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

MHA Consulting

Many companies spend millions of dollars implementing risk mitigation controls but are kept from getting their money’s worth by a disconnected, piecemeal approach. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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AlertMedia Improves Emergency Management with the Launch of Event Pages: Connecting People with Critical Information in Real-Time

Disaster Recovery Journal

With the launch of Event Pages,  organizations can instantly link their employees to critical information via a dedicated web page specific to an event. Instead of sending individual status updates to every affected employee, the company now manages one Event Page in our mobile or web application â?? How An Event Page Works.

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APAC Retrospective: Learnings from a Year of Tech Outages – Dismantling Knowledge Silos by David Ridge

PagerDuty

Using an automation orchestration tool to enable event-driven automation, organisations can empower on-call responders with immediate access to automated runbooks, personally crafted by subject matter experts. They can do this by having automation orchestration capability that is event-driven, where the event in question is the incident.

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Scary DR Stories 2023 Recap

Zerto

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! Among today’s threats, hardware failures and human error account for a major portion of downtime events.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Recent heavy rainfall in Rhode Island, Georgia, and Indiana caused deadly flash floods and thousands of power outages. Preparing and planning ahead of disasters help keep families safe during emergencies and long after an event has passed. These resources are free and can be easily shared.

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Five Key Takeaways from the 2021 Business Continuity Event Impact Management Report

Castellan

BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s. Current and Future Focus for Business Continuity Events. And unfortunately, for those both prepared and those unprepared, many events in 2020 weren’t just one-and-done.

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Get Cyber Smart: How to Make Sure Recovery Plans Align with Information Security Needs  

MHA Consulting

A company that has suffered an outage or disruption for any reason, and which is in the process of recovering its systems and operations, is at a heightened level of vulnerability to every type of event. During an event, use of devices often diverges from the norm. Risk assessment. Remote work polices and oversight.