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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

To minimize disruption from third-party attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, ransomware, and nation-state threats, regulators around the world are implementing landmark incident reporting standards. For example, a public-private exercise in 2007 simulated a pandemic where approximately 40% of the workforce had to go remote.

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IRM, ERM, and GRC: Is There a Difference?

Reciprocity

Not long ago, risk managers concerned themselves mainly with hazards such as fires and floods; or in the financial sector, loan defaults (credit risk). 2002-2007): Financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance, and their related IT controls. Are there differences at all? Which is best? ERM: A Short History.

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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. In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Myth 65: Children and young people are too vulnerable to be exposed to the effects of disaster.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced. Register 2007. However, the solution often lies in the context, not the problem. Gordon 2018.