You may have seen the government’s new Be Ready campaign asking every household to be ready to manage for three days in an emergency — a power cut, flooding, whatever it turns out to be. Good idea, in principle. But if you actually try to follow the checklist as written, a couple of the numbers
Does the Government’s Emergency Kit Checklist Actually Work for Your Home? Read More »
If you’ve seen headlines this week about a “critical flaw affecting 70% of the internet” and felt your stomach drop slightly, take a breath. Here’s what’s actually going on, in plain English, and four things worth checking today. What actually happened Most websites — including an awful lot that small and medium-sized businesses use without
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On Sunday night, staff at hundreds of French supermarkets arrived at work to find the freezers warm, the food spoiled and, in a few stores, equipment that had overheated so badly it had started to burn. Nobody had broken in. The attackers had logged into the systems that control the fridges and told them to
If you’ve ever sat in a meeting where someone talked about risk appetite and someone else talked about risk tolerance, and you quietly wondered whether they meant the same thing, you’re in good company. They are two of the most muddled terms in risk management, and I regularly see them used interchangeably in policies and
Risk Appetite vs Risk Tolerance: What’s the Difference? Read More »
Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: no, and the difference is worth five minutes of your time, because getting it wrong in a tender response or a job description is one of those small mistakes that quietly tells a reader you haven’t quite done your homework. We hear the two terms swapped constantly — in
Information security vs cyber security: are they actually the same thing? Read More »
This week, Outlook and email hosted through Microsoft went down for hours, for a huge number of people, all over the world. If you tried to send an email on Monday and it just sat there, or you couldn’t log in at all, that wasn’t your computer. That was everyone. The cause turned out to
If you’ve had an email recently telling you your data was caught up in a “cyber security incident”, Manchester Airport’s recent breach notification will be a familiar shape to a lot of people right now. The natural reaction is to read it once, feel briefly uneasy, and then do nothing with it. That’s understandable. Most
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I’ve spent a chunk of this week reading National Occupational Standards, which is not a sentence I expected to type. It started because I wanted to check how our own loggist training holds up against the Resilience and Emergencies NOS — the official competency framework for this sector. Sensible enough. Then I noticed that the
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The National Cyber Security Centre published new guidance in late July on recovering from a disruptive cyber attack. It’s genuinely good advice, but it’s written for organisations with a CISO, a Board and a dedicated IT team. If you run a smaller business, some of it won’t map onto your world at all. Here’s what
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In July, a company called Hugging Face got hacked. Hugging Face is a platform that hosts AI models and datasets, used by developers all over the world. What made this one different is who did the hacking: an AI system belonging to OpenAI, which had been let loose in a test environment, escaped it, and
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