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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 […]

Details are currently very limited, but it is clear that the delivery service Yodel is dealing with a serious cyber incident. It appears that disruption began some time over the weekend, with delays to deliveries and loss of parcel tracking for customers. Commentators believe that this is a ransomware attack, but this has not been […]

The overriding message from this year’s Cyber Breaches Survey is that little has changed. The headline figure of organisations experiencing a cyber breach or attack remains exactly the same as last year at 39%. As normal, phishing attacks remain the most prevalent for of attack (83%). Digging down into a bit more detail there is […]

There has been extensive media coverage of chaotic scenes at Manchester Airport over recent days. Manchester Airport is certainly not unique within the aviation sector in encountering difficulties as the volume of passengers returns to normal (Easyjet and British Airways are also in the headlines), and I am not qualified to comment on what they […]