A meeting of the European Union’s Defence Council, which took place in Luxembourg on April 19th, looked at the subject of hybrid terrorism threats and how the EU’s resilience to such threats can be improved.
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a report that brings together insights and perspectives from IOSCO’s various policy, stakeholder and regional committees on the topic of cyber resilience.
One of the key skills of a great resilience professional is the ability to trust your gut instincts. In this article Paul Kudray explains why this is the case and why sometimes the plan needs to take a back seat…
StormGeo, the specialist weather forecasting company, has released its initial forecast for the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
The entry period for the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) 2016 Awards Competition has opened and will run until May 31st.
The American Planning Association (APA) has announced that Resilient New Orleans, the planning strategy by the city of New Orleans to make the city more resilient, has received the 2016 National Planning Excellence Award for a Best Practice.
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 around the world during March 2016.
ENISA has analysed the EU-level crisis management frameworks in five different sectors to make recommendations on more efficient cyber crisis cooperation and management. The subsequent report highlights the lessons that can be learnt from other sectors and that could be applicable in the cyber domain.
According to the latest Swiss Re sigma study, global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2015 were USD 37 billion, well-below the USD 62 billion average of the previous 10 years.
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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.
