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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. To help achieve this level of preparation, each U.S.

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2021 Technology To Be Thankful For

NexusTek

November 24, 2021. 2021 Technology To Be Thankful For. There’s plenty of technology to be thankful for in 2021: dual monitors, automatic standing desks, noise-cancelling headphones, streaming, food service delivery apps, mRNA, which led to the COVID-19 vaccines, etc. READ TIME: 4 MIN. With IoT connections expected to reach 30.9

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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The most important cybersecurity lessons of 2021

Online Computers

Here are some of the biggest and most important cybersecurity lessons we have learned from 2021: Remote endpoints need to be secured. Inability to provide such capabilities may allow attackers to take advantage of vulnerable equipment, shadow IT, and downtime, leading to costly consequences. Adopting zero trust is essential.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.

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Corporate Security Predictions and Trends 2021

Swan Island Network

Corporate Security Predictions and Trends 2021. 2021 is approaching rapidly, though 2020 seems to be lasting an eternity. The COVID-19 pandemic is a stubborn foe and has defied (so far) any kind of “silver bullet” such as the vaccine which finally brought polio under control in the 50s. Uneven pandemic and economic recovery.

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Mobile Pathways – Building Trust to Ensure Vaccine Equity by Suprita Makh

PagerDuty

Life across the world has settled into a “new normal” as we approach almost three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 vaccines became available in early 2021, it was widely recognized that vaccine equity—equitable, safe, and trusted access to vaccines—was the only way to end the pandemic. Mexico border in November 2021.