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Building Resilient Communities in the Face of Extreme Heat

CCEM Strategies

Develop response plans. Integrate temperature resilience into urban planning. This information will help you understand when and where extreme heat events are likely to occur, enabling you to develop targeted and effective response plans. Identify and support vulnerable populations.

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

PagerDuty

As one of our first time-critical health grantees, Nexleaf used grant funding and PagerDuty’s incident response platform, with technical pro bono support from PagerDuty employees, to enhance the delivery of power outage alerts and make them more useful for healthcare workers in 13 under-resourced health facilities in Kenya.

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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Thus, in addition to having a clear strategy and response plan, it is essential to identify the most vulnerable populations and hazard areas, and to have a strong framework for coordination among emergency management and public health agencies.

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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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Powerful New IT Tools

LAN Infotech

In order to mitigate this risk, it’s important to have a plan in place to respond quickly and effectively in the event of a security breach. This can involve regular testing and simulations to ensure that the response plan is effective and up-to-date. IT security is an ongoing process. We’re here to listen and help.

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

Pure Storage

Building Healthcare Ecosystems. Organizations should focus on data protection, including backing up systems routinely, reinforcing basic cybersecurity awareness and education, and revisiting cyber incident response plans often.” ” Data-drill Disaster Planning. Smart City Data Trends .

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What The Pipeline Oil Ransomware Attack TAUGHT Us

Assurance IT

One of the topmost hacked industries in the healthcare industry. Hornung, the founder of Xact IT Solutions, a cybersecurity firm gave some advice for business leaders and said, “… incident response planning is critical and should be part of every organization’s business plan. That’s ruthless!