With any type of threat especially one that may be eminent emotions and doubt will be uncontrolled and as the emergency manager it will be necessary to maintain a sense of practicality and composure. To maintain control and focus it would be essential to follow the OPSEC outlined by Maniscalco & Christen (2011) in the five-step process:
1. Identification of critical information: Critical information is factual data about an organizations intentions, capabilities and activities that the adversary needs to plan and act effectively to degrade operationally effectiveness or place the potential of organizational success at risk (Maniscalco & Christen, 2011). Part of the initial actions as emergency manager is to reaffirm the credibility of the threat with local law enforcement and the federal partners and perhaps identify additional critical information regarding the threat.

2. Analysis of the threat: To know as much as possible about each adversary and its ability to target the organization and to tailor the threat to that actual activity and to the extent possible (Maniscalco & Christen, 2011). The purpose of this step is focused on the possible severity of the actions and the impact once carried out.

3. Analysis of vulnerabilities: The analysis attempts to identify weaknesses …show more content…
So why not make our jobs easier and offer them guidance where they can discuss issues during an emergency. Additionally, as emergency manager in this incident, the health department would have predetermined community points of distribution (POD’s) identified as means to distribute certain medications for those exposed to Anthrax. Those who are exposed to Anthrax around the release are given oral antibiotics or anthrax vaccine as a prophylactic measure (Minnesota Department of Health,