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Black Swans and Swiss Cheese – A Boat Crash in Baltimore

Plan B Consulting

This is a classic business continuity and emergency response incident, and I thought I would examine it through the lens of a couple of risk management concepts: black swan events and Reason’s Swiss cheese theory. The bank was the only short stretch of motorway without a barrier which would have kept the car on the motorway.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

One only hopes that land-use planning will stem the flood of new construction in areas that are prone to inundation by rivers that burst their banks and seas that rise up and surge inland, eating away at properties and coastal defences as they go. They lack consistent funding and have little executive authority. Apocalypse How?

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

But the recent directive by India’s Computer Emergency Response Team, known as CERT-IN, made headlines around the world for its requirement that firms disclose cyber incidents within just six hours. Several trade associations – including Bank Policy Institute, U.S. T he Shortest Reporting Time frame Yet.