In a series of short surveys Continuity Central is looking to gain a picture of how your experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed your view or approach to your business continuity program. The first of these is now live - please take part; the results will be published on Continuity Central at a future date.
Remote working has been one of the main business continuity strategies employed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but researchers have shown that remote working results in increased fatigue for employees, something which needs to be taken into account and managed.
As retailers in many countries plan for this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Weekend under the shadow of various levels of lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions, Continuity Central asked six cyber security experts for their tips for how retailers can continue to safeguard their operations in these unusual times.
Despite the clear and present danger that the COVID-19 pandemic presents, most organizations are aware that cyber threats are a top long term issue that needs to be addressed. In this article Avesta Hojjati looks at four cyber threat areas that will develop in 2021.
Business continuity news
BCI announces the winners of the 2020 Global Awards and Hall of Fame entrants
ECB announces independent investigation into payments system outage
Standards Australia consults on risk management and business continuity briefing paper
Business continuity management lessons learned in 2020
UK National Counter Terrorism Security Office publishes business continuity guidance
Enterprise risk management news
Third-party risk management programs studied: questionnaires a weak area?
Audit chiefs see IT governance as top risk for 2021 says Gartner
The Software Engineering Institute launches model for enterprise risk management
Surveys look at the risk environment and how organizations expect it to develop in 2021
Resilience news
Areas where the next pandemic could emerge from highlighted by international team of researchers
Business Resilience Trends survey results published by International SOS
Building supply chain resilience is a 2021 priority for two-thirds of organizations
75 percent of companies plan to make changes to build more resilient supply chains
New paper from Enlighten sets out the ‘three pillars of operational resilience’
Technology news
CompTIA issues new guide: ‘The Who, What, Why and How of DDoS Attacks’
Cost of ransomware related downtime nearly doubles since 2019 according to new report
Cyber security predictions for 2021: securing the ‘next normal’
Changing tactics and targets: five ransomware challenges for 2021