INTERESTING WEBLINKS

• Business Continuity Preparedness

  • Top 10 for 10: The Business Continuity Issues For The New Year
  • Best Practices in Emergency Alerting
  • A Roadmap to Measure and Achieve Enterprise Operational Resiliency
  • 2010 edition of NFPA 1600
  • ReadyOC Unveils Web-Based Campaign to Urge and Empower Residents and Businesses to Prepare for Major Emergencies
  • Enhanced Warning System for First Responders
  • Cyber-Scams on the Uptick in Downturn
  • First U.S. Tech Officer Will Have Hands Full
  • Request for a Speaker on Business Recovery Planning
  • NACCHO Policy Statement: Antiviral Stockpiling
  • Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2005
    Mass Absentee Plans
  • Emergency Disaster Systems
  • Secure Privacy Solutions
  • Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2005
  • School Seismic Safety Seminar
  • The International Center for Enterprise Preparedness
  • BCMWIKI.org
  • September is National Preparedness Month - More that 1,700 Organizations to Participate...
  • And if you happen to lose track of a loved one in an emergency
  • UN: Diseases spreading faster than ever
• Dare to Prepare.org or the new Spanish language website www.terremotos.org.
• US Airports Warned of Possible Attack "Dry Runs"
• Disaster Recovery in China
• Home Safety - Dare to Prepare...
• An Article on Readiness from OC Family Magazine
• Standardizing the ICS in Business – a paper on deploying first responder standards in a business - by Judy Bell of DSPN
• The Time to Plan For a Disaster is Now
• Emergency Email and Wireless Network Web Site
• How to Design and Build an Emergency Operations Center - Case Studies from Existing Centers
• A Presentation on the Orange County Emergency Operations Center - the Site of ACP-OC's February 2007 Meeting
• An Emergency Survival Program Sponsored by the Los Angeles Office of Emergency Management
• Getting Back to BIA Basics
• BIA within Context - A Self Directing Web Site from the Great State of Texas
• Ready OC - An Orange County Specific Link on Preparedness for Individuals and Small Businesses
• "Be Prepared" - An Interesting Interpretation of the Boy Scout's Motto
• A Very Handy Set of Preparedness Information Web Links
• A new generation of computer viruses
• Small Business and Home DR/BC Planning - from the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS)

 

• Business Continuity Industry
  • Business Continuity Professional: The Next Generation
  • DRII Board Elections
  • New ISO/IEC Standard on Risk Assessment Complements Risk Management Toolbox
  • Cyber Thieves Steal Millions from US Banks
  • Comment Period Open for Title IX Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program
  • Homeland Security Department Pushes for Emergency Preparedness Certification Program
  • Coastline Community College – Emergency Management Certificate Program
  • Free Webinars from Continuity Insights
  • New Pandemic Workshops from DSPN
  • Emergency Management: Business Continuity Planning, UCI Extension, Winter 2009
  • Free FEMA Independent Study courses
  • Free Business Recovery Training
  • World Economic Forum
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP-800-34
  • http://www.bsi-global.com/en/Assessment-and-certification-services/management-systems/Standards-and-Schemes/BS-25999/
  • 2007 Continuity Insights/KPMG Business Continuity Benchmarking Report
  • The State of US Companies' BC Spending and an Upcoming Industry-Wide Test
  • Incident or Crisis – Why the Debate?
  • Certification in Emergency Management
  • Pay Per View - Standards in other Industries
  • Financial Industry Considers Disaster Recovery Standards
  • Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a standard for life safety team organization and training
  • EMAP - ."The Emergency Management Accreditation Program
  • OIG Report Recommends Using EMAP Standard to Assess State Preparedness
  • NFPA 1600 Code on Disaster Emergency Management and Business Continuity (FREE subscription to Continuity Insights)
  • Incident Command System, a standard for command and control for first responders
  • ISO 17799, a detailed Computer Security Standard
  • Spending on Operational Risk Technology hits $16 Billion
  • The Proceedings of the World Conference on Disaster Management
  • The Collision Course of Business-Continuity Planning, Operational Risk and Basel
  • Operational Risk - background and definitions per the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Operational Risk Mitigation - experiences of a bank

 

Federal/Government

• Deployments of Advanced Imaging Technology at 11 International Airports
• Cyber Attack Drill Finds U.S. Unprepared For Doomsday Scenarios
• FBI Chief Tells Congress Terrorist Threat Grows More Worrisome
• DHS Asks for Nearly $1 Billion to Protect Critical Networks, Systems
• A Struggle Over U.S. Cybersecurity
• Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies
• FEMA Advisory Council.
• Local Police Want Right to Jam Wireless Signals
• DHS Secretary Napolitano Issues Action Directives on FEMA State and Local Integration and National Planning
• Presidential Transition Vulnerability
• 2009 Congressional and Presidential Transition
• Experts See Security Risks in Downturn
• US Congress Measures Strengthen Cybersecurity
• FEMA Press Release
• Title IX of H.R. 1 and Public Law 110-53 – National Voluntary Preparedness Program
• We Got a New Plan Stan
• President Bush Signs H.R. 3858, the "Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act of 2006"
• Government Continuity
• Harvard to Study Government Response to Crisis
• US Agency for International Development - USAID
• Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
• The State of California Emergency Alert System
• An Interesting Link on Disaster Plan Preparation from the Government of Northern Ireland
• New EOC Opens in New York
• Safe Rooms and Community Shelters Case Studies - from FEMA
• New Laws for California in 2007
• Various Essays on the State of US Preparedness Including a Nuclear Holocaust
• The State of US Preparedness for some history ending events
• National Response Plan, a standard for the public sector built from the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
• The US State of Preparedness from Key US Mayors
• New Mayors 183-City Survey: More Action Needed on Emergency Preparedness

 

Natural Disasters - Hurricane/Tornado/Earthquake/Flood/Fire

• American Red Cross Relief Efforts Ongoing in Haiti
• Peruvian Earthquake Pictures
• USGS Information on Peruvian Earthquake
• Tornado in Brooklyn
• An Earthquake Lull - but How Long?
• NOAA Hurricane Tracking Web Site
• Aerials of Greensburg Tornado
• How Kansas Tornado Became a Monster
• This Season's Predictions from Colorado State University
• The Past as Prologue – The Great Quake of 1857 
• Comparing the 1857 and 1906 Earthquakes
• Emergency Housing - One University's Approach
• Dare to Prepare - Shift Happens
• NOAA's Involvement in Flood Prediction
• Disaster Center Flood Page
• USGS Maps of Recent NW US Flooding
• Big Tools for Fire Monitoring and Reporting
• From the NFPA - What Else? Fires
• Practical Tools for Fire Prevention
• Esperanza Fire Photos
• Fewer Hurricanes in 2006?
• New IT Management considerations for Hurricanes
• A new development in the science of hurricane tracking
• How to Read Weather Satellite Information from NOAA
• NOAA's Latest Satellite Information and Imagery
• Katrina Pictures
• Dismantle and Replace FEMA
• New Hurricane Tracking Tool
• 2006 Hurricane Season Predictions
• Fire Safety - OSHA Web Site
• Fire Safety - National Fire Prevention Association
• Living (Putting Down Roots) in Earthquake Country - an updated version of a popular 26 page book
• Natural and man-made disasters

 

Pandemic/Disease

• They’ve Asked Me to Write an H1N1 Flu Plan: Now What?
• Pandemic Planning: Protective Measures
• World Health Organization Calls Swine Flu Outbreak a Pandemic
• Report To The President on U.S. Preparations For 2009-H1N1 Influenza
  
• Study Finds Mother's Can Pass Bird Flu to Fetus
• Avian Flu Vaccine Approval
• Communicable Disease Encyclopedia
• Disease Central
• CDC Foundation report - Public/Private Response to Sudden Disease Outbreak
• "China denies it is covering up a Bird Flu outbreak after a Japanese WHO scientists claimed 300 had died from Bird Flu in China. H5N1, which is doing a terrific job of covering the spread of bird flu."
• A free online course on Preparedness and Community Response to Pandemics
• H5N1 has been transmitted for the first time from human to human

• Bird Flu Fatalities Almost Triple, Spurring Need for Treatments - University of Minnesota - June 22, 2006

• Experts at WHO believe that the world is now closer to another influenza pandemic than at any time since 1968, when the last of the previous century's three pandemics occurred
• The Pandemic Would Likely Start in California
• Video Clips on the Bird Flu from ABC Televison
• The Pestilence of Our Times
• Bird Flu News Articles from Around the World from Fox News
• California Division of Communicable Disease Control
• Pandemic Related Documents from the North American Electric Reliability Council
• An Official Statement on Pandemics from the White House
• A Broad Public Health Perspective from the Trust for America's Health
• Pandemic Information: From the Center for Disease Control
• From the Department of Health and Human Services
• On-Line Pandemic Training
• Avian Flu Modeling from Los Alimos
• A First hand Look at Avian Flu
• Free online course on Preparedness and Community Response to Pandemics

• Terrorism
• Police Departments Back Anti-Terror Citizens Watch
• Animal Rights Terrorists on the Rise in U.S.
• Killings of 4 Americans in Tijuana Sow Fear
• Expert Outlines Worries of Nuclear Proliferation
• Preparing Your Organization for a Terrorist Attack
• Ever Wonder What the PSTRG Is and Does?
• The DHS Daily Wire - Various Topics
• DHS WMD Programs
• Rand study predicts impact of nuclear attack on Long Beach port
• Rand Study - Considering the Effects of a Catastrophic Terrorist Attack

 

• Response/Follow-Up to Events

• 2007 Major Disasters
• Virginia Tech attacks mobilize crisis industry
• Nikki Giovanni – Virginia Tech Poet – Convocation Address 
• NYC to Allow Uploading of Pictures for 911 Calls

 

• General

• Google Case May Deter US Firms from China
• Share Our Selves Adopt A Family program
• Do Meetings Make Us Dumber?
• The Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind
• How to Pick a Genuinely Secure Password
• Trash to Energy
• Electrical power demand vs. need - revisiting CALISO in this heat wave
• "Who should get the few mechanical respirators that can mean the difference between life and death? The youngest or those with the best chances of pulling through?" Remember - this is fictional but thought provoking
• Current Airline Restrictions
• Disasters on This Day in History
• CAISO Alerts/Warnings/Emergencies