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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

Data breaches often exploit vulnerabilities in software, weak passwords, or insider threats to gain access to critical systems and exfiltrate data. Threats against Critical Infrastructure Attackers often target essential servicessuch as power grids, water supplies, or transportation systemsthreatening severe disruption unless paid.

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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

It can result in power outages, transportation disruptions, and, most critically, could pose serious health risks to people. Especially vulnerable populations. The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort. In contrast, urban areas face their own set of challenges during cold emergencies.

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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

In recent years, we have entered a uniquely tumultuous period, one characterized by weird weather, global conflict, and heightened supply chain vulnerability, among other challenges. The threat of utility or network outages. Websites for state and local public safety, transportation, and emergency management agencies.

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The financial impact of climate change on organizations

everbridge

Download Financial Vulnerabilities White Paper The financial impact of climate change on organizations The cost of climate change on organizations is multi-faceted, and the consequences can be severe. For example, in February 2021 a severe winter storm hit Texas , causing widespread power outages and water shortages.

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The Ukraine Invasion: What Are the Impacts on Supply Chain Dynamics?

Fusion Risk Management

Logistics Route and Capacity Constraints : Supply chain transportation and freight is already being impacted across the globe. In addition, global transporters UPS and FedEx have discontinued all shipments to both Russia and Ukraine and will consider further restrictions if the conflict expands to other countries directly.

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Managing Extreme Heat Events

everbridge

With power outages, you now have people who are oxygen dependent, who don’t have access to their oxygen because the power’s been turned off. Second, emergency managers are opening cooling shelters, trying to get the homeless and vulnerable populations into areas where they’re not going to suffer from the extreme heat.

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Backup and DR – The Last Line of Ransomware Defense

OffsiteDataSync

Freedom from malware and/or ransomware : Backup systems are just as vulnerable to compromise as anything else, so they be kept clean. Typically, backup systems are called into action for discrete outages. Logical and/or physical air gapping : Backups should be protected from network intrusions so ransomware cannot reach them.

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