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  • Homefree offers families on-line emergency planning toolkit

    Subscribers receive detailed notes on home maintenance; household inventory and warranties can be stored on company server

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  • MonitorBot offers remote moisture monitoring system for flood recovery

    Remote sensors provide moisture and humidity data

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  • Peer-to-peer tsunami detection software unveiled

    Program relies on detecting vibrations on hard disks; free software allows personal computer users to link-up and share data; may be boon to cash-strapped South East Asia

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  • Sysix offers comprehensive business continuity planning software

    DRP Navigator Assessment Software is aimed at mid-market; product helps companies assess vulnerabilities, set priorities

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  • Poll shows companies preferring outsourcing critical data

    IDC survey finds companies plan to increase continuity spending more than fivefold in 2006

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  • Safe America Foundation to test social distancing as flu response

    Effort coordinated with French government, American health authorities; employees of Fortune 100 firms to avoid each other at work, will be monitored by hidden cameras

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  • BreakAway offers disaster simulation game free to cities

    Incident Commander ideal for underfunded municipalities; players work out logistics, procurement, and communications problems; hostage taking, terrorism, and natural disasters among available scenarios

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  • Carribean islands sign disaster relief deal wih Cable & Wireless

    Jamaican telecommunications giant to evaluate Carribean Disaster Emergency Response Agency planning; deal may integrate C&W’s network into regional emergency management system

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  • Remote access market to expand 34% by 2010

    Originally sold as home office technology, remote access has significant security and business continuity advantages

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  • URS, Applied Marine Technology win contract to support National Exercise Program

    Total value of contract for workshops, policy development, program evaluation, information technology support, and exercises for senior officials is $350 million

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  • DHS inspector general criticizes FEMA oversight of search and rescue teams

    Many task forces rated themselves below 50 percent readiness; few complying with training, maintenance, and record-keeping requirements

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  • Disaster Management Systems critical for insurance companies

    Off-site, on-line lockboxes hold claims information, lists of assets submitted by customers

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  • IT failure tops list of small business continuity concerns

    Despite high recognition of the problem, implementation lags behind; new British continuity standards loom

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  • Louisiana officials worry about levees

    Tropical Storm Ernesto heads toward Gulf of Mexico; evacuation planning seems improved but overtopping and breaching still threaten levees

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  • 9/11, Katrina anniversaries highlight radio interoperability problems

    Government grants have done little to improve municipal communications; New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Tulsa provide models of ongoing difficulties

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  • Thousands evacuated in Washington state as 66 large fires burn in U.S.
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  • FEMA Modernizes Mobile App to Increase Accessibility and Improve User Experience
  • DHS Awards $9.8M for Small Businesses to Develop Security Technology Prototypes
  • Flood sensors give Montgomery Co. new way to track water levels remotely
  • Improving cyber insurance doesn't have to be hard
  • Water, schools, among major concerns for Utah earthquake commission
  • MyShake early warning app ready for Seattle earthquake alerts
  • Researchers paint bleak picture of forest fires beyond 2030
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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The long view

  • Machine Learning Could Predict Rare Disastrous Events Like Earthquakes or Pandemics

    Researchers suggest how scientists can circumvent the need for massive data sets to forecast extreme events with the combination of an advanced machine learning system and sequential sampling techniques.

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  • Americans Are Flocking to Wildfire

    People are trading hurricane zones for wildfire areas, says national study of migration, natural disasters, and climate change.

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  • Insurance for a Changing Climate

    Among the many facets of the economy being challenged and changed by warming global temperatures is the insurance industry. Damaging extreme events such as wildfires, hurricanes, and floods are happening with greater frequency and intensity, which leaves insurance companies facing larger financial risks and paying out more in claims — and it also leaves policy holders paying higher prices to insure their homes and businesses.

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