Chris Lombard
Chris Lombard
This paper explores how advances in technology, widely expanded consumer communications capabilities and the lessons learned from response and recovery efforts to address large and/or complex incidents and events have all contributed to cha...
Ilyssa Plumer,Samantha Robinson,Tanya Toribio
Ilyssa Plumer
Over the last two years, agencies have experimented with new systems and tactics to reach as many people as possible with critical preparedness information. This paper describes how COVID-19 forced FEMA Region 10 to adapt its public educati...
The business case for ransomware exercises for business and technology teams [0.03%]
勒索软件对企业及技术团队的业务案例分析
Jaeson A Weber,Vanessa V Mathews
Jaeson A Weber
Ransomware attacks are increasing in complexity, scope and frequency. These attacks have had mounting impacts on critical global infrastructures and populations, with significant financial ramifications. This paper underscores the business ...
When what can go wrong, does go wrong: Fire department operations during cascading events [0.03%]
当可能发生的问题最终发生时：连环事件中的消防部门行动
Bryan Norris
Bryan Norris
In 2021, Texas experienced a historic winter storm that paralysed the state. In particular, the city of San Antonio experienced a weather system which, over the span of seven days, created a pattern of cascading issues. This paper describes...
Teresa Williams,Maria Resto-Leon
Teresa Williams
The business impact analysis (BIA) is a major component of risk management and business continuity planning. It is the process of assessing the impact over time of a disruption on the organisation's people, products, services, and to its cu...
Cary Jasgur
Cary Jasgur
With the initial disruption of COVID-19 now settling down, organisations are finding themselves in a new situation, where some of their previously onsite workforce is now fully remote or working according to a hybrid model of onsite and rem...
Conducting a full-scale emergency management exercise during COVID-19: A case study of Puyallup Chill Out 2021 [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间开展大规模紧急情况管理演练案例研究——普亚卢普冰雪节2021演习顺利进行
Kirstin Hofmann,Greg Massey
Kirstin Hofmann
The COVID-19 public health emergency severely limited the ability of emergency managers to conduct emergency exercises, particularly at the functional or full-scale level. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic response, other emergencies continu...
Lyndon Bird
Lyndon Bird
Oliver S Schmidt
Oliver S Schmidt
Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders is an indispensable component of a successful response to crises both brief and long-lasting. Employee communication must increase in volume and frequency, and effectively info...
Russell Neal
Russell Neal
Certain social psychological variables can result in delays to essential steps in IT data centre disaster recovery response, including the formal declaration of disaster. These delays can result in failure to meet recovery time objectives, ...