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23 years ago today 31 people died and over 250 were injured when two trains collided at Ladbroke Grove.  First and foremost our thoughts are with the many people who are still affected by the accident years later. As well as being one of the worst train crashes in Britain over the last few decades, […]

Waking on Sunday morning I imagine that many people felt the same sense of terrible shock and sadness that I did at the news of mass fatalities at a football match in Malang, Indonesia. Unsurprisingly, amidst the outpouring of grief, there have been many calls to learn lessons from the tragedy. This would seem to […]

It’s always an exciting day at Cambridge Risk Solutions when the Uptime Institute’s Global Data Centre Survey is released, and this year is no exception! This year’s survey presents a nuanced picture, where the incidence of outages appears to be falling but the cost of outages continues to rise. The headline figure of data centre […]

Over four years after the implementation of GDPR across Europe, three clear leaders have emerged in terms of the numbers of fines issued for breaches of Articles 32, 33 and 34. According to the GDPR Enforcement Tracker website, the most prolific regulators are: Romania – 47 fines Italy – 32 fines Spain – 32 fines […]

It was a great pleasure to interact with fellow risk management professionals at the recent on-line book launch for Simplifying Risk Management: An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Value for Stakeholders. The event, hosted by the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, was my first chance to see people’s reactions to the arguments that I present in […]

Millions of people were affected on Friday when Rogers, one of Canada’s largest mobile and internet providers, suffered a prolonged outage. The outage began at about 0430 local time and lasted for around 15 hours. Overall internet traffic fell by 25% with very widespread impacts including: Disruption to emergency services; Loss of ATMs and problems […]

17 years ago today, London was shaken by a series of terrorist bombings on public transport that left 56 people dead and hundreds injured. As well as remembering all those affected by the tragedy, it is timely to reflect on the lasting legacy of that day. Although living and working in London at the time, […]

Yesterday the focus of the long-running saga of problems at airports turned to Heathrow, where 30 flights were cancelled at very short notice. As we have seen at other airports over recent weeks, problems were exacerbated by inadequate communications, with some passengers only learning of cancellations once they were at the airport. Whilst we have […]

The last time we blogged about industrial action was in November 2011, when a strike by public sector workers over pension rights impacted on a number of public services, most notably the UK Border Force. The last ten years have been free of any such major disruptions. But, with a series of rail strikes this […]