Researchers have found that Auckland businesses are vulnerable to infrastructure loss caused by natural hazard events, with over three-quarters unable to function when water, communication or electricity was lost in this year’s storm in April.
The Central Bank of Ireland (Banc Ceannais na hÉireann) has told financial firms that they need to improve their approach to resilience and to managing IT risks.
A ‘perfect storm’ of active conflict and traumatized communities in Ebola-affected areas of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could enable the deadly disease to spread says the World Health Organization (WHO).
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new Technical Specification: ‘ISO/TS 22375:2018 Security and resilience - Guidelines for complexity analysis process’.
On the 4th October 2018 the G20 countries took part in an exercise to test response to a scenario where an infection that is resistant to antibiotics spreads rapidly around the world.
A new study suggests that the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United States. The research, published today in the journal Risk Analysis, was led by the University at Buffalo and Purdue University.
With flu season nearly upon us, a new study looks at the factors behind the extremely high mortality of the 1918 flu pandemic and how to prepare for future pandemics.
In this paper, Len Johnson, looks at climate change in the context of business continuity and organizational resilience and explains how you can group impact scenarios into three key areas to help focus your planning.
FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has postponed the nationwide test of the US Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) until October 3 due to ongoing response efforts to Hurricane Florence.
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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.
