I was invited to present the latest Sand Table™ Cyber Resilience Game at the High Technology Crime Investigator’s Conference in Anaheim, CA last week (HTCIA.org ). This conference features the latest tactics, techniques and technologies to defend networks against criminals and other cyber-adversaries. My presentation focused on how to prepare when those defenses inevitably fail. […]
See You At Partners in Emergency Preparedness, April 18 – 20th, at the Tacoma Convention Center!
We look forward to seeing you at the PIEPC conference next week. Come by our booth to see the latest developments in our Emergency Management Incident Tracking system (EMIT), a low-cost, easy to train way to manage an incident in your emergency operations center. James Rollins will be making a presentation this year and hopes […]
Training Pipelines: 7 Ways to get your training investment to stick
In our article on readiness, we showed how difficult it is to develop and sustain organizational readiness. When I visit business’, state and local government’s emergency exercises to look at how they approach training, I find they really lack understanding of how to establish a training pipeline that sustains organizational competence. A training pipeline is […]
Dialing 911: 5 Things You Should Know About Cyber Attacks
“It would have been a perfect somersault at the summer Games” you think to yourself as you lay there, counting the stars swirling around in your head. You didn’t see that crack in the pavement that stopped your front tire. It was such a nice day for a bike ride. Now this . . . […]
Takouba Announces New Cyber Resilience Program
Takouba announced today the introduction of a new Cyber Resilience Program. “With the rising tide of cyber-attacks occurring across the Internet, Takouba wants to offer an affordable program that business owners can use to improve their cyber-resilience” says James Rollins, Managing Partner. The Cyber Program is based in part on the ISO22301 Business Continuity Management […]
WinterSim 2016 Features ‘Beltway Day’
Computer aided modeling and simulations are becoming more mainstream to everyday decision-making processes. WinterSim features vendors, academics and professionals who are advancing the field of simulations and modeling to help find answers to complex issues. This year WinterSim is launching “Beltway Day” for first time WinterSim attendees in the Washington D.C. area. The Beltway Day […]
Staying Secure in the Online Frontier
How do you use the Internet? The internet is a true achievement. It, like the modern world, started off as nothing but an idea, conjured up from the curiosity and scheming of dreamers, and slowly mapped out by explorers. Though the internet is completely superficial, meaning you can’t “go to” the internet like you can […]
3 Ways to Prepare for Cascadia Rising
How prepared are you? This week, thousands of people are engaged in Cascadia Rising, which is an exercise to test our government’s ability to respond to a catastrophic earthquake event. I work for the National Guard, so I have the privilege of having a look from the inside. It is pretty awesome to see how […]
Approaching ‘Wicked’ Problems in 5 Steps
Wicked problems defy solutions. They are complex, riddled with uncertainties, in many ways unpredictable and can certainly be volatile. So what is the best way to handle wicked problems? A great question indeed – the 5 steps below are a good place to start. Take it Slow A wicked problem is tough. Like an octopus, […]
Does Disaster Mean Opportunity for Corporations?
Disasters Present Unique Opportunities In the days before a record winter storm was slated to strike the eastern seaboard of the United States, a person could go to their local department store and find fully stocked shelves containing salt, snow shovels, water and blankets. Taking the probability of an increase in sales into consideration, the […]
