Resilience news

The 2018 Organizational Resilience Index report

Details: Published: Friday, 23 November 2018 09:37

BSI has published results from its 2018 Organizational Resilience Index report, which finds that the importance of organizational resilience has risen.

DRI International publishes its 2018 Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report

Details: Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2018 09:48

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’.

Cyber attacks on power and utility supplies are a genuine threat say industry CEOs

Details: Published: Thursday, 15 November 2018 08:18

Nearly half of power and utility CEOs are concerned cyber attacks are imminent, according to results released from KPMG’s 2018 Global CEO Study. The survey also found that 58 percent of CEOs feel prepared in their ability to identify new cyber threats

FEMA comments on National Flood Insurance Program reauthorization issues

Details: Published: Wednesday, 21 November 2018 09:40

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:

UK Counter Terrorism Policing launches a campaign ‘to bring the public and private sectors together to collaborate on security matters’

Details: Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2018 08:36

UK Counter Terrorism Policing has launched a new advertising campaign which aims to encourage retailers and other businesses operating in crowded places to ‘play their part in countering the terrorist threat’.

UK financial sector conducts cyber resilience exercise

Details: Published: Tuesday, 13 November 2018 10:07

On Friday 9th November 2018, the Bank of England, in partnership with industry and other UK financial authorities (HM Treasury and Financial Conduct Authority), hosted a one-day exercise designed to test the financial sector’s resilience to a major cyber incident impacting the UK.

Why mental health challenges are a resilience issue for organizations

Details: Published: Wednesday, 21 November 2018 09:28

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.

84 percent of the world’s fastest growing cities face ‘extreme’ climate change risks

Details: Published: Thursday, 15 November 2018 08:29

Maplecroft has assessed the threat from climate change to 1800 cities over the next 30 years, finding that of the 100 fastest growing cities by population, 84 are rated ‘extreme risk’, with a further 14 in the ‘high risk’ category.

Roundup of October’s major environmental disasters

Details: Published: Tuesday, 13 November 2018 09:55

Aon’s Impact Forecasting 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 October 2018.