On August 9th the UK experienced its largest wide-area power outage for over a decade, causing widespread disruption. Following the incident, National Grid CEO John Pettigrew issued a crisis communications statement, which provides some interesting lessons...
The rapid growth of social media, fuelled by camera-enabled smart phones, is obvious for all to see, and it has had fundamental impacts on society. But what about its impacts on crisis communications? Victoria Cross suggests that it has resulted in the disappearance of the traditional ‘golden hour’.
Alberto Mattia, chief executive officer of PANTA RAY, gives a detailed response to Continuity Central’s recent article discussing what the future direction of the business impact analysis could be.
Bringing cyber security incident response and BC teams together will enable organizations to better manage cyber resiliency suggests Chandrasekar S.
Enterprise risk management news
Organizations need to do more to manage third party risks says US Chamber of Commerce
Point-in-time approach to third-party risk management is no longer effective says Gartner
Most ERM frameworks don't factor in reputation…
First ever guidelines on public risk management published
Cyber insurance may create false sense of security among senior financial executives suggests survey
Latest Emerging Risks Monitor Report shows that ‘pace of change’ is the top emerging risk
Resilience news
Ebola preparations stepped up in Burundi
Above normal Atlantic hurricane season now the most likely 2019 outcome
NIST supporting research into ways to help structures better withstand earthquakes, wind and fire
100 Resilient Cities confirms that ‘wind down’ has started
Performance indicators for supply chain resilience: review and conceptual framework
Worldwide Business Resilience Readiness survey identifies a damaging ‘perception gap’
Technology news
Industrial IoT cyber vulnerabilities ‘could cause multi-billion dollar losses’
Ransomware modifications double year-on-year: sign that criminal activity is intensifying
Research shows that red team exercises are more effective than blue
Malicious encryption of shared network files in cloud service providers is top ransomware threat
'Under the radar' DDoS attacks increase by 158 percent in Q2 2019
Annual security professionals survey shows that budgets grow slower than rising threat levels
