1. Health care organizations will need to step up their security posture and data breach preparedness or possibly face sanctions from federal regulators in 2015.

2. Imagine our embarrassment if we wrote an emergency preparedness article without a first aid kit.

3. Although we had begun our Ebola preparedness activities, our training and education program had not fully deployed before the virus struck.

4. The North Korean media are full of images of military preparedness, he adds, intended to rally people behind the leadership.