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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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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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. 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
What does a business continuity consultant actually do? If you’ve just been handed responsibility for business continuity — perhaps by a client, an insurer, or an auditor who wants to see evidence of a plan — you might not be entirely sure what you’re supposed to do next. You might not even be sure what
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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 […]
Queues, abandoned baggage and headline reports this weekend have shown that, following incidents in 2018, 2019 and 2022, Manchester Airport appears to have failed to learn lessons from previous power cuts and delays. Yesterday, chaos reigned after there ‘had been a “fault” with a cable on the airport’s site, which sent a surge of power […]
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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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Cambridge Risk Solutions Ltd e-learning wins the award for Initiative of the Year at the Business Continuity Awards 2023! We are absolutely thrilled! We entered our eLearning into the ‘Initiative of the Year’ category and won, beating Coca Cola Europacific Partners and PwC! Our eLearning is designed to be accessible to everyone. It is not […]
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