Beginning with this year’s hurricane season outlooks, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) will use 1991-2020 as the new 30-year period of record. The updated averages for the Atlantic hurricane season have increased with 14 named storms and 7 hurricanes.
PwC's second Global Crisis Survey looks at the worldwide business community's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 2,800 business leaders shared data and insights, representing organizations of all sizes, in 29 industries and across 73 countries.
The US National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has published 'Insider Threat Mitigation for U.S. Critical Infrastructure Entities: Guidelines from an Intelligence Perspective'. The new publication focuses on the human threats to US critical infrastructure
More than a year into the pandemic and one can safely say that COVID-19 has taken its toll on our organizations and on humanity in general. The resulting crisis fatigue is a growing problem which operational resilience and business continuity managers need to consider says Chantal Coetzer…
A YouGov survey of 2,046 UK business decision makers has found that just over half (52 percent) say that their company has experienced disruption since the beginning of the year as a result of Brexit-related issues.
The UK government has launched a consultation on reforms to the country’s audit and corporate governance regime. This includes the proposed introduction of a Resilience Statement that would require larger companies to report on business continuity, supply chain resilience, and digital security risks.
The UK Government is currently consulting on new counter-terror laws which will, amongst other things, impose a new Protect Duty on businesses that are ‘responsible for publicly accessible locations’. Jim Preen explains further…
The Bank of England, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published policy documents on operational resilience, which are the results of a long-running consultation period.
A Gartner survey shows how the COVID-19 pandemic may be a catalyst for a large emerging threat facing organizations: the mental health of employees. Gartner surveyed more than 5,000 employees in the fourth quarter of 2020 and found that more than one-quarter of the workforce (29 percent) described itself as depressed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.
