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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

state develops a hazard mitigation plan, which identifies top local risks and provides a framework for long term strategies to reduce risk and protect citizens and property from damage. 8 states/territories mention pandemic planning but do not discuss further how the state or agency will be able to mitigate the hazard from the event.

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Crisis Management Training: Practice Makes Perfect

Bernstein Crisis Management

Spoiler alert: It’s not going to end well. Crisis management training equips individuals and teams with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate and mitigate the impacts of crises efficiently. Yet many of those same people fully believe they can wing it when a full-blown crisis situation puts them on center stage.

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Ensuring workplace safety through Senate Bill 553 compliance with Everbridge

everbridge

Under SB 553, California employers must conduct risk assessments to identify potential hazards and implement measures to mitigate them. Our mass notification system allows for quick dissemination of alerts to employees, security, and management, ensuring rapid response to potential or actual violent situations.

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The Threat of AI-powered Ransomware Attacks

Pure Storage

LLMs can be used to alter the source code of a piece of malware to avoid triggering rules, such as YARA rules, which identify patterns in malware families to alert a potential attack. This includes zero-day vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in software and systems, further complicating the task of defending against such attacks.

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Inclement weather response demands attention

everbridge

For example, in Maui and the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise, California alerts were delayed, use of sirens withheld, and evacuation procedures rendered ineffective. Emergency alert systems, including Wireless Emergency Alerts and NOAA Weather Radio, serve as direct lifelines to the public.

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Risk Management Process – Part 3c: Risk Control

Zerto

The third crucial step in risk assessment is risk control, which involves crafting effective strategies to mitigate the identified risks. There are four fundamental types of risk control: risk acceptance, risk mitigation, risk avoidance, and risk transfer. In our last post, we examined the risk analysis step of risk assessment.

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Safeguard Our Schools: Bolstering Ransomware Resilience with Zerto

Zerto

Because kids simply can’t be kept out of school for weeks at a time, and because educational data is confidential, schools are especially vulnerable targets. Real-time alerts can send incident response teams into action to isolate and mitigate the attack. In fact, at least 48 school districts in the U.S.