Telstra is blaming a lightning strike followed by the initial failure of contingency measures for a network outage that resulted in loss of triple-0 services in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. 000 is the primary national emergency number in Australia.
South Carolina business owners who rebounded after losing their entire inventory after a massive flood, Houston bakery owners who quickly reopened despite the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, a Texas mayor who navigated the town’s recovery after Hurricane Harvey, and a volunteer who organized the debris removal of a Georgia town hit by three massive storms, have been named winners of the 2018 Phoenix Award by the US Small Business Administration.
The need to manage seasonality is a given for the majority of retailers - from Easter to Christmas, Black Friday to summer sales, effective management of trading peaks is key to success. But in an increasingly volatile business environment, with events from Brexit to global political uncertainty affecting retail operations, future proofing any business has become a significant challenge.
Tenable has reported the discovery of a critical remote code execution vulnerability in two Schneider Electric applications widely used in manufacturing, oil and gas, water, automation and wind and solar power facilities.
Economic losses caused by disasters in Asia and the Pacific could exceed $160 billion annually by 2030, the United Nations development arm in the region has warned, urging greater innovation in disaster risk financing.
Tripwire, Inc., has announced the results of a survey conducted by Dimensional Research examining industrial control systems (ICS) security in the energy industry. The survey was conducted in March, and its respondents included 151 IT and operational technology (OT) security professionals at energy and oil and gas companies.
More than two thirds of UK critical infrastructure organizations (70 percent) have suffered from service outages on their IT networks in the past two years, leaving them potentially vulnerable to receiving fines under the new NIS Regulations
The UK Government’s National Counter Terrorism Security Office has launched ‘ACT Awareness eLearning’, a counter-terrorism awareness product designed for all UK based companies and organizations.
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…
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
