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Inside The Box

Inside The Box, Issue 1.2: All Disasters Are Local

Anyone who follows the news will be familiar with earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters—or, as we call them in the risk profession, “natural hazards.” Indeed, many will have experienced at least one of these hazards first-hand.

This second paper in our Inside the Box series uses selected natural hazard events to introduce a number of fundamental risk management concepts, and to illustrate how risk managers determine where such hazards are most likely to occur and what people or assets or systems in those locations would be most seriously impacted by them. We then explain how can they use this information in crafting responses that make maximum use of the limited preparedness assets at their disposal.

We believe that the more information risk managers start with and the better they can visualize their risk environments, the more likely they will be to zero in on their highest-priority risks and develop sound strategies to minimize them.

Case Study

South Carolina “Gets Visual” with Digital Sandbox Risk Analytics

As part of its Geographic Information System (GIS) strategy, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) identified the need to add critical value-added applications to the agency’s existing ESRI GIS framework.  Risk Management was identified as a key focus area for this initiative. SLED’s goal was to upgrade their solution to deliver the best possible risk management capability.

Webinar

Critical Infrastructure Protection - A Look at Current Best Practices in Homeland Security

Listen as Brian Wright, Critical Infrastructure Program Director of the New York State Office of Homeland Security discusses how they built such a successful program, what lessons they learned along the way, and how your organization can benefit from their example.

White Paper

Converged Security: Making Sense of Intelligence and Forensics (IQT Quarterly Reprint)

Digital Sandbox CEO Bryan Ware explores the idea of a new kind of converged security, one that recognizes how merged our physical and cyber worlds have become, and the impact of that convergence on our approach to intelligence.

This article is reprinted with permission from the Fall 2009 issue of IQT Quarterly, a publication of the Central Intelligence Agency’s In-Q-Tel technology-investment arm.