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You Think Your Data Center Is Resilient. But Do You Actually Know?
Data centers are some of the most critical facilities operating today. They support financial transactions, healthcare, government services, communications, cloud platforms, AI infrastructure, and virtually every other part of our…
12 Tasks to Organize your Tabletop Exercise
As part of the preparation to conduct a tabletop exercise there are several important administrative and technical items that are easy to forget. Forgetting one or more of these items may lead to a less than desirable outcome during the exercise. Here’s that list: Identify the training location(s) Finalize the…
The Kidnapped CEO
Kidnap, Ransom, and Extortion Scenario Planning The CEO lands in Rome for an executive leadership conference and never arrives at his hotel. Calls to his mobile phone go straight into voice mail. His scheduled driver and security detail in Rome have also gone missing. The clock is ticking….. What do you…
Crisis Exercise – The After Action Report
An After Action Report (AAR) is used to provide feedback on the exercise. It summarizes exercise events and analyzes performance of the tasks identified as important during the planning process. It also evaluates achievement of the selected exercise objectives and demonstration of the overall capabilities being validated and documents gaps…
Assess and Identify Risk With “TRiM” – Trauma Risk Management
It’s a routine day in your busy city office. Nothing unusual until something utterly catastrophic and unexpected ruins your day, maybe your life. Terrorist attack, industrial accident, natural disaster, lone shooter, unprovoked serious assault, the possibilities are endless. Well, we all know how we would respond to the physical…
Takata: How to turn a manageable product recall into a disaster
The Takata airbag crisis is a case study of how mishandled communications can transform a serious, but still manageable, product recall into what may very well become an ultimate catastrophe for the company. No one can say at this point if Takata will ever fully recover after damaging its…
INTERVIEW: Expert, Marisa Randazzo, Ph.D., talks Education Risk Management
Q: What are the most rewarding elements of working within the education risk management space? A: Threat assessment is considered to be the current best practice for handling threatening situations and preventing targeted violence at colleges and universities, in K-12 schools, in workplaces, and in the military. When we conduct…