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Mitigating the Impact of Severe Weather

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As severe weather continues to threaten more people and cause greater harm, building resilience against natural hazards and climate threats is paramount: the time for governments and enterprises to act is now. What steps can governments take to mitigate climate risk and severe weather events? Severe Weather Trends.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

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To fulfill duty of care standards, corporations, educational institutions, hospitals, and government agencies should evaluate and test the health of communication networks and information systems before a severe weather event occurs. Review message construction guidelines to ensure all emergency messages are clear and concise.

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Strategies for Digital Risk Protection

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Hence cybersecurity risk management is crucial to prevent and mitigate cyber threats. More specifically, within digital risk management are the active measures that businesses can take to protect their assets: digital risk protection. DRP is the active piece of the cybersecurity puzzle, and is an imperative for every organization.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Whereas it is not possible to stop earthquakes, it is possible to construct anti-seismic buildings and to organize human activities in such a way as to minimize the risk of death. Activism is much more common than fatalism (this is the so-called "therapeutic community"). Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard.

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5 Steps to Implement Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

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Your ERM program should encompass all aspects of risk management and response in all business processes, including cybersecurity, finance, human resources, risk management audit , privacy, compliance, and natural disasters. Mitigating or reducing the risk by internal controls or other risk-prevention measures.

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SIA New Member Profile: IXP Corporation

Security Industry Association

Our professional services team provides consulting services to local government agencies, universities and colleges, hospitals and health care systems and private commercial industry clients on business continuity planning, emergency management and public safety technology, governance and operations.

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5 Steps to Implement Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Reciprocity

Your enterprise risk management (ERM) program – one that encompasses all aspects of risk management and risk response in all business processes, including cybersecurity, finance, human resources, risk management audit , privacy, compliance, and natural disasters – should involve strategic, high-level risk management decision-making.