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With a surprisingly large number of software vendors choosing to protect licensing with physical authentication dongles, Joachim Sturmhoefel looks at how organizations can bridge the gap between new agile cloud systems and the necessary hardware to maintain business as usual.
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
Institute for Crisis Management releases annual crisis report
Don’t get hung up on the scenario when planning business continuity exercises
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
Subcontractors are a neglected area in enterprise risk management
GDPR Preparation and Challenges Survey Report explores overall industry preparedness
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
Resilience news
UK Government releases free counter-terrorism e-learning tool for companies and organizations
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
Views on organizational resilience and the ISO 22316 standard
Technology news
Costs and impacts of DDoS attacks studied
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
