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A special task force created after Hurricane Sandy recommends that new construction be built to withstand the force of increasingly dangerous storms, USA Today reports. The Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Force also urged hardening of existing infrastructure to ward off power failures and fuel shortages, and to maintain cellular service during future catastrophes.

As part of their business continuity management (BCM) efforts, companies today are still behind in leveraging social media as a crucial resource.

Climate change could increase the size, power and frequency of tropical storms, making a Hurricane Sandy repeat entirely possible. 

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.