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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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What Service Providers Need to Know About Supply Chain Risk Management

MHA Consulting

Many service providers tune out talk about supply chain risk management since they think the issue only affects manufacturers and retailers. In fact, service providers are also vulnerable to vendor … The post What Service Providers Need to Know About Supply Chain Risk Management appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Is Your Printer The Biggest Security Threat In Your Office?

LAN Infotech

But what if I told you that your office printer yes, the one quietly humming in the corner could be one of the biggest vulnerabilities in your entire network? But most businesses never update their printers firmware , leaving them vulnerable to known exploitations. It sounds ridiculous, but hackers love printers.

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Are Your IoT Devices Leaving the Door Open for Hackers?

NexusTek

This can create cyber vulnerabilities due to issues like lack of encryption, substandard authentication processes, or failure to provide timely security updates. For example, manufacturers may designate default credentials that are well-known, that can be easily guessed, or that could be quickly unlocked by hackers using a password cracker.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

The increasing vulnerability and dwindling redundancy of life-support systems will aggravate the effect of proliferating failure among critical infrastructure networks. Preamble 1.1 The future of humanity will involve very significant challenges in order to create and maintain resilience. Unplanned mass migrations will occur. The citizen 4.1

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. It can signify a means of diversifying assets so as to optimise the way they can be used to exploit people, for example, by shifting manufacturing production to places where wages can most easily be suppressed.

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What is operational resilience?

everbridge

For industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy and Utilities, Telecom, and Manufacturing, disruptions can have far-reaching effects. People Cross-functional collaboration: Teams from IT, security, leadership, compliance, and operations must work together to identify potential vulnerabilities and develop strategies.