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Icehotel or Wonderland? Reimagining the United States' National Incident Management System. 冰旅馆还是仙境？重新构想美国国家事件管理系统。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/GNIF5652

Lisa Wier, Tony McAleavy

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Corporate full-scale exercises: Why they are required. 企业全面演习：为什么需要。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/PZTF2732

Robert Cook, Raelene Anderson, Nell Lee

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Confronting wicked problems and creeping crises: Integrated crisis management. 面对邪恶的问题和蔓延的危机：综合危机管理。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/QFYT8147

Brendan Monahan

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After the horse has bolted : A quantitative assessment of the count of civil protection officers in London local authorities between 2006 and 2024. 马跑了之后：2006年至2024年间伦敦地方当局民防官员数量的定量评估。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/NVHV9374

David McClory, Stephen Arundell

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Opinion piece: The Federal Emergency Management Agency: We have met the enemy and he is us. 评论文章：联邦紧急事务管理局：我们遇到了敌人，他就是我们自己。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/JTHZ3702

Michael Martinet

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Evacuate or shelter-in-place? Applying a risk-informed decision support tool for long-term care facilities threatened by wildfire. 疏散还是就地避难？为受野火威胁的长期护理设施应用风险知情决策支持工具。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/IJET9958

Brent Hobbs, Alana Hicik, Jeffrey Tochkin, Andre Bloemink

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Expanding the paradigm of evaluating community benefits in investments in grid resilience utilising a balanced scorecard approach. 扩展利用平衡计分卡方法评估电网弹性投资中的社区效益的范例。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/PYOK2320

Jeff Schlegelmilch, Sean Hansen, Ilina Hristova, Qëndresa Krasniqi, Alexandra Potter, Jacqueline Ratner, Antonia Samur

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Editorial. 社论。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/VOMH6630

Lyndon Bird

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Bolstering emergency power resilience for hospitals during power outages: How the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency initiative offers a blueprint for other jurisdictions. 加强医院在停电期间的应急电力恢复能力：洛杉矶县紧急医疗服务机构的倡议如何为其他司法管辖区提供蓝图。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/BLRP8859

Eric Cote, Terry Crammer, Christopher Sandoval

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Integrating cyber resilience: A critical component of comprehensive business resilience. 集成网络弹性：综合业务弹性的关键组成部分。

Journal of business continuity & emergency planning Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.69554/LMGO9459

Robert Fernandes

{"title":"Integrating cyber resilience: A critical component of comprehensive business resilience.","authors":"Robert Fernandes","doi":"10.69554/LMGO9459","DOIUrl":"10.69554/LMGO9459","url":null,"abstract":"This paper advocates for the integration of threat exposure monitoring (TEM) as a critical tool in cyber security resilience frameworks. As organisations face increasing cyber threats, TEM provides an essential, proactive approach to identifying potential vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. By monitoring various online environments, including the dark web, hacker forums and misconfigured cloud storage, TEM can uncover compromised credentials, exposed data and other risk factors that could lead to operational disruptions. This proactive monitoring strategy enhances an organisation's preparedness, helping to prevent costly incidents and mitigate risks before they escalate. Using notable case studies, such as the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident and the Orange Spain outage, the paper illustrates the devastating impact of cyber breaches and underscores how TEM could help avoid similar disruptions. Readers will gain an understanding of how to implement a TEM programme, identify critical digital assets for monitoring and integrate TEM within broader threat intelligence practices. Ultimately, this paper provides resilience professionals with a structured approach to leveraging TEM for robust cyber defence, offering practical insights on reducing exposure risks and strengthening overall business resiliency. This article is also included in The Business & Management Collection which can be accessed at https://hstalks.com/business/.","PeriodicalId":39080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of business continuity & emergency planning","volume":"18 4","pages":"357-371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144016562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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