Preparedness

what? building a notifications list on the fly…my mind is in a TASE

It all started after chatting with a colleague the other day… He started telling me about a Tabletop Attack Scenario Exercise (TASE) that he sat through with a health care company. They were going through a mock scenario of a PHI breach. And at one point, the security director asked the procurement team to give …

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what if Apollo 13 was managed by the average security team?

What saved the three Apollo 13 astronauts from utter disaster? Keep in mind that 4 days into their mission in April 1970, they suffered an explosion from an oxygen tank causing severe damage to the service module. Besides for divine providence, what saved them comes down to three factors: All 3 astronauts were well trained …

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36 year old accountant takes the ice as Chicago Blackhawks’ backup goalie

In March 2018, one of those unusual (but not as rare as you might think) occurrences happened. The Blackhawks’ starting goalie was a late scratch for the game, and the backup goalie was injured halfway through the third period. That meant the Blackhawks had to activate an emergency goalie for the last 14 minutes of …

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I never want to go through that again, and that’s why I don’t work there anymore

A few years back I was running a tabletop exercise at the office of a regional banking client. We had around 50 executives there including the C-suite. As we brought the exercise to a close, the bank CEO asked anyone on his team to share a story of living through a real data breach. One …

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