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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

To fulfill duty of care standards, corporations, educational institutions, hospitals, and government agencies should evaluate and test the health of communication networks and information systems before a severe weather event occurs.

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

Risk can be affected by numerous external factors, including natural disasters, global pandemics, raw material prices, increased levels of competition, or changes to current government regulations. A risk analysis is conducted for each identified risk, and security controls are pinpointed to mitigate or avoid these threats.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard. Myth 20: Field hospitals are particularly useful for treating people injured by sudden impact disasters. Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack.

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Risk Managers: Is Today’s Violence Worse than the 1960’s? Yes, and Why You Should Care (Sorry, Jim and Max)

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Try wearing a Make America Great hat on today’s campus and you could get hospitalized. Attacks like Ohio State and London Bridge only require impulse and forethought, and are impossible to mitigate and counter. Update: Antifa recently assaulted one of their own because he was carrying an American flag ). Media presence?