DRI International’s latest Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report is now available, providing a global perspective and comprehensive trends analysis of the resilience profession. The report was developed by DRI International’s Future Vision Committee and is based on survey data.
A new report ‘Preparing for Rising Seas: How the State Can Help Support Local Coastal Adaptation Efforts’ warns that California’s coastal-based businesses and communities need to consider the impacts of rising sea levels and need to take action.
NIST has announced the release of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-160 Volume 2, Developing Cyber Resilient Systems: A Systems Engineering Approach, which is the first in a series of specialty publications developed to support NIST SP 800-160 Volume 1.
The Bank of England has issued a consultation document which sets out its proposed framework for the 2021 Biennial Exploratory Scenario (BES) exercise, which will test the resilience of the largest banks and insurers to the physical and transition risks associated with different possible climate scenarios.
A new academic paper, published in BMC Psychology, looks at employees’ perceptions of workplace support and help-seeking in the context of a disaster.
The past year has seen a range of issues coming to the fore that have had a significant impact on business resilience and continuity in the food sector. Three in particular stand out and will continue to have a major impact throughout 2020, namely food allergies; food fraud; and climate change. Victoria Cross provides an overview…
The threat of a highly disruptive cyber attack on US critical infrastructure is the top-ranked concern for the second straight year, according to the Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) twelfth annual Preventive Priorities Survey (PPS).
The Bank of England, PRA and FCA have published a shared policy summary and co-ordinated consultation papers on new requirements to strengthen operational resilience in the financial services sector.
As part of strategies to transform and modernise organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-first strategies. This provides an ideal opportunity to embed resilience. In this article John Young looks at the requirement to make three core components of modernisation more resilient: people, applications and 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.
