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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

While the warmer months of the year signal a time when we can indulge in vacations, beach days, and outdoor activities, the summer and fall are also when hurricanes, thunderstorms, wildfires, and other potential natural disasters make their impressive mark across many areas of the United States, often disrupting the rhythm of our daily lives.

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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

But in our current period of an ever-expanding set of global threats, most organizations would benefit from developing a system for actively monitoring potential threats to their operations and assets. The reason for monitoring threats is to enable the organization to take educated actions to avoid them or mitigate their impact.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Top 10 BCM Resources All that being said, here are my top 10 resources to help you become a ninja-level BCM practitioner: 1. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation.

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

Specified goals vary by jurisdiction, but the main aims are to be able to leverage public sector resources in mitigation and attribution, as well as to encourage more robust operational resiliency. Roles and responsibilities of the incident response team and all other teams involved. T he Shortest Reporting Time frame Yet.

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Top 5 Pitfalls of Business Continuity Planning

On Solve

An effective business continuity plan enables organizations to be proactive about avoiding or mitigating disruption. The plan should include a backup workplace in case of a natural disaster or building hazard, as well as a way to backup any company data.

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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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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

A unified critical event management platform can automate emergency notifications and communications, while centralizing all event activity. Optimize communication between local and regional governments, first responders, and all staff to avoid unsuccessful emergency notifications. Emergency Management During a Hurricane.