Clade X, a day-long pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, resulted in recommended changes to US policies in this area.
The risk of cyber attack, once overhyped, now threatens businesses’ very existence, according to the latest FM Global Resilience Index. Cyber risk severity also varies significantly with geography: for example, inherent cyber risk has climbed in France over the past year while plummeting in Taiwan.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and a broad range of partners are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) working with the Government to contain an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Bikoro health zone, Equateur Province.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a 40 percent chance that the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season will be a near-normal season. The chance of an above-normal season stands at 35 percent; and there is a 25 percent chance of a below-normal season. Hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30.
According to a survey conducted by the Internet of Things (IoT) security company Pwnie Express, an overwhelming number of IT security professionals (85 percent) see a cyber attack on critical infrastructure happening in the next five years.
Speaking on May 14th 2018 at an event in Berlin, MI5 Director General Andrew Parker warned that Europe faces “an intense, unrelenting and multidimensional international terrorist threat”.
On May 15th, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a strategy outlining the Department’s approach to identifying and managing national cybersecurity risk.
On 14th May 2018, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Ranking Member Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) introduced the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018.
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 April 2018.
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