The European Union has moved closer to creating an EU-wide coordinated disaster response capability, called rescEU. rescEU will strengthen the existing EU Civil Protection Mechanism, providing standby resources to respond to floods, wildfires or other incidents which overwhelm national response resources.
A new technical paper written by Junaid Seria, Head of Cat Model R&D and Governance at SCOR Global P&C, provides some useful resilience lessons resulting from the water crisis that hit Cape Town’s communities and businesses earlier this year.
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
The President's National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) has issued a draft report which looks at preparedness for a future catastrophic power outage impacting the United States.
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.
Aon's Impact Forecasting team has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during November 2018.
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.
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