Fire Threat, Possibility of Planned Power Outages Continues
After nearly two weeks of battling destructive wildfires fueled by incredibly high winds, it seems California is finally catching a bit of a break. And it couldn’t come at a better time. In just ten days, over 90,000 acres [...]
Belmont University Hosts Business Continuity Plan Refresher Workshops
Throughout the month of October 2019, Belmont University's Office of Risk Management and Compliance Director, April Khoury, coordinated Business Continuity Plan (BCP) refresher workshops for all divisions, departments and business units. Belmont University, which is located in Nashville, Tennessee, [...]
BOLDplanning Visits America’s Heartland, Participates in 2019 Iowa Homeland Security Conference
What a pleasure it was for BOLDplanning representative, Cathleen Atchison, MEP, PCP (and Iowa native) to return to the state for the 2019 Iowa Homeland Security Conference last week. The conference, which ran October 30 through November 1, took [...]
Power Outages: What We Can Learn from the California PG&E Blackouts
Earlier this month in California, the state’s largest utility provider, PG&E, cut off the power in response to extremely dry and windy conditions that fuel massive wildfires. The action, which affected roughly two million people, was taken to mitigate [...]
National Cyber Security Awareness Month Is Ending, but Concerns Continue
October, which is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, is almost over. But, concerns about malware, ransomware, spoofing, pfishing, and other mischievous (and costly) activities are not. In fact,they seem to be intensifying. Consider this. Experts believe there is a [...]
COOP Exercise Puts Readiness to the Test in Powder Springs, Georgia
Months of planning and preparation paid off in Powder Springs, Georgia, on October 22, 2019, as the city, in partnership with BOLDplanning, conducted a successful tabletop exercise of its Continuity of Operations (COOP) plan. COOPs, as you well know, [...]