NEWS & ANALYSIS

Organizational Resilience Management Software Suite Has Been Launched

Sep 29, 2010 -ASIS International has launched the Organizational Resilience Management Software (ORMS) suite, a unique series of online tools to help organizations address the risks of disruptive events.

Surprise: No-Notice Emergency Drills Can Expose Companies to Liability

Sep 02, 2010 -Surprise emergency drills may seem like the best way to gauge employee readiness, but they may also lead to liability, explains SM Associate Editor Laura Spadanuta in this month's podcast.

WHO Declares H1N1 Pandemic Over And Faces Criticism

Aug 12, 2010 -This week the World Health Organization declared the H1N1 “swine” flu pandemic over, renewing calls that the organization should change the criteria for its six-level pandemic scale or risk increased ambivalence toward public health threats.

Russian Wildfires Show Need for Good Information in a Disaster

Aug 11, 2010 -A Russian journalist says the massive wildfires currently consuming much of Russia's European forests have exposed a critical vulnerability in the country's disaster preparedness: the society's utter lack of trustworthy news and information.

DHS Needs to Take Threat of EMP Attack Seriously, Physicist Warns

Aug 05, 2010 -The Department of Homeland Security has not taken seriously the threat that a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon could fry the nation's power grid, a physicist told lawmakers yesterday.

Managing the Risk of Catastrophic Weather

Jul 21, 2010 -At War with the Weather represents a tour de force in the analysis of how natural disasters—specifically hurricanes—are mitigated, insured against, and recovered from in the United States.

Hospitals Should Band Together Before The Next Crisis Hits

Jul 07, 2010 -A new report from the Center for Biosecurity recommends that every hospital in the country make common cause and form healthcare coalitions.

Can Making Utilities and Appliances Smarter Prove Foolhardy?

Jul 02, 2010 -The so-called smart grid is all the rage, but rushing headlong into networked utilities may not be wise, according to John Bumgarner, the chief technology officer for the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, in July's podcast.

Getting Ahead of Ourselves with Smart Energy

Jul 01, 2010 -How the rise of smart energy is making America's energy infrastructure more vulnerable to attack.

Interoperable Communications Technologies Need Uniform Testing Standards, Official Says

May 27, 2010 -The lack of a uniform product testing program for emergency communications equipment means first responders could buy radios they believe are interoperable but fail to deliver during a disaster, a government official told Congress today.
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