ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, has published its annual report into incidents of telecoms downtime in the region in 2020. This highlights that human error based incidents are on the rise.
For many organizations, remote working is moving from being a reactive response to the business continuity requirements generated by the COVID-19 pandemic to being a long-term business policy. As organizations take this step, resilience and security issues need to be addressed with a sustainable strategy, as Steve Dance and Andrew Lawton explain…
Amid a series of supply chain shocks to the global economy - including COVID, SolarWinds, the Suez Canal debacle and more - a new international survey, the Interos Annual Global Supply Chain Report, reveals that global supply chain disruptions cost large companies, on average, $184 million a year.
A new research paper by various authors from the Linköping University Hospital, Sweden, and the Swedish Defence Research Agency describes a method for analyzing resilience in crisis management teams.
Key points from the paper include:
According to research by members of the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team from the University of Hawaii, in the mid-2030s US coastal cities and communities will ‘experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change’.
A joint report published by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and Flood Re highlights the vital need to maintain the UK’s flood defences in good condition. Flooding is the greatest natural disaster risk in the UK
In response to the ongoing cyber security threat to pipeline systems, DHS’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced the issuance of a second Security Directive
Just 1.5 percent of UK co-operative businesses were dissolved in 2020 compared to 6.5 percent of businesses generally, according to the ‘Co-op Economy 2021’, a new report compiled by trade body Co-operatives UK.
The UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure has developed new guidance to assist organizations in planning for and protecting against terrorist attacks using Fire as a Weapon (FAW).
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
