Disaster Preparedness

JANUARY 4, 2021

I don't believe that a complete outage will occur, but the future may hold that we see rolling or purposeful blackouts in some areas. Though Klaus Schwab has been at this for decades and founded the World Economic Forum for this purpose, the recent SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic has ushered in new opportunities for them to act swiftly.

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KingsBridge BCP

APRIL 6, 2023

Even after a pandemic, endless weather incidents, outages and more, your customers and employees generally will have an “I need it, and I need it NOW” mindset. Everyone’s expectations of systems and services continue to rise. Sure, policies should be part of the solution to minimize these impacts.

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KingsBridge BCP

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

it is apparent that, while the science has evolved, the principles around a solid pandemic response are still valid. Many people are now scrambling, looking for a specific pandemic plan that they can put in place should COVID-19 impact their company. We still face outages and shortages. Have they logged into their VPN recently?

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Business Continuity Today

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Using Big Data patterns to predict potential crises that can impact your organization, such as severe weather, pandemics, power outages not only is a beneficial practice within businesses, it can also improve the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency and disaster management organizations. What does that mean? What does that mean?

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OffsiteDataSync

MAY 18, 2022

Proven savings in storage, greater IT cost efficiency, and the ability to facilitate remote work during a sudden pandemic – getting SaaSy was a good move. Outages with major SaaS providers do happen. More recently, Atlassian suffered an outage for some customers that started on April 4 and wasn’t fully resolved until April 18.

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Exercises Winter presents significant potential for business interruptions and outages. In many parts of the world, winter weather and Acts of Nature can impact operations from commuting to shipping to increased chance of power outages.

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LogisManager

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

After disrupting business operations across the world, the pandemic has been a catalyst for innovation. At this point, we’ve collected over 200 value stories from our customers about how they’ve leveraged our guidance to drive their businesses forward throughout the pandemic and ensure long-term success and stability. Introduction.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2022

Prior to the pandemic, many enterprises were reluctant to fully move to contact center as-a-service (CCaaS) environments, despite the availability of the technology. Support is AI-driven, so issues can be resolved before they become outages. The Rise of CCaaS. Newfound access to disruptive solutions to improve customer service.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Recent heavy rainfall in Rhode Island, Georgia, and Indiana caused deadly flash floods and thousands of power outages. According to the National Hurricane Center, four systems are currently forming in the Atlantic: Hurricane Earl, expected to impact Bermuda in the coming days, Hurricane Danielle, and two tropical waves.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest.

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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. Building a relationship with these knowledgeable and dedicated folks ahead of time can make all the difference when and if you experience an outage or disaster.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Threats related to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, heat waves, and pandemics. The threat of utility or network outages. Threats to the organization’s supply chain, whether as a result of pandemic, political tension, the blockage of a key global shipping chokepoint, or what have you.

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KingsBridge BCP

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Things may be different this year when weather-related challenges collide with any new workforce changes that may have occurred as we continue to adjust after the pandemic. What does your plan say about power outages if your employees are all working from home? Is your contact list up-to-date?

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OffsiteDataSync

JUNE 29, 2021

With so much of the workforce remote during the pandemic, organizations ramped up their transition to the cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS). If Zoom has an outage, people should know how to use free services, such as Google Hangouts, in a pinch. Data and applications no longer live exclusively inside the firewall.

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BMC

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Next, Jason spoke with Otto Contreras, Deputy Chief Information Officer of the City of Miami, about how the city has used here technology and innovation to adapt its operations to changes brought about by the pandemic. Scaling capacity with artificial intelligence. Personalizing employee and customer experience. Propelling innovation.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 10, 2023

They could include: avalanches pandemics/disease outbreaks earthquakes floods hazardous material spills landslides power outages extreme weather tsunamis wildfires Make an emergency plan Make sure you and your loved ones are on the same page about how you’ll respond to a disaster.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 23, 2022

According to the Future Forum Pulse report, at the beginning of the pandemic, organizations had to transition from supporting 30% of their workforce working in the office to 100% working remotely in just a matter of weeks. The Need for Balance.

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Risk Management Monitor

DECEMBER 17, 2021

These outages have complicated search and rescue efforts, as rescue workers excavated destroyed buildings, searching for people who are still missing. Additionally, 10,000 Kentucky homes and businesses reported being without water, and another 17,000 were under boil-water advisories, according to the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on identifying and protecting their most essential business processes. Read on to learn about the BCM year in review.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As part of a pandemic-driven plan to increase efficiency, manage costs, and boost the customer experience, Delta developed an AI application that incorporates real-time passenger feedback about weather conditions, allowing the airline to decide whether to reroute flights. Managing Weather’s Impact.

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Diligent

JANUARY 25, 2021

Whether this incident takes the form of a natural disaster, deliberate act of sabotage or another event – for instance, topically, a pandemic – the BCP is designed to ensure that your organization can continue to function no matter what happens. What Should a BCP Contain? It should: Identify potential risks to the business. Data management.

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Security Industry Association

MAY 16, 2022

Vunetrix founds its market when it realized not only were their deployments suffering from outages, but rather every integrator in the security industry had exposure to this. Business have been tested as to how well they can perform in a pandemic for both their internal and external customers.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

A partial list would include: the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the rise of the internet and cell phones, the spread of cybercrime, globalization and the lengthening of supply chains, the COVID pandemic, the growing impact of climate change, growing international tensions, the shortening of attention spans, and the rise in cloud computing.

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everbridge

APRIL 27, 2023

Critical events can vary widely in type, severity, and scope—from natural disasters to IT outages—and a drawn-out response can lead to significant operational losses, disruption to supply chains, brand damage, and concerns for health and safety. Pandemics , epidemics, and disease outbreaks will become more frequent.

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Fusion Risk Management

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic, it meant “return to a normalcy” – but not the one that we were all used to. He worried that that approach wouldn’t work with some customers, vendors, and regulators and could result in potential risks like outages, losing customers for good, and regulatory fines.

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LogisManager

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

After disrupting business operations across the world, the pandemic has been a catalyst for innovation. At this point, we’ve collected over 200 value stories from our customers about how they’ve leveraged our guidance to drive their businesses forward throughout the pandemic and ensure long-term success and stability. Introduction.

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Pure Storage

JULY 26, 2021

The answer: The dev team was getting paged in the middle of the night to respond to production outages. Most respondents (68%) in our survey said they increased their usage of Kubernetes as a result of the pandemic. It sort of became a running joke: Why is the dev team swapping out databases all the time?

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Castellan

JUNE 10, 2021

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. Further, when we look at what’s happened during the pandemic, paired with increased cyber attacks, it paints a clear picture of industry evolution.

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everbridge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The year 2021 represented another historic period of resilience, during which businesses began to spring back from the pandemic lockdowns of 2020.

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Online Computers

MAY 22, 2022

The attack also caused the COVID-19 vaccine portal to go offline and induced IT outages at five major hospitals, including Children’s Health Ireland. The company ended up keeping its hybrid work arrangement, which also helped it weather the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic three years later.

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LogisManager

MAY 27, 2021

In Risk Management, it’s important to consider potential risks that others may not have ever predicted to become reality (many people today say they never imagined in their lifetime that they would experience a pandemic). A regional power outage. Abandonment in leadership. Data protection issue. Supply chain issues. BCP Best Practices.

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OffsiteDataSync

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In a 2020 disaster recovery (DR) survey conducted by 451 Research , four out of 10 companies with more than 1,000 employees experienced significant outages during the prior two years. Wildfires, massive floods, a global pandemic, all have taken a toll in the past year. What’s more, the threats are many.

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On Solve

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Increasing severe weather events, workers distributed far afield, chronic political conflict, the ongoing pandemic – those are just a few of the features of today’s threat landscape. Could you handle an active shooter in the midst of a power outage at your facility during ongoing COVID restrictions?

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

Deploying a clean energy infrastructure to build in another layer of resilience from increasing energy costs and outages. Digital identity solutions with the “right” controls to limit or prevent compromise. Training everyone to be a security expert. It’s a field that’s in demand and we need skilled experts.

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SRM

MARCH 25, 2020

A few months ago, a global pandemic with the capacity to bring the world to a standstill was almost unthinkable. Yet, here we are. Those with high-level business continuity plans in place will be putting elements of these into action. Business Continuity Plan Checklist . Business Impact Assessment (BIA).

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Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Before severe winter weather strikes, prepare by developing a COVID-tailored business continuity plan and an emergency preparedness plan that accounts for the variables of the pandemic. Maintenance of your facility, whether it is occupied or vacant, may look a bit different than before the pandemic began.

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