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Secrets of a Road Warrior

2006-10-16 08:34:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...hurricanes before, once in a tent ( Alberto , which dropped 24 inches of rain in a single night that cut off all the roads in and out of our base camp on the Flint River; I spent a week wet, living in a tent, and as a brand new lifeguard, performing live rescues for the first time Things started to set in when I tried to find food. The halls...
 
Tags: home, home tuesday night, head home, call home, road warrior, tuesday, road, night, home friday night
 
 
 
 
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Hurricane season officially begins in 24 hours and many are doing nothing about it.

2008-05-31 03:50:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...hurricanes have not conducted any disaster planning whatsoever. Of people surveyed, 30% admitted that they will wait until they hear warnings on the television before they do anything. The report said that this is the first time since Huricanes Katrina and Rita struck, that people were so poorly prepared One very interesting fact that 95%...
 
Tags: hurricane, hurricane season, people, weather channel yesterday, rita struck, garages, hurricanes, time, huricanes katrina
 
 
 
 
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Media and Our Mind - Risk is All About Perception

2008-01-23 07:22:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...hurricanes, lost tapes, lost laptops, and maybe even terrorist attacks, but realistically, headlines typically don't highlight the most important risks. You are much more likely to lose data from human error or inadequately tested backup and recovery processes than from floods or attacks, but inadequate processes don't make good headlines. In...
 
Tags: headlines fade quickly, headlines, excellent blog post, dave hitz, dave, blog, attacks, risk management models, terrorist attacks
 
 
 
 
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For a Safe Night's Sleep

2008-04-01 13:10:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...hurricanes, earthquakes and floods The Quantum Sleeper is the ultimate in protection, entertainment and communications, " ALL ROLLED UP IN ONE
 
Tags: protection, quantum sleeper unit, quantum sleeper, provide protection, high-level security system, maximum protection, hostile environments, quantum sleepers, destructive forces
 
 
 
 
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Measuring Vulnerability

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2008-04-14 14:31:38 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...hurricanes have the same wind speed When absolute scales apply Warning: This is an illustration and not an engineering exercise, for those who might want to argue details Some types of threat categories can be measured using absolute scales (e.g., wind speed in miles per hour), which makes things a bit more straightforward. For example, thru...
 
Tags: threat capability curve, capability, human capability, human threat capability, describe control strength, control strength, capability curve, threat community capability, control
 
 
 
 
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University of Miami reports stolen tapes affecting patients

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2008-04-25 15:34:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...hurricanes and other natural disasters the University has also established a call center at 1-866-628-4492 Commentary Minus the amount of time it took for the school to get the word out (for which there might be good reason), I am impressed with the school's response to this incident. The fact that they chose to consult with two independent...
 
Tags: personal information belongs, personal information, tapes, university, information, financial information, secure information services, data, usable data
 
 
 
 
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Power Outages Are A Major Risk That Most Companies Overlook

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2008-07-10 17:31:34 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
...hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. What companies don't realize is that the most common cause of downtime is power failures. In a joint study by Forrester Research and The Disaster Recovery Journal of 250 disaster recovery decision-makers and influencers, 42% of respondents indicated that a power failure was the cause of their most...
 
Tags: prevent power failures, failures, data center, recovery data center, backup power, backup power generators, power failures, power failure, rackspace power failure
 
 
 
 
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This week in history - volcanos, hurricanes, and the risk of Black Swans

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2008-08-28 11:07:47 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
Pouring over endless details of risks, regulations, taxonomies, and technologies can sometimes give us a narrow view of the world, so it seems worthwhile to take a minute to mark the 125th anniversary of the cataclysmic eruption of Krakatoa this week. For those of us that want to think big but cant remember that far back, this week is also the...
 
Tags: similar events, events, black swan events, black swan, plan, crisis management plan, week, colleague stephanie balaouras, argues
 
 
 
 
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New Orleans IT departments brace for Tropical Storm Gustav

2008-08-29 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472f10 in Network World on Security
 
As Tropical Storm Gustav approaches the Gulf Coast this weekend and threatens to become a hurricane, the IT lessons learned from the devastating Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that smashed New Orleans and other areas in 2005 are on the minds of many worried IT managers
 
Tags: orleans, gulf coast, hurricanes katrina, threatens, hurricane, weekend, lessons, rita, managers
 
 
 
 
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How carriers batten down the hatches for hurricanes

2008-09-04 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security