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Open car boot at dusk packed with jump leads, a torch and a blanket, the government's winter car kit advice

Be Ready — But For What, Exactly?

A more sceptical read of the government’s new resilience campaign than the headlines gave it The instinct behind the government’s new Be Ready campaign is ...
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Hand reaching for a power switch, representing the decision to take a system offline during a cyber incident

Who’s Allowed to Pull the Plug?

What this week’s internet-wide PHP scramble actually tests On Tuesday, the people who look after the software plumbing most of the web runs on had ...
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An empty chair at the head of a long boardroom table, with an unopened envelope, a notebook and a glass of water set out in front of it.

118 people and a Chief Resilience Officer: reading the BCI Future of Resilience Report 2026

The BCI’s latest research arrived with a confident covering email. The BCI Future of Resilience Report 2026, produced with the support of F24, describes “a ...
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Retail stockroom CCTV monitors beside a QR code on a clipboard, illustrating a shadow IT workaround that bypassed data protection sign-off

What the Met Police’s Auror Reprimand Really Teaches About Shadow IT

A LinkedIn Celebration, Six Months Before an Enforcement Notice In April, Auror’s co-founder and the Metropolitan Police’s official account posted on LinkedIn about a retail ...
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A supermarket worker uses a probe thermometer and clipboard to check the temperature of empty, fogged-up freezer cabinets, with the aisle closed off, after a cyber attack on the store’s refrigeration systems

Defrosted overnight: the French supermarket cyber attack and How it describes my job

When someone asks me what I do for a living, I usually take a breath before answering. Business continuity, crisis management, information security, data protection, ...
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Oil tanker sailing without lights at dusk through a rocky strait, with a distant lighthouse beam across the water

One in Twenty: What the Hormuz Bonus Tells Us About Risk Appetite

I was listening to Times Radio yesterday when the conversation turned to the pay now on offer to tanker crews prepared to take ships through ...
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