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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable? In March 2020, many emergency and incident response teams faced mandatory stay-at-home orders.

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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?

Plan B Consulting

On the night of 11th September, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm. When I did my research on possible deaths caused directly by cyber attacks, the case that was always quoted was the death of a patient in Germany, in September 2020.