Risk and Resilience Blog

Welcome to the Cambridge Risk Solutions risk and resilience blog — practical insights on business continuity, crisis management, information security and more, written by people who work in the field every day.
An upward trending graph line behind the figure $4.99 million, representing the rising average cost of a data breach.

The Real Cost of a Breach Just Went Up Again — Here’s What the Number Doesn’t Tell You

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 ...
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A disposable barbecue left on a patch of scorched, tinder-dry grass, illustrating the wildfire risk behind the government's emergency alert.

The Wildfire Alert, and What it Raises

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 ...
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Grey trackside cabinet with dozens of black signalling cables fanning out into cable troughs beside a curving railway junction on an overcast day

One Power Failure, Seven Train Operators Down: What That Tells Us About Dependency Mapping

This afternoon, a power failure at a communications centre brought major disruption to rail services across the Midlands and north-west England. Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, ...
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Yellow and black pipeline warning marker post in a grassy field with dry stone walls and Peak District hills behind, marking the route of the proposed Peak Cluster CO2 pipeline

Peak Cluster and the CO2 Pipeline: the business continuity conversation nobody’s having

There’s a proposal working its way through the planning system at the moment that deserves more attention from a business continuity perspective than it’s currently ...
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A small business leadership team of four reviews a recovery plan together around a meeting table, discussing priorities calmly and analytically

What the NCSC’s new incident recovery guidance gets right, and where it falls short

On 29 July, the NCSC published What To Do When Cyber-Attacks Disrupt Your Organisation, a detailed framework covering the first hours of a disruptive attack ...
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Covered walkway to the SEC, Hydro and Armadillo arenas in Glasgow, with green mould and slime staining the outer panels

What the Commonwealth Games Taught Me About Deploying Resource

I’ve been away for a week, which means the blog has been quiet and there is a genuinely biblical quantity of laundry currently taking over ...
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