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Winter safety tips for employees in private and public sectors 

everbridge

Prepare for power outages Ensure you have accurate contact information for employees, customers, and stakeholders to stay connected during power outages. By following a comprehensive winter storm preparedness checklist, public authorities can ensure the community’s well-being and minimize the impact of severe weather conditions.

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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

MHA Consulting

Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. The culprit in these cases is almost always the same: the lack of a central coordinating authority applying a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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Identifying Important Business Functions: Your Building Blocks for DORA Compliance and Incident Management

Fusion Risk Management

The Importance of Incident Management within DORA Incident management should encompass everything from the moment that an outage is detected all the way through to recovery: a complete end-to-end strategy. Economic impact – What are the direct and indirect costs associated with the outage?

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Don’t be left in the dark: Here’s how to create a business continuity plan that works

Online Computers

These may include natural disasters, cyberattacks, power outages, supply chain disruptions, and more. For example, if there is a power outage or IT system failure, what measures will you take to quickly resume operations?

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COVID-19 and your response

KingsBridge BCP

If you take only one thing from this post, let it be this: Most do not realize that if they have been planning for ‘the big 4 results’ of any business interruption: no building, no people, no systems and no third-party suppliers, along with following the direction of health authorities, they likely have everything they need. .

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Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

NexusTek

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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APAC Retrospective, Part 2: Mobilise: From Signal to Action by David Ridge

PagerDuty

According to a recent report and survey conducted by EMA Research , most respondents see IT outages and significant incidents as either increasing (40%) or remaining roughly the same (27%). As much as we would love to automate and AI our way out of having incidents, people will always be at the centre of incident management.

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