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.
Calgary's timely, structured, and outcome-focused approach to recovery was crucial in getting the City back on its feet following the 2013 flood, according to a new report released by The Conference Board of Canada.
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’.
Andrew MacLeod, MBCI, investigates the origins of the term ‘resilience’ and demonstrates how its meaning, context and utility has evolved in the last 30 years. This is the second paper in a series where we are publishing the short listed entries in the Continuity Central Business Continuity Paper of the Year competition.
Catastrophe losses reach USD46 billion but represent a 58 percent drop in the half year average: Impact Forecasting report.
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.
FEMA has announced that the 2015 US National Preparedness Month theme will be: “Don't Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today.”
Over the next few weeks the shortlisted articles and papers in Continuity Central’s Business Continuity Paper of the Year competition will be published, with the winner announced after that. This is the first shortlisted paper, written by Ken Simpson, FBCI.
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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.
