Black Swan Events

[Cali-Glock]

When we look to prepare for the worst, or even for everyday hiccups in life we turn to a lot of different sources for assistance.

I wanted to point out a couple of underutilized resources in the grassroots preparedness world.

Disaster Recovery:  Disaster preparedness and disaster recovery in the industrial world is an important discipline and a great resource for strategies, tools, insights, and networking.  The Disaster Recovery Journal is a free magazine with some good articles. https://www.drj.com/  A couple years ago they focused a whole issue on zombies.  It was tongue-in-cheek and applied the zombie theme to real-world applications. 

Insurance and Risk Management:  The world of actuaries and risk managers examine not only the high-frequency incidents where they have the greatest opportunity to control the outcome, but they also look to the low-frequency major impact events or Black Swan events.  There are many risk management and insurance resources on Black Swan events, their likelihood and how to prepare for them.  Risk and Insurance Magazine http://riskandinsurance.com puts out an annual Black Swan issue which I look forward to reading every year. 

Open Source Intelligence:   CIA Article on Open Source Intelligence   Best resource for accessing and using Open Source Intelligence Techniques (OSINT) https://inteltechniques.com/menu.html   Michael Bazzell has solid credentials and his tools are amazing.  I attended a short workshop with him a couple years back - it was EYE OPENING, scary, and super entertaining.  We did everything from the mundane: getting into people's locked down Facebook accounts, video-feeds from inside peoples homes to getting into the email for the accounting manager at the hotel where the workshop was held (without telling the hotel.) 

 

[BMyers]

Nice recommendations there. I like the insurance companies recommendation. They are an overlooked source in the prepper community, yet they spend a lot of money researching what could happen and cost involved. Insurance companies have to know the risk otherwise they stand to lose big bucks.