Terrorism created a new paradigm in workplace security and now the pandemic is resulting in another rethink of corporate safety practices to maintain business continuity, safe workspaces, and healthy employees. Terri Mock highlights three key areas that need assessing to help keep your corporate safety policies up to date.
What information should the business continuity plan of the future contain? Nick Simms considers how business continuity plans need to change in the light of COVID-19 and the widespread ability to work from home.
Every step you take in your organization’s zero trust journey reduces your risk of downtime, data breaches and compliance failures, so the time to start implementing it is now, says Bryan Patton. Here he explores why so many organizations are moving to zero trust and how to take your first steps.
Supply chain issues have been a recurring issue through the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the latest examples being the sudden Carbon Dioxide shortage that occurred in the UK recently. Organizations seem to have failed to learn resilience lessons from a similar issue in 2018 says Patrick Roberts. Business continuity news
Saudi Arabia Digital Government Authority releases business continuity guidance
Configuration changes were the root cause of recent major outage says Facebook
The BCI publishes its Crisis Management Report 2021: shows trends and developments in this area
76 percent of IT teams admit security took a backseat to business continuity during the pandemic
Enterprise risk management news
Third-party cyber risks are a ‘glaring blind spot’ finds PwC survey
AIRMIC releases new introductory guide to risk appetite
C-Suite has greater willingness to invest in risk and resilience due to pandemic experiences
Risks and global supply chains: what we know and what we need to know
The role of risk management in corporate resilience: new survey-based report
Survey finds that risk management is seen as increasingly important by middle market companies
Resilience news
New guide: ‘Cyber Response Builder’ aims to help organizations build cyber resilience capabilities
ISACA publishes guidance on draft EU Digital Operational Resilience Act
Basel Committee calls for improved cyber resilience
Why now is the time to build climate resilience: and how to make a start
New guidance document on commercial property flood resilience published
Operational resilience is pivotal in weathering supply chain disruption
Technology news
75 percent of organizations are currently re-evaluating security strategies
High levels of data loss due to inadequate backup procedures identified: survey
Organizations are turning to artificial intelligence for network and cloud availability management
EU runs exercise to test response to large cyber incidents
One in five companies report falling victim to ransomware attacks