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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future.

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Crisis Management Training: Practice Makes Perfect

Bernstein Crisis Management

From global pandemics and economic woes to deepfakes and cyber attacks, the unforeseen is the new normal. Spoiler alert: It’s not going to end well. Crisis Response Planning: Effective training will guide participants through developing a robust crisis response plan. ” came to mind.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

This coordinated response not only allowed for planning discussions to occur but also for team members to provide quick check-ins on their stress. When the COVID-19 pandemic was initially identified as a crisis, our emergency and incident response teams were functioning in their usual brick-and-mortal locations.

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PagerDuty Deploys $600K to Further Investments in Global Health by Olivia Khalili

PagerDuty

This commitment was called into practice over the past 22 months as frontline health care workers and organizations tended to the dual needs of the pandemic response and ensured the continuity of basic essential health care. In response to the growing disparities in vaccine access, we deployed $1.2M

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7 Reasons Why Cybersecurity Fails

NexusTek

67% of IT professionals believe the use of bring-your-own devices during the remote work of the pandemic has decreased their organization’s security health ; a claim which a Ponemon Institute survey supports : 68% of businesses experienced one or more successful endpoint attacks in the past 12 months.

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

There are several steps financial institutions can take to improve response time and ensure readiness when a crisis strikes. Develop an effective incident response plan and handling strategies. Incident response plans at financial institutions vary in maturity , but can always be improved.

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Ensuring Operational Resilience Amidst Geopolitical Events

Fusion Risk Management

These events – whether civil or political unrest, trade disputes, economic sanctions, pandemics, or natural disasters – can have far-reaching implications on an organization’s employees, business operations, vendors and supply chain, and customers.