London First has announced the launch of a new conference, the Global Resilience Summit. Aimed at providing a forum for ideas and discussion on security and resilience in cities, the Summit will offer an opportunity for professionals from the private, voluntary, and wider public sectors to collaborate and learn from one another.
Risk management and risk transfer must work together to make organizations more resilient, as firms become more exposed to major disasters and subsequent business interruptions as a result of their increasingly complex global networks.
Preliminary results of a catastrophe modelling study presented at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction show little prospect of reducing economic losses from present levels of $240 billion per year.
A new series of short videos looks at some of the widely held misconceptions in our industry that newcomers and long-timers alike should be wary of, as well as discussing some novel approaches to the business continuity discipline.
Resilinc has published its 2014 supply chain events annual report which summarizes and analyzes nearly 700 unique supply chain notifications and alerts generated by its EventWatch 24X7 global event monitoring and alert reporting service.
On 18th March 2015 representatives from 187 UN member States adopted the first major agreement of the Post-2015 development agenda, a far reaching new framework for disaster risk reduction with seven targets and four priorities for action.
A new study by ENISA provides methodologies for the identification of critical information infrastructure services in communication networks and suggests possible improvements
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has published Report 429 Cyber resilience: Health Check (REP 429) to help its regulated population improve cyber resilience.
By Tony Berning
According to research performed by Lloyd’s of London insurer, Aegis London, “in the first half of the 2013 fiscal year, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems–Computer Emergency Readiness Team responded to more than 200 incidents
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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.
