By: Jim McKay on February 11, 2013 Cyberattacks continue to rise and more, albeit not enough, attention is being given to the threats posed by cyberattackers. The United States is vulnerable in many ways, including the energy grid, which comprises 160,000 miles of high-voltage lines, millions of miles of distribution lines and thousands of [...]
By ANDREW ZOLLI Published: November 2, 2012 FOR decades, people who concern themselves with the world’s “wicked problems” — interconnected issues like environmental degradation, poverty, food security and climate change — have marched together under the banner of “sustainability”: the idea that with the right mix of incentives, technology substitutions and social change, humanity [...]
From 1970 to 2000 the number of magnitude 3.0 or greater temblors in the U.S. mid-continent averaged twenty-one annually; by 2011 the number of such quakes had increased to 134; a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey links the increase of seismic activity to the increase in the use …
While the nation has made strides in preparing for a wide range of potential disasters, state and local officials said they feel least prepared for an emerging threat: a cyber attack. Cybersecurity “was the single core capability where states had made the least amount of overall progress,” according to the annual National …
One forward-thinking prefecture in Japan is now running disaster preparedness software in a virtual ‘cloud’ (a group of servers running in a secure location, insulated from disasters). “It would have cost a lot more to run our own servers and network, and if a disaster happened managing something like that would be very difficult, [...]
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