On May 28th, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a loan agreement with the Government of the Republic of El Salvador to provide a Japanese ODA loan of up to five billion yen for natural disaster recovery.
ASIS International has published a new security book, Active Shooter: A Handbook on Prevention, 2nd Ed, by Dr. Joshua Sinai, Ph.D. Its intended audience includes security managers, human resource managers/staff, facility managers, and public safety instructors/trainers.
The threat of wildfire is increasing in the United States. In 2015, over 68,000 wildfires in the United States burned more than 4,636 structures and ten million acres: the highest number of acres burned on record.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting that the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1st through to November 30th, will most likely be near-normal, but warns that forecast uncertainty in the climate signals that influence the formation of Atlantic storms make predicting this season particularly difficult.
Growing threats of terrorism, natural disasters and increasing instances of social unrest have made physical security one of the biggest concerns for corporate India, according to a survey by PwC India and ASIS.
On 17th May 2016, the European Council formally adopted new rules to step up the security of network and information systems across the EU.
Three years after its launch, 100 Resilient Cities has reached its initial goal of helping 100 cities worldwide build resilience to the growing social, economic, and physical challenges of the 21st century.
New geologic mapping in the Himalayan mountains of Kashmir between Pakistan and India suggests that the region is ripe for a major earthquake that could endanger the lives of as many as a million people.
The world is not ready for cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Governments are not ready, law enforcement isn’t ready, the facilities themselves are not ready, and the people who design, build and operate them are often the least ready of all. Unfortunately, the criminals are very ready indeed.
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