A new framework of rules on how to prevent, prepare for and manage electricity crisis situations will lead to better risk preparedness and strengthen the energy security pillar of the Energy Union. EU ambassadors have endorsed an agreement reached with the European Parliament on 22nd November on a regulation setting out these new rules.
New survey results, released by Tanium, show significant gaps in business resilience across organizations globally. The Resilience Gap study found that while 96 percent of global business decision makers believe that making technology resilient to business disruptions should be core to their firm's wider business strategy, the reality is very different.
FEMA has issued a statement about the US National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), as the current statutory authority granted to NFIP expires at 11:59 p.m. on November 30, 2018. The statement reads as follows:
Understanding, preventing and addressing the risk of misuse of science and technology by terrorist groups and other non-state actors was the focus of a side event to a recent meeting of the State Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the results of a survey of 296 financial sector firms which assessed their technology and cyber resilience capabilities.
Research conducted for Accenture has found that two-thirds of UK workers have experienced mental health challenges, with reduced productivity being one of the impacts.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published information about its final cyber resilience oversight expectations for financial market infrastructures (FMIs). Cyber resilience is an important aspect of FMIs’ operational resilience says the ECB
BSI has published results from its 2018 Organizational Resilience Index report, which finds that the importance of organizational resilience has risen.
Developed by the DRI Future Vision Committee, the annual DRI International Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report has just been published. It ‘provides a global perspective and comprehensive trends analysis of how resilience professionals view their industry and the external factors that are shaping it’.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
