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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

National elections in the United Kingdom are likely to bring a change in the political complexion of the government. At a lesser scale, sabotage, targeted assassination, cyber attacks and political interference through social media are increasingly capable of causing runaway chains of adverse consequences. Culture and inclusiveness.

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. Companies need to be capable of communicating during crises they might face with the media and their internal and external stakeholders. This is more true than ever in the age of internet news and social media.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

During these kinds of severe weather events, Governments, multilateral donors, and business executives alike have a responsibility, whether moral or legal, to respond effectively and efficiently in order to protect people, assets, and facilities from harm. They are investing in data collection from spatial and hyper-local data.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Reality: The imposition of martial law after disaster is extremely rare and implies that normal mechanisms of government were never effective in any way. Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Very rarely are journalists ever expert on disasters and crises.

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The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

The Yang While SEPA’s response was not exactly a John Smeaton “This is Glasgow. ” moment, SEPA has done the whole of the Scottish Government sector a favour by not paying the ransom. The response has now gone multimedia with a video on the site and this has also been posted on Twitter. We’ll just set aboot ye.”

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The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

While SEPA’s response was not exactly a John Smeaton “This is Glasgow. ” moment, SEPA has done the whole of the Scottish Government sector a favour by not paying the ransom. The response has now gone multimedia with a video on the site and this has also been posted on Twitter. We’ll just set aboot ye.”