National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MARCH 27, 2023

This February marked two years since Texans were hit with widespread power outages during the deep freeze of 2021. The state’s energy supply chain was unable to withstand the sustained low temperatures, as generation resources were strained due to cold weather tripping units, natural gas supply curtailments, and wind power generation outages.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 16, 2024

With challenges ranging from major technical issues to cloud service interruptions and cybersecurity vulnerabilities, modern day businesses must take a proactive approach to incident management. In the dynamic and unpredictable world of incident management, “known” and “repeatable” resolutions are few and far between.

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 6, 2017

Here’s why: Humans are the Cog in Risk Management and Due Diligence Risk Management by its very nature is non-deterministic and heuristic. Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. Why are humans the prime point of failure?

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 14, 2024

In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how organizations can get started using Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to reduce their exposure and improve their resilience. It helps organizations reduce risk, outages, impacts, and costs, such as insurance costs. They follow what I call the “Good luck, people” school of risk management.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

In part I of this series, we introduced a disaster recovery (DR) concept that uses managed services through a single AWS Region strategy. Using multiple Regions ensures resiliency in the most serious, widespread outages. Because on-demand clusters are provisioned in the secondary Region, AWS also manages the control plane the same way.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 25, 2023

10 Ways to Improve Data Management with Automation by Pure Storage Blog “That’s why they call it work, Son.” Automation is also transforming data management , bringing about improvements in standardization, efficiency, accuracy, security, and compliance. That’s what my dad would say if I complained about some task he had set me to do.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge. The East Coast Amazon data centre outage a couple of months ago should have taught us that however many backup systems an organisation has, their IT can still fail.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge. The East Coast Amazon data centre outage a couple of months ago should have taught us that however many backup systems an organisation has, their IT can still fail.

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Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to be compliant and mitigate the impact of disruption through a robust incident management strategy begins with understanding the most critical business functions that comprise your organization. Respond You will also need to have a strategic incident management process in place.

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. Managing more than 1.2 Managing more than 1.2 The ripple effects lasted 4400% longer than the outage itself.

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everbridge

JULY 20, 2023

With power outages, you now have people who are oxygen dependent, who don’t have access to their oxygen because the power’s been turned off. Second, emergency managers are opening cooling shelters, trying to get the homeless and vulnerable populations into areas where they’re not going to suffer from the extreme heat.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where organizations of all industries increasingly rely on digital innovation and experiences to create differentiation in the market, it has never been more critical to ensure the integrity of their operations are safeguarded against unforeseen outages and incidents.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

JANUARY 14, 2020

 AlertMedia , the fastest-growing emergency mass notification software  provider in the world, has improved how organizations manage and communicate emergencies. Our customers needed a better way to manage the lifecycle of an emergency ,â?? said Brian Cruver , CEO of AlertMedia.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MARCH 10, 2023

Welcome to the third post of a multi-part series that addresses disaster recovery (DR) strategies with the use of AWS-managed services to align with customer requirements of performance, cost, and compliance. Amazon EKS control plane : Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) control plane nodes run in an account managed by AWS.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nexleaf Analytics creates data and technology solutions to serve health systems, improve management of life-saving equipment, and save lives in low-and-middle income countries. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization. So, it’s important your emergency and continuity management program addresses summer hazards.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. Alternately, they might acknowledge the possibility of outages but resist investing in BC on the theory that their people are good enough to improvise their way out of trouble if anything does go wrong.

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LAN Infotech

JANUARY 2, 2022

Your Guide to Managed Information Technology (IT) Services. Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs) help your business do this by reducing IT costs, maximizing IT efficiency, and minimizing IT downtime. What are Managed IT Services? Managed Firewalls. IT Managed Services. That’s when MSPs can be extremely useful.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where organizations of all industries increasingly rely on digital innovation and experiences to create differentiation in the market, it has never been more critical to ensure the integrity of their operations are safeguarded against unforeseen outages and incidents.

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Castellan

JUNE 15, 2021

BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s. While business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience teams tackled the pandemic and other business disruptors throughout the year, many did so with small teams.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nexleaf Analytics creates data and technology solutions to serve health systems, improve management of life-saving equipment, and save lives in low-and-middle income countries. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.

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Online Computers

JANUARY 8, 2023

For one, you need technology to be able to manage your operations with ease. Leveraging technology for success is where a managed IT services provider (MSP) can be of help. If you own a small- or mid-sized business (SMB), you know that IT is essential to your organization's success.

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Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The editors at Solutions Review have compiled this list of the best Risk Management courses on Udemy to consider taking. Risk management is an essential skill in the data protection space. With this in mind, we’ve compiled this list of the best risk management courses on Udemy if you’re looking to grow your skills for work or play.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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! However, a power outage and backup generator failure led to a communication breakdown. This inexplicable experience still haunts that team today.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. I believe it is one of the roles of the business continuity manager to educate senior managers in the threats to IT system. NHS Glasgow computer outage appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. I believe it is one of the roles of the business continuity manager to educate senior managers in the threats to IT system. NHS Glasgow computer outage appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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On Solve

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Staying ahead of it all requires thorough risk management. In addition, about half of respondents indicated they aren’t proactively mitigating risk, yet only 38 percent say their current risk management strategies are effectively measured or optimized today. Pretty ambitious, wouldn’t you say? It all boils down to overconfidence.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. It focused on identifying the most critical business processes and developing plans to keep those processes going or quickly restore them in the event of an outage.

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Online Computers

MARCH 30, 2022

Network outages. In a network outage, the server can't communicate with other computers, causing work to grind to a halt. The difficult thing about network outages is that they can be caused by anything from router failures to cable cuts to internet service provider problems. Third-party or cloud vendor outages.

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PagerDuty

JUNE 29, 2022

With little to no data to understand how and when power outages occur, it has become increasingly challenging for bioengineers to manage. . Without data showing exactly how long and costly these outages are, it’s difficult for these hospitals to justify additional funds. “O The Power of PagerDuty.

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Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 30, 2021

The storm marks another overactive hurricane season officially underway in the United States, prompting business leaders and property owners to ensure they are adequately prepared from an insurance and risk management perspective. Some key recommendations to consider before and after any hurricane include: Preventative Measures.

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Citrix

JULY 10, 2023

The corporate network can be a major factor, as an outage can disrupt the environment and impact users. As an IT administrator, it can be challenging to keep your environments stable and sustainable.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When a critical event threatens to disrupt business continuity, having a retail crisis management plan in place enables businesses to seamlessly deliver their goods and services and maintain customer satisfaction. Utility outages. Perhaps order statuses need to be amended or alerts of an outage need to be shared. Employees.

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Reciprocity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Third parties generate, manage, or hold this data, resulting in even more severe threats to healthcare organizations and their information security. This is why third-party risk management and healthcare data security are critical. What is Healthcare Vendor Risk Management? The Need for Third-party Risk Management in Healthcare.

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