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New Report: Streamlining Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

emergency management system has met a number of increasingly difficult challenges in recent years, such as extended wildfire seasons, more intense storms, and of course an ongoing global pandemic. . “The U.S.

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7 Best Practices for Emergency Managers

everbridge

To help you better understand how to promote resilience in your organization, Everbridge hosted a 4-part webinar series focused on the phases of emergency management: Mitigation , Preparedness , Response , and Recovery. Many of us emergency management professionals know the cycle is continuous. Amplify Communications.

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Ensuring Operational Resilience Amidst Geopolitical Events

Fusion Risk Management

These events – whether civil or political unrest, trade disputes, economic sanctions, pandemics, or natural disasters – can have far-reaching implications on an organization’s employees, business operations, vendors and supply chain, and customers. Employee Support Considering employee well-being during times of crisis is vital.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

They are responsible for ensuring public safety, emergency response, and timely community awareness. Evaluate emergency response plans to verify they are flexible and scalable enough to accommodate contingencies. Hurricane Preparedness on Campus. How to Prepare Your Business for a Hurricane.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

The bureaucratic approach Emphasis is quite rightly placed on mitigating these impacts and preparing to adapt our lives and livelihoods to climate change. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. Apocalypse How? Technology and the Threat of Disaster.

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RIMS Risk Forum India 2021: Building Resilience As COVID, Cyberrisk Top Business Risks

Risk Management Monitor

In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk professionals in India reported acute short- and long-term concerns about the interconnected risks of COVID-19 cases, global economic recession, and surging cyberrisks amid shifts in work arrangements. Doing so increases the ability to develop effective responses.

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

Specified goals vary by jurisdiction, but the main aims are to be able to leverage public sector resources in mitigation and attribution, as well as to encourage more robust operational resiliency. For example, a public-private exercise in 2007 simulated a pandemic where approximately 40% of the workforce had to go remote.