Tag Archives: disaster recovery
Cybersecurity’s “Forward to the Past”
July 10, 2017 – 6:00 am
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On June 21, 2017, Congress received a letter from 103 eminent cybersecurity experts and researchers (the list was compiled by NEDC (The National Election Defense Coalition) and partners) about reducing election hacking risks. You can link to the letter via Zack Wittaker’s article “Security…
Supply Chain Risk Management and Catastrophes
May 16, 2012 – 6:00 am
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The reports of destructive events—natural disasters, accidents, and intentional attacks—just keep on going. We could all guess that the Japanese tsunami of March 11, 2011 would have major impact on manufacturers’ supply chains … but a tornado in Wichita, Kansas and a fire in a plant in…
Storing Books against Digital Disaster
April 2, 2012 – 6:00 am
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It was interesting to read that there is an effort to store physical books so that they will be available in the event that there is a catastrophe that might wipe out all electronic versions or in case the Library of Congress were destroyed. In an article by David Streitfeld, “In a Flood Tide of…
Learned Lessons Are Not the Whole Picture
August 2, 2010 – 6:00 am
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I am certainly a strong proponent of learning from disasters, as asserted in my June 14, 2010 column “Cyber Lessons Learned from the Gulf Oil Catastrophe,” for example. Consequently I felt somewhat vindicated in that view by an article by William J, Broad on the front page of the Science…
Black Swans … or Oil Victims?
June 29, 2010 – 9:15 am
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There is an article in The New York Times Magazine of June 6, 2010 by David Leonhardt with the title “Underestimating Risk: What the oil spill and the financial crisis have in common.” It is in a section called “The Way We Live Now,” and next to the section heading there is a drawing of…
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