The European Commission has presenting a set of operational and practical measures to defend the EU against terrorist threats. The announcement was made alongside the publication of the Commission’s 11th Security Union Report.
The US Homeland Security Committee’s Oversight and Management Efficiency Subcommittee has held a hearing which, amongst other things, looked at the threats to critical infrastructure from an electromagnetic pulse attack (EMP) attack by North Korea.
At its inaugural meeting on 5th – 6th October, The Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) Cyber Security Advisory Panel (CSAP) discussed strategies to enhance the cyber resilience of Singapore’s financial sector.
On October 17th 2017 FEMA announced the release of the refreshed National Incident Management System (NIMS) doctrine. NIMS ‘provides a common, nationwide approach to enable the whole community to work together to manage all threats and hazards’.
The Australian Government is seeking views on new legislation to help manage the complex and evolving national risks to Australia's critical infrastructure. The ‘Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill 2017’ has been developed based on feedback received from key government and industry stakeholders
Almost two-thirds (63 percent) of utility executives believe that their country faces at least a moderate risk of electricity supply interruption from a cyberattack on electric distribution grids in the next five years.
A new academic paper has been published that looks at the cascading impacts of wide-area power outages. Supported by London Resilience, the paper has been written by the Cascading Disasters Research Group of UCL’s Institute For Risk And Disaster Reduction.
NIST's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has awarded funding to its centers in Texas and Louisiana to help companies recover from Hurricane Harvey.
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, 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 September 2017.
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