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The types of threats that represent incidents resulting from non-human-related occurrences are events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and power outages. At the time I wrote this chapter, fires were ravaging California while two hurricanes bore down on the US Gulf Coast. These disasters will cost organizations billions of dollars. Even those organizations not directly affected by such disasters minimally suffer increased gasoline prices, which result in increased shipping costs.

Just as well-meaning people cause more damage than malicious actors, some threats result in more damage than most humans can imagine. Many of these threats are relatively small and localized, but more than enough are massive and have disastrous effects.

You probably can’t provide any awareness of value regarding the existence of natural disasters, but you can use these occurrences to motivate people to implement basic countermeasures. For example, data backups and the use of uninterruptible power supplies are critical to mitigate the damage from natural disasters.