Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

Increasing dependency on critical infrastructure makes the country ever more vulnerable to proliferating technological failure, whether it is caused by cyber attack, sabotage or natural forces. One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In an increasingly interconnected and complex world, the concept of resilience extends far beyond the boundaries of individual organizations. For me, this underscored the importance of investing in greater community resilience, not only for the benefit of our workforce, but also for our customers, vendors, and stakeholders.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss?

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss?

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Residual risk is one of the foundational concepts of business continuity management. Identifying and reducing residual risk is the most cost-effective way of making an organization more resilient. Understanding Risk Tolerance In managing risk, the goal for organizations is not to get their risk down to zero.

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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example: Risk assessments and emergency and business continuity plans now need to consider Indigenous knowledge, climate change, cultural safety, and impacts on vulnerable persons, animals, places or things. Build on and reference existing risk assessments, plans, and other program elements.

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 7, 2024

An ISMS supports risk management by providing a systematic framework for identifying, evaluating, and managing information security risks. It includes policies, procedures, and controls designed to protect an organization’s information assets from threats and vulnerabilities.

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 7, 2024

An ISMS supports risk management by providing a systematic framework for identifying, evaluating, and managing information security risks. It includes policies, procedures, and controls designed to protect an organization’s information assets from threats and vulnerabilities.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. The fact that disaster happens can be used in a positive way to increase resilience against future impacts. Myth 59: Cost-benefit data will convince decision makers to invest in disaster risk reduction.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 28, 2025

Everyone should be aware of the latest risks such as social engineering and phishing attempts and be required to follow basic security hygiene protocols like using unique complex passwords, activating multifactor authentication, remaining wary of suspicious emails or texts, and enabling regular software updates.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 30, 2025

Everyone should be aware of the latest risks such as social engineering and phishing attempts and be required to follow basic security hygiene protocols like using unique complex passwords, activating multifactor authentication, remaining wary of suspicious emails or texts, and enabling regular software updates.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Anomie and shortage of disaster governance. Alexander, D.E.

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