Resilience: Overview

Resilience planning is critical for national security and safety of the population and is an essential element within any organisation and government. Analysis of the strengths and gaps in an organisation’s resilience capability will fast track planning by focusing on essential key points for hardening and stress testing. 

Newrisk Limited is able to assist clients with risk assessments, consequence analysis, solutions and stress testing for the design of resilience policy, plans, operations and training.

Catastrophic risks require a different level of resilience planning to major disasters as it is essential to understand the potential loss of critical functions and what this means for regeneration of the society, government, business organisation or person. 

Using Newrisk Limited's expertise in resilience planning and for new design solutions will assist organisations and governments in meeting their legal, corporate governance and audit obligations and provide a basis for quantification of the capacity of the organisation to regenerate after a catastrophic loss event.

Challenges in resilience range from nuclear and cyber warfare, natural disasters and nation state promoted terrorism.  Hybrid warfare which represents attacks across many dimensions from outer space to under water, can turn a nation’s infrastructure into destructive weapons. Resilience challenges require solutions influence operations, critical infrastructure disruption or destruction, kinetic warfare, nuclear warfare and war in space.  This permeates down to individual resilience where cognitive domain operations run through AI, Big Data and Quantum Analytics on the individual’s personality can fuse brain science with network operations to deliver nation state desired effects.   Catastrophic natural disasters cause social migration within and between countries,   loss of critical services to sustain life and the collapse of highly interdependent infrastructure such as water, energy, communications and transportation. New forms of nation state supported terrorism create catastrophic risks from hybrid attacks and mainstream military weapons that change the nature and complexity of mass casualty events.

The combined effects of cyber threats, natural hazards, terrorism and geopolitical influences can create dangers for cities. Understanding the consequences and the critical functions lost that are essential for regeneration of cities or critical  infrastructure means that resilience planning is dependent on the feedback loop of how a society, city or business will regenerate after a catastrophic loss. 

For recent media commentary, lectures, conference papers and publications on resilience, please click here.

To request assistance with resilience planning , or to discuss a tailored package of services, please contact Newrisk Limited directly.

Other Areas of Expertise

Newrisk Limited's areas of expertise cover the preparation for, and response to, catastrophic and extreme risk events as well as major incidents and business continuity.

Dr Leivesley is, on behalf of Newrisk Limited, ideally qualified to provide advisory services to organisations and governments and her practice background, publications, presentations and media are listed under the following areas of expertise:

To request Newrisk Limited's assistance in connection with any of these areas of expertise or to discuss a tailored package of services, please contact Newrisk Limited directly.