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.
Resilience is a simple thing that is often complicated by the attitude to and size of the task ahead says Paul Kudray. To assist both business and individual resilience, Paul suggests that a simple methodology of ‘Be it, Build it, Stay it’ can help create resilient attitudes and outcomes.
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.
Without increased investment in coastal adaptation, the expected annual damage caused by coastal floods in Europe could increase from €1.25 billion today to between €93 billion and €961 billion by the end of the century according to new research by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).
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.
An article by Booz Allen Hamilton provides an assessment of the risks posed to organizations by the world’s network of undersea cables which carry the bulk of the world’s Internet traffic. It also looks at the steps that organizations can take to mitigate the potential business impacts of damage to these cables.
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