According to preliminary estimates by Swiss Re, total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters reached USD 37 billion in the first half of 2015.
Precariously balanced rocks suggest San Jacinto and San Andreas may have ruptured together, raising issues for critical infrastructure resilience planning.
A new report by the London Assembly Economy Committee states that 54 percent of FTSE 100 firms have no business adaptation strategy in place for climate change. The report says that this means that these companies are ‘ill-prepared for climate change risks’.
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during July 2015.
A new white paper from the Business Continuity Institute sets out the Institute’s view that business continuity is an integral part of resilience.
In a new report, the GAO has made a preliminary assessment of the measures that the DHS has taken to protect the US electric grid from electromagnetic threats.
US DHS Secretary Jeh C. Johnson has announced that the DHS has made some organizational changes because of the increasing importance of its cybersecurity mission.
The last week of August marks the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm ever to make landfall in the United States; and a new report published by Marsh looks at the lessons that can be learned from the event.
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ have announced a framework that will create a more resilient market by providing an additional layer of redundancy for the closing auction of US equities.
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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.
