Emergency Planning and Internet - Continuity Professionals Pulse

Is Your Community Prepared for the Wildfire Season?

CCEM Strategies

MAY 10, 2023

Here are four (4) steps your community can take: Review and enhance emergency plans Develop readiness with training and practice Establish and strengthen partnerships Remain vigilant by monitoring hazards and risks Review and Enhance Your Emergency Plans Your community already has emergency plans.

All-Hazards

All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard Telecommunications

Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

MARCH 29, 2023

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

Transportation

Transportation Hospitality Sports Emergency Response

Are You Protecting Your Reputation With A Plan?

Bernstein Crisis Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Allow me to expand a bit… While most organizations we speak with have some level of emergency planning – basic natural disaster response plans, for example – far fewer are prepared to engage in the communications and operational maneuvering that accompanies a serious threat to reputation.

Crisis Management

Crisis Management Media Emergency Planning Communications

Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

What’s changed is that the internet has made everything easier to find, the net has facilitated the development of blogs like this one, BCM professionals have become highly collegial about sharing information, and the field as a whole has matured in terms of professional gatherings, associations, standards, and practice.

BCM

BCM All-Hazards Disaster Recovery Hazard

Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. My Hive internet heating system was down last week due to an outage at a data centre.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Outage Fashion Business Recovery

Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. My Hive internet heating system was down last week due to an outage at a data centre.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Outage Fashion Business Recovery

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

MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. This is more true than ever in the age of internet news and social media. Every organization’s crisis management plan must include a crisis communications plan and strategy.

Communications

Communications BCM Crisis Management Media

Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. In a similar situation, in 2011, I worked for a high-tech company on a product that regulated traffic through internet pipes and cables.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Scenario Planning Pandemic Travel

Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. In a similar situation, in 2011, I worked for a high-tech company on a product that regulated traffic through internet pipes and cables.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Scenario Planning Pandemic Travel

Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

Water industry 1995 The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. Hacking not considered an issue These were the infancy days of the internet, and external hacking of the system was not really considered an issue.

Vulnerability

Vulnerability Internet Malware Emergency Planning

Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. These were the infancy days of the internet, and external hacking of the system was not really considered an issue. Water industry 1995. Hacking not considered an issue.

Vulnerability

Vulnerability Internet Business Continuity Malware

The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

David Pirie could have been the duty Director or be responsible for emergency planning and so this may be in line with their emergency plans. Timeliness of this help is provided. 10 There are no victims to date and the public are still able to report incidents to the organisation.

Communications

Communications Media Government Publishing

The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

There has been very little new coverage of the event, with the escolation of COVID throughout the UK and the events in the USA, they are good events “to bury bad news” Doing an internet search, I did notice one article echoing similar sentiments to myself at [link]. Timeliness of this help is provided.

Communications

Communications Media Government Publishing

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

What was previously forbidden by custom, practice, sanction and retribution becomes possible, even desirable, as the emerging group of looters frees itself from the shackles of normal constraint. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of the Internet and disasters (e.g. Bird et al.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media. It remains to be seen whether the usual mistakes are repeated by the international disaster aid community after the August 2021 earthquake. The intervening years have produced conflicting signals.

Vulnerability

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government

Continuity Professionals Pulse

Is Your Community Prepared for the Wildfire Season?

Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Trending Sources

Are You Protecting Your Reputation With A Plan?

Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja

Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

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

Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

The SEPA Cyber Attack a Case Study

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

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