Disaster Recovery
Now You Can’t Miss Emergency Alerts
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Continuity Programs’ Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Division (IPAWS) has begun...
How To Make First Responders More Efficient
Olga Grosman
Imagine a scenario where whoever came to save you is injured during the rescue effort. Perhaps they were burned from the raging fire, or inhaled...
euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge Is Heading Towards The Main Event
More than 40 robots and 150 scientists and engineers have gathered to compete in the euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge. Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima...
The Earthquake Has Passed – How Do You Prepare For The Day After?
Natural disasters may cause loss of information existing in the computer systems, leading to businesses and infrastructure collapsing. Proper planning for recovery after natural...
Israel’s Fire fighting fleet is expanding
The fire and rescue department’s fire fighting fleet has grown and now has 14 planes, after completing the purchase of six new airplanes, which...
Municipal emergency continuity
The issue of continuity during disasterous events is keeping authorities everywhere constantly busy, as it is unthinkable that a municipal body would stop from...
UAV to scan damaged nuclear power plant
Since the big tzunami disaster in Japan in 2011 that damaged the nuclear power plant if Fukushima, many have been trying to get inside...
Cyber security program for infrastructures
American goverment officials for the Department of Homeland Security chose Illinois University and its researchers to head a research program for developing and upgrading...
Integrating robots in disaster areas
This last weekend was a highlight for 23 teams from around the world that took part in the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency contest....
An Assisting Technology that Can Save Life
The daily routine of the emergency service personnel, cops, fire fighters and emergency medicine doctors, is packed full with a wide variety of events,...
EMP – the threat is real, very real
America’s military planners recognize the growing threat from an EMP attack by bad actors around the world, in particular North Korea and Iran.
An EMP...
A new tool for spotting buried victims
The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion...
Preparation for Earthquakes: Monitor, Predict, Prevent, Control
Preparing ahead of emergency situations and mass disasters on a national scales is not ’recommended’ or subject to considerations of cost or likelihood. Rather,...
How drones are helping the Nepal earthquake relief effort
Drones are proving a crucial high-tech tool for aid workers in the aftermath of the devastating Nepal earthquake. With the death toll from Saturday’s...
Official Report: US Government ‘Not Fully Prepared’ for Nuclear Attacks or Natural Disaster
An official report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the U.S. government is not fully prepared to handle nuclear terrorist attacks...
Is Data the Best Preparation Against Natural Disasters?
Big Data and Open data and analytics have become fundamental tools in disaster preparedness, experts say. But public officials aren't using them enough.
Lucy Jones,...
Advanced tech saves
US military taps advanced technology to save lives.
The U.S. Southern Command’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division showed off GeoSHAPE. This tool would have been...
Beware the risks of government data center consolidation
The United States government, like all of us, is trying to save a little cash and make its day-to-day operations a little more efficient.
In...
Flying cameras following earthquake
Flying cameras help teams assess damage, search for survivors and clear roads following earthquake in Ludian, Yunnan, China. Disaster response team incorporates aerial technology into...
Protect your website against cyber attacks
by Lior Mazor
Introduction
Cyber war is an act of war, adopted by states as well as by Terrorist Organizations, with the goal to penetrate and damage the opponents computerized systems or other vital systems that...
Magen David Adom’s New Mobile Command Center
Magen David Adom (MDA), an Israeli emergency medical service, added a new, advanced mobile command center to its fleet of rescue vehicles. The new...
How to Prepare Your Organizations for Emergencies? Drills, Drills and More Drills
Earthquakes, natural disasters, floods or snow storms, fires, cyber attacks, damaged databases. All these could happen to any organization, and it's no secret that...
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