I am just back from a very blustery trip to South Wales for a weekend with old friends, experiencing all that Storm Darragh had to throw at us. It was great fun, despite losing power on Saturday morning, and realising that we had lost water as well later in the day. There’s actually not a […]
Queues, abandoned baggage and headline reports this weekend have shown that, following incidents in 2018, 2019 and 2022, Manchester Airport appears to have failed to learn lessons from previous power cuts and delays. Yesterday, chaos reigned after there ‘had been a “fault” with a cable on the airport’s site, which sent a surge of power
Operational Resilience is a term that is being used more and more frequently by organisations wishing to implement some form of programme to protect themselves from operational risks. But what is Operational Resilience? The Financial Conduct Authority define it as the ‘ability of firms, financial market infrastructures and the financial sector as a whole to
Hidden in the news about the forthcoming election, Post Office inquiry and tragic death after the recent torrential rain, the government announced a new website advising how to ‘get prepared for emergencies’. Given that I still have the oh-so-useful (?) Preparing for Emergencies leaflet that was sent to each household back in 2004, I decided
This short blog offers a perspective on resilience as Cambridge Risk Solutions celebrates 16 years. We have survived so much: the financial crash, the main impacts of which were felt immediately after we started our business, Covid-19 (lockdowns, home-schooling and illness), moving house, moving office, moving office twice more, having children, writing a book (not
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It is probable that the Post Office scandal highlights information security failings by both the Post Office and their contractor, Fujitsu, some of which I will summarise in this short blog. I, like much of the adult population of the UK, have watched, appalled and angry, as the docu-drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office
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Will the ICO change its approach to the public sector following more high profile data breaches in some of the UK’s Police Forces? Yesterday Simon Bryne, Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), resigned. Amongst a number of issues leading up to the resignation was the accidental publication of the details for
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Cambridge Risk Solutions Ltd e-learning wins the award for Initiative of the Year at the Business Continuity Awards 2023! We are absolutely thrilled! We entered our eLearning into the ‘Initiative of the Year’ category and won, beating Coca Cola Europacific Partners and PwC! Our eLearning is designed to be accessible to everyone. It is not
It is noteworthy that, once again, the ICO continues with a soft touch, implementing a revised approach to the public sector, on this occasion issuing a reprimand to both Surrey and Sussex Police, suggesting that large fines could lead to reduced budgets. Aside from the fact that most businesses are currently operating in a financially
