As part of strategies to transform and modernise organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-first strategies. This provides an ideal opportunity to embed resilience. In this article John Young looks at the requirement to make three core components of modernisation more resilient: people, applications and IT.
Protests and demonstrations have never been far from the headlines during 2019. In response, have you provided employees with guidance on what they should do if they get caught up in a protest that has turned violent? Steve Dance offers some pointers…
A new research project aims to tackle problems and improve natural disaster emergency preparedness and response in countries badly affected by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis.
Business leaders’ confidence in the resilience of their organizations has faltered for the first time since 2017, according to the third annual Organizational Resilience Index report, published by BSI, which surveys 800 senior leaders across the globe.
In a new report 'People power in emergencies: An assessment of voluntary and community sector engagement and human-centred approaches to emergency planning', the British Red Cross looks at community resilience and calls for 'urgent review' of the UK Civil Contingencies Act.
On October 23-24, the inaugural meeting of the US-Caribbean Resilience Partnership working group will take place in Barbados. The meeting will bring together 18 Caribbean countries, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, the Regional Security System, international donors, and non-governmental partners, including universities and the private sector.
A new academic paper, ‘Building Resilience: Preventing, Preparing For, and Responding to Intentional, Unintentional, and Natural Events’, has been published in Homeland Security and Public Safety: Research, Applications and Standards.
Pool Re has releases a new report which reviews the UK’s terrorism threat landscape and shares detailed findings on trends in targeting and tactics.
The UK Government has announced plans to develop a new mobile counter-drone unit to be deployed to drone-related incidents and major events across the UK, as part of the government’s ‘Counter-Drone’ strategy.
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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.
