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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future.

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PagerDuty Deploys $600K to Further Investments in Global Health by Olivia Khalili

PagerDuty

This commitment was called into practice over the past 22 months as frontline health care workers and organizations tended to the dual needs of the pandemic response and ensured the continuity of basic essential health care. In response to the growing disparities in vaccine access, we deployed $1.2M

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

Hurricane Preparedness for Healthcare Facilities. Failure to do so can leave healthcare staff unable to provide adequate care. Evaluate emergency response plans to verify they are flexible and scalable enough to accommodate contingencies. During a hurricane, care-dependent residents are at an elevated risk.

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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure

Pure Storage

Building Healthcare Ecosystems. The pandemic has thrown the need for improved public health services into sharp focus. Organizations should focus on data protection, including backing up systems routinely, reinforcing basic cybersecurity awareness and education, and revisiting cyber incident response plans often.”

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What The Pipeline Oil Ransomware Attack TAUGHT Us

Assurance IT

One of the topmost hacked industries in the healthcare industry. A global pandemic is as bad as it can get, when it comes to directly impacting human lives. However, now hackers are attacking businesses from the comfort of their own homes. What’s most notable is that hackers don’t care about what industry you’re in. That’s ruthless!

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Are Cyber Attacks the Next Big Threat for Operational Resilience?

Castellan

Cyber attackers know organizations of all sizes have made a lot of operational changes because of the coronavirus pandemic, and they’re taking full advantage of them as new cyber attack vectors. The healthcare industry’s statistics are just a snapshot of what’s happening for industries around the globe. No industry is immune.

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

Put another way, risk refers to the fact that an organization’s ambitions may not work out as planned or that its objectives might go unmet. Risk can be affected by numerous external factors, including natural disasters, global pandemics, raw material prices, increased levels of competition, or changes to current government regulations.