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Business Insurance
Insurance coverage for malicious attacks continues to evolve due to the morphing nature of modes of attack and chosen weapons, challenging insurers and policyholders to keep up with a changing threat and coverage landscape, according to a panel speaking at the Public Risk Management Association's annual conference in Indianapolis. Even the name of the coverage has changed more than once, one panelist said.
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CNN
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a plan recently to improve school safety, including allowing law enforcement officers to take breaks and fill out reports in schools and increasing the number of armed school marshals in classrooms. Known as the governor's School and Firearm Safety Action Plan, the 40-page list of recommendations includes more than $120 million in funding from various sources for increased law enforcement presence in schools and training for armed marshals.
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EMS1
A recent study found that the use of drones in the public safety sector has greatly increased. According to a study by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, at least 910 public safety agencies including fire, police and EMS departments are now using drones. They also found that the number of agencies using drones has increased by around 82 percent in the last year alone, and that there are twice as many agencies that own drones as there are that own manned aircrafts.
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Homeland Security Today
The Department of Commerce and Department of Homeland Security recently released a joint report detailing how the federal government can combat botnets, or networks of infected internet-connected devices that can be leveraged by malicious hackers. The latest report largely resembles the draft report issued by the two federal agencies in January, which gave experts from the cybersecurity industry as well as other stakeholders the opportunity weigh in on their findings before releasing the final report.
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Outside
In Hawaii, many revered watermen began their journey as lifeguards on local beaches. In 2017, however, lawmakers removed liability protections for lifeguards, potentially exposing them to lawsuits resulting from unsuccessful rescue attempts.
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ABC News
With news of another mass school shooting still fresh, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the suspected Sante Fe High School gunman Dimitrios Pagourtzis had left just one clue to his evil plot: a Facebook post showing a simple black T-shirt bearing the words "born to kill."
Seven months before he shot and killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February, Nikolas Cruz posted a photo of his arsenal on Instagram, prompting Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel to describe Cruz's social media content as "very, very disturbing."
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TechTarget
Every enterprise — be it private, public or nonprofit — is exposed to risk in its supply chain. Successfully managing these risks is critical to the growth — and possibly the very existence — of an organization.
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Police Magazine
Cybercrimes are often perpetrated anonymously and the perp could be literally anywhere in the world, so what can local law enforcement do about them? Before we explore the answers to that question, and there are many different answers, it's important to get a handle on just what constitutes a cybercrime.
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PoliceOne
The dynamics of policing the US-Mexico border is daunting. Effective enforcement efforts are affected by manpower shortages, multi-jurisdictional issues, and remote and inhospitable terrain. These factors all come together to make the coordination of air and ground assets a necessity not only for effective enforcement operations, but also officer safety.
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By Catherine Iste
 Some people seem to float through life effortlessly. Promotions come to them. Raises are provided. Direct reports and those on other teams naturally follow them. And people like them. What’s the difference between a leader with an advanced degree, certificates in leadership and no loyal team members and the leader down the hall who everyone turns to for real direction and guidance? Here are three secrets of natural leaders.
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