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How to include all types of volunteers in your emergency management plans

CCEM Strategies

Volunteers can be engaged in any type of emergency response—floods, wildfires, earthquakes and even acts of terror. Recent examples of volunteers emerging to support response and recovery operations during a disaster include BC’s 2021 atmospheric river and the 2022 earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Which type (i.e.,

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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 post Black Swans and Swiss Cheese – A Boat Crash in Baltimore appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The Importance of Testing and Exercises In case you missed it, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote an excellent blog last week called, “The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order.” Exercise Smarter: Include 3rd Party Experts In Your Cyber Exercises.”

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The Importance of Testing and Exercises In case you missed it, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote an excellent blog last week called, “The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order.” Exercise Smarter: Include 3rd Party Experts In Your Cyber Exercises.”

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PLANNING FOR AN EMERGENCY? DON'T FORGET YOUR VOLUNTEERS

CCEM Strategies

The presentation focused on the different types of volunteers that can emerge during an oil spill (affiliated, spontaneous and micro), and how they can be integrated into response planning. Do you have the resources to manage them or would you need to hire outside consultants? Where and how would you train them?

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

Pure Storage

Get IT and security teams, senior leaders, and outside security consultants on the horn ASAP—we’ll cover more on that below. Mobilize your emergency response team. Your emergency response team should have been assembled with some key players.

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The Dark Side of Incident Recovery

Plan B Consulting

The FBI estimates that up to $6bn of $80bn in government funds earmarked for reconstruction went to insurance fraudsters. If your organisation is responsible for the incident, you need to regulate the clean up so you don’t get fake contractors, as this can prolong the incident and add to your bad publicity.