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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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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. Black swan events, popularised by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, are rare events that have a major impact when they occur.

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A 6-Point Plan for the “During” of a Data Breach

Pure Storage

Mobilize your emergency response team. Your emergency response team should have been assembled with some key players. Get in touch with critical partners and authorities. Contact your cyber insurance providers who can explain coverages and limitations.

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

Security Industry Association

during an emergency. The views and opinions expressed in guest posts and/or profiles/Q&As are those of the authors or sources and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Security Industry Association. Then there are advocacy, outreach, national campaigns, etc.

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Isle of Coll Fire – A view from the frontline

Plan B Consulting

As a consultant, I tell people how to manage disasters and incidents, but rarely do I get caught up in one, nor am I involved in the response. Last Friday, I took part in an emergency response to a fire on the Isle of Coll as a part of the community effort.

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Isle of Coll Fire – A view from the frontline

Plan B Consulting

As a consultant, I tell people how to manage disasters and incidents, but rarely do I get caught up in one, nor am I involved in the response. Last Friday, I took part in an emergency response to a fire on the Isle of Coll as a part of the community effort.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. Civil protection must be developed at the local authority level, coordinated regionally and harmonised nationally. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans.