Resilience news

Control Risks survey identifies a disconnect between perceived and actual resilience in many enterprises

Details: Published: Thursday, 12 November 2015 09:41

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.

ASIS forming committee to develop new standard on ‘Security and Resilience in Organizations and their Supply Chains’

Details: Published: Monday, 02 November 2015 09:30

In January 2016 ASIS will start work on a new standard and the organization is inviting applications to join the development committee.

NIST releases new community resilience planning guide

Details: Published: Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:06

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems

UNISDR launches ARISE: the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies

Details: Published: Monday, 09 November 2015 14:24

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE) was launched on the 6th November.

Using Google Street View to assess the engineering impact of natural disasters

Details: Published: Friday, 30 October 2015 10:05

Photographs from Google Street View before and after a major natural disaster could help researchers and civil engineers to assess the damage to buildings and improve resistance against future events, according to new research from the University of Southampton.

Aid for New York’s Hurricane Sandy Recovery reaches $16.9 billion

Details: Published: Thursday, 22 October 2015 08:10

FEMA and the US Small Business Administration have disbursed nearly $16.9 billion for New York’s recovery since Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast three years ago.

Roundup of October’s natural disasters around the world

Details: Published: Friday, 06 November 2015 08:57

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.

Resilience and performance: the missing link

Details: Published: Friday, 30 October 2015 09:17

Robin Gaddum believes that the real opportunity for resilience is to bridge the gap between risk management and performance improvement. In this article Robin explains why this is the case…

Flood response exercise held in Paris

Details: Published: Wednesday, 21 October 2015 11:45

The principal French authority responsible for civil defence has used MASA's crisis management simulation software to conduct a major training exercise in order to enhance response capabilities for future flooding incidents in Paris.