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Emergency Management Enhanced by Public-Private Partnerships

January 25, 2013 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

By: Ben J. Carnevale, Editor This website has promoted the benefits of the Private Sector Preparedness (PS-Prep) program from the beginning of its existence, and continues to believe that the private sector is also a vital part of our country’s emergency management team response and disaster recover capabilities. Along with FEMA and DHS, we also believe that the nation's vast network of business, industry, academia, trade associations, and other non-governmental organizations are equal - and equally responsible - partners in nearly every phase of dealing with potential threats --- … [Read more...]

Prepare My Business begins 2013 Campaign of Free Preparedness Webinar Offerings

January 14, 2013 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

For the third consecutive year, the US Small Business Administration has joined with Agility Recovery to co-sponsor the Prepare My Business Campaign, a free educational resource for businesses of all types and sizes to become better prepared for disasters, both large and small. The 2013 campaign kicks off with the first of the free monthly educations webinars on January 15th called "2012 Year In Review: Valuable Lessons & Best Practices." By registering and attending this free webinar, you can join Deputy Associate Administrator of SBA Disaster Assistance Joe Loddo and Agility CEO Bob … [Read more...]

Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Month

December 14, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

President Obama has proclaimed December 2012 as Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Month to recognize the importance of protecting our Nation’s infrastructure resources and enhancing our national security and resilience. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defines critical infrastructure as”… the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, public health or safety, or any combination thereof.” The … [Read more...]

American Red Cross Mobile App Preparedness Tips

October 28, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance 2 Comments

by: Ben J. Carnevale, Contributing Writer For those readers who reside in the path of Hurricane Sandy over the next few days, our staff offers a reminder of the many disaster preparedness mobile apps available from the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross has worked hard in transforming itself for the future – and just a small part of that great effort includes this series of disaster related mobile device applications available to everyone. Please check out the following disaster preparedness and disaster recovery mobile device applications: Hurricane App – this … [Read more...]

Hurricane Sandy Postpones Continuity Insights New York Event

October 26, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

The Continuity Insights New York event planning team determined that its location was deemed to be too close to the projected path of Hurricane Sandy. Staying in continuous communication with the New York City Office of Emergency Management, the team at Continuity Insights made a timely and informed decision to postpone one of its major events of the year. The new dates of the conference are November 12-13, 2012 and the event will still be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania. As pointed out by Luke Simpson, chief editor, “…First and foremost is the safety of our attendees, faculty and … [Read more...]

DHS Recognizes American Bar Association as PS-Prep Certified.

October 23, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Upon being recognized by the Department of Homeland Security as the first non-for-profit organization in the U.S. to be PS-Prep certified for disaster preparedness and response under the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Program, ABA President Laurel Bellows stated, “…our nearly 400,000 members and the public can rest assured that the ABA can recover from a severe business interruption and continue to serve their needs. The organizational resilience that disaster preparedness provides is critical in an increasingly unpredictable environment of global terrorism and frequent natural … [Read more...]

Catastrophy Modeling is a Business Focused on Risk

October 2, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Recently our staff came across an interesting article written by Zahra Hirji a graduate student at MIT, and posted on the Earth Magazine website. This article is recommended reading for those disaster preparedness practitioners who may want to learn more about modeling potential catastrophes which have a reasonable probability of affecting the operations of their organizations. In her article, Zahra talks about the fact that Natural hazards — earthquakes, tropical cyclones and thunderstorms, for example — occur with considerable frequency around the world. Fortunately, however, … [Read more...]

Twitter Lifeline Offered to Japan

September 25, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

As many of our readers are aware, Twitter has played a role in global events for years now, from the Arab Spring uprisings to the Occupy Wall Street movement more recently. And there’s the more relevant example in which survivors of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti used Twitter to raise funds and, in some instances, find survivors among the wreckage. More recently, it was reported in a posting written by Mike Isaac that, “….. Twitter’s Tokyo team just launched a “Lifeline” feature --- a feature that allows users in Japan to more easily locate Twitter accounts that … [Read more...]

ISO 22301 vs. BS 25999: Shared Insights

September 19, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Over the last few months, our staff has been observing an interesting newsletter published by a business continuity planning services firm in South Africa. The firm is called ContinuitySA and represents the increasing presence that business continuity planning, disaster preparedness and organizational resilience is already playing in South Africa ---- as well as the importance that continuity and compliance issues hold in the global village where so many of our companies serve their targeted markets. Our staff suggests including this newsletter as part of the suggested reading library for … [Read more...]

PS-Prep Program Seminar Coming Soon to George Mason University

September 12, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Disaster Recovery, Disaster Preparedness, Business Continuity Planning, Organizational Resilience, Private Sector Preparedness, and Supply Chain Continuity, are all concepts that have become increasingly important during a period of increasing disaster related weather events, geo-political upheaval, and/or supply chain disruptions. This seminar will explore how to become compliant or certified to the PS-Prep program as enacted in Public Law 110-53. This presentation will be given by Lisa DuBrock, and, will be held on November 13, 2012, at 6:30 PM, located at 4031 University Drive, Suite … [Read more...]