Beebe Healthcare system in southern Delaware partnered with the Delaware National Guard and other agencies to simulate two emergency drills as part of its preparedness planning.
John Benson began working for the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in 1992 and was recently named the department's Interim Director.
After staying on during the transition of the previous Director of Emergency Management for the state of Florida, Kevin Guthrie was asked to assume the permanent role.
The community college has a number of programs apart of the new center including emergency management and disaster preparedness and a degree in cybersecurity.
Laurie R. Doran has been appointed Acting Director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (NJOHSP), effective June 6, 2021. Doran will take over for Director Jared Maples.
The University of Missouri will hold a drill today for its Research Reactor on campus that will involve multiple agencies, including Columbia Fire Department, Boone County Office of Emergency Management, MU Police Department, MU Health Care, MU Environmental Health and Safety and MURR staff.
The State Street Global Security Team quickly implemented protocols to ensure the security of all staff and maintain continuity of operations, including establishing travel protocols, exclusion protocols and visitor protocols, implementing temperature check stations, deploying credentials, and monitoring of government orders and restrictions.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Managing Director and Chief Security Officer Stephen D. Baker, CPP, and his entire security function provided strategy and risk leadership with ongoing risk assessments and mitigation strategies at the State Street Corporation. This allowed the company to continue its global operations, placed workers at ease and supported State Street clients’ needs without disruption throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Determining the definition of insider risk to your organization is half the battle in mitigating the threat. The other half is more complicated, involving security culture, defined procedures and responses, and a little bit of technology.
Anyone with access to your organization — employee, contractor, former employee, etc. — poses a potential risk to the enterprise. So, what is insider threat; who should own an insider risk mitigation program within the enterprise; and most importantly, how can security leaders assess and mitigate the risk?
The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO), and Safe and Sound Schools (SASS) have partnered to release updated guidance on conducting armed assailant drills in schools. The author organizations represent key stakeholders in school safety and crisis planning, preparedness, and implementation. This includes school-employed mental health professionals, school security and law enforcement, school administrators, other educators, and families.
ADM and its security team tapped into existing data, both inside the company and publicly available, to enable informed decision-making and real-time insight into the company’s pandemic response plan including contact tracing, location insight and information, and facility occupancy.
ADM and its security team, including Kevin Wujek, Insider Threat Coordinator, tapped into existing data, both inside the company and publicly available, to enable informed decision-making and real-time insight into the company’s COVID-19 pandemic response plan including contact tracing, location insight and information, and facility occupancy.