Europol has issued the third edition of its annual report on Online Jihadist Propaganda, which provides an analysis of ‘the major trends and developments in online propaganda of the most prominent jihadist organizations for the year 2020’.
Atmospheric and oceanic conditions remain conducive for an above-average Atlantic hurricane season, according to the annual mid-season update issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the US National Weather Service.
A new research paper by various authors from the Linköping University Hospital, Sweden, and the Swedish Defence Research Agency describes a method for analyzing resilience in crisis management teams.
Key points from the paper include:
A new open-access paper by academics from the University of Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk highlights seven global pinch points where a clustering of global critical systems converges with regions of volcanic activity.
A key element of operational resilience is the development of ‘plausible scenarios’ and a new guide recently published by Castellan Solutions provides assistance in this area.
In response to the ongoing cyber security threat to pipeline systems, DHS’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced the issuance of a second Security Directive
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released on August 9th.
ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, has published its annual report into incidents of telecoms downtime in the region in 2020. This highlights that human error based incidents are on the rise.
For many organizations, remote working is moving from being a reactive response to the business continuity requirements generated by the COVID-19 pandemic to being a long-term business policy. As organizations take this step, resilience and security issues need to be addressed with a sustainable strategy, as Steve Dance and Andrew Lawton explain…
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