During May – July Continuity Central, along with the Business Continuity Institute, Disaster Recovery Institute International, and the Association of Continuity Professionals, assisted ClearView and Assurance with the first annual Business Continuity Benchmark Study. Altogether 1,123 responses were received to a survey for the study; and the results are now available in a report which examines the key findings and identifies best-in class organizational attributes that are most highly correlated with business continuity success.
This October marks the 16th annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this should serve as a reminder that businesses of all sizes need to implement strong cyber security. Graham Marcroft highlights six areas that combine to help create a holistic cyber security strategy.
Commercial legal solicitors, Spratt Endicott, has shared a checklist of items that UK business owners should be aware of and putting into action in a bid to place their business in the best possible position ahead of the Brexit deadline...
The 31st October potential Brexit deadline is approaching rapidly! In this article Charlie Maclean Bristol explores how the concept of a Brexit Operating Regime can help organizations that may be exposed to Brexit impacts to prepare for them.Business continuity news
Making the case for work-area recovery
Some thoughts about the BIA debate…
C-suite involvement in business continuity planning is growing in the UK
CISOs need to redefine their role and include business continuity management
Cyber incidents: businesses urged to ‘be prepared, be proactive and practice, practice, practice’
Business Continuity Checklist: A Primer for Hurricane Planning & Response
Enterprise risk management news
Cyber attacks and fiscal crises top list of business risks in 2019: World Economic Forum
New findings on the board’s role in effective risk management
Study looks at the views of risk managers about cyber risk management
Confidence in organizational risk management slips
Cyber threats move to the top of the list of concerns for US businesses
Climate change is now the number one risk to organizational growth say CEOs
Resilience news
New disaster management technology tested in Netherlands exercise
Consultation taking place on ‘preliminary resilience assessment’ for London
The costs of major natural disasters are disproportionately increasing
UNDRR welcomes the launch of the global Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
GAO report highlights increasing cyber security risks facing the US electric grid
Bank of England releases results from financial sector resilience exercise
Technology news
Employees’ poor password habits remain a key obstacle to business security
Only 12 percent of UK enterprises can detect anomalous activity in their IT networks
The industrial cyber threat landscape explored
Research reveals negligent users as top cyber security threat to German organizations
The right way to IaaS: achieving secure flexibility and scalability
