April 2016

Our society is facing an enormous challenge. The “protection gap”—the difference between economic and insured losses—highlights the significant burden that society is carrying today when a natural disaster strikes.

New data has revealed that 1.4 billion people in South Asia, 81% of the region's population, are acutely exposed to at least one type of natural hazard and live in areas considered to have insufficient resources to cope with and rebound from an extreme event.

In 1949, when Popular Mechanics predicted that computers of the future might have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh a mere 1.5 tons, no one could have imagined the awesome power of today's computing technology.

As this year's hurricane season approaches, many are wondering if the 10-year drought of major hurricane landfalls experienced by the U.S. will come to an end.

Hailstorms can be highly localized and last for just minutes, but as farmers are well aware, they can do a lot of damage in a short time.

The existing gap between global economic losses from natural hazards and those covered by the insurance industry is well documented, and the so-called "protection gap" for property risks has been a hot topic of discussion in the industry throughout the last 12–18 months.

As organizations increasingly look to the cloud to handle everything from collaboration to storage to their most critical and computationally intensive tasks, there are a number of factors to consider when selecting a cloud provider.

For organizations and governments alike, the ultimate question regarding catastrophe risk management is how to better prepare for and mitigate the financial impacts of an event.