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By Cassie Phillips
 After hearing about some of the dangers within the healthcare industry concerning cybersecurity and patient information, we can only expect the trend to continue. Whether it is an inside job, ransomware or a kind of social engineering, the risks are too high for businesses and organizations to ignore the potential fallout of a data breach. The negative media coverage and financial costs are simply too high — and rising.
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Bloomberg via PropertyCasualty360
President Barack Obama is asking the private sector to tighten building standards to reduce losses from natural disasters after studies linked an increase in extreme weather to climate change.
The administration announced the start of work by the organizations that set standards for residential and commercial buildings in an effort to improve safety during and after events such as fires, floods and earthquakes.
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Phys.org
Purdue researchers have developed a prototype system that could allow law enforcement and public safety agencies to tap into thousands of cameras located in numerous venues including parking garages, college campuses, national parks and highways.
In addition to applications in law enforcement, the system can be used to quickly find damage, plan rescues and other operations during natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes and blizzards.
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Government Technology
The public health crisis in Flint, Michigan, is a man-made disaster. An unfortunately titled “emergency manager” appointed by the governor to oversee the city’s finances made the decision to switch drinking water sources from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money.
The river water was highly corrosive, causing lead to leach into the drinking water.
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Entrepreneur
The safety of your workplace is becoming more important than ever before. Beyond the obvious moral and ethical imperatives to not cripple your workers in pursuit of profit, many employers — even small businesses are finding that it doesn’t take many injuries to put the company in real financial peril. Safety isn’t foremost in the minds of a lot of entrepreneurs.
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Fox News
The entire Washington Metro subway system could be shut down if officials don’t follow the safety measures ordered by the Transportation Department, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.
"We have the ability to withhold (federal) funds from Metro. We have the ability to shut Metro down, and we're not afraid to use the authority we have," Foxx said told reporters. "This is serious business."
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By Hank Boyer
 One of my first bosses taught me a valuable career lesson that is worth sharing. Just as I was about to leave for a week-long training meeting, he told me: "At this meeting you are going to see a room full of people from across the country who are just like you — working hard to get ahead. I guarantee there will be some doofus who shows up late for a session. Or maybe he'll say something stupid and anger someone. Or have too much to drink and behave badly. Hank, don't you be that guy!"
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Governing
Charles Carroll, a top executive in a company that helps governments run background checks, can hardly believe the debate about how best to screen drivers for Uber, Lyft and other car-hailing companies. It’s not the companies refusing to use fingerprint-based FBI background checks that surprises Carroll, it’s that the companies argue their screenings are better than fingerprinting.
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FleetNews
Risk management issues may see fleets become among the very earliest adopters of driverless cars, predicts Chevin Fleet Solutions.
If the vehicles’ technology is proven to drastically reduce at-fault accidents, the pressure for fleets to acquire them may be overwhelming, says managing director Ashley Sowerby.
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CIO Insight
Without one person in an organization responsible for managing third-party risk, companies face a serious barrier to achieving effective third-party risk management, according to a new study. The study, "Tone at the Top and Third-Party Risk," was conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Shared Assessments, a member-driven, industry-standard body specializing in third-party risk assurance.
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