New Report Explores Ability of Major US Cities and Markets to Withstand Natural and Man-Made Disast

VIENNA, Va. - Nov. 3, 2015 - PRLog -- Resilient Corporation, the leading provider of the first and only objective and independent resilience scoring system, has surveyed the state of resilience of three important market sectors: banking and finance, utilities and transportation, specifically the New York/New Jersey, Boston and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas.  The report released today, “State of Resilience: Prepare to Withstand the Unexpected,” uses cutting-edge methodology to explore the impact of recent natural and man-made disasters upon the three metropolitan area’s overall resilience, while examining in-depth the impact on the three market sectors.

Natural and man-made disasters have a devastating effect on our interconnected and interdependent communities.  Public and private entities that prepare to face a broad array of expected and unexpected disruptions tend to recover more quickly than those which do not prepare, or which prepare for only anticipated disruptions.

Furthermore, the growing dangers associated with the global exploitability of interdependent cyber and physical infrastructures, and the potential impact of cascading disruptions, demand that communities, regions, governments and businesses – especially those responsible for the critical infrastructure which powers modern America – are able to recover quickly.

Mark Gembicki, Resilient Corporation’s CEO and Chief Architect, stated, “The objective of this report is to provide a case study of how our methodology can be used to assess the levels of resilience in major U.S. cities that have experienced disasters of varying magnitudes.  In our report we  demonstrate how Resilient Scores, and the solutions they empower, can enable both public and private entities to better anticipate, prepare and protect against the broad spectrum of threats, coherently respond, and recover as quickly and seamlessly as possible.”

The report’s methodology is based on leading-edge advanced techniques to collect and aggregate time-sensitive “big data” and information across ten critical dimensions of an entity’s operations, with the objective of converting them into actionable, resilient-based intelligence.  All data and information is open source-based, meaning they exist outside of corporate or government firewalls. The Resilient Index assigns a proprietary confidence score to each data source before it undergoes a lengthy fusion process, which prepares it for use in contributing to the aggregated Resilient Scores.

“The State of Resilience: Prepare to Withstand the Unexpected,” is the first in a planned series of reports and white papers concerning resilience.  To obtain a copy of the report, please visit our website, www.resilient.com