Simulations that help determine how a large-scale pandemic will spread can take weeks or even months to run using current approaches. However, a recent study offers a new approach to epidemic modeling that could drastically speed up the process.
Researchers from Brown and MIT suggest how scientists can circumvent the need for massive data sets to forecast extreme events with the combination of an advanced machine learning system and sequential sampling techniques.
FINMA (the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority) has published ‘Operationelle Risiken und Resilienz – Banken’ a circular giving new guidance on operational risks and resilience for banks in the country.
FEMA has released the 2022 National Preparedness Report, showing the impacts that climate change and associated natural disasters continue to have on emergency management capabilities and communities across the US.
Robotics is an emerging technological area expected to have an ever increasing impact on various industrial sectors, but as robots become increasingly mission critical, their resilience is coming under the spotlight.
The Bank for International Settlements' Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have jointly published an assessment of financial market infrastructures' (FMIs) cyber resilience.
The UK Government has released its Resilience Framework, which sets outs a structure for the development and improvement of resilience across the UK. In this article Robert Hall reviews the framework and considers whether it lives up to expectations.
DRI International has published the latest edition of its annual Global Risk and Resilience Trends Report. Authored by the DRI Future Vision Committee, the report provides a global view of resilience trends and is based on a survey of certified resilience professionals.
The US DHS has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin regarding the continued heightened threat environment across the United States. Lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances continue to pose a ‘persistent and lethal threat
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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.
