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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). The author also challenges the “inclusion” agenda of the Sendai and UN Climate Change frameworks. Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures. When hospital capacity is absorbed by large influxes of people suffering from Covid, the tendency is to defer treatment of patients with other illnesses. Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management?

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). Emerald Publishing Ltd.

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SIA New Member Profile: Petrone Risk

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Petrone Risk offers legal risk management and SAFETY Act consulting and specializes in emergency preparedness and the SAFETY Act. SIA spoke with John Petrone, senior managing director and founder of Petrone Risk, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Generative AI for the PagerDuty Operations Cloud by Sean Scott

PagerDuty

There’s no question that automation has the potential to save time and money while increasing productivity and capacity, but automation initiatives can die under the weight of their own abstraction. But crafting those updates takes time and bears its own cognitive load at a time when your teams are already at surge capacity.

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Cloud Data Security Challenges, Part 3: Getting Control

Pure Storage

As an example, you should always require security verification (authentication and authorization controls) for downloads to and from unsecured devices. . The governance policies you put into place before your data is even in the cloud will dictate the who, how, why, and where of your cloud data access. Create good technical controls.

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A Smarter, Safer Approach to Hospital Security

Security Industry Association

Risk management is of the utmost importance in health care security. De-escalation, transparency and efficiency are the methods by which health care security organizations can most effectively manage risk. The post A Smarter, Safer Approach to Hospital Security appeared first on Security Industry Association.