It might be Brexit ‘no more European rules’ complacency or the all-consuming COVID-19 survival strategies – even a mixture of both – but too many UK companies seem to have forgotten their carefully crafted data privacy strategies says Peter Newton. The risks have not gone away and an urgent reassessment is required…
As businesses continue to evolve in response to COVID-19, rapidly moving towards digital transformation, there’s a risk they’re exposing themselves to more third-party risk than is necessary. Aaron Dobie suggests three steps that can help mitigate some of these risks.
Since the introduction of GDPR, businesses have had to adapt to new ways of protecting, managing, and storing personally identifiable information to become compliant, or else face potentially hefty fines and penalties, as well as reputational harm. But has COVID-19 been the catalyst for a change in attitude? Dan Harding believes so…
Kamel Heus explores the concept of identity sprawl, the risks associated with it, and suggests five best practices which organizations can implement to help ensure a robust identity consolidation strategy.
A new standard, ISO 45003:2021 ‘Occupational health and safety management - Psychological health and safety at work - Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks’ is now available.
A new study from the analytics organization, SAS, and Longitude looks at approaches to risk management and resilience in the banking sector around the world. The study, ‘From Crisis to Opportunity: Redefining Risk Management’, is based on a survey of 300 senior banking executives
MetricStream has released the results of a new survey on the State of Risk Management. The survey found that while cyber security emerged as an even greater risk concern during the pandemic, organizations with agile integrated risk management solutions responded better to pandemic-driven challenges.
The Swiss Re Institute has published its SONAR 2021 which provides a wide-ranging analysis of emerging risks. The report finds that COVID-19 shaped the top two emerging risks this year.
The availability of data is the single greatest difficulty that firms expect to face over the next five years whilst making plans to address climate risk, according to a survey of leading financial institutions by Willis Towers Watson.
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