Vol. 600 - The Leadership and Impact of Pat Corcoran

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Leadership and Impact

This week is the 600th edition of the Continuity eGUIDE! As Publisher, I have had the privilege of working with so many top professionals and thought leaders in our evolving industry. Today is a rare opportunity to share, in our 600th Meet The Experts column, a remarkable milestone by one of those professionals. Pat Corcoran retires today from a 43-year career at IBM, with most of his time focused on his leadership in IBM’s Business Resiliency Services group. Read this interview for a truly interesting set of observations from Pat as he looks back at the growth of our industry.

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DRII's Risk and Resilience Survey

If you haven't taken DRII's survey on the top threats to your organization, do it now -- the survey closes Labor Day, Sept. 7! Share your reaction to top organizational threats, including extreme weather, cyber attacks, and COVID-19. Your replies are a critical component of the DRI Future Vision Committee's upcoming 6th annual Trends and Predictions Reports. Each year, these reports document the risks faced by the resilience community, and how they may evolve. Both the industry and the media use these reports to gain key insights and analysis of the global factors that are shaping the industry, what to expect, and how to prepare.

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Takeaways from the Pandemic: What should companies learn about disaster recovery in response to COVID-19

While organizational responses have been quick, there are still improvements which can be made.

An Apple A Day: Proactive measures toward emergency preparedness can minimize risks to health systems

Hospitals and other health providers may benefit from reviewing and revising their plans.

Role Playing: Experts in physical security are seeing their tasks change as workers continue to shift offsite

Employees remain deeply concerned about returning to onsite operations.

Electronic Infections: What can your company learn about protecting itself from computer viruses from the pandemic response?

Parallels between medical response and technological responses may offer insights into how to improve your cybersecurity processes.

Safe Learning: With schools shifting to remote learning, students and administrators need to take steps to protect their data

Cyber criminals are looking to take advantage of the increased points of access that remote learning offers.

Where the Wind Blows: Predicting the onset of a derecho offers many challenges

These inland hurricanes can develop quickly and cause enormous damage.

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Industry Pulse

OnSolve Announces Acquisition of Stabilitas, an AI-driven Intelligence Platform for Situational Awareness

ALPHARETTA, GA, AUGUST 11, 2020 – OnSolve, the global leader of mass notification and critical communication solutions for enterprise, small business, and government organizations, today announced the acquisition of Stabilitas, a situational awareness provider that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify adverse events, analyze the risks posed by those events, and provide stakeholders with actionable threat intelligence.

Stabilitas’ AI solution constantly ingests more than 17,000 global data sources to identify nearly 300,000 critical events each day, such as natural disasters and geopolitical incidents. The solution then identifies the people, facilities, assets, and operations impacted by those events in real time. This allows decision-makers to effectively monitor and confidently respond to the multitude of natural and man-made incidents that endanger lives and pose billions of dollars in risk to organizations each year.

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