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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Yet the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts include no experts on managing emergencies, even though this is the most extensive, and perhaps the most profound, emergency that the country has faced in the last 75 years. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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Amplifying School Security With Gunshot Detection Systems

Security Industry Association

At Virginia Tech in 2007, an active shooter managed to go undetected for two and a half hours after his first two shots were fired in a dormitory. At their core, indoor gunshot detection systems include one or more sensors, strategically positioned within a facility, that transmit gunshot alerts through a communications platform.

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

Reciprocity

2002-2007): Financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance, and their related IT controls. 2007-2012): Audit management, enterprise, and operational risk management, compliance beyond financial controls, and more. Rasmussen sees the GRC development timeline as follows: GRC 1.0