RIMS, the risk management society, has welcomed the US House of Representatives’ decision to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and urges the Senate to quickly follow before the program’s December 8th expiration.
The US National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) has selected five states — Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, South Dakota and Wisconsin — to participate in a workshop to explore lessons learned from the GridEx IV exercise.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has scheduled a High-level Donor Conference on 20th-21st November at UN Headquarters in New York to mobilise international resources for its Members devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Black Hat's latest research report, entitled ‘The Cyber Threat In Europe’, publishes the findings from a September 2017 survey of nearly 130 IT and security professionals from more than 15 European countries.
The system for categorizing hurricanes accounts only for peak wind speeds, but research published in Nature Communications explains why central pressure deficit is a better indicator of economic damage from storms in the United States.
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) has announced that as part of a consortium comprising SoftBank, Facebook, Amazon, PLDT and PCCW Global, it signed an agreement on 27th October to participate in the construction and maintenance of the JUPITER large-capacity low-latency optical submarine cable between Asia and the US.
At an event hosted by CBI Scotland, Scottish Government Deputy First Minister John Swinney announced the publication of a new public sector action plan on cyber resilience, aimed at protecting Scotland’s public sector against cyber attacks.
Victoria Cross, managing partner, Instinctif Partners’ Business Resilience team, discusses the top trends which have emerged from the company’s CrisisOptic and RecallOptic online diagnostic and benchmarking tools over the past year.
Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten future damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.
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