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Foresight

Emergency Planning

It can signify a means of diversifying assets so as to optimise the way they can be used to exploit people, for example, by shifting manufacturing production to places where wages can most easily be suppressed. The term has many different meanings. References Fukuyama, F. The End of History and the Last Man. The Free Press, New York, 418 pp.

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Disk Is Done When It Comes to Backups

Pure Storage

Back in 2013, it was an unprecedented idea, but using my crystal ball, I predicted the following: The way I see it, a few years from now it will be common to use flash arrays as backup targets, and probably a few years after that we’ll all wonder how we ever used anything else. Replace your PBBAs with much denser FlashBlade systems.

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Increased Resilience – The Missing Strategy

Plan B Consulting

There is no mention of working from home which, with evolution in IT, this is available to a lot more staff now, then it was when the GPG was written in 2013. In defence manufacturing, the licence to produce a particular product is linked to a particular geographical location and usually a designated building.

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Increased Resilience – The Missing Strategy

Plan B Consulting

There is no mention of working from home which, with evolution in IT, this is available to a lot more staff now, then it was when the GPG was written in 2013. In defence manufacturing, the licence to produce a particular product is linked to a particular geographical location and usually a designated building.

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Business Continuity and ‘Emergency Response’

Plan B Consulting

According to the HM Government publication, Emergency Response and Recovery Non Statutory guidance – revised version October 2013, ‘response encompasses the decisions and actions taken to deal with the immediate effects of an emergency’.

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Business Continuity and ‘Emergency Response’

Plan B Consulting

According to the HM Government publication, Emergency Response and Recovery Non Statutory guidance – revised version October 2013, ‘response encompasses the decisions and actions taken to deal with the immediate effects of an emergency’.

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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?

Plan B Consulting

There could be an attack on infrastructure causing it to fail, such as a dam which floods downstream, or an attack on a complex manufacturing facility or refinery, which causes the process to fail and results in an explosion.