Business continuity, resilience and enterprise risk management research and statistics from around the world

Half of organizations conduct risk assessments on less than 15 percent of their vendors 21 July 2016
Ponemon Institute: 79 percent of businesses lack comprehensive strategies to manage cyber risks 19 July 2016
Substantial gap exists between catastrophe risks and readiness of middle market businesses: survey 19 July 2016
Majority of IT professionals complain of ‘overwhelming threat landscape’ 18 July 2016
44 percent of UK businesses only have basic levels of cyber security protection in place 15 July 2016
IoT goes mainstream: and business continuity managers need to understand the implications 14 July 2016
Shadow IT tracked as an emerging threat 13 July 2016
The Industrial Control Systems threat landscape 12 July 2016
Majority of organizations experience downtime and service degradation due to IT capacity issues 07 July 2016
Report warns of emerging threats from industrialized cyber crime 06 July 2016
How often do organizations pay attackers after ransom attacks? 30 June 2016
Business-critical workloads in the public cloud are set to double in the next 24 months 30 June 2016
Business Continuity Institute publishes ‘Cyber Resilience Report’ 30 June 2016
Insider corporate data theft and malware infections are biggest current information security threats 29 June 2016
Survey finds that US companies are struggling with remote and branch office IT disaster recovery 22 June 2016
New study finds that DDoS attacks cause an average of 17 hours of downtime per incident 15 June 2016
Online or on-site backup? Most SMBs prefer both… 14 June 2016
Large organizations take risks with network security 14 June 2016
Internet outages cause an average of 43 hours’ downtime annually for UK businesses 14 June 2016
Organizations need to change mindset from breach prevention to breach acceptance 09 June 2016


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