Official Report: US Government ‘Not Fully Prepared’ for Nuclear Attacks or...
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...
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...
BCP&IT Conference: The New Crisis Management C4I Array Revealed
The Crisis management computing array, an emergency management facility, is one of Israel's largest building and C4I projects. The project took several years to...
BCP&IT Conference: “Cyber Command in the IDF”
The Israeli Army must be put in charge of operations during cyber-attack emergencies, and in order to do that the IDF must establish a...
Magen David Adom on the Recent Storm: Past Lessons Were Learned
Following the recent storm the MDA (Magen David Adom, an Israeli medical emergency service) intends to acquire snow-plowing kits to be installed on the...
“Biobot” Insect Swarms to Map and Explore Unknown Areas
What may sound like the script from a Hollywood Blockbuster is in fact a new development by a research team from North Carolina State...
New water purifier for Marines and First Responders
A new, easy-to-carry water purifier that could give Marines and first-responders access to clean water wherever they go has successfully completed its first operational...
The Dutch navy will use a simulator to get ready for...
On the heels of a delivery to the Royal Netherlands Air Force, Environmental Tectonics Corp. has signed a contract for an additional disaster-management simulation...
Solutions for continuous and reliable communication in large scale disasters
“A multi casualty disaster occurred in KiryatArie, Petah Tikva” - this is the message of the first reporter at the scene of the disaster...
Vital Role of Communications Following the Japanese Earthquake of March 2011
According to Internews Europe, a report on the Japanese earthquake published recently shows that:
“Japan’s highly advanced early warning system proved key in saving lives,...
It`s a fact, Data will go on working in disaster ...
In last three years the world experienced three huge disasters. The first, in January 2010, was a strong earthquake in Haiti which caused the...
Mobile technology saves lives
It’s a world problem even in very developed countries including Israel and the authorities are not doing enough to solve it. The United Nations...
Preparing for Asteroids hitting earth – is prayer the only answer?
Israel is not prepared in any way to handle a disaster caused by the hit of an asteroid. European experts say that while Israel is...
Can we get ready to counter threats from space?
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Can a country be ready for threats from space? this issue has been brought up following the "close" passage of an asteroid...
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Gmail Data Leak: 183 Million Reasons to Rethink Your Password Security
A new trove of stolen login credentials has surfaced online, with 183 million email addresses and passwords added to the “Have I Been Pwned”...
