As we watch in horror at the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, it is perhaps timely to recall Russian aggression here in the UK four years ago. On 4th March 2018 Sergei and Yulia Skripal became very seriously ill after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. One of the Police officers who attended the incident …
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According to figures published recently by the International Standards Organisation (ISO), there was another steep rise in the number of certifications globally to both ISO 222301 and ISO 27001 last year. As of the end of 2020, there were: 44 486 valid ISO 27001 certificate (up 22% on 2019); and 2205 valid ISO 22301 certificates …
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Salesforce is still working to fully restore services to clients after a serious outage that began late last night. Initially their entire portfolio of customer relationship management services were inaccessible to users; but most were restored within a few hours. As a major player in the software-as-a-service industry, Salesforce are clearly focused on keeping their …
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At approximately 7pm on Friday 9th February 1996, a truck-bomb exploded close to South Quay DLR station, killing two people and injuring over 100 others. At the commemoration yesterday to mark the 25th anniversary, survivors commented on how they feel forgotten. Certainly the incident seems to have faded in the public consciousness faster than the …
Twitter experienced a major outage last night, with tens of thousands of users around the world unable to use the platform for over an hour. The issue appears to have been resolved now and Twitter have stressed that there is no evidence of a security breach; attributing the outage to an “inadvertent change” to their …
According to the latest figures from the International Standards Organisation (ISO), covering the period up to the end of 2019, there have been significant increases in the number of certifications to ISO 22301 and ISO 27001 globally: ISO 22301 “Valid Certificates” rose 12% to 1690; and ISO 27001 “Valid Certificates” rose 14% to 36 360. …
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An article by Cambridge Risk Solutions, published this week in Continuity Central, looks at whether there is any evidence that firms that follow good practice in business continuity management (BCM) have fared better in the current Covid-19 pandemic. Specifically it looks at the impact on the share prices of companies in the FTSE 100 from …
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It is the first day of Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2019 and we would like to start the week by talking about supply chain disruptions. At the start of the month the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) published a review of their Supply Chain Resilience reports from 2010 through to 2018. Despite the BCI’s headline …
It’s that time of year again: bonfire night and the BCI Supply Chain Resilience Report! The survey has now been going for ten years, and the 2018 report very much confirms the patterns seen in previous years: 56% of respondent organisations experienced one or more supply chain disruptions in the last 12 months (down slightly from …
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