Senior disaster management officials from the 21 APEC members have introduced a new collaborative platform for increasing the resilience of Asia-Pacific economies in response to the ‘new normal’ of increasing natural disaster threats due to climate change.
Gartner says that organizations must invest in three risk disciplines to increase trust and resilience. Running a digital business presents business leaders with an increasing level of complexity and new threats, and this requires a change in their approach to IT risk and cybersecurity.
The worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown never should have happened, according to a new study.
Registration is now open for the Sixth Annual National Roundtable for Disaster Risk Reduction to be held from November 2nd-3rd, 2015 in Calgary, Alberta.
ENISA has published the public version of the After Action Report of the pan-European cybersecurity exercise Cyber Europe 2014 (CE2014). This report, approved by the Member States, gives a high-level overview of the complex cybersecurity exercise that was carried out in 2014.
DRI International has launched a scheme to designate appropriate organizations as a ‘Hub of Resilience’ and / or a ‘Resilient Enterprise’. Both the awards are official ‘standard of excellence’ designations
Whether or not a coastal city floods during a hurricane depends on the storm, tide and sea level, and now a team of climate scientists show that the risk of New York City flooding has increased dramatically during the industrial era as a result of human-caused climate change.
Interaction of emerging threats could see correlated impacts: in other words the probability that they could act together to produce more than the sum of their parts.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the expansion of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office’s (DNDO) Securing the Cities program to Houston and Chicago.
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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.
