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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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Counting Costs: The Impact of a Government Shutdown on the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

Also, in contrast to the most recent government shutdown, which lasted for 35 days in December 2018 and January 2019 and was only partial, as appropriations had already been agreed to for the U.S. 30 – looming large.

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Deadly North Carolina Construction Blaze Could Spark Update to State Fire Code to Include More from NFPA 241

National Fire Protection Association

Construction is a vulnerable point in any building’s life cycle,” Jon Hart, a technical lead at NFPA, said in a recent NFPA Journal article. The radio communication you’ll hear in this video only partially relays the dramatic intensity of Thursday, May 18, 2023. pic.twitter.com/XP3zHcjsOP — Charlotte Fire Dept.

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Coronavirus and China’s Decision-Making in a Crisis

Marketpoint Recall

2019 was not a particularly pretty year for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As a result, in public or health crises , not only do leaders tend to prefer behind-the-scenes, consensus-based decisions, but authorities are less likely to acknowledge and account for empirical data and objective analysis when completing viable options.

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A Presto Data Pipeline with S3

Pure Storage

This blog originally appeared on Medium.com and has been republished with permission from ths author. . Managing large filesystems requires visibility for many purposes: tracking space usage trends to quantifying vulnerability radius after a security incident. 2019–10–05 | 417905229 | 44354. 2019–10–06 | 417905350 | 44467.

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Operational Resilience: Is it just business continuity done properly?

Plan B Consulting

Once this is done, you should look for single points of failure and vulnerabilities, which if improved would add to the organisation’s overall resilience. One of the first of these is to identify ‘important business services’, these are the key services delivered to customers. You should also identify the resources which underpin them.

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Operational Resilience: Is it just business continuity done properly?

Plan B Consulting

In addition, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Consultation paper of 2019 states: “Building operational resilience: impact tolerances for important business services and feedback to DP 18/04”. I am going to explore the definition and requirements put forward by the Bank of England’s Discussion Paper of 2018: Two key papers.