Risk and/or resilience management

Information Risk Management and Resilience

Are the levels of information risk management efforts within and between firms correlated with the resilience of the firms to information disruptions? This paper examines the question by considering the results of field studies of information risk management practices at organizations and in supply chains. The organizations investigated differ greatly in the degree of coupling from a general an...

Risk and Resilience Management in Social-Economic Systemsi

Risk and Resilience as complementary measures of stress We propose a definition of resilience as an important complement to risk. Both concepts describe stress within a socio-economic system from two different angles, and together allow for a comprehensive approach to governance and management. Stress is an internal response of a system to a perturbation called stressor or stress-factor (Kovale...

Resilience and Resource Management

Resilience is an umbrella concept with many different shades of meaning. The use of the term has grown over the past several decades to the point that by now, many disciplines have their own definitions and metrics. In this paper, we aim to provide a context and focus for linkages of resilience to natural resources management. We consider differences and similarities in resilience as presented ...

The changing nature of risk and risk management: the challenge of borders, uncertainty and resilience

Resilience in Computer Network Management

The protection of network infrastructure and services is one of the main issues network managers face today. This paper investigates this matter through the study of network resilience. A resilience factor (RF) is proposed to take into account topological aspects of the network and also the amount of traffic losses under stress conditions. The proposed factor is evaluated using a real network b...