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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure

Pure Storage

From ransomware attacks on school systems and hospitals to threats on critical infrastructure, state and local IT leaders are under immense pressure to build strong cyber defenses against bad actors,” says Mike Wiseman , vice president of public sector at Pure Storage. ” Data-drill Disaster Planning.

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SIA New Member Profile: IXP Corporation

Security Industry Association

Our professional services team provides consulting services to local government agencies, universities and colleges, hospitals and health care systems and private commercial industry clients on business continuity planning, emergency management and public safety technology, governance and operations.

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Internal Controls & Fraud Prevention

Reciprocity

For example, all activities related to financial record-keeping, authorization, reconciliations, and reviews should be divided among different employees. This will allow authorized personnel to perform bank reconciliations and verify that the receipts were deposited into the bank, which reduces asset misappropriation or other types of fraud.

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What is Business Continuity?

Erwood Group

Incident Response. Plan Development and Implementation. Business Continuity Plan Exercises, Assessment, and Maintenance. Due to this the private sector is literally all over the map on incident response. I’ll cover a high-level overview of what your Incident Response Should look like in a separate post.

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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.