We’re still only on the second day of Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2019 and we have another important news story… It was announced yesterday that Cow & Gate are recalling a batch of “Cheesy Broccoli Bake Stage 3 (10+ months)” because it may contain small pieces of blue rubber, which makes this product unsafe […]
I don’t know how it happens, but you can usually rely on one or more big news stories during Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW); most spectacularly the Wannacry attack on the eve of BCAW 2017. This year, two days into BCAW, we have the announcement of the WhatsApp surveillance attack. Whilst, in some ways, the
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
A recent academic study by Daniele Bianchi and Onur Kemal Tosun analysed the market reaction to 41 deliberate (ie criminal) security breaches that occurred in large US firms between 2004 and 2016. The authors found that firms experiencing such a security breach experienced a loss in value of between 1 and 1.5% over a period
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As usual at this time of year, we like to take a look at the figures for product recalls in the UK over the last 12 months. Last year we reported a quiet year, but this year there seem to be two very different stories in the food and electrical goods sectors, as shown in
