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RIMS Canada Conference Kicks Off with Top Honors for Canadian Risk Professionals

Risk Management Monitor

Stuart Award from Valerie Fox (left) for lifetime achievement in risk management OTTAWA—The 2023 RIMS Canada Conference is officially underway here in Ottawa, Ontario, convening more than 1,400 Canadian risk professionals in the nation’s capital. Catherine Dowdall (right) receives the Donald M.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

Across the globe, both public and private sectors are more concerned than ever about addressing climate change and its associated risks. “In In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 ANALYZE – Evaluate actions taken and understand patterns to improve disaster risk reduction.

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Determining a Critical Vendor

Fusion Risk Management

For more information on some of the best guidance in managing outsourced technology and vendors in general, please contact Fusion or refer to the FFIEC guidance in the IT examination handbook or the guide to outsourced technology: Risk Management of Outsourced Technology Services – November 28, 2000 (ffiec.gov).

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Black Swans and Swiss Cheese – A Boat Crash in Baltimore

Plan B Consulting

This is a classic business continuity and emergency response incident, and I thought I would examine it through the lens of a couple of risk management concepts: black swan events and Reason’s Swiss cheese theory. Black swan events, popularised by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, are rare events that have a major impact when they occur.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Emerald Publishing Ltd. Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).

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CAPEX vs. Subscriptions: How to Determine the True Value in IT Services

Pure Storage

Gartner, IDC, and other industry analysts estimate that approximately half of Global 2000 ranked public companies will procure their infrastructure through “as-a-service” offerings by 2024. Pure as-a-Service provides a fully formed, data management service through an as-a-service subscription model. The Rise of as-a-Service Offerings.

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Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Plan B Consulting

The story earlier this week was that while Poland have taken on 1m+ refugees and Ireland 2000, the UK had only taken in and processed 50 people. If I was the MD of an organisation and the business continuity manager had shown this level of ‘failure to plan’, they would be looking for a new job. I had tears in my eyes listening.