Developing an excellent crisis management plan is only half the battle when it comes to successfully managing an incident. The crisis management team needs to have the have the knowledge, understanding, and confidence to apply it. Jonathan Hemus explains how this is achieved.
Following the publication of the policy in March 2021, the final op. resilience framework includes some important clarifications says Steve Dance.
More than a year into the pandemic and one can safely say that COVID-19 has taken its toll on our organizations and on humanity in general. The resulting crisis fatigue is a growing problem which operational resilience and business continuity managers need to consider says Chantal Coetzer…
Ryan Weeks discusses the results of a recent survey looking at ransomware trends and provides some advice to help organizations defend against and respond to such attacks.
Business continuity news
BCI releases BCAW 2021 Toolkit to help raise business continuity awareness
Business continuity behavioural insights - a tale from three continents
European Central Bank report captures pandemic business continuity lessons
ASIS publishes updated business continuity guidance standard
BCI Horizon Scan Report 2021 available: identifies emerging risks for 2021
Enterprise risk management news
Less than half of organizations report tracking non-cyber security reputation risks
Many enterprises see customer data protection as a priority but fail to act effectively
Pandemic stresses will result in increased global political risk throughout 2021 and beyond
World Economic Forum publishes six ‘Principles for Board Governance of Cyber Risk’
Data risk management practices failing to keep up with the evolution of information sharing
The benefits of reputation management transparency: a case study
Resilience news
Basel Committee publishes work programme and strategic priorities for 2021-22 – op res on the agenda
New report looks back at 40 years of incidents and their impact
Proposed new UK counter-terror legislation: the implications for businesses
Strengthening resilience is the key to success in 2021: PwC survey
Three months into Brexit completion, half of businesses have faced disruption
Technology news
The COVID-19 pandemic saw the mobile attack surface expand dramatically: report
Report identifies a large drop in dwell times as cyber attack detection capabilities improve
Many enterprises face a high likelihood of outages due to machine identity management issues
Cring ransomware targets industrial and business systems through vulnerability in VPN servers
A third of UK businesses believe they are now more vulnerable to cyber crime than pre-pandemic
Researchers develop method for enhancing resilience against replay attacks in computer systems