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5 Real-life business continuity planning cases you need to know

Online Computers

For instance, the city had to spend $3 million on emergency IT and crisis management intervention alone. Sadly, city administrators knew about their computer systems’ vulnerabilities but had failed to take action in time. The 2013 lightning strike that razed a South Carolina MSP.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Disaster Prevention and Management 11(3): 209-213. Approaches to emergency management teaching at the master’s level. Journal of Emergency Management 11(1): 59-72.