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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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, East Midlands Railway, London Northwestern, Northern, TransPennine Express and Transport for Wales were all affected. Not one operator having a bad day. Seven, at once, because of a single point
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 getting. Peak Cluster is a carbon capture and storage scheme that would take CO2 from cement and lime works in Derbyshire and Staffordshire and move it 120-odd miles by pipeline,
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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 through to the months of rebuild that follow. It’s well timed. Attack volumes are up, and the guidance is clear-eyed about something many boards still underestimate: recovery from a serious
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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 the house. The one thing keeping me cheerful through it has been the Commonwealth Games, which we went to see at Glasgow over the last six days. The Tollcross ticketing
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A 74-Year-Old Wreck Just Explained Why Your Safety Briefing Exists Last month a sonar drone found the wreckage of a Pan American Airways aircraft two thousand feet down off Puerto Rico. The Clipper Endeavor had been missing since 11 April 1952, when it lost several engines shortly after take-off and went into the Atlantic with
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None of It Was Mine to Fix: What a Trip to the Alps Taught Me About Contingency Planning I’ve just got back from a few days in the Alps, and the getting there and back was, in its own small way, a masterclass in exactly the thing I spend my working life advising other people
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What the Sats Marking Crisis Tells Us About Third-Party Contract Handovers Every July, Year 6 pupils across England find out how they did in their Sats. This year, a lot of schools found out how their exam board did instead, and the answer wasn’t good. Pearson took over the £180 million Sats marking contract from
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In my experience, organisations that come to me for consultancy often share a similar story. They had a business continuity plan in place, sometimes one they had developed internally, sometimes one built by a previous consultant. Something went wrong, and nobody invoked it. Not because the disruption was trivial, but because nobody felt confident enough
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