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Racial Disparities and COVID-19

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

As the world scrambles each week to grapple with the seemingly insurmountable number of positive cases and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, public policy is failing some of America’s most vulnerable communities. all of these percentages of positive cases are current as of 5/13/2020). of the population overall, a ratio of 2.13.

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National Preparedness Month Highlights the Move from “If” to “When” in Preparedness Planning

Castellan

According to the 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report , there are the top five events that led to business continuity response and recovery plan initiation in 2020: Pandemic/disease: 79% Power outages: 49% Hurricanes: 38% Fire/wildfires: 35% Cyber-attacks: 29%. What is This Year’s National Preparedness Month Theme?

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33 Data Privacy Week Comments from Industry Experts in 2023

Solutions Review

The pandemic accelerated the digitalization of customer interactions by several years, and there’s no turning back: we now live in an era of digital. While it’s clear there is a dire need for more effective data protection, it is also crucial that businesses have disaster recovery solutions in place should the worst occur.