Understandably we are all focused on the growing threat of coronavirus; but that doesn’t mean that other risks have gone away. In particular this week we saw announcements of high-profile data breaches at Network Rail and Virgin Media. On Monday it emerged that the email addresses and travel details of about 10,000 people who used […]
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Understandably, media attention in the UK is focused on the growing threat of Coronavirus and the two recent severe weather events. However, as well as these ongoing high-profile stories; there has also been a recent spate of food product recalls. We have been tracking the number of food product recalls on the FSA website for
I read and enjoyed Sabrina Cohen-Hatton’s “The Heat of the Moment: A Firefighter’s Stories of Life and Death Decisions” last year but neglected to blog about it at the time. It was only when listening recently to media coverage of the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) response to the Grenfell Tower fire that I was reminded
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Hot on the heels of the World Health Organisation’s declaration of a Global Health Emergency, today marked another watershed with the announcement of two confirmed case of Coronavirus in the UK. Obviously it is too early to know how the disease may spread within the UK but a look at the Global figures from the
Clearly the news from China over the last few days of the emergence and spread of Coronavirus has been very worrying. The news today that patients in Scotland are being tested for Coronavirus make the threat all the more stark. Reliable data on infection rates, and severity of the disease is impossible to come by
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A report published recently by DLA Piper looks at the impact of GDPR, 18 months on from coming into force across the EU. So far 160 000 breaches have been reported, including: 40 000 in the Netherlands; 37 000 in Germany; and 22 000 in the UK. The report states that the fines imposed to
There is a strong sense of “situation no change” as the 2020s began with three high-profile IT problems in the UK Financial Services Sector. Firstly, the on-line banking services and mobile apps for Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland (all part of the Lloyds Banking Group) were all disrupted on New Year’s Day. The disruption
We have blogged repeatedly (most recently in June 2019) about the problems that Whirlpool has experienced with their long-running recall of tumble dryers. Now, unbelievably, they have announced a recall of half a million washing machines and within the first 24 hours there have been “technical problems” with the recall website. Unsurprisingly this has driven
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) published their latest Supply Chain Resilience Report earlier this month. Now in its eleventh year, the 2019 report very much confirms the patterns seen in previous years: Excluding organisations who were not sure if they had experienced a disruption(!); 67% of respondent organisations experienced one or more supply chain disruptions in
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