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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

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.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

During these kinds of severe weather events, Governments, multilateral donors, and business executives alike have a responsibility, whether moral or legal, to respond effectively and efficiently in order to protect people, assets, and facilities from harm. So, how can public and private sectors cultivate climate change resilience?

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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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Critical infrastructure is under attack

everbridge

These sectors are typically identified by governments and international organizations and are recognized as critical because they are vulnerable to physical and cyber threats and attacks that could cause significant harm or disruption to society. Fortunately, there are steps businesses can take to protect their operations from attack.

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

Risk can be affected by numerous external factors, including natural disasters, global pandemics, raw material prices, increased levels of competition, or changes to current government regulations. A risk analysis is conducted for each identified risk, and security controls are pinpointed to mitigate or avoid these threats.

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Guest Post: Building the “Air Domain” Into Your Security Program

Security Industry Association

That framework consists of six major steps: Conduct a drone vulnerability and risk assessment (DVRA): The DVRA framework is a process that identifies the threat, accounts for critical assets, determines vulnerabilities to those assets and then offers responsible and proportionate risk mitigation recommendations.

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Business, Interrupted: How to Respond When A Headline-Making Cyber Crisis Becomes Your Reality

Castellan

It’s about implementing governance, processes, and controls to continuously analyze your risks, prioritize how to respond to them, and have plans to mitigate or remediate those risks, while being well-prepared to respond to a disruption. At the top of the list is incident response plans and testing. What do we do?