Rave Mobile Safety (Rave) announced the results of its fourth annual 2021 Workplace Safety and Preparedness Survey. The findings show that employers are reevaluating how to best protect employees both on-site and remotely in a year of unprecedented change.
No health system should have to decide between improving patient care or covering the high cost of an unexpected ransomware attack. Examine the health and wellness of your IT infrastructure—just like a patient—to prevent long-term issues down the line.
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.
Advanced VMS solutions are increasingly integrated with most hardware implementations to ensure that an organization’s business operations, risk mitigation and security objectives are aligned. This is becoming even more of a challenge with the complexity of evolving physical security systems. Yet, there are great opportunities for cutting-edge VMS platforms to excel.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism, a senior official told Reuters.
FUJIFILM Corporation confirmed the company suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted its business operations. In the late evening of June 1, 2021, the company shut down all networks and servers to determine the extent and scale of the attack, and suspended all affected systems in coordination with their various global entities.
For me, the issue of vaccination passports is actually exposing the underbelly of the privacy and identity debate in the United States at the expense of public health and public safety. This is no longer a matter of whether people are collecting benefits to which they are not entitled, or whether an ID is needed to vote. The issue of vaccination passports and the lack of a national identity strategy in the United States is now literally a matter of life and death.
Chief of Police and founder of Armour College, Richard McCann has been responsible for leading the college’s response to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, immediately putting policies and medical screenings into place, acquiring personal protective equipment (PPE), and distributing medical information to staff and students on all campuses to ensure appropriate safety and health protocols at the college.
Chief of Police and founder of Armour College, Richard McCann has been responsible for leading the college’s response to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, immediately putting policies and medical screenings into place, acquiring personal protective equipment (PPE), and distributing Center of Disease (CDC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other relevant medical information to staff and students on all campuses to ensure appropriate safety and health protocols at the college.
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.
The White House has issued an open letter to companies, urging them to take immediate steps to prepare for ransomware attacks, following a string of cyberattacks that have halted the operations of many companies.