A year ago, ISO published ISO 22316:2017, ‘Organizational resilience. Principles and attributes’. How has the standard been received? And are organizations using it? How do professionals view organizational resilience in general? Continuity Central recently conducted a survey to find out; and the final results are now available.
Charlie Maclean Bristol, FBCI, looks at the objectives, format and scenario of business continuity exercises, and explains why scenarios are not the most important factor when planning an exercise.
For many organizations severe weather is the biggest potential cause of major disruption. While damage may be unavoidable during a severe weather incident, there are many steps that can be taken to enhance resilience. Andy Bryson provides some useful checklists…
Occasionally a business will be hit by an incident so unusual that it would have been almost impossible to predict. Jen Horsman uses the case of Italian restaurant chain Zizzi, which was impacted by the Salisbury nerve agent attack, to show how preparations can still be made.
Business continuity news
Brexit business continuity in the chemicals industry
Initial lessons from the Eurocontrol IT failure
Pandemic influenza preparations are seriously deficient warns medical journal
Shortlist published for the 2018 CIR Business Continuity Awards
Enterprise risk management news
The 2018 Emerging Trends in Product Recall and Contamination Risk Management report
Supply chain risk management explored
Risk management processes are not keeping up with emerging technologies: survey
EU financial regulators warn about future risks
Aon’s 2018 Risk Maps show heightened levels of political risk and terrorism
NIST proposes a new approach to process analysis: the Criticality Analysis Process Model
Resilience news
Developing resiliency for retail businesses with warehousing on demand
State Resilience Assessment and Planning Tool being tested to help resilience planning in US states
Majority of critical infrastructure operators admit to lacking adequate security controls
Six large global organizations launch ‘The Coalition to Reduce Cyber Risk’
New data confirms that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency
Technology news
NIST releases an update to its widely-used Cybersecurity Framework
Survey looks at amplified DDOS threats: organizations are becoming increasingly concerned
European-generated cyber attacks on UK businesses double in March
New study shows cyber resilience improvements; but still work to do for many organizations
Emerging threats: account takeover based attacks rapidly increasing
Vast majority of organizations are unable to identify anomalous behaviour in cloud applications
