Discussion board

Disaster management usually aims at reducing or avoiding the potential losses from hazards, ensures appropriate assistance to disaster victims, and to achieve effective and rapid recovery. The four phases of disaster management include mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The cycle indicates the process that the government, civil society, and businesses plan for and also reduce the impact of the disaster, and react during and following a disaster. The response involves the effort to minimize the hazard through searching and rescuing, disaster aid, and other response efforts implemented (Coppola et al. 2013). The recovery involves returning the community to the normal sense. The public and private organization usually support the response and recovery phases of disaster management. The collaboration of the humanitarian organizations can participate in immediate response and the long-term recovery phases.

In 2010, there was the largest earthquake ever recorded in Haiti and it killed and injured thousands of people (Schear, 2015). The incident triggered a heroic international relief effort where there were thousands of governments, public organizations, and private organizations working together to help Haiti during the incident. Many private organizations are normally responsible for operating and also maintains portions of the nation’s critical infrastructure. The collaboration between private and public sectors offer a natural avenue beyond the individual preparedness for the public to involve in disaster mitigation and the response efforts. The communities cannot be able to recover and respond to incidents without the strong cooperative relation with the sectors. The intrinsic connection between organizations and their communities tend to foster or weaken the health of the region. Thus, the involvement of the private and the public sectors working together will help in recovering from a disaster and ensure a sense of normalcy.

Follow-on Actions

The penetrating testing process has opened the gate for ensuring that the systems shall acquire continuous improvements that guarantee that the main objective of attaining secure data and information shall have the implementation. The system shall require the installation of the hardware and the software firewall to enhance the security on the servers and databases. The system shall require the installation of the physical and nonphysical LANS to mitigate the congestions and the bottle necks between the internal emails and the external mails. The major areas requiring improvements includes the use of the intruder detection and the intruder prevention mechanism. The IPS and the IDS prevent the hacking of the system and the cyber hacking vulnerabilities

The above information shall have preservation until the next security assessment process. The team will conform to the data and information rights and freedoms by ensuring that the data have no disclosure to the unauthorized individuals. The data and information stored can lead to bleaching of personal privacy and the freedom rights. The data and information shall have security in the on-premise repository location where the data and information have the least interference from a human.

Reference

Bullock, J., Haddow, G., & Coppola, D. (2013). Introduction to Homeland Security (4th ed.). New York, NY: Elsevier.

Schear, J (2015). Haiti’s 2010 earthquake and the US response.

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