In early January 2025, two major wind‑driven wildfires, the Eaton Fire in the foothills above Altadena and the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, ignited during an extreme Santa Ana wind event, rapidly becoming two of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles County history.
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare since 2021, was killed in Midtown Manhattan on December 4th, 2024 after being shot in the back around 6:44 AM outside the New York Hilton Midtown where he was attending an investors’ meeting for UnitedHealth Group.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas and allied Palestinian militant factions launched a large-scale attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip, coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. The assault began with a rocket barrage of at least 4,300 missiles targeting Israeli cities, followed by a coordinated infiltration by land, sea, and air.
More than 5,000 Hamas militants breached the Gaza-Israel barrier, attacking military installations and civilian communities, including Be’eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, Netiv Ha’asara, and Sderot. A major target of the assault was the Nova Music Festival in Re’im, where 364 civilians were killed.
2021 is approaching rapidly, and most organizations are planning for whatever new normal will emerge in the coming months. The team at Swan Island Networks has built a collection of corporate security predictions and trends that we believe will impact your organization in the next 18 months.
1. Gain time for prevention and mitigation Seconds and minutes can count in emergency situations. Active monitoring and a consolidated situational capability can give you a jump start on saving lives, property, and reputation. Prevention is always more cost-effective than recovery. And those critical seconds or minutes can mean all the difference. 2. Protect lives[…]
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You’ve undoubtedly read about or experienced the Delta outage this week; you might be sitting in an airport reading this right now! Corporations are not putting the kind of thought, effort and money into backup systems to help when these kind of events transpire. Black swans do land in everyone’s lake at some point. Having[…]
The floods in Louisiana have been devastating for the last week, with at least 11 people killed. Great story about volunteers with boats stepping up to save people, pets and property. http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/us/louisiana-flooding/index.html While this kind of same day miracle is amazing and heartfelt thanks should go to all participants, you have to ask the question[…]