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ISO Spaghetti: Why the Standards Landscape Is Confusing (and What to Do About It)

The five standards worth knowing about ISO Spaghetti: Why the Standards Landscape Is Confusing (and What to Do About It) I have lost count of the number of tender documents I have reviewed that specify ISO 22301 and ISO 27001 and ISO 31000, sometimes with ISO 22361 thrown in for good measure. Occasionally all four […]

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Eroding coastline path — disruption is a gradual slope, not a cliff edge

The Problem with MTPD

The Problem with MTPD. There is a number buried in every business impact analysis that drives more planning decisions than almost anything else: the Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption. It determines recovery time objectives, shapes recovery strategies, and informs how much money an organisation is prepared to spend on resilience. It sits at the heart

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A fire in the Netherlands, a ferry company in chaos, and a BIA that probably didn’t ask the right questions

A fire in the Netherlands, a ferry company in chaos, and a BIA that probably didn’t ask the right questions. The Brittany Ferries booking outage is a textbook case study in third-party dependency risk, inadequate RTOs, and what happens when your recovery plan assumes someone else has already thought about it. On the morning of

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Cambridge Risk Solutions Shortlisted for Two Resilience Awards at the CIR Business Continuity Awards 2026

Cambridge Risk Solutions is delighted to announce that we have been jointly shortlisted with the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Resilience Forum (LLR LRF) for two categories at the CIR Business Continuity Awards 2026: Initiative of the Year Best Contribution to Continuity and Resilience These nominations recognise a major programme of work delivered through a […]

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What is Operational Resilience?

Operational Resilience is a term that is being used more and more frequently by organisations wishing to implement some form of programme to protect themselves from operational risks.  But what is Operational Resilience? The Financial Conduct Authority define it as the ‘ability of firms, financial market infrastructures and the financial sector as a whole to […]

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