Why Cyber Resilience is not Cyber Security
In today’s digital landscape, protecting sensitive information and safeguarding against cyber threats has become a top priority for organisations. Two concepts that often come up in this context are cyber resilience and cyber security. While related, there are distinct differences between the two disciplines and also to business continuity planning. This post outlines the intricacies […]
Our 2016 Business Continuity Review – From National Resilience to Toasters (and Back)
It’s always an editorial dilemma – Do we start with the event with the biggest business continuity impact? The event that was the most unbelievable? For the 2016 Business Continuity Review, we have some difficult choices, including the massive cyberattack of the toasters, the most powerful man in the world (soon) trying to carve up the Internet, and a smartphone threatening the health of a national economy.
IT Service Management and Handling Shadow IT – Fight, Flight or Better Marketing?
Now that business apps (that really can help you do better business) are available immediately in the cloud, the internal IT organisation may find itself being ignored as the shadow IT.
Resilience and TICTF (Too Interconnected to Fail)
Remember the economic meltdown (almost) of eight years ago? Two buzzwords came to the fore at that time. One was “systemic risk”, the risk that applies to an entire sector or domain; in this case, the global economy.
Get Your Own Local Resilience Forum
A Local Resilience Forum? Should you have one? Also referred to for short as an LRF, the idea is to bring together different respondents in a local area in order to guarantee cooperation
Our 2015 Business Continuity Review – Cloudy with Scattered Security Breaches
Information security, both in-cloud and on-premise, was somewhat higher profile during 2015. The top three threats for the year for cloud environments were (in decreasing order of importance) app attacks, suspicious activity, and brute force.