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US National Incident Management System – 2017 update
Crisis Response Journal
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
The US NIMS update is based on experience from the unforgiving environment of real world events and uses these lessons to improve future performance. The essence of this blog is to highlight some of these points, writes Editorial Advisory Panel Member Bri By Brian Dillon
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The Vancouver #SaltCrisis 2017
CCEM Strategies
JANUARY 6, 2017
It’s #Saltmageddon out there! The extended winter weather in the Lower Mainland has created significant ice and a #SaltCrisis in the city of Vancouver. With abnormal snowfall and unexpected weather on the coast (and across Canada), the salt stocks are low and the suppliers are taxed.
2017 CMS Emergency Preparedness Guidelines: 4 Steps To Compliance
Alert Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
The post 2017 CMS Emergency Preparedness Guidelines: 4 Steps To Compliance appeared first on AlertMedia. Emergency Management Emergency Preparedness
‘Do Less’ should be your 2017 business continuity New Year’s resolution!
Plan B Consulting
JANUARY 9, 2017
The post ‘Do Less’ should be your 2017 business continuity New Year’s resolution! From all of us at PlanB Consulting we would like to wish you a very Happy New Year!
‘Do Less’ should be your 2017 business continuity New Year’s resolution!
Plan B Consulting
JANUARY 9, 2017
The post ‘Do Less’ should be your 2017 business continuity New Year’s resolution! From all of us at PlanB Consulting we would like to wish you a very Happy New Year!
Channel Manager Position – West
ChannelBloom
AUGUST 24, 2017
Unitrends is looking for a very strong individual that can deliver consistent and aggressive growth achievement through substantial channel recruitment and rapid partner development for our Western Region Territory. Unitrends utilizes a highly orchestrated sales effort between coordinating marketing, insides sales, channel marketing programs, and channel sales efforts to drive all sales opportunities.
Iran earthquake: the disaster, impact and response
Crisis Response Journal
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Mostafa Mohaghegh, Senior Adviser for Cooperation and Co-ordination, IFRC, and CRJ Editorial Advisory Panel Member, provides an initial short report on, and images of the response to, the earthquake that struck Iran on November 12, 2017. By Mostafa Mohaghegh
Backup & Continuity on a School Budget
ChannelBloom
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Answer these 3 questions… Are you spending more than 1 hour per week managing backups? Are you frustrated with your current Backup/Disaster Recovery solution? Do you have enough in the budget to fix these issues…? From constricted budgets to needing to protect large numbers of devices and users, educational institutions face a unique set of requirements for data protection and business continuity.
IP Is Critical To VAR And MSP Success - Establishing Effective SOPs And Best Practices
Scott R. Davis
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
How many times a day do you preach best practices procedures to your employees? What is a best practice and what does it actually mean? How are effective best practice developed, how often should they be reviewed, and how should you store them?
All Outages Like British Air are ALWAYS Human Error!
Alternative Resiliency Services Corp
JUNE 6, 2017
Finger-pointing is a natural consequence of breaches and system interruptions. Power failure? Component shutdown? Programming glitch? The biggest lesson organizations should learn from incidents like the British Air disruption is that they are all , at their root, caused by human error.
Terrorist attack in Canada
Crisis Response Journal
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Six people were killed and about 20 wounded after a gunman (or gunmen) opened fire at a mosque in Québec City on January 29, 2017, writes Lina Kolesnikova. By Lina Kolesnikova
An avoidable Alpine tragedy?
Crisis Response Journal
JANUARY 30, 2017
On the morning of Wednesday, January 19, 2017, the Abruzzo region of Central Italy was hit by four magnitude five earthquakes in quick succession, writes Martin Boyle, Editor of CRJ’s SAR blog. By Martin Boyle
Medicine and Preparedness: The 22 Medications You Need in Your Personal Stockpile
Disaster Preparedness
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
Mdeicine for Survival. Medicine and Preparedness: The 22 Medications You Need in Your Personal Stockpile NOW! I have seen and read many posts over the years about adding or using medicines meant for pets during preparedness or survival situations.
The Case for Cash (Part 2): You Can't Bet a Critical Business on Bitcoin
Alternative Resiliency Services Corp
JANUARY 25, 2017
I n Part 1 , we discuss how Cash is under pressure from technology and policy standpoints. There are many legitimate reasons to go cashless. There are also many unique features of Cash that set it apart from digital payments. Cash can also be a critical enabler of Business Continuity and Resiliency.
End-of Year Compliance Testing Pro Tips
Alternative Resiliency Services Corp
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
For those who have regulatory or audit requirements for testing, this is a great resource on moving your exercises from the merely-mandatory to Truly Valuable (and Lower Costs)! Feel free to share with your peers. Also feel free to share with your counter-parties and supply chain providers - are they resilient and do they test
Facilitating two-way public communication in crisis and disaster management
Crisis Response Journal
DECEMBER 1, 2017
Susan Anson, Katrina Petersen and Hayley Watson outline several projects in which Trilateral Research – together with partners – has been examining the role communication, and particularly two-way communication, plays in crisis and disaster management. By Hayley Watson, Susan Anson
Arctic search and rescue capability for mass rescue operations
Crisis Response Journal
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Martin Boyle says that operations in remote Polar Regions can be extremely challenging and demanding at the best of times, and changing environmental conditions have seen an increase in regional activity as sea ice records have been broken. By Martin Boyle
Exploiting limbic reactions to protect crowds in emergencies
Crisis Response Journal
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Editorial Advisory Panel Member Lina Kolesnikova suggests that perhaps the reactions of 'run', 'hide' and 'fight' could be harnessed to protect crowded places in emergencies. By Lina Kolesnikova
Fifteen years after Moscow theatre siege, questions still remain
Crisis Response Journal
OCTOBER 26, 2017
This week marks the 15th anniversary of the Moscow Dubrovka theatre siege, where hundreds of people died during rescue operations after a group of terrorists stormed a theatre and took more than 900 people hostage. Lina Kolesnikova says many questions rem By Lina Kolesnikova
Humanitarian aid: It’s a matter of trust
Crisis Response Journal
OCTOBER 16, 2017
When the need for ever-greater humanitarian action is required in so many parts of the world, is interest in helping others increasingly reticent? Anastasia Kyriacou of Aidex investigates why trust in NGOs is declining in many countries By Anastasia Kyriacou
Telephone terrorism continues to target Russian towns and cities
Crisis Response Journal
OCTOBER 1, 2017
Some Russian cities have been near-paralysed after being targeted by repeated, simultaneous mass bomb threats phoned through to police and emergency services, reports Lina Kolesnikova, who says that hackers are thought to be behind the attacks. But what a By Lina Kolesnikova
Accessible radiation detection
Crisis Response Journal
OCTOBER 1, 2017
Radiation is constantly being emitted into the environment. There are two main types of radiation: non-ionizing and ionizing. Non-ionizing radiation includes visible light, microwaves and radio frequency. These waves do not have enough energy to bump an e By Ian Bogdanowicz
Migration, refugees and criminal exploitation
Crisis Response Journal
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Lina Kolensikova and Emily Hough say that criminal elements exploiting migration routes are hardening public attitudes towards the very people who need human assistance and compassion the most. By Lina Kolensikova and Emily Hough
The importance of crisis communication – Lessons from Ryanair
Crisis Response Journal
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
David Stewart, one of the Crisis Response Journal's Directors, looks at crisis communication planning in the light of the recent Ryanair cancellations. By David Stewart
Terrorist attacks with knives
Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 24, 2017
As predicted by European security experts, this summer has brought more cases of terrorist attacks in Europe, as well as around the world, writes Lina Kolesnikova. Two recent terrorist acts in the Finnish town Turku and Surgut in Siberia, Russia, are part By Lina Kolesnikova
The five things a horse can teach you about crisis management
Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 14, 2017
Two years ago, despite a life-long allergy and a sworn aversion to getting even remotely close to an animal of such size and power, my curiosity got the better of me and I sat on a horse for the very first time, writes Andy Marshall, who is a Member of CR
USAR Blog: Learning the lessons from Australia's worst landslide
Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 14, 2017
Australia’s worst landslide disaster took place at 23:30hrs on Wednesday 30th July 1997, in Thredbo, an alpine village and ski resort in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales (NSW), writes Blog Editor Martin Boyle. For most Australians, the name ‘Thredbo By Martin Boyle
Revisiting Utoya
Crisis Response Journal
JULY 20, 2017
CRJ Editorial Panel Member Robert McAlister is in Oslo for the sixth Anniversary of the July 22, 2011 attack by far right extremist Anders Breivik. In this second blog Robert retraces the steps of Breivik, his victims, survivors and the response actions o By Robert McAlister
Sixth anniversary of Norway attacks
Crisis Response Journal
JULY 19, 2017
Robert McAlister, CRJ Editorial Panel Member, is in Oslo to attend the Sixth Anniversary of the July 22, 2011 Norway attack by Anders Behring Breivik. By Robert McAlister
Thoughts on the Manchester Arena suicide attack
Crisis Response Journal
JUNE 15, 2017
Fiona Petty, who works in the field of preventing the radicalisation of vulnerable people, reflects on some of the lessons from the Manchester Arena suicide bomb attack By Fiona Petty
Marawi fighting continues amid fears for displaced population
Crisis Response Journal
JUNE 14, 2017
Lina Kolesnikova reflects on the ongoing situation in the Philippine city of Marawi, where thousands of residents have fled after fighting between the country's armed forces and rebels. By Lina Kolesnikova
SAR Blog: Lost in the Wilderness? Your mobile phone could save your life
Crisis Response Journal
JUNE 13, 2017
A new life-saving technology called the ‘Search and Rescue Network’ was recently tested by Vodafone and Police Search and Rescue in the Hunua Ranges near South Auckland in New Zealand. By Martin Boyle
Thoughts on recent terrorist attacks
Crisis Response Journal
MAY 29, 2017
Roger Gomm of our Editorial Advisory Panel, says the terrorist incident in Manchester - as well as attacks in other parts of the world - remind us that the threat is complex and evolving continually. By Roger Gomm
WannaCry ransomware and the Hurricane Katrina Syndrome
Crisis Response Journal
MAY 15, 2017
Dr David Rubens of Deltar-TS looks at the recent WannaCry ransomware attack, likening its effects on the UK’s National Health Service to what he terms ‘Hurricane Katrina Syndrome’ By Dr David Rubens
Lessons learnt from airport terrorist attacks
Crisis Response Journal
MAY 15, 2017
CRJ Editorial Advisory Panel Member Lina Kolesnikova recently took part in the annual Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Europe conference in the Hague, the Netherlands. Here, she summarises her presentation on lessons learnt from the terro By Lina Kolesnikova
Social networks in a crisis: Shifting landscapes
Crisis Response Journal
MAY 15, 2017
Patrick Lagadec reflects on the use of social media in a crisis, following the European Emergency Number Association’s (EENA’s) annual conference in Budapest earlier this April. By Patrick Lagadec
Earthquake lessons still hold true today
Crisis Response Journal
MAY 13, 2017
Jay Levinson and Abraham ‘Avi’ Domb say that more than 100 years after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, many of the issues the city experienced are still relevant today. By Jay Levinson, Abraham Domb
Global dialogue on artificial intelligence for good
Crisis Response Journal
MAY 13, 2017
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and XPRIZE are convening the world's most respected experts in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sustainable Development for the AI for Good Global Summit to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, this
Ground search and rescue in the USA
Crisis Response Journal
MAY 8, 2017
Martin Boyle speaks to Chris Boyer, Chief Operations Officer for the US-based National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR) about the challenges of working across multiple states with different legislation and certification standards. By Martin Boyle
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