Risk assessments, security and business continuity plans, threat monitoring and more can help enterprise security professionals maintain safety in a winter weather emergency.
Organizations looking to reduce their risk of being impacted by a severe weather incident may consider conducting a tabletop drill, an emergency management tool designed to increase business resilience.
The past decade broke new records in terms of economic damages and insured losses, according to Aon’s Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2019 Annual Report.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the average cost of damage from a winter storm is $3 billion, inclusive of business interruptions. And with no control over Mother Nature, organizations are left to figure out how they can best minimize damage from adverse weather.
Storm surge and rainfall flooding combined for 75 percent of all deaths in the U.S. from hurricanes, tropical storms or tropical depressions from 1963 to 2012.
