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School Security & Active Shooter Interdiction: A Q&A With Vince Riden

Security Industry Association

It’s important to promote a safe learning environment for every student and protect the teachers, staff and visitors in our schools, and SIA appreciates the many talented security professionals who are working diligently each day to enhance the safety and security of our schools and mitigate active shooter threats. during an emergency.

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Ensuring workplace safety through Senate Bill 553 compliance with Everbridge

everbridge

Under SB 553, California employers must conduct risk assessments to identify potential hazards and implement measures to mitigate them. Our mass notification system allows for quick dissemination of alerts to employees, security, and management, ensuring rapid response to potential or actual violent situations.

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Guest Post: Building the “Air Domain” Into Your Security Program

Security Industry Association

That framework consists of six major steps: Conduct a drone vulnerability and risk assessment (DVRA): The DVRA framework is a process that identifies the threat, accounts for critical assets, determines vulnerabilities to those assets and then offers responsible and proportionate risk mitigation recommendations.

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How to Create a Data Breach Response Team

Pure Storage

Before a breach, it’s critical to already have an emergency response plan, including a team of key players and the tools they need to get you back online fast. . Creating an emergency response team (ERT) is a critical step I recommend organizations take before an event. Part 1: Your Emergency Data Breach Response Team.

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They Called Me ‘The Queen of Doom’

Disaster Recovery Journal

I was explaining the installation of window breakers and door locks to improve their safety in the event of an active shooter. By way of example, we recently held active shooter training for our emergency response team. Looking back, these were team-bonding activities and happy moments with my son.

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

.” The BCP is a master document that details your organization’s entire prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery protocols for all kinds of threats and disasters. Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases. The purpose and scope of the BCP.

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Implementing the “Air Domain” Into your Security Program: A Framework to Consider

Security Industry Association

This may sound counterintuitive, but preparing internal and external stakeholders methodically through a series of substantive actions will support the concept of assessment, technical data gathering for informed decision making, emergency response planning, training/rehearsing/exercising and executing a sUAS left-of-launch operational posture.