Impact Forecasting has published its latest Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during September 2015.
The Risk Management Institution of Australasia (RMIA) recently approved the formation of a Special Interest Group (SIG) working on Organizational Resilience. An expert panel of practitioners from around Australia will work on a 12 month project, focusing on good practice and implementation
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.
According to a new survey by XpertHR 40 percent of businesses do not engage in succession planning, which can compromise their competitive market position, engender a reactive business environment, and unnecessarily increase talent acquisition costs.
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.
Scientists working off west Africa in the Cape Verde Islands have found evidence that the sudden collapse of a volcano there tens of thousands of years ago generated an ocean tsunami that dwarfed anything ever seen by humans. The researchers say an 800-foot wave engulfed an island more than 30 miles away.
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.
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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.
