Mayor Sylvester Turner and Michael Berkowitz, president of 100 Resilient Cities have announced that Houston is joining the Network, a global effort to build urban resilience around the world. Through the partnership with 100RC, Houston will create and implement a comprehensive resilience strategy
Despite dropping from the headlines recently following serious military setbacks, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) ‘may still have around 20,000 fighters and is continuing its dangerous transformation into a covert global network, while focusing on the activities of its regional offshoots’.
A new report recently delivered to the US Congress by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) which looks at how to keep buildings operational after natural disasters has been made public.
Drone technologies were high on the agenda at the recent INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in Singapore, a conference which brought together nearly 100 experts from law enforcement, academia and private industry to discuss emerging threats and opportunities related to new technologies.
The UK Government’s Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab, has announced that the Department for Exiting the European Union has published 25 guidance documents to assist UK organizations with contingency planning for a no-deal Brexit.
According to Swiss Re Institute's preliminary estimates, global economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in the first half of 2018 were USD 36 billion. This figure is well below the ten-year average of USD 125 billion in economic losses and significantly lower than the losses reported for the same period a year earlier.
Kathy Schneider takes a look at the everyday heroes keeping businesses moving forwards. The article discusses the unique positions of the Resilience Leader, the IT Optimiser, the Hybrid IT Tamer, the Risk Eradicator and the IT Innovator.
Rapid advances in gene editing and ‘DIY biological laboratories’ which could be used by extremists, threaten to derail efforts to prevent biological weapons from being used against civilians, the world’s only international forum on the issue has heard.
The Australian Government has announced the opening of the new headquarters of the Australian Cyber Security Centre. This state of the art facility will help protect national critical infrastructure, businesses and the Australian public from cyber attacks.
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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.
