CR3 Concepts

22/10/2024

Live on the left coast? Did you participate? If not, start planning for next year by adding to your 2025 budget now. This isn’t just about the activity, you can test your ENS, PACE, ERP, E-POC, etc. Life Safety is all our responsibility!

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22/10/2024

Do you have a plan or are you planning? One suggests a document to follow and the other is a mindset. Also, planning requires training and testing to validate success. Please pass this on.

How do you protect your family? At what level of importance are the members of your extended family? Can they benefit by implementing the information in this book? The intent is to use all of your resources available and a great way to re-energize your relationship with them other than the yearly...

16/10/2024

Do you over share with strangers on a plane or a bar? Unless you want to be a statistic, build an alias. This is a simple change in how you introduce yourself, what you do, where you’re from, and interests.

Don’t share identification, address, phone numbers during any conversation deemed “chit chat.”

Your privacy is important. Safeguard it as much as you would a bank account or house key. AI can mimic your voice and picture to threaten your circle of trust. Social media shows your friends… if not for you, protect them.

12/10/2024

Exercise exercise exercise is not just something in the header of a slide for each inject sent to your players and observers and evaluators. It is a reminder that if you are not planning or training, you should be testing. Let us know if we can help get your incident command system back on track.

How does your company or agency survive a disruption or disaster? You need to design a Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) or Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). In this book, we walk you through Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), a tailored document library to meet I...

27/06/2024

Are you ready for Artificial Intelligence? I guarantee your workforce is and has been using for a year. Develop a policy so you don’t expose your IP and increase threats to your company. We can help with training and documentation to set your company up for success with less risk.

05/05/2024

First three questions to ask before implementing a new asset or solution.

1.) Is it safe? Think lifecycle - cradle to grave. Will it cause harm to you or them. What about the environment tomorrow.

2.) Can you insure it? Will the actuarial tables make it cheap to buy? Meaning less risk.

3.) Will it be regulated? With local, state, and federal politics… even if you do the first two, they may still control or cancel it.

We can help in your risk planning process. Cheers.

06/04/2024

Are you Ready? Your workforce is not. Post Covid, the workplace has changed and if you can answer this question under oath… Do you know if you staff is safe?

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Emergency Response is not just an evacuation plan. Accountability drills start the Recovery process. We can help.

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The East Tennessee Seismic Zone extends across Tennessee and is one of the most active earthquake zones in the eastern United States.

18/03/2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence risk is real and we need to stop fearing it and mitigate it. Step 1 is what can you trust and it’s nothing. Step 2 is how you can create trust from nothing. Step 3 is how MFA can be a tool to know that I am seeing or hearing the correct person.

07/03/2024

Should I safeguard my life? To most who borrow money to buy an asset now don’t have a choice. During a disaster, the recovery process is prodictable.

The later is when assets are impacted and they never added the right level of insurance.

Now is the time to review your current insurance policies and think about adding coverage where it is necessary. Especially if you own your car, home, business, injury, and life.

Don’t be a statistic and be prepared.

Rural Texans are more than twice as likely to go without homeowners insurance than their urban peers.

16/02/2024

I hope you are doing your part for Cyber Awareness Month by embracing some of my earlier posts and making your business and family cyber resilient. On the flip side of a good defense is a good offense and the US government is hammering everyone in the crosshairs. This means a cyber war will continue so please take our advice and be a hard target.

The move was part of the Biden administration’s retaliation to a drone attack at an outpost in Jordan that killed 3 Americans.

29/01/2024

Do you have a small business? Everyone should say “yes”. If you are earning money and paying bills, it’s no different then owning your own company. No matter what you call it, are you protected? Have you done a risk assessment?

This is just a fancy “business term” for knowing what vulnerabilities you have that if compromised will cost you money and time. We can help you make one and start building a mitigation strategy.

Cybersecurity is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor, and for small businesses, it requires a tailored and proactive approach. By understanding the threat landscape, conducting regular security assessments, implementing strong access controls, educating employees on cybersecurity awareness, securing en...

24/01/2024

Do you have social media discipline? I don’t mean reduced screen time, we will never judge you. Do you give away too much information? Remember that advisories and criminals are watching and listening. You can post but wait until returning from a work trip or vacation. With many breaches with your information over the years now on the dark web, they know who you are and waiting to attack you at your weakest. Away from home and with limited focus on your financial accounts. Know the threat, we can help.

The leak, dubbed the ‘mother of all breaches’, contains data from historic breaches and affects users of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Twitter

17/01/2024

Is the end in sight? Endpoint security is what touches your computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet or company network. We can help.

Here's how osquery can empower security teams, enabling them to respond effectively and efficiently to the constant stream of cyberattacks.

16/01/2024

Do you MFA? It’s not a new dance move on instagram, it’s multi factor authentication. It’s the difference to being hacked or being safe. Without it you will not know and someone will access your name and password from the dark web. MFA - usually a text or email code is an additional access key sent only to you. Please MFA all your email, digital accounts, and social media. Don’t be a statistic, we can help.

US senators have accused the SEC of failing to properly secure its social media accounts after hackers comprised its X account and posted a fake Bitcoin announcement

14/01/2024

Are you ready for the next one? Denial is the natural response, we are wired to forget the last one. It dulls the trauma. Best way to not feel like a victim is to start planning. Role play with your BUINESS team or FAMILY and talk the walk. Then based on lessons learned, fix what is needed and remember the saying 2 is 1 and 1 in none. This means to have redundant systems and contingencies.

Efforts are underway to prevent survivors of a devastating earthquake that hit central Japan two weeks ago from dying due to disaster-related causes.

13/01/2024

Are you freezing your credit bureau accounts? Do it now. It takes minutes and will not allow scammers who steal your identity through social engineering or buying on the dark web to use it and will move on. If they are unable to buy large ticket items or apply for credit cards, loans, etc they move on to a softer target aka someone else. Digital security starts with thinking they already have your information, how can they hurt you? Don’t know, we can help.

In America, three major types of money scams lurk in the shadows, ready to catch unsuspecting victims. From tricky schemes to deceitful tactics, these scams

11/01/2024

Just because you have “been there and seen that,” doesn’t mean you can get complacent.

The ever cycle of Mother Nature and weather can cause you to not take the nessesary steps to be prepared for the worst case scenario.

What if you no power, hole in the roof, broken window, no heat, flooding, and ___________?

Have contingencies and emergency communications. We can help.

As Massachusetts and New England deals with flooding from torrential rain and snowmelt from the last storm, StormTeam 5 meteorologists are warning about another storm packing heavy rain and wind.

08/01/2024

“Mother Nature is the one villain that seems to get away with it every time.” This is a quote I say during most training events, because it is true. However, most audiences give her a pass because it’s natural. My response to this is, “she doesn’t care about you!” Protect you, your family, your co-workers by having a plan at home, work, and when you travel. We can help.

The West has become a winter storm superhighway, with round after round of storms set to slam into the coast.

05/01/2024

Don’t be a victim! East to say but hard to do as technology gets more powerful in the hands of villains. Best way to be the hero is to follow three basic rules.

1. Don’t answer the phone if you don’t know the number.
2. Don’t click a link ever on an email.
3. If you are victim to the we can help.

The warning follows similar messages issued by Chinese and Australian authorities throughout 2023.

03/01/2024

In most instances, a cyber attack will be a disruption where as a physical attack can destroy assets that could take months to replace. That doesn’t mean one is more important than the other. It’s about RTO - return time objective. No matter the asset (logical or physical) if you can’t work, you can’t meet your deliverable requirements. Mitigation = money + time before an event to increase RTO or reduce likelihood of occurrence . Then plan, train, and test. In the case of cyber threats, teach staff the do’ and don’ts while working online.

Cyberattacks rose nearly 50% in 2023, so where can remote employees work with safety and security and what places are off-limits to avoid worries of a security breach?

03/01/2024

Organizational disasters can be more impactful to your company or agency than a natural or man made attack because of the emotional component. Society tends to put event drivers into three categories (victim, villain, and hero).

Best way to mitigate this in your organization is to have a plan, train your team, and test, test, test. Then build contingencies… we can help.

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01/01/2024

Happy New Year. Now what? This is the best time for resolutions in order to change behavior for the better. My advice to you is to stress less by having a plan in case of a disruption or disaster. Life changing events can happen anywhere and anytime. Be prepared and don’t fear the black swan!

Major earthquakes have hit Japan, triggering a tsunami warning in the region. Local residents have been urged to evacuate, with thousands left without power. Watch Sky News in the stream below for the latest updates.

29/12/2023

Is your company ready for the future threats that may already be here? For the last 15 years, your PII and PHI has been for sale. Now with AI, adversaries can create perfect emails that is way beyond spearphishing that can impact your staff’s work and personal inbox. Do you trust they won’t click?

My advice. MFA every login and in every environment. Design to limit access to your company’s Crown Jewels. Log everything. Your email is outside the firewall - no HTML. DMZ attachments. Let your staff know you are monitoring everything. Trust no one… Be a hard target inside and out. We can help!

28/12/2023

Natural and Manmade disasters happen, it’s just a question of time and location. Assessing your risk is evaluating probability and impact to your assets i.e. people, technology, infrastructure, vendors / suppliers. We can help.

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27/03/2022

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