Come and hear me present this workshop on how to design a cyber exercise @ DRJ in Phoenix on September 25, 3:00 - 5:30 PM. Are you ready for your breach? Your chances of having one soon are excellent. It could be a loss of…
Florence makes landfall. Explosions in Lawrence Mass. What would you take if you had just a few moments to think and grab? A game I play with my clients... if you had to evacuate & you had a minute (maybe 2), what would you grab?…
Remembering 9/11...the victims, the rescuers, the average citizen who turned into a helper, the comforters, all of us.
Is yellow fever coming to your city or area soon?? Could be! WHO just released a paper describing the problem. Recent major outbreaks in Africa and Brazil, coupled with a severe shortage of the yellow fever vaccine are setting the stage. In 2016, 45.2 million…
The attacks have taken on a numbing familiarity in recent years: five shot to death at an airport in South Florida. Twenty-six slain at a church in Texas. Five killed by a gunman rampaging through Northern California. There is a common thread in these are more recent mass…
How does your organization manage an overall incident? Who is in charge? What are the triggers for activating the crisis management team? What is the communication flow? Many companies, both large and small, have not carefully thought through the most basic aspects of crisis management.…
The number of major cyber-breaches that have occurred in the past few months is mind-boggling. The Equifax hack alone affected over 143 million Americans; that number represents all of the people working in the labor force! In spite of all of these incidents, few companies…
A well-trained Crisis Management Team (CMT) is critical to manage the many threats facing our companies today. Clearly identifying how they are organized, what their roles and responsibilities are, how incidents are assessed, and how it all comes together when the team and plan…
I have had the great pleasure of working in Peru for the past few years with the Central Bank. We will speaking at DRJ Springworld on the risks the country faces. Peru is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. Peru’s…
With many companies migrating to the cloud…this new study from Lloyd’s should give you pause. This is a great topic to peel back with technology, business continuity and key business units. What would you do if you lose those services that reside in the cloud?…