accounts, demanding Bitcoin to delete the alleged footage. If using vendors or contractors, evaluate their cybersecurity practices to ensure they dont introduce vulnerabilities.

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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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The Impact of Hybrid Work Environments on Resilience Management

Castellan

While some companies sustained on-premises teams throughout the coronavirus pandemic—and some more have returned to that recently—many organizations still operate in a fully-remote or hybrid work environment. According to the BCM Compensation Report, only 6% of respondents anticipate that they will be 100% back in office post-pandemic.

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Integrating Risk Disciplines: Business Continuity and Cyber Response

Castellan

While this has well been the case for the last several years, it’s certainly ever-more true in our post-pandemic world. As we reflect on lessons learned from our pandemic and multi-event response protocols, we can find many opportunities to improve business continuity practices to further solidify resilience.

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Continuity Strategies to Support an Enterprise Resiliency Program

eBRP

Traditional BCM is often limited to tactical response plans, perceived simply as insurance policies that rarely spark high-level executive engagement. This means investing in cross-functional collaboration to identify risks, prioritize critical assets, and develop robust response plans that minimize downtime.