… perception and CRAP in risk management

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Over at the Riskczar blog, Trevor Levine posted some references to the work of  John Adams.  Professor Adams has been described as Britain’s leading academic expert on risk. He is Emeritus professor of Geography at University College, London. His work was previously unknown to me, but I have found it really interesting and worth sharing. CRAP – [...]

… making it to 50 posts

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I have made it to 50, although not as quickly as I had originaly intended. But researching and writing posts has become a habit. Many thanks to all those who subscribe, read, retweet and most importantly comment. I just wanted to take this opportunity to share some stats about the blog and the journey so far; 50 posts in [...]

… continuity or recovery?

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Last week I attended a User Group meeting run by a Sydney-based partner called Picnet. This was the second in a series of round table discussions about the state of BC, DR and the emerging idea of resilience. There have been some interesting conversations, and last week the issue of appropriate response strategies – and the [...]

… CERT and operational resiliency

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Last week I joined a web conference about the state of the BC profession. One of the issues that caught my attention was this idea of ‘convergence’ and the observation that more organisations are looking to merge BC and Information Security. I found this strange that after all the years of complaining that BC was seen as an IT [...]

… virtual Town Meeting on BCM

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Today was the second attempt at this webinar, I posted on the earlier attempt,  so have dragged myself out of bed at 05:00 again. The panel consisted of Michael Miora, John Orlando (Norfolk Masters Program) and Linda Nelson (ICOR). The first topic of conversation was the Nathaniel Forbes article (which has appeared everywhere recently). Around [...]