Security & Business Resilience

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During the past decade, enterprise resilience has become a hot topic. Its meaning has grown from the original “business continuity and disaster recovery” moniker associated with IT data crashes.  

New York city Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg outlined a plan on Tuesday to protect New York City from the threat of rising sea levels and powerful storm surges by building an extensive network of flood walls, levees and bulkheads along its 520 miles of coast.

As a security manager, you have a challenge to manage risks your travelers and expatriates face when they head to that overseas conference, meeting or assignment.

Report warns that business growth is not keeping pace with resilience to natural disasters in many parts of the world.

Most organization leaders believe their company emergency plans are the state-of-the-art. In fact, their plans are dangerously flawed.

The increasing instability in the Middle East, precipitated by the Arab Spring, necessitates global firms to better accentuate political risk and conflict, including terrorism and kidnapping for ransom, in their daily operations.

NYC will double to six the number of evacuation zones along its coast and expand them to include an additional 640,000 residents.

At a time when extreme weather events are frequently occurring, leaders within the United States commercial real estate industry are largely unprepared to maintain daily business operations according to a recent IndustryEdge survey conducted by Travelers.