London Prepared is consulting on a preliminary resilience assessment which will provide information for a resilience strategy for London. The deadline for taking part is 15th October 2019.
The United States’ electric grid is becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks — particularly those involving industrial control systems that support grid operations; this is one of the key findings of a new GAO report
When it comes to hurricane impacts, well-prepared companies preserve their value, and poorly prepared companies may not do so; this was the headline finding of a study commissioned by FM Global and conducted by Pentland Analytics.
While the economic cost of natural disasters has not increased much on average, averages can be deceptive. The costs of major disasters have increased to a disproportionately larger extent than those of lesser events, and these major disasters have become far more expensive, according to an international team of researchers.
The Bank of England has published the high level findings of the financial sector cyber simulation exercise that took place last year.
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published a report looking at ‘Cyber Risk for Insurers – Challenges and Opportunities’, which calls for a cyber resilience framework for insurers.
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, welcomed the launch of the global Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has issued a call for establishing business resilience as a financial industry-wide priority in a new white paper, 'Resilience First'. In the paper, DTCC says that a paradigm shift is required
A new report, ‘Prepare for the expected: Safeguarding value in the era of cyber risk,’ released by Aon plc, has gathered views from cyber-focused leaders from businesses in EMEA to share lessons learned in building cyber resilient organizations.
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