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3 Goals For Your Next Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise

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When creating a cybersecurity tabletop exercise to validate the organizations ability to respond and manage a cybersecurity incident, consider the following three exercise goals. Validate Leadership Decision-Making One of the most important functions of a leader in a crisis is to stabilize the situation as much as possible. A very…
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Pandemic Planning for Paramedics…Before the Zombies Come a Knocking

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From Zombies to lethal viruses, Hollywood loves making doomsday films about something deadly spreading around the world at an alarming rate that kills everyone. Wolfgang Petersen’s 1995 movie “Outbreak” brought pandemic’s to the big screen; alerting the masses as to just how fast an invisible threat can spread across our…
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Ultimate Crisis Planning: A Cyber Attack Against Our Electrical Grid

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Is this type of cyber attack inevitable?  Are we prepared?   Veteran newsman, Ted Koppel, is gaining a lot of attention for his new book, “Lights Out: A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath.” In it, Koppel convincingly argues that a cyber attack against our nation’s computer- and Internet-dependent…
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You Need More than a Continuity Plan to Prepare for Crisis

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“My company has a business continuity plan. Why do I need a crisis communication plan, too?”   Business continuity and crisis management are increasingly on the minds of organizational leaders worldwide. As well they should be. Many senior leaders with a business continuity plan in place believe they are well…
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