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Managing Third Party Risk
Some sources of risk that may not be top-of-mind include your service providers, web hosting services, contractors, outsourcers, supply-chain nodes, consulting services, and travel services—any number of outside entities having custody of or access to your sensitive information. If your extended enterprise includes these third parties, you need a way to manage this risk.

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Securing Your Constituents and Institutional Information
In this presentation of Security by Example by Carolyn Ryll, you will shake your heads at common mistakes, but learn how not to make them yourself.

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Local Government Emergency Services: Setting Yourself Up for Success
This article, by CIBER’s A.J. Briding first appeared in IAEM Bulletin in October 2007

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16 Nov 2011
CIBER Wins Bid to Revamp Customer Service Systems for Security Service, Eighth Largest Credit Union in the U.S.
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04 Apr 2011
Internal Revenue Service Selects Contractors for Total Information Processing Support Services TIPSS-4 Information Technology Services (ITS)
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“CIBER demonstrated outstanding experience working with other major cities, like the City of San Francisco, in creating strong e-Gov offerings that resulted in high citizen satisfaction. Based on their hands-on experience, 30-year history of successfully working with local governments and their commitment to creating a strong local presence, we selected CIBER as our strategic web management partner. We are confident CIBER has the expertise to help us develop a site and service offering that will benefit our citizens now and for years to come and place our City in the top tier of ‘best practices for City e-government web services’.”

Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart — Chief Technology Officer, City of Cleveland

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Manage Operational Risk Like a Bank!
posted: 08 June 2009 by Eric Tompkins

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Emergency Management for Higher Education

Educators and students are acutely aware of the risks colleges and universities face today, ranging from revenge attacks, drugs, sexual predators, and other criminal threats, to the catastrophic potential for natural and man-made disasters, terrorism, and pandemic.

At the heart of effective emergency preparedness and response are planning and implementing the crisis actions systems and procedures upon which readiness depends.

Campus administrators generally have limited appreciation of how emergency management systems such as the following can prepare them for success:

Emergency notification
Crisis information management
Crisis communications
Situational awareness and decision support
Incident Command System
Surveillance and detection

It’s More Than Emergency Notification and Access Control

Providing safety and security for students and faculty is a daunting prospect. On top of that is the requirement to protect vital data and systems in the event of a disaster. The ideal solution is an enterprise approach, integrating the full range of applicable emergency management functions and business continuity/disaster recovery procedures while leveraging existing capabilities. Such solutions can be tailored to fully prepare campuses for the unique risks they face, posturing them to quickly understand the nature of a crisis as it develops, determine the best courses of action, and integrate seamlessly into their neighboring responder agencies, all the while maintaining control and containing the crisis.

As recent events have clearly established, the complexity of a campus and its personnel, students, and facilities demand thorough readiness preparation.

did you know...

CIBER has helped over 175 Higher Education customers overcome their IT challenges.

Meeting the Threat

Emergency management (EM) for higher education goes far beyond the roles and responsibilities with which most are familiar. The key to strong EM programs is building essential capabilities that are effective in all crisis scenarios.

First, and most importantly, schools and districts must have prevention and mitigation plans and procedures in place that greatly reduce the risks faced.

Second, if a crisis evolves, decision makers must get timely, accurate, and sufficient information upon which to assess the situation, determine the best responses, and contain the crisis.

Third, they must have robust communications that are survivable and dependable, to get the right information to the right people at the right time.

Fourth, they must have inherent response capabilities and procedures that are essential to providing immediate safety and security until the local response agencies arrive.

All of these capabilities can, and should, specifically be tailored for each campus system, providing the right amount of each capability within the parameters of the risks, budgets, and physical layouts with which each system must contend. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions, nor are there silver bullet solutions that will address all of these requirements. The CIBER approach is to build custom, integrated solutions that best meet the needs of each campus.

did you know...

CIBER was named the top IT outsourcing provider for the higher education sector, as published in The Black Book of Outsourcing.

The CIBER Approach

CIBER offers a range of services that can be precisely tailored to each customer:

Overall program assessment

Requirements determination
Capability gaps
Single points of failure

Planning services

Strategic planning
Capabilities-based planning
Grant application & mgmt

Process design

Communications support for emergency operations
Situational awareness
Decision support
Standard operating procedures
Information security
Integrated EM and BC/DR

IT integration and mapping

Emergency notification
Crisis information management
Access control and credentialing
Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
Business process management

Campus continuity and disaster recovery

BC/DR planning
Offsite backup

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