Jan 17, 2017 | Emergency Management, Podcast, Security
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSOn October 25, 2011, Jessica Buchanan and a colleague were kidnapped at gunpoint by Somali land pirates and held for 93 days, enduring the most harrowing and painful experience of her...
Oct 12, 2016 | Crisis Communications, Emergency Management, Exercises, Podcast, Security, Tabletop Exercises
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSCommunities are not just made up of homes and apartments. Many communities have businesses that provide jobs and other services to those communities. Major cities have businesses that...
Sep 27, 2016 | Crisis Management, Emergency Management
As the fall out is being assessed from this year’s major wildland fires on the U.S. west coast and in the Canadian context, the most costly disaster in Canadian history “the Fort McMurray Fire” risk assessors and public policy analysts are re-considering our planning...
Aug 3, 2016 | Emergency Management, Security
As we start this years Olympics and millions of people converge on Rio, the publicity machine is starting its usual move into overdrive-both negative and positive. Already the media doom mongers are running stories (and have been for some time) that it will be a...
Jul 26, 2016 | Emergency Management, Podcast, Security
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSWhen was the last time you looked at your security from a hostile’s perspective? Have you ever? The majority of hostiles go through an online reconnaissance of their targets before...