On Friday, the government told the country to start putting food aside. Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle said the UK is heading into what could be the largest El Niño event since records began in the nineteenth century, with sea temperatures in the Pacific running more than three degrees above average. The practical translation for
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On Monday evening, Outlook and Exchange Online stopped working. Not for one company, for a meaningful slice of the world. People couldn’t log in. Messages sat unsent. Search returned nothing. IT teams spent hours fielding calls from colleagues who couldn’t do their jobs, because the one tool most of us touch fifty times a day
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A term with real momentum, four different definitions, and a decade-old cousin nobody mentions. Ask four different advisers to define “Minimum Viable Company” and you’ll get four different answers, all wearing the same three letters. That’s usually the first sign a term hasn’t earned its place in the vocabulary yet — and it’s worth working
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Look at the last few days. Heathrow spent part of last week warning passengers off the roads after flooding closed access to two terminals. A flood warning is in force for Nelson in Lancashire, with alerts out across Merseyside and the North East, arriving straight after weeks dry enough to count as drought, and yellow
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IBM published its Cost of a Data Breach Report last month, and the headline figure is the one everyone will quote: the global average cost of a breach has hit a record $4.99 million, a 12% increase on last year. In the UK specifically, that average sits at around $4.27 million (£3.13 million). Numbers like
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I was in Croatia when the alert went out. The first I knew about it was a flurry of messages from friends back home, then the memes, then a few clients asking whether they should be doing anything differently. Nobody’s phone in our group had gone off, because none of us were on a UK
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The risk you already know about. Last week, a water main collapsed on a road near me. I live rurally, and this particular lane happens to be the only way in for articulated lorries serving a couple of local businesses – a single point of failure if ever there was one.. What followed was entirely
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I spent a chunk of last weekend scrolling through risk management job vacancies, out of nothing more than professional nosiness (and a need to avoid 24/7 football). It’s not as if the confusion over what “risk” actually means was news to me — I’ve spent the best part of two decades watching it play out
Risk means different things to Different People. That’s the whole problem. Read More »
The five standards worth knowing about ISO Spaghetti: Why the Standards Landscape Is Confusing (and What to Do About It) I have lost count of the number of tender documents I have reviewed that specify ISO 22301 and ISO 27001 and ISO 31000, sometimes with ISO 22361 thrown in for good measure. Occasionally all four
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A fire in the Netherlands, a ferry company in chaos, and a BIA that probably didn’t ask the right questions. The Brittany Ferries booking outage is a textbook case study in third-party dependency risk, inadequate RTOs, and what happens when your recovery plan assumes someone else has already thought about it. On the morning of
