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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

The increasing vulnerability and dwindling redundancy of life-support systems will aggravate the effect of proliferating failure among critical infrastructure networks. Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. Preamble 1.1

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Healthcare Under Attack: Building Resilience in the Face of an Aggressive Cyber Threat

MHA Consulting

Healthcare organizations are uniquely vulnerable to hackers and are subject to more than their share of cyberattacks. In today’s post, we’ll look at the measures hospitals and other facilities that care for patients can and should take to improve their resilience in the face of the rising threat. health care system in American history.”

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Emergency Planning

Distribution of vulnerability. Plenty of evidence exists to show that disasters have a disproportionate impact upon poor and vulnerable people. Front-line' workers include those who serve in hospitals, work in care homes, run public transport and deliver essential items. Covid-19 is no different in this respect.

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The Best Risk Management Software to Consider for 2021 and Beyond

Solutions Review

Our editors selected the best risk management software based on each solution’s Authority Score; a meta-analysis of real user sentiment through the web’s most trusted business software review sites and our own proprietary five-point inclusion criteria. Platform: Archer IT & Security Risk Management.

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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"). Reality: Survivors rapidly get to work on the clear-up.

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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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Pandemic Planning: What is a Pandemic Operating Regime, and do I need one?

Plan B Consulting

The Chinese authorities closed off the airport, train stations and roads, and have stopped the movement of people outside the city. The hospitals in Wuhan have struggled with the number of patients and have built a new 1000-person hospital in under 10 days. Your customer profile in response to a pandemic may change.