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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. Hurricane Preparedness on Campus.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

All levels of government should develop business continuity plans to ensure that their essential services can continue to be delivered during crisis conditions. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

I often lead crisis management drills for one of our customers in the hospitality industry. Develop a plan for data backup. And continue to test your emergency response plan. There is much to consider when creating a business continuity plan; these are just a few ideas. Some big-name franchises did as well.

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3 Focus Areas for Improving Business Resilience

everbridge

More than 2,800 senior executives in organizations of all sizes across 29 industries and 73 countries weighed in on their 2020 crisis response plans in PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) annual impact survey. This is a valuable insight into resiliency planning, business operations, and the future of the workplace.

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How Keeping Track of Microsoft’s Product Plans Can Keep Your Network Secure

LAN Infotech

Cybercriminals have targeted corporations and companies of all sizes, government agencies, schools, hospitals, and many other entities in the past decade. Even businesses and organizations with a cyber incident response plan on paper will find that an actual attack often unfolds quite differently than it does in scenario planning sessions.

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Practicing Emergency Preparedness

Alert Media

The exercise participants responded to a dispatch call of an incident that involved the widely used agricultural product, anhydrous ammonia” This is a great example of applying an emergency situation relevant to an industry and preparing a response plan.

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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure

Pure Storage

From ransomware attacks on school systems and hospitals to threats on critical infrastructure, state and local IT leaders are under immense pressure to build strong cyber defenses against bad actors,” says Mike Wiseman , vice president of public sector at Pure Storage. ” Data-drill Disaster Planning.