ENISA has published a new report on ‘Communication network interdependencies in smart grids’. Smart grids are a fundamental component of the European critical infrastructure but they provide an increased attack surface for criminals.
On 25th January 2016 Europol launched the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) at the informal meeting of the justice and home affairs ministers in Amsterdam.
Global emerging capital market regulators met last week in Bali, Indonesia, at the IOSCO Growth and Emerging Markets (GEM) Committee annual meeting hosted by the Indonesian Financial Services Authority to further work on strengthening systemic resilience while remaining alert to market risks.
The Disaster Recovery Institute International has announced that NYU Langone Medical Center has become the first institution to receive accreditation as a DRI ‘Hub of Resilience’. NYU Langone will be formally presented with the award and designation at DRI2016
Independent research commissioned by BSI has explored business attitudes to organizational resilience. Two thirds (64 percent) of the 120 CEOs from around the world surveyed for the research admit that the concept of organizational resilience is inconsistently understood across their business
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published its Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that took place worldwide during 2015.
The UK Government has confirmed the terms of reference for the National Flood Resilience Review, which will be chaired by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Letwin.
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro and the Rockefeller Foundation have announced the winners of the $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC). The city of New Orleans won a $141 million grant to create a ‘resilience district.’
Robin Gaddum looks at the ‘capabilities and capacity’ aspect of organizational resilience and explains why dynamic measurement is an essential requirement.
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