A guidance note from the UK CPNI (Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure) has been published, giving advice and guidance on what organizations can do to protect sites from terrorism.
Two recently published ISO standards will help organizations responsible for public warning at the local, national or international level to put in place a structured emergency response informing a targeted risk population.
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE) was launched on the 6th November.
What started as a US marketing initiative is unarguably now a popular pre-Christmas event, both in the US and UK. For retailers it brings its own resiliency challenges. Fred Touchette offers some advice.
Leadership management buzz: everywhere you look there are great articles and information on leadership and management. But is yours resilient or ‘de-resilient’? Paul Kudray challenges you to find out…
Global catastrophe losses in October expected to top USD10bn; new record of 22 global tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere that reached Category 4 or 5 intensity.
In his previous article Paul Kudray challenged readers to attempt to find out if their organization's leaders are resilient or de-resilient. In this article he addresses what to do if your organization and leaders aren’t as resilient as they would like to think they are!
Control Risks has published the results of its recent ‘State of Enterprise Resilience’ survey. Defining resilience as the ability of an organization to assess, anticipate, mitigate, and recover from disruptive events, the survey assessed the degree to which the concept of resilience has gained currency and become embedded within organizations.
In January 2016 ASIS will start work on a new standard and the organization is inviting applications to join the development committee.
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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.
