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Increased reliance on automation and new technologies to assist with meter reading, leak detection and other operational goals have opened a host of attack surfaces. Given the ever-evolving and multi-faceted threat landscape, sharing and collaboration are essential to water and wastewater security and resilience.

Existing partnerships between mental health professionals and local police forces have reduced emergency hospital admissions by around 80%, according to the Canadian Mental Health Association of Waterloo-Wellington Director of Services Jeff Stanlick.

A new study from meQuilibrium, "Overwhelmed: Threats to Employee Wellbeing Persist & Employer Support Remains Critical," focuses on employee burnout and perceived employer support, highlighting the importance of workplace safety.

Securing commercial real estate with a combination of physical and cybersecurity tactics is critical to ensuring property is adequately protected. On-premise and cloud-based security systems are merging, with the latter becoming more popular among business owners.

GridEx has grown to be the largest distributed play exercise of its kind in North America, serving as a critical benchmark that maximizes the ability of organizations to coordinate with neighboring utilities and reliability coordinators to effectively exercise and address grid reliability issues.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has identified several potential risks of autonomous vehicles in transit systems and supply chains. Along with these risks, CISA has introduced a set of guidelines for organizations who use autonomous vehicles in their operations.

With duress technology literally at their fingertips, healthcare staff can request help anytime/anywhere in facilities and rest assured that assistance is on the way.

Given the rising attacks on critical infrastructure and the interconnected mesh of cyber-physical systems, the United States government is looking to better coordinate protection efforts that anticipate and counter criminal groups’ tactics, techniques and procedures, to help prevent attacks from reaching their intended targets.

The Flight Safety Foundation recently released guidance on furthering COVID-19 protocols in the aviation industry, emphasizing risk mitigation and the need for standardized digital health certificates.

The Ant-Defamation League and the Community Security Service will provide reciprocal training sessions on security best practices and trends in antisemitic attacks and hate crimes.