With heightened economic uncertainty and increasingly decentralized threats, regional understanding of risks – and the opportunity for cooperation – is critical. Results from the World Economic Forum’s 2019 Executive Opinion Survey suggest that the threat of a major economic slowdown is high on the minds of business leaders worldwide, with growing apprehension about a wide ra ... Continue Reading »
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Asia Region Most affected by Rising Sea Levels
On a global scale, some cities are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, says the Global Risks Report 2019, which was produced by World Economic Forum with the support of Guy Carpenter’s parent company, Marsh & McLennan Companies. Asia will be the worst affected region as a result of a combination of hydrology, population density and asset concentration. Asia is h ... Continue Reading »
Marsh & McLennan Stresses Next Generation Industry Leaders Must “Adapt or Face Extinction”
Marsh & McLennan Companies' Rising Professionals’ Global Forum 2019 opened in London today, with approximately 700 delegates attending the two-day event to hear from world class speakers on the central theme for the Forum – Adaption or Extinction. ... Continue Reading »
Asia’s Health Care Industry Reels From Cyberattacks
Health care is one of the sectors most vulnerable to cyberattacks, with more than one in four (27 percent) health care organizations reporting that they have been a victim of a cyberattack in the past 12 months. This is more than financial institutions (20 percent) and nearly twice the incidence in the communications, media and technology sector (14 percent). Despite this, ... Continue Reading »
NotPetya Was Not Cyber “War”
NotPetya wreaked havoc for some large companies, costing them billions of dollars in lost revenue, damaging computer systems, and requiring significant expense to restore global operations. In its wake, entire industries reassessed their practices for patching, business continuity, supply chain interruption, and more. Since the NotPetya event, we have learned much about the ... Continue Reading »
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going: Overcoming the Cyber Risk Appetite Challenge
The scale of recent attacks and resulting media attention, supervisory pressures to upgrade cyber risk management and the pace of technology innovation to keep up with are increasing rapidly. These factors are compelling financial institutions to have a clear understanding of the cyber risks they face, and to determine the level of cyber risk the institution is willing to ... Continue Reading »
Asia’s Health Care Industry Reels from Cyberattacks
Health care is one of the sectors most vulnerable to cyberattacks, with more than one in four (27 percent) health care organizations reporting that they have been a victim of a cyberattack in the past 12 months. This is more than financial institutions (20 percent) and nearly twice the incidence in the communications, media and technology sector (14 percent). Despite this, ... Continue Reading »
Aviation Industry May Be Vulnerable to Cyberattack Through Its Global Supply Chain
While major aircraft manufacturers and airlines make obvious targets because of the potential they represent to conspicuously disrupt international commerce, they also rank high on hackers' to-do lists because they maintain global, highly interconnected supply chains that over the past few years have been aggressively digitizing operations. More digitization means more attack ... Continue Reading »
The Transformation of Biological Risks: Deliberate Attacks; Part II
In contrast to other types of terrorist attack, which require resources that are difficult to scale and replenish, the technical knowledge required to launch a catastrophic biological attack can be deployed repeatedly once it is mastered. This potential to "reload" creates the potential for successive high-impact attacks. According to one expert, this means that the national ... Continue Reading »
The Transformation of Biological Risks: Deliberate Attacks; Part I
Received wisdom is that biological agents are an unattractive weapon, in part because of the perceived risks involved in their production, and also because of the difficulty of targeting particular groups or populations. But this is not an area for complacency. A report commissioned last year by the U.S. Department of Defense highlights the "almost limitless list of malicious ... Continue Reading »
