For many organizations severe weather is the biggest potential cause of major disruption. While damage may be unavoidable during a severe weather incident, there are many steps that can be taken to enhance resilience. Andy Bryson provides some useful checklists…
Views on organizational resilience and the ISO 22316 standard
A year ago, ISO published ISO 22316:2017, ‘Organizational resilience. Principles and attributes’. How has the standard been received? And are organizations using it? How do professionals view organizational resilience in general? Continuity Central recently conducted a survey to find out; and the final results are now available.
A survey conducted by Sungard Availability Services has found that a growing digital skills shortage in the UK is having a detrimental impact on businesses and could pose serious risks in the years ahead.
The National Governors Association has announced that it will work with Idaho, Maryland and Oregon to test its new State Resilience Assessment and Planning Tool (SRAP Tool) and identify best practices in adapting to, withstanding and recovering from disasters.
AT&T, Cisco, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard and Microsoft have joined together to launch an organization to help advance cyber risk management around the world.
A new report released by the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and CDP shows that there is a gap between the way companies identify climate-related risks and how they are preparing to tackle them.
Indegy has published the results of a survey in which 60 percent of executives at critical infrastructure operators say that their organization lacks appropriate controls to protect their environments from security threats.
Data collected by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC), shows unequivocally that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a special tool for determining which diseases and pathogens to prioritize for research and development in public health emergency contexts. This tool seeks to identify those diseases that pose a public health risk because of their epidemic potential and for which there are no, or insufficient, countermeasures.
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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.
