On July 15th, the United Nations hosted a high-level meeting in Geneva to take stock of the coordinated response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The meeting came the day after the first case of Ebola was confirmed in Goma, a city of about 1 million people south of the outbreak’s epicenter.
The Bank of Canada has announced the launch of a public-private partnership to strengthen the resilience of Canada’s financial sector. The Canadian Financial Sector Resiliency Group (CFRG) will be responsible for coordinating a sector-wide response to systemic-level operational incidents.
A new study shows the serious impacts on business leaders when disruption hits their organizations, with 54 percent suffering from stress-related illnesses and/or damage to their mental well-being in the aftermath of cyber attacks, IT outages or network failures.
An expert panel convened by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) has identified Canada's top climate change risks and determined that many costs and damages could be avoided with ‘prompt and thoughtful’ adaptation.
Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of industry sectors experienced an increase in disruption over the past eight years, according to a new report from Accenture.
While for many organizations major incidents are relatively rare events, when they occur they create personal as well as organizational resilience challenges. Dominic Irvine looks at how using the power of imagination can help…
The London-based organization Resilience First has produced an aide-memoire that contains key guidance and actions to help business resilience. The ‘Guide to Resilience Planning for Business Communities’ provides some straightforward advice on building resilience
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has published a consultation paper proposing new market integrity rules for securities and futures market operators and participants. The rules promote technological and operational resilience of critical systems.
The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) met on Friday, 14th June 2019.
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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.
