National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A recent episode of the NFPA Podcast, Disaster Planning During a Pandemic, introduces two emergency management experts who share lessons learned from responding to past incidents during the pandemic, including several new strategies that will likely remain in place long after the pandemic is over.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 25, 2020

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. The scenario was as follows: The pandemic has H2M2 which is a flu pandemic, rather than a COVID type pandemic. UK the “most prepared country”? Wrong type of flu?

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 25, 2020

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Exercise Cygnus was a command post exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 in order to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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Recovery Diva

MAY 12, 2022

Each chapter gives examples for emergency management to achieve “Just Disaster Recovery,” proposed in 2019 by Jerollemen in Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice. reviewed in Recovery Diva March 29, 2019 ]. More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A recent episode of the NFPA Podcast, Disaster Planning During a Pandemic, introduces two emergency management experts who share lessons learned from responding to past incidents during the pandemic, including several new strategies that will likely remain in place long after the pandemic is over.

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LAN Infotech

APRIL 23, 2021

In 2021, even with the global pandemic having a firm grasp on global markets, LAN Infotech was elevated to the #53 spot, leapfrogging many well-established brands in the information technology community. MSP honorees successfully navigated the coronavirus pandemic and grew their managed annual vertical market revenue 25% on average.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As we move out of the pandemic and into 2023, we need to invest in developing strong teams. SHRM, 2019) The same SHRM study also noted that virtual teams are highly collaborative. As we move out of the pandemic and into 2023, we need to invest in developing strong teams.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As we move out of the pandemic and into 2023, we need to invest in developing strong teams. SHRM, 2019) The same SHRM study also noted that virtual teams are highly collaborative. As we move out of the pandemic and into 2023, we need to invest in developing strong teams.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Only a few weeks after the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel construction project in October 2019, the City of New Orleans faced another crisis: a major ransomware attack. They didn’t have to wait long to prove that theory as the COVID-19 pandemic would emerge in early 2020.). Agility vs. Pandemic Disruption.

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Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. Moore-Bick, M.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 2, 2023

Driving Scientific Discovery with Big Data by Pure Storage Blog Medical research dominated headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. But back in 2019, the storage that underpinned those projects was starting to show its age.

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Castellan

MAY 19, 2021

After a year of focus on supply-chain resilience in light of the coronavirus pandemic, issues with global supply chain have made national headlines again when a large cargo ship got stuck in the Suez Canal in March 2021, blocking hundreds of other vessels, illustrating how fragile our global supply chain can be.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Episode 126: Developing Strong Teams Remotely and In-Person As we move out of the pandemic and into 2023, we need to invest in developing strong teams. SHRM, 2019) The same SHRM study also noted that virtual teams are highly collaborative. SHRM, 2019) The same SHRM study also noted that virtual teams are highly collaborative.

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CCEM Strategies

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Since then, the Province has been continually responding to large-scale disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 and 2023 floods and wildfires. In 2019, B.C. A deliberate focus on modernization first emerged five years ago in 2018, when the Province adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

So I did and was promoted to president in 2019. About six months later, the global pandemic hit, and I always tell everybody that if I had known that was coming, I might not have taken the role. VC : I would say the most personally rewarding project has to be this role — taking on the role of president in a time of a global pandemic.

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BMC

MARCH 31, 2022

IQAir’s 2020 World Air Quality Report found that 65 percent of cities around the world had better air quality in 2020 versus 2019, while 84 percent of nations reported better overall air quality—those improvements attributable to fewer people out in the world due to pandemic restrictions. Our waterways are also threatened.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 30, 2021

According to our data, the number of critical incidents grew by 19% from 2019-2020. Comparing the hours worked in the first 12 months of the pandemic (March 2020-March 2021) to the preceding 12 months (March 2019-March 2020), we can see that more than a third of PagerDuty users worked far less consistent schedules in 2020 than in 2019.

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BMC

MARCH 31, 2022

IQAir’s 2020 World Air Quality Report found that 65 percent of cities around the world had better air quality in 2020 versus 2019, while 84 percent of nations reported better overall air quality—those improvements attributable to fewer people out in the world due to pandemic restrictions. Our waterways are also threatened.

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Prism International

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In 2020, if you saw a 50% drop in revenue, compared to the same quarter in 2019, you would be eligible for all of 2020. In 2021, if you saw a 20% reduction in revenue, compared to the same quarter in 2019, you would be eligible for that entire quarter in 2021. What qualifies?

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Organizations are putting a bookmark to 2019 and preparing for 2020. A Pandemic can cause mass employee absenteeism – can your organization fulfill its brand promise when a third of the staff is home sick and incapacitated? ​It’s that time of year again. Closing the books.

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PagerDuty

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Recognizing that the leading cause of death in the world today is delay, PagerDuty launched its Time-Critical Health focus area in 2019 with the mission to help save lives by reaching people faster. Specifically, we invest in tech-forward solutions that improve outcomes for the most underserved people in the world.

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Castellan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While this has well been the case for the last several years, it’s certainly ever-more true in our post-pandemic world. As we reflect on lessons learned from our pandemic and multi-event response protocols, we can find many opportunities to improve business continuity practices to further solidify resilience.

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everbridge

JUNE 16, 2022

Almost 70 percent of leaders have dealt with a corporate crisis in the last five years, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found in its 2019 Global Crisis Survey. In short, a scaleable tool makes a difference, as does one specific to a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic.

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Castellan

AUGUST 31, 2022

We have always been concerned about it, but with the pandemic happening we certainly, like everyone else, [saw] kind of a surge of attempts of fraud and cybersecurity. Looking back on pandemic planning in 2019 before the full brunt of the outbreak, Armor said there were things that weren’t anticipated that happened in real-life.

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Security Industry Association

JUNE 20, 2022

It’s resilient to economic downturns and even the COVID-19 pandemic. ISC East Trade Show November 2019. MM : The great thing about the security industry is that it’s here to stay! Everybody needs security, and it will never go out of style. The future looks bright for security always! Beware of frauds….

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Stratogrid Advisory

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Readers Note: This article was originally published in December of 2019 and before unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. The Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) recently released its 4th Annual BCM Trends and Predictions Report , which provides predictions for resilience trends in 2019/2020.

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everbridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

While we are seeing an increase in air travel once more, domestic air travel is still down 19% from January 2019, and international travel remains down 13% from pre-COVID levels. In addition to these exacerbated traditional threats, a new series of business challenges have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Security Industry Association

MAY 12, 2021

With attendee registration open, including the versatile opportunities available for security and public safety professionals to participate with this year, based on current insights and input, ISC West anticipates a strong step forward in returning to Las Vegas in the range of 50-60% of 2019 visitor levels.

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PagerDuty

OCTOBER 28, 2021

While work from home (WFH) was an option before the pandemic, NCCI states , “only 6% of the employed worked primarily from home and about three-quarters of workers had never worked from home.” We analyzed our own platform data and compared how teams handled urgent work in 2019 and 2020.

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Online Computers

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The pandemic has only made it even more difficult to safeguard people’s protected health information (PHI) because healthcare and insurance professionals were forced to work from home. In 2019, Online Computers received the HIPAA Seal for achieving compliance with federal HIPAA standards.

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Risk Management Monitor

JULY 28, 2022

With millions of employees continuing to work remotely part- or full-time, 2022 summer office outings may represent one of the first “all hands” get-togethers for many employers since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

billion over 2019 to $18.3 Security challenges existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic and are likely to continue into the foreseeable future, as more states legalize recreational cannabis. Amid global shutdowns, shelter-in-place orders, loss of jobs and the ever-present threat of illness, cannabis sales skyrocketed in 2020.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

increase over the same period in 2019. While the trend had emerged and begun to grow before the global pandemic, it went into overdrive when the vast majority of shoppers turned to social media as an outlet for their stress, boredom, or anxiety over being stuck at home. billion online with US retailers—a whopping 30.1%

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OffsiteDataSync

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Wildfires, massive floods, a global pandemic, all have taken a toll in the past year. According to Bitdefender’s 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report , these attacks grew an astounding 485% in 2020 over 2019. What’s more, the threats are many. The numbers speak for themselves.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 12, 2023

A turbulent economy, the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic, and the reckonings over systematic racism accelerated long-overdue conversations, reflections, and programmatic changes for many businesses. The most successful enterprises have chosen not only to implement ID&E programs, but to make them a business priority.

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