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Three years after historic floods deluged the continent, the European Environment Agency (EEA) issued its inaugural report, warning of the climate risks the continent fac...
Nowadays, disruption is a matter of when not if.
An independent statutory authority, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) supervises financial and related institutions across the...
Three years after historic floods deluged the continent, the European Environment Agency (EEA) issued its inaugural report, warning of the climate...
Safety teams are responsible for managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of controls. The technological element that helps is safety...
Crises are growing in kind, cost, and intensity. Which means that getting your crisis management capability off the ground has never been more...
We’re seeing big increases in the number of organizations certified to ISO 22301. Your clients are likely to figure among those ranks. But even if...
Over the last decades, the rise of DIY terrorist techniques has exposed the vulnerability of events, attendees, and the venues and public spaces...
It’s never been more important to have cybersecurity programs in place to enable quick, effective resolutions when incidents happen.
But what...
The pandemic had a catalyzing effect on the mental health crisis, with a report in JAMA Health Forum noting that 38% more people are in mental...
Operational resilience is the ability to deliver operations, including critical operations and core business lines, through a disruption from any...
If you’re involved in business, then you’re involved in risk. And the specific type of risk is operational risk.
Nowadays, disruption is a matter of when not if.
An independent statutory authority, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) supervises financial and related institutions across the...
Three years after historic floods deluged the continent, the European Environment Agency (EEA) issued its inaugural report, warning of the climate...
Safety teams are responsible for managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of controls. The technological element that helps is safety...
Crises are growing in kind, cost, and intensity. Which means that getting your crisis management capability off the ground has never been more...
We’re seeing big increases in the number of organizations certified to ISO 22301. Your clients are likely to figure among those ranks. But even if...
Over the last decades, the rise of DIY terrorist techniques has exposed the vulnerability of events, attendees, and the venues and public spaces...
It’s never been more important to have cybersecurity programs in place to enable quick, effective resolutions when incidents happen.
But what...
The pandemic had a catalyzing effect on the mental health crisis, with a report in JAMA Health Forum noting that 38% more people are in mental...
Operational resilience is the ability to deliver operations, including critical operations and core business lines, through a disruption from any...
If you’re involved in business, then you’re involved in risk. And the specific type of risk is operational risk.
Compliance management is the ongoing process of monitoring and assessing systems to ensure they comply with industry and security standards as well...
Nowadays, crisis and business continuity managers don’t only have to worry about external threats to the organization. Internal risks matter just as...
Ever consider the chances your company faces simply in the course of conducting its daily business activities, procedures, and systems? Many don’t,...
Crisis communication is easy to ignore when things go well but hard to ignore when things go wrong.
Indeed, some of the crises we remember best are...
The crises we remember best are the communication disasters; flailing before the public, the hapless CEO grilled by relentless reporters and...
In recent years, the risk forecast for companies has darkened appreciably. But companies don’t just face external risks that might jeopardize their...
Your clients have resolved to get their business continuity house in order. Now, they have to get started on the business impact analysis (BIA), the...
For businesses, risk is everywhere – from supply chains to cyberattacks to severe weather and the cost of living. What can businesses do to get ahead...
Alert fatigue was the story of 2023. Data even confirmed that up to a quarter of intrusion alerts went uninvestigated. And users spend about half an...
Security management covers all aspects of identifying your organization’s assets, followed by the development, documentation, and implementation of...
2023 is a wrap. And with the number of disasters we faced during it, many are saying good riddance.
But before we put the year to bed, let’s look...
In risk management, operational risks are referred to as the risks of doing business.
Have an enterprise? Then, you likely have people, facilities, data, and technologies that you’re responsible for. Collectively, these are your...
75% of businesses without a business continuity plan (BCP) fail three years after disaster. But in 2024, an untested BCP won’t offer much in the way...
The business continuity plan (BCP) is critical to business resilience. Indeed, the insurance brokerage, Gallagher estimates that more than 70% of...
Companies today have never been more reliant on third parties. But are they putting in place the most effective third-party risk management (TPRM)...
A new year means new resolutions. And if you’re leading a safety team, one of yours should be digitization.
Why’s that? Well, a Track Via survey...
A form of risk management, third-party risk management is the continuing process of identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and treating risks related to...
As 2023 comes to an end, it’s instructive to ask, are global workplaces getting safer?
The data, here, is mixed. Nearly three million workers...
By now, your clients likely have a solid handle on risk management. But what about their third-party risk? Third-party risk management (TPRM) isn’t...
This year FEMA released its latest National Preparedness Report. The Report provides an overview of the nation’s current disaster risk and...
2023 is coming on an end. But what risks will the new year bring? For individual organizations, it might be too difficult to quantify.
That’s why we...
It’s become clear, third-party risk is a huge deal. Companies are even outsourcing their critical functions especially to cloud-service providers...
As clients well know, ISO 22398 lays out the procedures necessary for planning, implementing, managing, evaluating, reporting, and improving crisis...
Security staffers have their hands full maintaining cyber resilience amidst a deteriorating cyber environment. But the jobs not done yet. There’s...
International emergency management standard, ISO 22320 lays out some minimum requirements for a command and control system deployed during an...
Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to absorb and adapt in a changing environment so as to deliver on objectives, survive,...
Nowadays, wellbeing in the workplace has become synonymous with the mental health crisis. And rightly so, rates of anxiety, depression, and burnout...
Covid proved a wake-up call for most organizations. They belatedly realized the importance of having an effective crisis management capability. But...
Clients can intuit that business crises often become infamous when communication with stakeholders goes awry. But to get their crisis communication...
In physical security management, we’ve traditionally built security apps and devices to respond to specific threats. What happens, though, when...
When polled in 2022, most organizations reported seeing a steady or increasing level of physical security incidents. In this article, we discuss how...
Business continuity is all about an organization’s level of readiness to maintain its critical functions in the event of a crisis or disruption. What...
A couple weeks ago, Americans were jolted by warning sounds coming from an emergency alert on their phones, radios, and TVs. Far from an actual...
Burnout hasn’t gone anywhere. Future Forum found global burnout rates of 40%, with countries like France and the U.K. reporting rates of nearly 50%....
Following on the heels of previous resilience management standards, last year, the International Organization for Standardization released its...
By now, most organizations have programs to address the varying aspects of resilience management. They also have individual platforms in place for...
Ransomware is in the news. However, backdoors are actually the most common adversary action, according to the 2023 IBM-sponsored Threat Intelligence...
With COVID the use case for virtual emergency operations became clear. Safety concerns aside, though, virtual emergency operations can provide...
ISO 45001 has been around for five years. Quite a lot has happened in that time. Organizations that didn’t make the initial push have all the reason...
The real distinctions between the varying aspects of resilience management – operational, organizational, cyber, etc. – seem like they might push...
Ever get a client that’s asked, what’s the ROI of Operational Resilience (OpRes)? You likely have. And if you’ve been stymied, just tell them it’s...
No one needs reminding of the increase in quantity and complexity of cyberattacks, particularly those targeting vital infrastructure. But critical...
We’re living in an age of heightened threats to the social, built, economic, and natural environment, making emergency management planning more...
Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from a crisis and bounce back even better. But as crises increase in kind, cost, and intensity, ...
The pandemic turbocharged the wellbeing and mental health crisis. And so, companies, coming out of COVID, made wellbeing in the workplace...
To those who thought bank runs belonged to the 1920s and 30s, this year’s top crisis, the most significant of the last twelve months, ought to...
As the cyber threat intensifies, businesses have become ever more reliant on threat intelligence, or threat information that’s been aggregated,...
Crisis leaders must demonstrate integrity, empathy, compassion, authority, and determination, attributes that defuse tension, provide a focus for...
During disasters, affected areas need assets, quickly. Resource management is the organizational practice designed to get those assets efficiently...
Covering all comprehensive digital solutions designed to assist businesses with managing and optimizing their safety protocols, safety management...
Emergency management is all about creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. However,...
The task of preparing for, managing, and recovering from crises falls under the banner of crisismanagement. That’s the processes designed to prevent...
If you’ve ever sought out to simplify your business continuity planning (BCP) and business continuity management (BCM) processes, you understand the...
Looking to manage security operations processes in a digital platform? Then, you’re looking for security management software, which covers a variety...
Contractor management is tough, with high potential for safety incidents occurring...
After COVID, no business can afford to take its digital operational resilience for granted. But for a set of firms in the EU and their major...
If you thought major ransomware attacks were a thing of the past, after the Colonial Pipeline hit - think again. A sprawling, global cyber attack...
Pages have been devoted to the cyber threat – to the point it might seem overblown. But then another major breach happens, dominating the headlines...
For employers, poor worker mental health and wellbeing remain keen issues. Indeed, around the globe, an estimated 12 billion working days are lost...
Several years of successive crises have underscored the importance of business continuity management. But while setting business continuity goals in...
In today's business landscape security threats are increasing in number, intensity, and frequency for all organizations. But what are the top three...
You’d be remiss in thinking that critical events, a catch-all term for disruptive incidents and emergencies, would ebb after years of unabated...
In resilience, we’re witnessing a paradigm shift away from protecting individual organizations and towards preventing incidents from impacting...
The number of emergencies seem to increase yearly. So too do their financial costs.
As analysts have noted, safety management solutions have been exploiting wider digital trends. These...
We hear so much about resiliency these days because of the cyber threat. According to Accenture, 68 percent of business leaders feel their...
Operational risk management has evolved as the management process to mitigate threats posed by operational risks.
Back-to-back crises have forced many governments to develop robust Resilience strategies. But words on paper are one thing. Serious innovation is...
Looking to learn more about resilience? Check out our overview of operational resilience, and our breakdown of the difference between operational...
You may have heard the terms 'operational resilience' and 'business continuity' used fairly interchangeably, but there are distinct differences...
In this day and age, Safety Management isn’t just about preventing injury and illness. It’s also about maintaining resilience and avoiding...
Looking to dive deeper on the topic of resilience? Check out our overview of organizational resilience, and our overview of operational resilience.
In the wake of COVID, businesses have likely been thinking hard about business continuity. Risk managers have updated continuity plans. But planning...
The post-COVID jobs market has been turbulent – and then some. And analysts have looked at this turbulence, most recently demonstrated by mass...
Getting information format and flow right during a disaster is never easy. In fact, the collecting, collating, recording, and sharing of information...
COVID, no doubt, catalyzed interest in work health and safety. But then came time for the follow through – with the inevitable question asked, did...
Crises have become consecutive, concurrent, and compounding. Fortunately, though, best-practice resilience management literature is constantly being...
Before COVID, companies admitted lax exercise management protocols for crises and business continuity disruptions. After? Things have improved but...
The international information security management system (ISMS) standard ISO/IEC 27001 was originally published in 2012. And much has changed in...
Starting with the Incident Command System (ICS) in the late 1970s, major incident command, frameworks have emerged to tackle the challenges...
For experienced safety leaders, the need to keep accurate risk data goes without saying. In practice, though, it’s not that simple – with the biggest...
The COVID crisis demonstrated that managing a company’s capacity to continue to deliver products and services during a disruption shouldn’t be a...
Despite some important overlaps, organizational resilience and business continuity are distinct practices....
Ransomware as a service (RaaS) has become increasingly popular. The practice lets the malware author scale earnings while off-loading personal risk...
Being stymied trying to invest in the right digital emergency management software platform to stay safe, avoid property damage, and recover quickly?...
More and more employers have noticed the escalating mental health and wellbeing crisis, turbocharged by the pandemic and associated policy...
BC managers know the drill: once you’ve defined prioritized activities, established recovery strategies, and check-listed action items, it’s time to...
With everything going on in 2022, clients likely missed the release of another, international standard. But this one’s important, especially as the...
Lawmakers have spent the last few years ramping up protections for critical infrastructure assets. Many of those, though, predate the COVID surge....
Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) are activated when a major incident takes place. But as we’ve learned, the type of EOC matters, as well. Virtual...
2023 is here, but let’s not forget the wisdom 2022 imparted. Toward the end of last year, the U.S. Surgeon General, acknowledging the impacts of the...
2022 was the year operational resilience went mainstream. But 2023 promises to be the year that organizations like yours take their operational...
Mental illness remains one of the leading causes of sickness absence and long-term work incapacity. And that was before the pandemic. Now employers...
When it comes to your client’s enterprise software, IT and CIO bosses still control the purchasing agenda. And they gravitate towards legacy...
Recovering from a major disaster is difficult. That’s why local, state, and federal governments dole out some form of financial assistance. That...
Corporate Security doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Even the best-trained and equipped programs are only as good as the teams working around them. That’s...
Leaders aren’t born, they’re made. And that’s nowhere truer than in the crisis setting, where the capability to lead effectively should never be...
Your clients might be familiar with security and resilience-promoting best practices, such as organizational resilience (ISO 22316), crisis testing...
Maybe you heard, but Optus, one of Australia’s largest telecoms, was recently the target of a massive data breach. The personal data of about 10...
The flagship conference for workplace health and safety professionals in New Zealand, the HASANZ...
Does it need to be said that emergency communications differ from communications in everyday life? Perhaps not. But it’s the specific ways in which...
As the ranks of temporary and contract workers swell, safety regulators are looking to responsible parties to keep these oft-at-risk parties safe....
By now, we should all understand the value of a well-developed crisis management capability including asset-protection. But what goes into building...
Your clients no doubt intend to expand their contingency programs, focusing on impacts, connected risk appetite, and tolerance levels for disruption...
Knowledge is power. But too much knowledge can be debilitating. And security practitioners have been sounding the alarm that too many data alerts...
Emergency responders can no longer rely on single sources of information to establish a complete picture of a fluid environment. Instead,...
The story’s well known – the pandemic triggered a surge in remote work. Employers considered this the best route to go to prevent COVID transmission...
Despite their sharp rise in popularity, operational resilience programs aren’t firing on full cylinders – at least not yet. Indeed, BCI polled...
Ransomware attacks have been around for some time. Nowadays, though, the set of malware attacks that threaten to publish a victim’s personal data or...
Your clients are investing heavily in crisis management resources. That’s good. But it’s also important to remember that crises often become infamous...
At the beginning of this month, Australia debuted a new fire rating danger system. Improved and simplified to make it easier to make decisions to...
From shortages of supplies and workers to rising costs, the world economy isn’t in the best place. Safety programs, in their turn, have likewise...
If health and safety is your top priority, and it certainly should be, you might already be set to attend...
It’s September, and that means National Preparedness Month. In observance each September, the National...
Failing to plan is planning to fail. But why then do so few companies implement crisis management...
Even before COVID, your clients were likely becoming more reliant on third-party services for their critical business activities. Sure, these parties...
Think your critical infrastructure assets are protected? Think again....
The aim of decision support is to enable agencies to detect and report incidents automatically. Decision support also helps agencies adapt their...
The dashboards in Noggin 2.0 are analytical tools that combine and visualize data to uncover insights about your organization, and inform the...
Safety leaders have long had to justify the cost of their programs and initiatives. They’ve run into difficulty calculating safety management ROI,...
How will your clients get funding and prioritization for their business continuity management systems and programs once the acute crisis ends? It’s a...
Firms today are struggling to find...
In a recent industry poll, nearly two thirds of security leaders surveyed cited insufficient budget to invest in the right security management...
As with other consumer-facing industries, the utilities sector was deeply impacted by COVID. Throughout the world, payment moratoria suspended...
At the onset of the COVID pandemic, contractors were some of the highest risk workers. Clustered as they are in people-centric industries,...
Crisis risk is increasing. Yet, in surveys, companies acknowledge that their crisis management software purchase habits haven’t kept up. What’s going...
A new client has decided to invest in a crisis and incident management capability, taking you under contract for advisory purposes. The client says...
Buffalo. Uvalde. Tulsa. Philadelphia. These tragedies mark the return of public (or mass) shootings in the U.S., suggesting that venues and...
The beginning of June means the beginning of Atlantic hurricane season. And the period, historically extending from 1 June to 30 November, is only...
As if work safety challenges weren’t stark enough already, another major issue is bubbling right beneath the surface. New data shows that half of all...
Looking to secure a decisive advantage in this volatile economy? Don’t turn to product differentiation, human, or strategic acquisitions – at least...
You finally got your clients to take the critical event threat seriously. But here comes the Great Resignation, another critical threat with few good...
Only seven per cent of security leaders report directly to the CEO, according to the Ponemon Institute. But it’s not all doom and gloom for security...
Wherever you turn, everyone’s got their hands full responding to concurrent crises, ranging from ongoing COVID risk and natural disasters to war in...
Mental health disorders are among the most burdensome public health concerns, even more so since the pandemic turbocharged the wellbeing crisis. As a...
As a result of the Great Resignation, the few staffers aware and interested in organizational resilience at your organization might have cycled out....
Your clients have their hands full trying to stay afloat in volatile times. As a result, they’ve cottoned on to the importance of organizational...
Amidst the ongoing public health emergency, business leaders are managing operations as best they can. Often overlooked, though, is the role of...
The one-in-100-year flooding event has become a misnomer. For instance, eastern Australia saw historic floods in 2011 and again this year. And it’s...
Lone workers have always had a rough go of it. Now, things are getting worse. What are the latest lone worker concerns? Read on to find out, as well...
The global supply chain crisis is on everyone’s mind. Back in July 2021, CNN reported that supply chains were discussed on nearly two-thirds of...
Your clients are striving to get their bearings. After years of shifts in the business environment, they now fully understand that the capacity to...
The war in Ukraine is playing out on the ground. But like many 21st century conflicts, it’s also taking place online. Indeed, Ukraine has long...
Months away from another financial year, there’s already speculation that government funding will set...
The Omicron wave might be ebbing. What comes next remains to be seen. Indeed, some epidemiologists are speculating on endemic infection. And so,...
The COVID experience woke senior leaders up to the crisis threat, and they finally got serious about crisis preparations. But not all crisis...
Do you have clients in sports? Or are they venue owners and operators? After dealing with COVID cancellations, they have new worries to consider....
For some time now, incident command in public safety has been increasingly clustered in emergency...
Will Omicron be the last major COVID wave? Experts say it’s too early to tell. But they do recommend looking to the immediate past to uncover COVID...
The Capitol Hill riots of 6 January 2021 opened eyes to the vulnerability of our high-profile assets. More than a year later, the risk of civil...
By now, your clients have concluded that pandemic disruptions aren’t ending anytime soon. So, they’ve made the decision to make 2022 the year of...
2021 is done. However, we’re still counting the damage from climate events last year. So far, the toll has been staggering, setting up keen...
Risk is a fact of business life. And the sheer number of threats any one business confronts also make it difficult – if not impossible – to eliminate...
The pandemic came on the heels of the Financial Crisis of the late 2000s, which unleashed a wave of financial regulation. Those regulations...
2021 is coming to an end with major news on the security of critical infrastructure front. The Australian Parliament recently passed the Security...
2021 might be coming to an end. But the mental health crisis in the workplace, turbocharged by COVID disruptions to the way we live and work,...
Entering 2021, many businesses hoped the worst of the pandemic was behind them. Then the Delta wave came along, with the ongoing pandemic giving way...
Supply chains continued to be snarled, as another COVID wave threatens the United States and Western Europe. What’s more, global and domestic routes...
The supply chain crisis has seriously complicated global trade. Already battered by the ongoing effects of the pandemic, your clients probably feel...
Sports fans can be rowdy. But when they cross the line at a game, who pays? Incidents of fan abuse can involve legal liability, especially when they...
The likelihood of exposure to work-related hazard(s) of a psychosocial nature and the severity of injury and ill-health that can be caused by these...
As the challenges to organisational resilience mount, businesses must act now to enhance their capacity to anticipate and address escalating threats....
Everyone’s talking about the supply chain crisis: overloaded ports, striking truck drivers, shuttered factories to deal with the Delta variant. But...
As a result of the pandemic, your clients, no doubt, are looking for ways to better anticipate and respond to any new threats arising from changes to...
We’ve discussed the National Incident Management System (NIMS) in this venue before. The widespread benefits introduced by NIMS led to the...
The field of environmental management only dates to the last century. For their part, most advanced economies adopted serious environmental...
It’s October again. And October means National Safe Work Month, a time to commit to building a safe and healthy...
Even before COVID-19, cyberattacks were a top-tier threat for crisis managers and senior leadership. The pandemic, of course, turbocharged the...
In just the last weeks, major cyberattacks have hit farming concerns, nation- and state-wide communications conglomerates, health departments, and...
Working in the care sector? Then, a recent Queensland Magistrates Court ruling might come as a wakeup call.
As of last accounting, the average cost of a data breach in the U.S. stood at a staggering $4.24 million. With that price tag, most organisations...
In recent times, critical events have grown in kind, cost, and severity. The pandemic lingers on into late 2021, creating knock-on supply chain...
Ensuring the psychological health of your workers is part of an employer’s duty of care. And the costs for flouting this component are steep. In...
As the late 2000s Financial Crisis demonstrated, risk in just one financial institution can spill over, endangering the viability of the sector (and...
The COVID-19 crisis has only magnified the vulnerability of critical infrastructure in advanced economies. These assets, so important to the...
By now, it’s standard practice to advise clients to test and exercise their crisis management plans. Beyond that, clients should perform a needs and...
This disaster season, emergency managers are sure to have their hands full, with resource constraints only making the job harder. So how to do more...
Over the course of the 2010s, workplace bullying and harassment nearly doubled in Australia. And though COVID-19 might have cleared out many physical...
What we’ve long known about crisis management is that planning isn’t enough. Turns out, we’re quickly learning that pro forma crisis management...
If the pandemic has taught your clients anything, it is that...
With the Delta variant raging, business leaders might have put their workplace reopening plans on hold. However, health and safety aren’t the only...
We’re midway through 2021, and many are still reeling from the impacts of COVID-19. Even before we turn the page, the United Nations is already...
As we’ve noted before, regulators and legislators have adopted a whole raft of temporary policy measures to address the COVID-19 safety crisis....
Emergency managers are well acquainted with the after action review, a qualitative evaluation of actions taken to respond to a given emergency. A...
With the double-whammy of COVID-19 and a hyper-active weather season, volunteer disaster relief agencies already have enough on their plate. But the...
The Incident Command System sprung out of a fire suppression event in the 1970s. But it didn’t take too long for non-fire organizations to begin...