NIST has announced that data from the February 27th 2010 Chile earthquake has now been added to the NIST Disaster and Failure Studies Data Repository, providing a great deal of useful information for regional and global resilience planning.
The public consultation process for the international standard ISO 22316 ‘Guidelines for organizational resilience’ is now open. BSI, the UK’s National Standards Body, is leading the consultation process in the UK
A meeting of the European Union’s Defence Council, which took place in Luxembourg on April 19th, looked at the subject of hybrid terrorism threats and how the EU’s resilience to such threats can be improved.
The Australian government has set out the key principles of a new national Cyber Security Strategy. The Strategy explains why the Internet is now a critical infrastructure asset and addresses how it can be better protected.
Colorado State University has issued its forecast for the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast. The University states that it expects ‘that the 2016 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have approximately average activity’.
StormGeo, the specialist weather forecasting company, has released its initial forecast for the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
The Business Continuity Institute has published a new paper which outlines how individuals and organizations should rise to the challenge that resilience offers.
The UK’s National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) is launching a new Project Griffin based initiative to enable organizations to train employees on how to respond to a terror attack.
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 around the world during March 2016.
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